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Portrait Photography with One Light and a White Wall

Portrait Photography with One Light and a White Wall

Don’t be discouraged if you do not have buckets of money to spend on extravagant lighting setups, in the nicely made video tutorial below, Mark Wallace is back to share some of his endless knowledge with us. Wallace discusses a couple different ways you can make the most of a single light source when taking […]

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Dragonfly Photography Tips

Dragonfly Photography Tips

Insects have wing beats ranging from 12 beats per second for a large butterfly to 250 beats per second for a honeybee. Photographing insects in flight is one of the greatest challenges for all wildlife photographers. This article describes how to capture crisp, sharp images of dragonflies. During the spring of 2010, I hired a […]

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How to Use an Umbrella in Photography

How to Use an Umbrella in Photography

Umbrellas serve an important purpose to people. Apart from protecting them from the heat of the sun, they also keep them dry when it rains. But not many people are aware that the umbrella also serves photographers well. This tool helps them in the lighting aspect of photography particularly when shooting indoors. Using this sun […]

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Photography Tips from a Helicopter

Photography Tips from a Helicopter

Chase Jarvis is a well-known name among photographers, especially the Nikonians. Jarvis has shot for some of the biggest names in the corporate world including Apple, Volvo, Nike, Microsoft, Red Bull, Honda, and Polaroid. Today, Jarvis gives us some tips on how to take aerial photographs from inside a helicopter, a method of photographing which […]

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What Does it Take to be a National Geographic Photographer?

What Does it Take to be a National Geographic Photographer?

Many photographers dream of photographing for National Geographic. So much in fact, the magazine has become iconic in the eyes of amateur and professional photojournalists alike. It’s always fun to hear the insights of a photographer who has had a long standing working relationship with the publication and in the video below, we are treated […]

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LG G4 Camera Phone

LG G4 Camera Phone

I took the LG G4 out for a bike ride and had a lot of fun taking photos with it. The manual mode features are really versatile, you really can go full manual just like a DSLR camera and adjust everything from shutter speed to white balance. I was also surprised to learn you can shoot […]

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Remember to be Personable in Portrait Photography Sessions

Remember to be Personable in Portrait Photography Sessions

It’s important to remember that in a portrait session you’re photographing a person. At first, learning how to balance the technical and creative processes along with the person you’re photographing can be difficult. You have to find your rhythm while you communicate not only visually but verbally. This is a technique that may take time […]

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The Taxi Driver Photographer

The Taxi Driver Photographer

Next time you’re on a cab ride in the Big Apple, it might be worth taking the time to get to know your driver. You might be fortunate enough to hail David Bradford, a cabbie who uses his driving duties as a way to experience the city and capture it’s personality using a small Yaschica […]

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How a Car Camera Rig Works in Automotive Photography

How a Car Camera Rig Works in Automotive Photography

Car camera rigs are created for the purpose of photographing moving cars. Oftentimes, these exposure will last several seconds so that the background is blurred while the car is nice and sharp. The trick is creating a rig that’s stable enough to hold that camera still for those few precious seconds while the car is […]

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Official Timelapse of One World Trade Center’s 11-Year Construction Process

Official Timelapse of One World Trade Center’s 11-Year Construction Process

With the evolution of technology in photography, we’ve come to a point in time when we can not only see when an object was created, but its whole creation might be captured on film for posterity. In the case of the video below, the object is the One World Trade Center building, and its construction […]

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