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This calendar shows the best days of the year to shoot the Milky Way in 2020

Dan Zafra
Milky Way photography is one of the most fascinating types of photography, but to shoot the most appealing part of our galaxy, the Milky Way...

How to use light, shadows and highlights for dramatic portrait lighting – Part 1

Barry Mountford
Hey, folks! Its a brand new year and one I am pumped for! 2020 is gonna be another great year! To kick this new decade...

What my digital art looks like before and after editing

Antti Karppinen
As a digital artist, I create images that are usually almost unimaginable, optical illusions, interesting concepts, and fantasy worlds. For this, I have to have...

The red cabin in winter – shooting the same subject over the years

Ole Henrik Skjelstad
To revisit old and newer images of a particular scene is enjoying and it invokes many great memories from happy moments behind the camera. I...

Here are 15 inspiring landscape photographers

Ole Henrik Skjelstad
There is a plethora of very talented landscape photographers out in the field these days, both hobbyists and professionals alike. The following is a collection...

How I store and backup my photography

Francesco Carucci
  Storing and backing up efficiently and securely more than ten years of photography is a complicate technical task. At the center of my setup...

The honesty in film photography

Simon King
After some recent discussions with my peers, I’ve started to feel that “honesty” is an underrated quality in many genres of photography. I’ve given the...

My new photo series shows how technology has become our modern day religious icons

Juhamatti Vahdersalo
A bunch of different cables, broken power supplies and lots of old disassembled computers and broken cell phones laying useless in my garage inspired me...

Hands on with the Tamron 17-28mm f/2.8 Di III – A landscape perspective

Ole Henrik Skjelstad
My main objective isn’t to provide an in-depth ‘review’ of the lens, but I hope to offer the reader a few insights in terms of...

How to make DIY wooden handgrips for under $30

Adam Rahn
Wooden handgrips or kinogrips are becoming more and more popular. I’ve had my DIY grips for a couple years now and I get compliments on...