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Open Letter – How Absolutely Amazing Remask Can Be With These 5 Improvements
Alexey Adamitsky
I am a big advocate for doing everything retoucher needs to do with a few tools as possible. Masking is one of this things that...
How I photographed these star trails at the Nabatean ruins of Shivta
Ron Kishinevsky
I’ve always been inspired by the night sky. But I always thought that it would be difficult to shoot. And I guess it was not...
Power Trick: shadows for composites and digital manipulation
Aad Sommeling
Shadows are often the hardest part when creating composites. In my workshop I often get the question can’t we just take a copy of the...
Glow worms turn New Zealand cave into starry night and I spent past year photographing it
Shaun Jeffers
Something quite special dwells beneath the surface of New Zealand and these images prove that the country is just as beautiful below ground as it...
Blending star trails with light-painting portraits
Eric Pare
Here’s a cool trick that my friend Amr Tahtawi showed me a while ago and that I keep using for my light-painting pictures. As usual, I do...
Exploring this big wild world with my little cars
Kim Leuenberger
7 years ago, I received a little replica of an iconic Volkswagen minivan from my parents and it was love at first sight for the...
Follow up to Eyes of the Afghan Girl – A critical take on the “Steve McCurry Scandal”
Kshitij Nagar
While a follow up was already planned, after publishing the previous post and the subsequent, staggering response generated in support, appreciation, comments, critique and criticism I...
Dancing Decay – a complete step by step composing breakdown
Cassigrafie
Believe it or not, the photo above is not real, It was composed from several elements, so there was never a dancer that I shot...
Why Envy Any Other Photographer?
Eric Kim
One of the most toxic feelings that a photographer (or human being) is to feel envy. Apparently envy is a trait that is deeply embedded...
Dramatic photos reveal what Paris looks like submerged in flood
Richard Adenot
A few days ago, we had a crazy flood in Paris. The Seine rose by a whopping 6.10m (20 feet for you, imperial friends), overflowing...