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When you’re getting started the challenge is overcoming the fear of taking pictures of strangers. Since telephoto lenses are not normally used in street photography, how can you stand a few feet from your subject, put the camera to your eye, focus, and click the shutter without getting nervous? A good street photographer is not […]
In landscape photography, flowing water marks a rare opportunity to include motion in an otherwise static scene. While you can freeze the natural flow of water using a faster shutter speed, using a slower shutter speed will let you capture the same water with a dreamily silky effect. But the latter technique has some challenges […]
People tend to prefer bigger versions of anything, from houses to food portions. But technology doesn’t always fall into that pattern. More specifically, talking about cameras, it’s an open question whether medium-format cameras that cost a fortune are really worth the money. What can they do that more affordable camera counterparts cannot? In today’s video, […]
Public perception of any person with a camera in their hand in and around public landmarks, was forever changed as a result of September 11, 2001. It didn’t help that the paparazzi contributed to Princess Diana’s death. The hordes of paparazzi, through their dogged pursuit of their quarry, contributed to her untimely demise and in […]
Technique without purpose is like a race without a finish line. Sure you can run as fast as you can and continuously improve—to what end? Creativity and artistic expression are hard to define. What is artistic and creative for one person is just a pile of trash to the next. This is the main reason […]
Speedlights work great as light sources for run-and-gun situations when you cannot set up proper studio lighting. They do have one major drawback, however: their small size means that they are a hard light source. The resulting images can therefore end up having hard-edged shadows and even unwanted specular highlights. By bouncing flash, you can […]
There are various phases of sunrise and sunset, however each phase repeats itself twice a day – once during sunrise and once again at sunset. All phases during sunrise are the same for sunset phases – the only difference is chronological order i.e. when each phase begins and ends. Therefore, sunrise and sunset are exactly […]
In photo editing news, the Skylum team officially just released the Luminar Neo photo editor to all customers. Some readers have been asking how to get it so here is a quick rundown. You can find it here: Luminar Neo Official Release How can I download Luminar Neo? 1. Access your Skylum Account by clicking […]
As beginner photographers, the concept of using flash when working outside in broad daylight may sound a little confusing. After all, why would you need additional light when you have ample light available? However, it’s important to understand that a flash is used not only to add light but also to add character to the […]
A shot of a bird in flight has always been a challenge to photographers. Seeing a perfect print image only serves to make them eager to create the same result. Photographing a bird in flight presents one problem, but capturing that one special bird-in-flight shot that’s in focus and has good composition plus good light […]
