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Shooting a 300MP photo of a Hotrod – full frame digital vs large format film
Markus Hofstätter
Recently, I was tasked with shooting a hotrod. It was exciting from the beginning, because these kinds of cars are pretty rare here. The owner also wanted his...
Can the new Portrait Mode on iPhone 7 Plus make you a better photographer?
Simon Ellingworth
One of the primary lessons I teach in portraiture is how to control the viewer’s eye, and how depth of field is one of the...
Tutorial: How to create and use different colored lights for composites
Robert Cornelius
As some of you may recall, one of my very first blog posts (my 4th to be exact), was about compositing. I talk about compositing...
Seven self hosted alternatives to Flickr (and every other hosted image service)
James Ingles
Flickr had the potential to be what Facebook is now, unfortunately Yahoo squandered multiple opportunities to make something of Flickr, now Yahoo has decided to...
Good bye Flickr. So long, and thanks for hosting all my photos (or why I left Flickr)
James Ingles
Nine years, that’s how long I have been a Flickr user for and I have always found the service to be fairly good value. I...
Hands-on with the Profoto D2 AirTTL, the “World’s Fastest Monolight”
TJ Hansen
When Profoto added TTL, High Speed Sync, and studio-level power to the Profoto B1 battery-powered monolight, it was revolutionary. But the newest flash, which the...
20 tips and rules to make you a composition ninja
Barry O Carroll
There are no unbreakable rules when it comes to how you should compose your photographs After all, who likes rules except for your old school principal...
SLO: The 3D printed 35mm film camera
Amos Dudley
I’ve always assumed a camera should be impartial. Sharp and bright, lacking consideration or mystery, randomness or error. Lately we’re asked to apply a filter...
Ultimate guide to selections: the Pen tool
Robert Cornelius
I know there are a lot people out there who want to be better at Photoshop – heck, I’ve been doing this for almost half...
In August, the Netherlands turns purple and this is what it looks like
Albert Dros
When photographers think of my country they think of windmills, Amsterdam and tulips. These are generally the most photographed subjects in the Netherlands. What they...