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Advertising Photography Session: Deadliest Catch

Advertising Photography Session: Deadliest Catch

Go behind the scenes of an ad campaign. It is perhaps one of the most compelling fly on the wall documentaries on TV today. Discovery Channel’s Deadliest Catch follows the fortunes of deep sea fishermen as they battle the elements and many other dangers to bring back their marine bounty. In this short video, we […]

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Composite Photography Tips and Techniques

Composite Photography Tips and Techniques

The look of composite photography is unmistakable. The HDR images are crisp, detailed, and have expansive color ranges. As more and more photographers begin to move to specialty areas of HDR, we are introduced to an individual that has already fully embraced the technology. Joel Grimes has established himself as expert in the field of […]

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Event Photography Tips

Event Photography Tips

The million dollar question among photographers is how they can make money doing what they love to do—taking photographs. In a seminar hosted at B&H, Jeff Cable delivers the ins and outs of the trade and shares with us the key points he uses to turn profit in a competition-rich industry. The seminar lasted just over an […]

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How to Find a Lost Camera

How to Find a Lost Camera

Have you ever experienced losing a most precious gadget such as a digital camera? For those who have, for sure, you sleepless nights wondering where your photographic device got lost or who might have stolen it. Even though it costs just a hundred dollars but if the item has a very sentimental value and bought from your hard earned money, it’s natural to be upset over losing a camera. Fortunately, you can get help fast and easy these days. There’s a free service (CameraTrace) on the internet that will help you trace your lost or stolen camera.

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Tintype Photography

Tintype Photography

It’s fair to say that technology is no stranger when it comes to photography. As new products enter the market, the old are forgotten. Not too along ago we watched the iconic Kodachrome fall to the wayside. Before that, countless other films and chemical process were abandoned. Tintype, a type of photography process that came to […]

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How to Capture Motion and Splashing Water in Photography

How to Capture Motion and Splashing Water in Photography

When the photography department at Utah’s Brigham Young University decided to do a photoshoot with the school’s gymnastic team, they opted to use an out of place prop—water. They set up studio at a pool in the campus’s Richards Building and got to work. Using a Canon EOS 1D and a backlit black background, the photography team […]

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How to Create a Moving HDR Time-lapse

How to Create a Moving HDR Time-lapse

In this video tutorial we are shown how to make an HDR timelapse video using the Dynamic Perception Stage Zero Dolly alongside the MX2 DollyShield engine. The maker of this film prefers the Pentax K7 because of its unique ability to auto-bracket 5 shots with two EV spacings, which equates to ten additional stops. Of course, this dolly […]

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How to Import and Organize Photos in Lightroom

How to Import and Organize Photos in Lightroom

I’m not a professional photographer. But I do take a lot of photographs, and if I’ve learned anything in my time behind a camera, it’s that it helps to learn from the pros. Two months ago, I had 6,500+ photographs on my hard drive. I had no idea which ones I liked best, when they […]

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Lensbaby Lens: How to Use Them in Portrait Photography

Lensbaby Lens: How to Use Them in Portrait Photography

The folks over at Lensbaby have been hard at work developing exciting new creative photography tools. I was initially introduced to Lensbaby products as essential filmmaking tools, and I am pleased to see an increase in the Lensbaby’s popularity among portrait photographers. In a series of videos produced by Lensbaby, we are shown different ways in which […]

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Time-lapse of a Pregnancy: Creative Photography Project

Time-lapse of a Pregnancy: Creative Photography Project

We have seen a plethora of timelapse videos surface on the interwebs lately, covering an almost endless array of events ranging from stars and auroras to a man walking clear across the United States. As it racked up over 7 million views in the first 10 days of its posting, the world became enamored with a timelapse video […]

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