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Must-Have Equipment for Professional Wedding Photographers

Must-Have Equipment for Professional Wedding Photographers

When it comes to taking professional quality wedding images, the lens is much more important than the camera body itself. This doesn’t mean you should get the cheapest camera body that you can find. If you’re on a tight budget and you can’t afford to go full-frame, you should consider getting a semi-professional camera, such […]

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Photographing Cars in Bad Weather Conditions

Photographing Cars in Bad Weather Conditions

While it’s not entirely impossible to take photos in harsh conditions, there’s a lot to be desired when sticking one’s head and photography equipment out the window of a car going 100 km/h. Photographers Lauri Laukkanen and Sakari Mäkelä demonstrate how finding the right angle for a photo can be challenging in freezing cold weather, […]

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Winter Lifestyle Fashion Photography

Winter Lifestyle Fashion Photography

Ever wonder what it was like to take a fashion photo shoot outside on a blustery, winter day? Below, you can take a behind the scenes look at a shoot that has done just that. Join photographer, Chris Lambeth, and his crew as they take to the snow covered streets with their model for the […]

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How to Use Canon’s Radio Based Wireless E-TTL Speedlite Flash System

How to Use Canon’s Radio Based Wireless E-TTL Speedlite Flash System

Canon is one the most preferred companies when talking about photography, as each year we are presented with delightful and state-of-the-art sets of photography equipment. The radio-based wireless E-TTL flash is one of their latest novelties – in fact, the new Speedlite 600EX-RT takes a step forward regarding off-camera flash, starting with its ability to communicate up […]

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Creative Retouching Essentials in a Day

Creative Retouching Essentials in a Day

This new interactive eBook is designed for those interested in attempting professional beauty & portrait photography retouching or those who just want to understand the fundamentals. It contains information & embedded videos on tools that every photographer who wants to successfully edit their own images should master for high end fashion and portrait photography. But […]

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Inside Look at the Sigma Factory

Inside Look at the Sigma Factory

Not many people are granted the opportunity to take a tour of Sigma’s production factories. Fortunately, the company allowed access to a video crew who takes us on a virtual tour through the facility, giving us a behind the scenes look at the craftsmanship that goes into each piece of glass the company produces. Throughout the duration of the […]

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Nautical Photography

Nautical Photography

Photographer Onne van der Wal has done it all when it comes to nautical photography. Yachts, sailboats, racing boats, lighthouses, ocean life, beaches, harbors, icebergs, you name it. Onne has a background as a professional sailer and an extensive knowledge of ships and sailing, which works to benefit his photography. In this hour-long workshop/lecture, Onne […]

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Composite Portraits with a Mythical Creature

Composite Portraits with a Mythical Creature

Composite photography—layering together multiple images to make one—has long been used in the world of commercial photography as a way to produce perfectly composed photographs that would be too difficult to create in one shot. As more and more people are beginning to see the benefits of composite photography, the technique is finding its way into other […]

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Presidential Photographer’s Top Photos of the Year 2012

Presidential Photographer’s Top Photos of the Year 2012

Year 2012, should you recall it, was quite an intensive one at the White House. Pete Souza, the official White House photographer for President Obama, has much to tell about it — from private family moments expressing love and affection, through duets with BB King to the most exciting and thrilling political duties at Afghanistan, G8 […]

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Magazine Article Photography Session: Behind the Scenes

Magazine Article Photography Session: Behind the Scenes

I’m sure all of us at one point or another have looked at a photo in a magazine and wondered, How did they get that shot? What was the lighting setup? Well here’s a short timelapse video that may answer a few of your questions. There’s no discussion of the setup, but the video does […]

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