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How to Keep Sight of Why You Love Photography

How to Keep Sight of Why You Love Photography

At some point, every photographer has to decide between shooting what they love and shooting what will pay. Some photographers make more money than they know what to do with, but they never shoot what they love, and so they always feel a little dead inside. Meanwhile, those who shoot only what they love and wholly enjoy the craft often […]

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These Adrenaline Pumping Photos Will Make Your Heart Race

These Adrenaline Pumping Photos Will Make Your Heart Race

Blink and you’ll miss it! This week we found some of the most breathtaking, adrenaline pumping scenes. If you’re into motocross, parkour, kite surfing, paragliding, rock climbing, sky diving, or any other extreme sport, you’re gonna enjoy this! If you enjoyed these, check out Scott Markewitz’s tips for shooting extreme sports.

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Timelapse Photography Used to Document Construction of World’s Largest Ship

Timelapse Photography Used to Document Construction of World’s Largest Ship

Watch the biggest ship in the world being built in a mere 76 seconds. Constructed in Korea by the Maersk Line, the Triple-E is 400 meters (approximately 1,312 feet) long. Maersk partnered with the Discovery Channel to produce the presentation, which has been compiled from 50,000 photos taken over a period of three months: In […]

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Urban Landscape Photo Editing with Topaz

Urban Landscape Photo Editing with Topaz

“With any form of photography, the photo captures a point in time; it is a record of what was there at that specific moment. However, to make a photo interesting to the audience it must be more than just a record. Cities contain many buildings, good and bad architecture, shapes, patterns, people, and culture. Urban […]

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National Geographic’s Photos of the Year 2015

National Geographic’s Photos of the Year 2015

The end of the year is a period of reflection, when you sum it all up and see the year’s highlights. I don’t know about you, but I’m always excited to see the “best of” the year, and National Geographic’s photos are some of the best roundups. If you want to see what the year […]

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Top Sports Photographer Attributes Success to Working Twice as Hard and Luck

Top Sports Photographer Attributes Success to Working Twice as Hard and Luck

Having over 200 of his photographs featured as Sports Illustrated, TIME, LIFE, and People magazine covers, including many shots considered to be some of the greatest sports photos of all time, one would expect Neil Leifer to have a certain air of confidence about him. Surely, the man behind the lens that captured Secretariat’s historic […]

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Improve Your Portraits With This Simple Shoulder Trick

Improve Your Portraits With This Simple Shoulder Trick

A lot of us don’t like the way we look in photos. Despite what it says about our collective self-esteem (not to mention an oversaturation of perfect body types and societal pressure to look a certain way), we are always striving to look better, healthier, and thinner in photos. That’s where Peter Hurley speaks right to […]

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Sounds of Film Photography

Sounds of Film Photography

If you were born before the turn of the century and remember the good old days of film, prepare yourself for a bit of nostalgia. This cool one-minute short from Robert Marshall of Round One Films will bring it all back for you: In just over a minute Marshall captures just about every sound associated […]

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A Paradise for Mountain Lovers in 11 Photos

A Paradise for Mountain Lovers in 11 Photos

Of all the landscapes I have photographed, mountains remain one of the most difficult to capture well. But I’ve found some amazing examples from photographers who really pulled it off: For more inspiration and some tips, check out 5 Landscape Photography Tips for Photographing Mountains.

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How to Photograph Dancers with Motion Blur

How to Photograph Dancers with Motion Blur

The free flowing energetic movements of a dancer can be enchanting to watch. But when it comes to photographing the same it can be a real nightmare. For one thing, you can use a flash/strobe to freeze the movement but that free-flowing hint of movement is never easy to capture with a blinding, instantaneous light. You […]

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