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How I transformed a human into AAYLA SECURA on a low budget
Steve Thewis
With an athletic build, an exotic beauty, and blue skin, Aayla Secura stood out among the many faces of the Jedi ranks. I invited Fawlkes...
Lighting the impossible – photographing with a drone mounted flash
Lee Germeroth
This idea had been rolling around in my head for years. I use flashes a lot in my photography. Whether that is a Speedlight on or...
How to fix colour banding with gel modifiers
Jake Hicks
For those of us that have dealt with colour in any way digitally in the last decade, we are unfortunately all too familiar with the...
Switching from Nikon to Sony for wedding photography
Deci Gallen
After almost a decade of photographing weddings with Nikon cameras, we decided to trade our d750 cameras for the Sony a7III. Here are a few...
How to photograph landscapes at night by moonlight
Adrian Skiles
Landscape photography by moonlight can provide a different way of producing wonderful and mesmerizing photographs in both color and black and white. The mood conveyed...
Don’t ruin your wedding photography career before it starts
Justin Mott
So, you are about to embark on your first solo wedding shoot of your career. You’ve got butterflies in your stomach, you’re stressed, and the pressure...
This is how I suspended a model ten feet in the air for a magical shot
Ouriel Malester
For this production with Or Samson we wanted to do something that we did not see before, but we also wanted to raise the technical...
The Panasonic Lumix TS7 is a tough high tech camera for hobbyists
TJ Hansen
The Panasonic Lumix TS7 is the newest waterproof and shockproof compact camera in the Lumix lineup and it is all about being in water, sand...
How manual-focus and vintage lenses made me a better photographer
Dominik Vanyi
I have been a commercial and wedding photographer for over 13 years. And from the beginning, I have been using Canon DSLR cameras and a...
Social media’s facade of the perfect life has made us lose our empathy
Dan Ginn
Last week it was reported that 3 Canadian YouTube vloggers had died whilst swimming at the top of Shannon Falls in Squamish, British Columbia. The trio were...