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How I Made The forgotten kingdom Alive Again
Frédéric Amadu
When I was younger, I used to visit the French Brittany quite a lot. Brittany is the Celtic part of France where many wonderful legends of my childhood...
Building An Ultra Violet Flash For Black Light Photography
Gvido Mūrnieks
Back in May I got collaboration offer, from a body painter, to make photo session with airbrushed models. This offer gave me the incentive, to...
How to Write a Photographer’s Bio…Or How NOT to
Missy Mwac
I wrote a blog post yesterday explaining why I shan’t be attending a 2-day $1850 “business conference.” Read here. I posted it on my Facebook page...
The Evolution of Magazine Covers
Karen X. Cheng |Jerry Gabra
Karen X. Cheng and Jerry Gabra take a look at how we’ve changed in the past 100 years Cosmopolitan Woah. Cosmopolitan covers started out with...
Some Glitterbombs of Truth for Photographers
Missy Mwac
If the photo you are posting to Facebook is the very top of a mountain, and that mountain is stealthy and cunning, it is a...
An ‘Open Letter’ to Landscape Photographers: It’s Time for an Etiquette Check
Michael Mariant
YOUR SHOTS ARE NOT THAT UNIQUE, SO THERE’S NO REASON TO RUIN IT FOR EVERYONE ELSE. Have you ever noticed that when you go to...
‘The Proposal’ – Behind-the-Scenes Look at Shooting Finland’s First Surper Hero Movie Poster
Lauri Laukkanen
About a month ago I was contacted by a production company called Woodpecker Films and they asked me if I’d be interested in photographing the...
19 Signs You Are Treating Your Photography as a Hobby and Not a Business
Bradford Rowley
Often, the most difficult thing I see for individuals in our industry is making that scary leap from being an amateur photographer to a legitimate...
How To Build A DIY device similar to the Light Blaster™
Gvido Mūrnieks
Having seen the Light Blaster image projector, I wanted to know if I could build myself. Kinda out of pure curiosity. I wanted to know,...
How I created This Gorgeous RED Portrait
Richard Powazynski
For no particular reason red was never my first choice when it came to planning the colour pallette of a photo shoot, so a while...