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How (and Why) to Use Back Button Auto-Focus

How (and Why) to Use Back Button Auto-Focus

Most photographers auto-focus the traditional way: press the shutter down halfway, then compose your shot and pray your subject doesn’t move around. Or press down halfway and quickly take the photo in the same second. This video is demonstrating a different method–one that claims to make auto-focus much easier to manage: The Three Auto-Focus Settings Your […]

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How to Make a DIY Reflector Board

How to Make a DIY Reflector Board

For the do-it-yourselfers out there, Tyson Waggener has created a video tutorial to outline the process of making your own 4-in-1 light reflector–for under $20–using items that can easily be found in most hardware stores. The procedure is simple and can be completed in a less than hour: Materials Needed 2 pieces of white foamcore […]

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Behind the Scenes of a Model Shoot, Starring… Barbie?

Behind the Scenes of a Model Shoot, Starring… Barbie?

In some ways, she’s the ideal fashion model: she doesn’t blink, she takes direction, she doesn’t have an ego. How could she? She’s plastic. (It’s fantastic!) The men behind the latest Sports Illustrated Swimsuit edition went all-out with this recent parody photo shoot. Watch the brisk two-minute satire here: The shoot was helmed by iconic […]

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Troubled Dirt Bike Photoshoot Turns Epic

Troubled Dirt Bike Photoshoot Turns Epic

When Tim Kemple set out to shoot a pair of dirt bikers with his new PhaseOne IQ250, he had some very specific shots he wanted to capture. After a series of untimely incidents–a helicopter crash, rainy weather, a bike wreck–he had to completely change his plan. That may sound like a defeat, but as Kemple […]

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Comparing the Nikon Df and Nikon D4

Comparing the Nikon Df and Nikon D4

Choosing the right camera can be tricky, especially when the camera manufacturers are constantly putting out new models. The fun, retro looking Nikon Df is an appealing choice to many because of its timeless styling, but how does it stack up when compared to other pro level DSLRs, such as the Nikon D4, which share […]

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Emotional Connection Through Street Photography

Emotional Connection Through Street Photography

For Rinzi Ruiz, street photography is much more than just taking to the street hoping to capture interesting objects as they pass by. Ruiz sees the entire process of walking the streets as a sort of meditative practice. He took up street photographer after his mother was diagnosed with breast cancer and Ruiz needed a […]

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2014 Sochi Olympics Sequence Photography

2014 Sochi Olympics Sequence Photography

The winter Olympics have come and gone, but the promotional materials are still coming at us in full force. Some incredible photographs have come out of Olympic Stadium, but some of the coolest Olympics-related images were made before the games even started: Over the course of four days, photographer Dylan Coulter and his crew set […]

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Adding a Light to Gain Control of Exposure

Adding a Light to Gain Control of Exposure

As a photographer, you know that to create a striking portrait, you must properly expose your subject. But what about the background? Though the background may seem less important, how it is captured makes all the difference in making your subject stand out from their surroundings. In this video, Joe McNally shows us one way to […]

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How to Use Accent Lights in Photography

How to Use Accent Lights in Photography

Complex lighting rigs don’t need to be complicated. In this easy-to-follow video tutorial, Joe McNally details how he uses three light sources to accent different parts of a photo, from the foreground to the background, to emphasize an athlete’s myriad Olympic medals: What His Lighting Rig Looks Like McNally first establishes a C-stand with an […]

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Photographer’s Project to Capture Urban Life in Slow Motion

Photographer’s Project to Capture Urban Life in Slow Motion

Anyone who has lived in a large city can relate to the experience of using public transportation– when you take the same trip every day, it becomes monotonous, anonymous, mundane. Hungarian photographer Adam Magyar has taken that experience and transformed it into something personal, contemplative, and mesmerizing with his “Stainless” series, which exists somewhere between […]

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