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    Finally! The BEST way to sharpen your images!
    Jun 5, 2016 Joseph Parry

    Sharpening. A subject that has potentially endless possibilities when it comes to how it can be done, high pass, unsharp mask, sharpening etc are the…

    Lighting Design the Easy Way – Secrets of the Inverse-Square Law of Light
    Jun 2, 2016 Johannes Dauner

    In this blog post, I would like to share some insights with you regarding the connection of aperture and  inverse-square law of light as well…

    Everything you ever needed to know about shutter speed
    Jun 1, 2016 John Aldred

    There’s a lot more to shutter speed than simply filling in a part of the exposure triangle.  The creative choices when it comes to shutter…

    Using CTO & CTB Utility Gels for Creative Effect
    Jun 1, 2016 Jake Hicks

    As a lot of you may know, I like to use the occasional gel in my shots to add a bit of interest. Sometimes these…

    23 tips to turn you into a street photography ninja!
    May 24, 2016 John Aldred

    The good folks at COOPH are back again, and this time they’ve got together with street photographer Thomas Leuthard to offer some creative and practical tips to help…

    There is no way to break compositional rules, only move to more advanced rules
    May 22, 2016 Udi Tirosh

    Of course it follows the rule of thirds, It has to to be a good photo, right? I am not sure. You can always “break…

    How to avoid flickering lights when shooting video
    May 17, 2016 John Aldred

    Anybody who’s ever shot video indoors will, at some point, have come across the issue of flickering lights and scanlines moving up and down your image while…

    Faking the tilt-shift video look in Adobe Premiere Pro
    May 16, 2016 John Aldred

    Since the first tilt-shift timelapses started to appear online several years ago, it’s a look that’s been attempted, copied, and improved upon quite a bit….

    How to create “The Ring of Fire” effect in-camera
    May 13, 2016 Sam Hurd

    In late 2014 I was given a few pieces of piping. What you might call trash, but I call the ring of fire. It ended up being…

    How to deal with difficult panoramic image stitching in Photoshop the easy way
    May 13, 2016 John Aldred

    With the speed boosts and memory capacities of modern computers, stitching multiple shots together to make larger panoramic images has become a very common technique used by…