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8 Ways to Gain the Confidence You Need to Start Selling Your Photos

8 Ways to Gain the Confidence You Need to Start Selling Your Photos

Do you want to start making money with your photography, but you’re not quite sure if you’re ready? The first thing you need to get started is confidence. Here are eight easy steps from Jay P. Morgan to help you become a strong, confident, money-making photographer: 1. Invest in Equipment You need a camera and […]

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How to Mimic Ambient Light Using Flash

How to Mimic Ambient Light Using Flash

In this video, photographer Joe McNally explains how you can use a speedlight to mimic actual ambient lighting, which in this case would be the warm yellow-orange light produced by prayer candles inside a church in Mexico: The Problem Although the lighting was simple to set up, there were a few things to note. The […]

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Barcelona Flow-Motion: A Fast-Moving Timelapse Film

Barcelona Flow-Motion: A Fast-Moving Timelapse Film

Time Lapse Network has called him the Master of Time Lapse. Rob Whitworth has a knack for turning traditional timelapse photography into innovative and compelling works of art in the form of short films that tell relatable, evoking stories. “Barcelona GO!” is one of those stories: Whitworth combines his unique hyperlapse technique with the voices and sounds […]

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Build a Giant DIY Ringlight for Unique Portrait Photography

Build a Giant DIY Ringlight for Unique Portrait Photography

A ring light is like the king of portrait lights. It creates a beautiful, uniform light that illuminates the subject’s face. But what makes it truly ideal for portraiture is that it allows the photographer to shoot with a shallow depth of field. In this video, photographer Dani Diamond shows us how easy it is […]

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How to Give Your Photos the Nashville Effect in 3 Easy Steps

How to Give Your Photos the Nashville Effect in 3 Easy Steps

In this video, Manni shows us how to apply a Nashville effect using Photoshop. Basically, the effect gives a bit of a faded, burnt out or retro effect to your images. If you’re an Instagram junkie you may have already used it using one of the preset tools. Manni’s method gives you a bit more […]

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This Star Axis Timelapse Lets You Ride the Sky

This Star Axis Timelapse Lets You Ride the Sky

Just when you thought that you knew all about what could be done astro-timelapse photography, Lance Page goes out and creates this gem of a video. Instead of the usual sweeping shots of a lovely landscapes and moving stars, Page chose to approach the timelapse concept from a new angle—by setting the North Star as […]

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What to Know Before You Pursue a Photography Career

What to Know Before You Pursue a Photography Career

Everyone likes to take pictures, but some people really love it enough to make a photography career their whole goal. Whether you plan to work for someone or create your own company, you are going to need to know a few things before you get into the business. Photography is a great hobby that could […]

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How to Create Painterly Art from Your Photos Using Multiple Exposures

How to Create Painterly Art from Your Photos Using Multiple Exposures

Looking to do something a little different with your photography to mix things up a little? Below, this video teaches us how to use multiple exposures to create a finished piece of art that looks stunningly painterly. The process, from taking the images to post production, isn’t too difficult, making this project suitable for new photographers, […]

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How to Take Stunning Product Photos on a Budget

How to Take Stunning Product Photos on a Budget

As with any kind of photography, product photography is all about the light. Getting great lighting for product shots can be somewhat tricky if you have only one light, but in the video tutorial below, Andrey Mikhaylov, walks us through his process, which gets the job done quite nicely using just one light source and […]

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Airplanes Look Like Epic Shooting Stars in This Enthralling Timelapse

Airplanes Look Like Epic Shooting Stars in This Enthralling Timelapse

A little while back we shared Milton Tan‘s tantilizing timelapse, The Air Traffic, a unique film that highlights the way airplanes move through the air. Tan has now released a sequel, The Air Traffic 2, for which he was granted access to restricted areas of one of the world’s busiest airports. Take a look at […]

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