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Creating the Perfect Gelled Background
Jake Hicks
At first glance this seems like an easy thing to achieve, how hard can it be to get a great looking gelled background in your...
Being limited by my landlocked location, I bought 1,500 pounds of sand for a “beach” photo shoot, and got a single photo out of it
John Coates
I bought a stack of foreign Vogue magazines for inspiration, and inside of Vogue Italia I saw an amazing photo of Alessandra Ambrosio on a...
What I Learned photographing my own wedding
Eric Kim
Dear friends, family, and loved ones: on June 11, 2016 I just married the love of my life, Cindy. It was (one of) my favorite...
How I shot this wild rain bike store ad
Mohamed Gawish
In this blog post, I’m going to walk you through the shoot I did for My Bike Store “Challenge riding” with cyclist Ayman Habeta. I’ll...
Hashtags on Instagram: Use them properly
Allen Harper
I’ve seen a lot of threads and questions in /r/photography regarding how to increase an Instagram following and get more traffic. There are plenty of great...
World’s Oldest Working Photo Studio in India Shuts Down After Long Legal Battle
Kshitij Nagar
Today, a week after an exhibition titled ‘Bourne and Shepherd: Figures in Time’ came to a close in the plush locality of south Delhi, Bourne and...
Watch how I shot Lightning from Final Fantasy XIII with the world’s first 360 BTS
Mezame Shashin-ka
A while back, Eujin Goh from Broncolor Singapore approached me and asked if I would like to collaborate using some Broncolor gear in a conceptual...
The photographers path to poverty
Rosh Sillars
You open the box and there it is; a new digital camera. You’ve wanted to be a professional photographer for a long time and now...
Giving credit where credit is due. Why is it so important to credit the artist?
Vlada Haggerty
I work in the beauty industry and mainly use Instagram to promote my work, so I run into this problem a lot. This blog post...
A hipster’s guide to EOS film cameras
Jolyon Ralph
Are you the sort of person who thinks that digital photography is as unexciting as shaving? Then read on…