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Youth Sports Photography Tips: How to Pose Groups

Youth Sports Photography Tips: How to Pose Groups

One of the more challenging aspects of youth sports picture days is the proper posing of team photos. You could have perfect exposure, focus, and composition but if the kids aren’t posed properly the products will still look unprofessional. Like anything, the more time you spend practicing the better you will be at it. The […]

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Painting with Light: A Photographer Shoots for Art

Painting with Light: A Photographer Shoots for Art

Wallace Wyss is both a working photojournalist and a fine artist. Here he explains how he uses light to create “art” with photographs, which are then used as inspirations for his oil paintings. I wear two different hats. I attend car shows, from “cars’n’-coffee” informal events to the world’s poshest concours d’Elegance. My role is […]

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New: Product Photography eBook & Cheat Sheets

New: Product Photography eBook & Cheat Sheets

If there was a simple way to capture highly engaging product photos, would you be interested? The value of professional product photos can’t be overstated, they are in high demand these days. And the return on investment is very easy to measure. This new in-depth eBook covers the entire process in detail: camera settings, scene […]

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Landscape Photography: 5 Transformational Composition Tips

Landscape Photography: 5 Transformational Composition Tips

Composition tips are a dime a dozen. As a student of photography, it is up to you to decide what suits your style best. We often recommend rules that have been tried and tested, but sometimes it’s handy to go a different route. Today, we bring to you professional landscape photographer Mark Denney, who shares […]

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Volcano Eruption Photography Tips

Volcano Eruption Photography Tips

Landscape photography takes you on numerous adventures. As if photographing “regular” landscapes isn’t adventurous enough, capturing erupting volcanoes really does take adventure to the next level. But as you might expect, snapping shots of volcanoes is not an easy task. While safety is one major concern, the glow of the burning lava is hard to […]

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Manual Photography Cheat Sheet Infographic

Manual Photography Cheat Sheet Infographic

Photography is slowly taking over the world; it’s everywhere. Take a look at social media. Facebook, Twitter & Instagram are packed with photography. For this reason, quality photography is becoming important to social influencers, advertisers, and just about everyone in order to captivate and lure in audiences to websites, businesses, or blogs. Buying a new […]

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How to Freeze Motion in Water Photography

How to Freeze Motion in Water Photography

If you’ve ever wanted to freeze the action on a water droplet or create a silky effect in a running stream then listen up. Shooting water is one of the most enjoyable and challenging ways to photograph really interesting natural photography. The loveliest thing about shooting water is that you can produce different effects every time […]

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Practical Guide to Landscape Photography Gear

Practical Guide to Landscape Photography Gear

We often come across photographers asking each other about gear. And while it’s a cliche to point out that gear doesn’t make photographers great, we shouldn’t disregard technology entirely—as it constantly changes, we owe it to ourselves to stay updated. For instance, with video becoming more important, camera specs have changed significantly. In today’s video, […]

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Minimalist Landscapes Using a Telephoto Lens

Minimalist Landscapes Using a Telephoto Lens

People jump to grab their wide-angle lenses when going out for a landscape photography trip. It makes sense—after all, photographing landscapes is about capturing wide vistas and the best bits of nature in a frame. But this doesn’t mean you cannot do landscape photography with a telephoto lens. Like photographer Michael Shainblum discusses in this […]

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The Trick to Photographing Everyday Life

The Trick to Photographing Everyday Life

Photographing everyday activities and objects is something that almost anyone can do. However, it takes a skilled eye and creative thinking to make that image stand out. It’s challenging to catch an audience’s attention with images of everyday objects. It just seems too ordinary for them. In today’s video, photographer Vuhlandes joins his friend William […]

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