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This Bride Was Left at the Altar…But She Kept Her Session With the Wedding Photographer

This Bride Was Left at the Altar…But She Kept Her Session With the Wedding Photographer

Life is known for throwing us curve balls. The smartest and strongest thing we can do is to get creative and make the best of it. Blushing bride Shelby Swink was left by her fiancee just days before their wedding date. Instead of wallowing in self pity, Swink decided to have some fun with family […]

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In-Depth Milky Way Timelapse Tutorial for Beginners

In-Depth Milky Way Timelapse Tutorial for Beginners

Making a timelapse is usually a long and hard process. There are so many things that you need to keep in mind. To help you out along the way, Ian Norman has created a pretty detailed tutorial for shooting motion timelapse sequences of the Milky Way: Scouting a Location The thing that you need to […]

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Use These Simple Tips to Get Better Snow Photos

Use These Simple Tips to Get Better Snow Photos

Winter photography, especially when snow is involved, comes with some pretty tough challenges. All that white snow with the beautiful blue sky makes a camera go mad trying to figure out the correct exposure. If you’re the type of photographer who prefers to shoot in auto or program mode most of the time, you’ll find […]

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Flower Photography Guide

Flower Photography Guide

Many photographers have sent us requests for more flower photography assistance, spring is coming up fast. The 2nd edition of this in-depth flower photography guide has been completely revamped with new sections and updated content on every aspect of photographing flowers for photographers of all experience levels. Found here: Wildflower Photography Guide Wildflowers display some of the […]

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Amazing Photos of a Total Cloud Inversion at the Grand Canyon

Amazing Photos of a Total Cloud Inversion at the Grand Canyon

As a photographer and a person who loves science, natural phenomena images are among my favorite subjects. I can’t express enough the feeling I get when I see pictures like these: It’s not every day you get to see clouds coming and going from below you as if they were the ocean during ebb and […]

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How to Turn a Portrait into a Sculpture in Photoshop

How to Turn a Portrait into a Sculpture in Photoshop

Want to be really creative with your portraits? Dutch Photoshop wizard, photographer, designer, and artist Dracorubio, has a unique way of blending art forms in Photoshop to create breathtaking images. Here, he transforms a simple portrait into an amazing sculpture: The process involves using Clipping Masks and Drop Shadows—and having a lot of imagination—to create surreal images. Dracorubio uses many different […]

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Warning: Megatron Does Not Approve of Selfies

Warning: Megatron Does Not Approve of Selfies

I’m siding with Megatron on this one. I mean, what’s the point? “When will you learn that your status updates mean zero-to-nothing to anyone, ever? It doesn’t matter which social network you post it on—worthless! Use your mind, create new memories, interact, don’t just add it to a library of forgotten photographs! Ugh, how disappointing […]

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How to Modify a One Light Portrait Setup to Get the Look You Want

How to Modify a One Light Portrait Setup to Get the Look You Want

There are millions of ways to light a portrait, ranging from Rembrandt style to incredibly complex setups that involve multiple lights, reflectors, and gels. Joel Grimes shows a pretty simple one light setup and how you can adjust the light to get the results you want in the following video: For this set of portraits, […]

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The Challenges and Dangers of Being a National Geographic Photographer

The Challenges and Dangers of Being a National Geographic Photographer

Tomás Munita is a photographer for National Geographic. As part of his job, he gets to experience many different cultures in many different scenarios. One of those is Chile. For this assignment he went on a wild bull hunt with a group of gauchos in Patagonia: As you can see in the video, working for […]

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How to Easily Fix “Pet Eye” In Photoshop

How to Easily Fix “Pet Eye” In Photoshop

When using camera flash while photographing your pets, you’ve probably noticed that their eyes get color casts akin to red eye in humans. If you try to fix this in post-production the same way as you would fix human red eye, Photoshop will just desaturate and darken the area. The eyes will look washed out […]

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