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Lessons from losing a week of photos to memory card failure
QT Luong
Summary: One of the photographer’s greatest fears is to lose a significant chunk of images from a big trip or event. In this long-form article,...
How to make a simple $10 DIY disco prism for Profoto A1
Stefan Tell
Controlling and modifying light is a lot of what photography with studio lights and battery powered strobes are about. Especially when it comes to portraits,...
Dear wedding vendors: photographers don’t owe you images
Lisa Mark and Rebecca Lozer
On episode 65 of The Secret Life of Weddings Podcast (listen on iTunes, Spotify) we chat about a major hot topic amongst wedding photographers these...
Make a DIY low-angle quadpod under $20
Ilya Schiller
I love low angle photography! It brings fresh and unusual angles that makes your pictures stand out. You can buy Platypod for this purpose but...
Automating image capture for 3D scanning through photogrammetry
Michael J. Bennett
3D data creation is part of a growing trend in the use of computational imaging techniques within cultural heritage digitization shops. In particular, operational adoption...
How I layered elements to create a magic light
Robert Cornelius
For those of you who don’t know who Joel Robison is, kindly crawl out from under your rock and check out his work. (Is there internet under...
How to create a DIY gimbal stabilizer
Shane Haumpton
People choose different types of cameras for filmmaking, depending on their skills and needs: smartphones are ideal for beginners, action cameras are great for recording...
Want to Break the Glass Ceiling as a Female photographer? First, believe you’re capable
Elizabeth Saravo
Often times, when I walk on set to begin a photoshoot, I’m mistaken for a makeup artist. Other times, I’ll have a male assistant with...
Very nice…how much??! – a breakdown of day rates in commercial photography
Shariq Siddiqui
It’s standard practice for commercial photography clients to ask photographers their ‘day rate’. Most estimates that photographers provide start with a day rate before going...
iPhone XS vs. iPhone X - The Camera Hardware Changes
Sebastiaan de With
We released Halide 1.9 on Monday, with a powerful new feature called Technical Readout. Reviewers with advance access to the iPhone XS have been kind enough to share...