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52 Week Photography Challenge for 2018
Dale Foshe
The first two Dogwood Photography 52 Week Challenges were an amazing success, with tens of thousands of photographers participating from around the world. We enter...
Here are 10 of the new films that came out for photographers in 2017
Vincent Moschetti
Looking back at all the new 35mm and 120 film stocks one can buy today, 2017 will probably be remembered as one the most thriving...
How I stitched 105 exposures to create a 620MP night-to-day panorama of New York City
Dan Piech
Created from 105 individual exposures taken over many hours, “New York Transitions I” captures the dawn of a new day in New York City. I...
Ten quick tips for photographing northern lights
Micael Widell
The other day I was lucky enough to catch some Northern Lights over my hometown Stockholm. It is quite rare to see them here, especially...
Take extreme macro photos by adapting a microscope
James Wallace
It’s not that difficult to add computer control to a microscope. Now I realize this is not a huge need for the general photographer, however,...
10 contenders go head-to-head to see which software is the best for processing astrophotography
Alan Dyer
To Adobe or not to Adobe. That is the question many photographers are asking with the spate of new image processing programs vying to “kill...
What background should you use with coloured gels? Grey or white?
Jake Hicks
This is another one of those questions I get asked a lot: ‘Should I be using a white or grey background with coloured gels?’ As...
Memory cards past, present and future – What you need to know about the different card formats
Jeff Cable
A couple of months ago, I asked all of you to email me with ideas for future blog posts. One of the suggestions that came...
A black and white photography challenge by a colourblind photographer
Jason Futrill
Earlier this year I wrote what I felt was quite a personal article about what it is like to be a colourblind photographer. In the...
We took four models into the desert to create dramatic portraits in the landscape
Jay Philbrick
My wife, Vicki, and I are full-time portrait and wedding photographers. When we aren’t shooting these things, we like creating dramatic images of people in...