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How I created a Star Wars themed image for a wedding
Steve Thewis
What started off as a bit of fun and a favour for a family member ended up here on the DIYP blog! Awesome! Month’s prior...
Photographing Flying Squirrels with High Speed Flash
Steve Gettle
Flying Squirrels are fairly common, although seldom seen members of the rodent family. The Southern Flying Squirrel is found throughout the Eastern half of the...
9 reasons why learning 3D software can help you as a photographer
John Flury
What’s the most important lesson that shaped you as an artist? For me it’s this. If a photographer only looks at the work of other...
The new Sigma 85mm f/1.4 and 12-24mm f/4 Art lenses explained and tested
TJ Hansen
Recent announcements from Sigma have made a lot of portrait and landscape photographers very happy- the question is, can the Sigma 85mm f/1.4 DG HSM Art and the Sigma...
Digitizing large format aerial photography film transparencies
Michael J. Bennett
One of the challenges (and rewards) of managing a digital production lab for a university research library is working with the wide assortment of analog...
I lost my portfolio and was reunited with it 30 years later
Gary Nylander
This is a story about my portfolio that went missing for 30 years. I made this collection of photographs while working as a photographer at...
Shooting the Milky Way With a Mobile Phone
Aaron Palabyab
I just got back from Batanes as part of a large group of bloggers and other media people who were there to try out the...
I won something in this years British Army Photographic competition 2016
Tim Jones
I entered few categories in this years British Army Photographic comp. This is the second time I have entered the annual phot comp in my...
10 things I learned from my first Instagram takeover
Alex Stelma
At the time of my takeover of the Visit Faroe Islands Instagram account, my own account was around 5k followers. To briefly run and manage a...
148 photo editing tools and apps for every possible need
Nazar Begen
Hi photo lovers, In the past two months, I’ve been doing a market research for my project, Photolemur. I looked for different tools in the area of...