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How to Photograph Vintage Cars Inside a Garage

How to Photograph Vintage Cars Inside a Garage

Here’s something mouth-watering for all of you folks who love photographing automobiles: Joe McNally inside the garage of the Domenick European Car Repair Company with his Nikon D810. This is a family owned business that specializes in restoring vintage beauties. Here’s how McNally arranged, lit, and shot the images: As you can imagine, a garage isn’t […]

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How to do Light Painting Long Exposures During Daylight Hours

How to do Light Painting Long Exposures During Daylight Hours

Not all photos are just one shot. Digital overlaying is an editing technique that involves blending multiple shots together to create one finished photo. Brazilian photographer and artist Vitor Schietti does just that using light painting and Photoshop: Schietti and his assistant start out by creating their own light paintings, and then they blend individual […]

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The Big Photography Deal

The Big Photography Deal

The Big Deal is designed to be the largest online photography bundle out there. Pairing leading photography software with training from some of the most credible names in the industry. You’ll get the training and the tools to create jaw dropping Black & White photographs, incredible landscape images, beautiful portraits and exceptional wildlife photos. You’ll […]

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Basic Tips for Photographing People

Basic Tips for Photographing People

A new original series by VSCO kicks off with a break down of how to photograph people. Lesson 1 talks about the basics—the general rules to keep in mind when pointing your camera in the direction of your subject, whether that person is a friend, a family member, or a stranger on the street: There are two main […]

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How to Extend Your Sunset Shooting With Strobe Lighting

How to Extend Your Sunset Shooting With Strobe Lighting

Most of us know that the golden hour is one of the best times for outdoor photography, but what happens when the light fades just a little too much? Do we call it a day? Not according to Jay P. Morgan. Just bring along a Speedlite or two and a Pocket Wizard, and you’ll find your window […]

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How to Use Aperture, Shutter Speed, and ISO for Creative Control

How to Use Aperture, Shutter Speed, and ISO for Creative Control

One of the wonderful aspects about taking photos is the vast amount of creative control you have. In this video, landscape photographer Joshua Cripps reminds us how to use shutter speed, aperture, and ISO to balance and perfect an image’s exposure to achieve captivating photography results: Remember, it doesn’t matter what you use: a stop is a […]

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The Challenge of Working with Mixed Indoor/Outdoor Photography Lighting

The Challenge of Working with Mixed Indoor/Outdoor Photography Lighting

When shooting without flash, you try to use the light in your environment that works best. When shooting with flash, you often shoot inside and focus on altering the lights pointed at your subject. But often we forget that you can use the environment to help create a natural look with artificial light. In this […]

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Diopter Lenses: Understanding How They Relate to Photography

Diopter Lenses: Understanding How They Relate to Photography

As photographers, we want to show ordinary things from an extraordinary angle. And what best way to do this but to zoom in and magnify parts and bring the smallest objects into literally larger than life sizes. Getting the perfect macro shot of a subject is definitely a photographer’s ultimate dream. But macro lenses can […]

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Very Interesting Comparison of Canon DSLR Camera Burst Mode Speeds and Sounds

Very Interesting Comparison of Canon DSLR Camera Burst Mode Speeds and Sounds

In 2003, Canon announced the Canon 300D with a burst mode rate of 2.5 fps. In 2006, they managed to double that number with the release of the 30D. These days, we have the Canon 1D X which performs an incredible 14 fps. Any faster and Canon will be verging on the edge of the […]

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Japanese Photographer Creates Adorably Hilarious Photos of His Daughter

Japanese Photographer Creates Adorably Hilarious Photos of His Daughter

It’s a known fact that parents love to take (and share) photos of their children. Most people smile politely as the proud parent flips through photo after photo of their kid eating, sleeping, crying, playing, and celebrating the latest birthday; however, the viewer is usually disenchanted with the photo barrage about 5 pictures in. Welcome […]

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