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Ski Photography Portrait Session from Start to Finish

Ski Photography Portrait Session from Start to Finish

Remember the movie Hot Dog? The ’80s comedy about a bunch of goofy skiers. Well, imagine doing a whole commercial photo shoot in that style, and you’ve pictured photographer David Jackson’s latest project. Neon colored ski suits, big-haired blondes, and that creepy guy whose always recording everything on his VHS camcorder. Here’s a behind the […]

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What Social Media Really Means for Photographers

What Social Media Really Means for Photographers

Zach Arias, an editorial photographer based out of Atlanta, Georgia, speaks in this video from Luminance 2012 about social media and its role in the life of a professional photographer. Through services like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, artists can connect with each other and with their audience in a way that was never possible before; […]

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Total Solar Eclipse Captured with Time-lapse Photography

Total Solar Eclipse Captured with Time-lapse Photography

Not many of us get to see a total solar eclipse in our lifetime. They are rare and brief. Even fewer, however, manage to capture one on film. Photographer Colin Legg is one of those few. Not only does he just film an eclipse, he climbs a 850m mountain and camps over night to do […]

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How to Improve the Speed & Efficiency of Your Digital Photography Workflow

How to Improve the Speed & Efficiency of Your Digital Photography Workflow

Jeff Cable is probably one of the most practical photographers to work with and to learn from, whatever the subject is. He is best known for his wide passion of the art and for his inviting and easy-going attitude that attracts thousands of followers. Besides working at Lexar, Jeff is a well respected professional photographer […]

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Photojournalism in a Combat Environment

Photojournalism in a Combat Environment

To many of us civilians, the world of the military can seem strange and foreign. Staff Sargent Ryan Crane, The United States Air Force’s top photographer of 2011, doesn’t have the luxury of time and comfort that most of us do, and must work in some of the most intense and unstable conditions imaginable. Despite […]

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Using Photo Stitching to Photograph Giant Objects

Using Photo Stitching to Photograph Giant Objects

Known as The President, this giant sequoia is one the largest trees in the world. It has now been studied and photographed by a team of National Geographic experts and scientist in Sequoia National Park. The monstrous tree is 27 feet in diameter, 247 feet tall, 3,200 years old, and has over 2 billion leaves. […]

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Art of Photography Course

Art of Photography Course

Trey Ratcliff is arguably the most successful travel photographer in the world and recently developed a popular in-depth training series for photographers. It is 25% off for today only using a voucher code. This four-part tutorial covers the fundamentals of how a camera operates, properly composing a photo, finding your artistic style and basic photo editing. Perfect for Beginning and Intermediate photographers.

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How to Create a Hyper-Lapse Photography Sequence Around a Building

How to Create a Hyper-Lapse Photography Sequence Around a Building

In this perspective-shifting short, photographers Kevin Parry and Andrea Nesbitt of Candy Glass Productions share their tips on creating a circling shot of any building. This uses similar techniques as a new trend now known as hyperlapse photography. For this project they photograph Toronto’s prolific Canadian National Tower—the largest and most iconic building in Canada. […]

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Gazillions of Effects for Mac Photo Artists

Gazillions of Effects for Mac Photo Artists

For those of you looking to do more photo effects, FX Photo Studio, an award-winning photo app for Mac from the MacPhun team, is designed to take users to a brand new level of photo creativity on the Mac. FX Photo Studio is basically a powerful and easy-to-use post-processing photo editor that allows easy adjusting of photos as well as filters to flex creativity.

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Why Pre-Production Meetings are Important in Portrait Photography

Why Pre-Production Meetings are Important in Portrait Photography

In the fashion and related advertising industries, pre-production or pre-shoot meetings are a given. Clients are spending sums of six and seven figures for an image or series of images. Consequently, a photo shoot in these industries never goes ahead without a pre-production meeting. There is simply too much at risk not to have one. […]

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