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Use coloured LED lights instead of gels to add vibrant colour to your shots
Jake Hicks
This is the last part of a three part mini-series of articles on LED lights for photographers. Part 1 looked at the pros and cons...
Seven habits of boring street photography
Forrest Walker
Street Photography is hard to do well. Really hard. Even if you are great, most of your shots will not be. The internet is filled...
How I did this pink & red studio shoot: a step-by-step breakdown from planning to post-processing
Chris Ord
Shooting for yourself is something I talk about a lot, I talk about it a lot but I have struggled to do over the last...
Lights, shadow and highlight – How I lit this dramatic portrait
Barry Mountford
Creating a dramatic portrait, moody ,emotional, edgy, dark, the subject/model, scene and clothing help portray all of those but one ingredient that remains constant to...
To stage or not to stage in travel photography
Etienne Bossot
With the recent polemics surrounding a certain image that won a photography competition this week, I feel like we need to talk about travel photography. About people photography,...
The problem isn’t the photo contest, it’s us
Allen Murabayashi
Eye-rolls, shrugs, and barbs greeted the $120,000 Grand Prize winner of Dubai’s HIPA Photography Prize. Malaysian photographer Edwin Ong’s photo of a partially blind Vietnamese...
I got $5,000 worth of gear stolen from me through Fat Llama
Keith Donegan
As mentioned previously on this site, I use the Fat Llama website to loan out some of my photography gear when not in use, and I’ve been...
Why Size Matters – Perspective and lens compression in landscapes at 400mm
Kaitlyn McLachlan
Most the time when I am out doing landscape photography, I have a Canon EF 16-35mm f/4L IS and Canon EF 70-200mm f/4L IS with...
Dismantling the new Canon EOS RP in this extreme teardown
Patrick Nadolski
I’d think most people were pleasantly surprised with the release of the EOS RP. Full-frame mirrorless cameras were getting increasingly sophisticated, which is a good...
Can you be a successful fashion photographer outside a big city?
Olivia Bossert
I went to university in a beautiful little town called Falmouth, Cornwall, in the very south western tip of the UK. It’s 6 hours away...