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Use lighting gels to get a pastel light wrap around your subject
Jake Hicks
Good news! This is actually a relatively easy JHP lighting setup to play with and it produces some pretty great looking results too. It’s easy...
I gave my friend a $47 DIY barbarian makeover for a photo shoot
Renee Robyn
The dollar store is a place with the most unfortunate collection of landfill, a last-ditch effort to make sales in a consumer world driven to...
How we built a mobile darkroom and a 16”x20” DIY camera
Natalia Barberis
PART 1 – The Camera Starting back in May of 2014, I finally put my first foot forward in the making of a 16×20 inch...
I am a formerly homeless teenager who became an award-winning wedding photographer
Carsten Schertzer
My life right now is spent hopping from one fancy wedding venue to the next, but it wasn’t always that way. I picked up my...
How I shot a magazine cover with a smartphone
Ben Phillips
I recently got a call from a client in Chile asking if I’d like to photograph Alexis Sanchez for the cover of COSAS magazine. Alexis...
Hidden Children: American Child Labour in Colour
Tom Marshall
“There is work that profits children, and there is work that brings profit only to employers. The object of employing children is not to train...
How to photograph seascapes
Albert Dros
Photographing the sea and the waves can be both challenging and fun. People often ask me what are ‘the right settings’ to shoot moving water...
Camera Historica: The Sean Flynn Leica M2
Bellamy Hunt
This is a story about a camera, a rather special camera. Every camera has a history, so they say. But it is not all that...
Speed up Lightroom by splitting up your image previews
Paul Snow
The article contains information that may speed up Lightroom by spreading disk reading load across multiple drives. It achieves this by utilising symbolic links within...
I took a trip to Chernobyl’s exclusion zone and photographed it in infrared
Vladimir Migutin
We always hear praises of the might of Mother Nature, how it renders useless mans’ creations, and bears life above the ruins. Well, it’s something...