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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...
The advantage of camera WiFi when shooting concerts
Rui Bandeira
As soon as I received my Canon 5D Mark IV, I turned off the Wifi. I thought that it would not be very useful to...
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 interviewed a person who stole my photos
Russell Alboroto
A few months ago a girl came in to apply for a social media position at my last job. I was one of three photographers...
Why shooting in black and white will improve your landscape photography
Jake Traynor
Hands up who has an Instagram account. I certainly do (@jaketraynor – shameless plug), and I rarely wander outside of the landscape photography realm. What I’ve...
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...
Is social conformity and opinions of your peers impacting on your creativity as a photographer?
Jason Futrill
Photography in it’s truest sense is a form of art. I am quite sure most people would be aware of this. And what exactly is...
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...