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Want to Learn the Secrets of Personality-Filled Family Photos?

Want to Learn the Secrets of Personality-Filled Family Photos?

Get five pro tips for turning spontaneous moments into unforgettable photos! Plus, gain the skills and confidence to think like a storyteller and shoot your most compelling family photos yet. Enroll in professional photographer Kirk Tuck’s online Craftsy class Family Photography: Candid Moments & Storytelling. 1. Understand the relationships Having a handle on the relationships […]

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How To Photograph Real Estate at Dusk

How To Photograph Real Estate at Dusk

Like any style of photography, real estate photography is tough. There is a lot more to it than having a nice camera and well cared for property to photograph. The countless amount of techniques and tricks you must know to pull off a great photo of a multi-million dollar property makes it a daunting task. […]

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Lighting Techniques for India-Inspired Portraits

Lighting Techniques for India-Inspired Portraits

There are countless light modifiers on the market designed for specific purposes. Photographer Andrea Belluso, however, goes outside the box and shows us how to be more creative with light-shaping tools. Here, he use the WideZoom Reflector, which is usually used to light backgrounds, as a main light and side light to create structure and unique, […]

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How to Make a Hyperlapse with Your DSLR

How to Make a Hyperlapse with Your DSLR

Photographers are getting more and more creative with the techniques they use and how they use them. For example, hyperlapse footage is now playing a major role in timelapse photography, and pros like Patrick Cheung are helping to pioneer exciting new hyperlapse techniques. In the clip below, Patrick and Kai let us in on some […]

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Photographing the Elusive Spirit Bear

Photographing the Elusive Spirit Bear

This is a story of one photographer’s passion: her life-long obsession of photographing bears and her dream to photograph the most elusive of them all, the spirit bear. This is the story of Daisy Gilardini, wildlife photographer and lifelong admirer of bears: Gilardini explains her fascination with bears—and especially the spirit bear: “I always had […]

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Simple and Cheap DIY GoPro Flotation Device

Simple and Cheap DIY GoPro Flotation Device

GoPro cameras are awesome for adventurers (and just about anyone on the go), but the thing about adventures is that things happen. And though it may not be likely that your wonder camera will be eaten by a fox, it’s actually quite easy to drop it while filming underwater, and if that’s in the ocean, […]

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From Gnats to Grizzlies: Setting Your Wildlife Photography Apart from the Herd

From Gnats to Grizzlies: Setting Your Wildlife Photography Apart from the Herd

The greatest wildlife photographers possess three secret weapons: patience, determination, and camouflage (and shiny expensive gear, of course). German nature photographer Ingo Arndt employs all three during shooting assignments. He will sometimes spend weeks lying in wait to get the shot that he wants—and his amazing work ethic shows in his photographs. In the video […]

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How to Shoot and Edit Corporate Headshots

How to Shoot and Edit Corporate Headshots

When the Northrups were asked to do a corporate photo shoot for the employees of a car dealership, they jumped at the opportunity to let us tag along by way of a behind the scenes video. Join the couple as they show us the ins and out of corporate photography: Gear for On-Location Headshots Equipped […]

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First Ever Moto BASE Jump from Flat Ground Captured on a GoPro

First Ever Moto BASE Jump from Flat Ground Captured on a GoPro

We’ve seen our share of amazing BASE jumps. But motocross rider Brad O’Neal takes the concept of BASE jumping to a completely different level—or rather, a flat level. While most moto BASE jumpers attempt riding off a cliff, he attempted to take off from flat ground, riding first up a giant ramp that would propel […]

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Creative Tricks for Studio Fashion Photography

Creative Tricks for Studio Fashion Photography

We can learn a lot from watching fellow photographers at work. Everyone has their own style of shooting encompassing their unique ideas, personal influences and past experiences. By watching others closely we can draw on things they do and implement it in our own work, promoting growth in our own photography. From setup to final […]

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