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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...
How to capture electric sparks on film
Ted Kinsman
There are still a few very unique and interesting things that can be done with film, but not with a digital camera. One of these...
10 tips to create better animal photos for rescue shelters
Darcy Evans
Good photos are instrumental in the animal rescue/shelter world. You only get one chance to have the animal make their first impression on a prospective...
Five easy things you can do now to make better photos
Don Giannatti
We are all familiar with the common ones of making sure focus is correct, rule of thirds, tangents, and great gear. However, there are a...
These puppies names are Click, Bokeh, Nikon, Sensor, Skrim, and Gobo
Darcy Evans
Late last year my wife and I had to say goodbye to one of our beloved dogs Sophie. She was far too young and her...
I’ve been sharing my photography for free on Unsplash for the past 4 years, here’s what I found
Samuel Zeller
What is Unsplash? It’s a website where photographers can share high resolution images, make them publicly available for everyone for free even for commercial use....
Would a circular image sensor be the best thing ever? Heck yeah!
Jolyon Ralph
Have you ever wondered why camera lenses produce a circular image circle (in general) but sensors are rectangular? Of course the answer is mostly historical...