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How to make your own DIY mottled backdrops for a fraction of the cost of buying them
Jake Hicks
For those of us born in the 1970s and ’80s, this new phenomenon of mottled, cloudy backdrops appearing in modern portraits is an odd one....
How to blend two landscape photographs together in Photoshop
Tim Daniels
Part of the joy of landscape photography for me is standing around and waiting for the light to change. You put your camera on its...
Photographing sunsets and the Milky Way in in magical Tuscany
Ole Henrik Skjelstad
Arlington, Texas, was long in the lead when it came to being this summer’s family vacation destination. However, sometime in May we arrived at that...
Eight essential marketing strategies for more successful photography business
Kristjan Vingel
Why artists need to market themselves? So that, you the artist, wouldn’t starve to death. No, but seriously. Otherwise, you risk ending up like Vincent...
I spent a week photographing concerts with the Canon EOS R and here’s what I think
Rui Bandeira
Canon Portugal sent me a Canon EOS R with the Canon RF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM lens for me to test. Unfortunately, it was only possible...
This surgery puts a Godox AD200 on an S-type bracket
Mauro Pastore
It was a while since I was thinking how to perfectly center the Godox H200J bare bulb head in the S-Type Bracket. The AD200 and...
How to build a DIY 35mm slides and negatives copying machine
Steven Heap
Like many of you, I have a large collection of 35mm slides and negative film that I have taken over the years that are currently...
Comparing Real film grain to Adobe Lightroom film grain
Bill Lawson
In my never ending search for that “special” photographic look that sets me apart from the competition, I recently discovered that overexposing film increases the...
A comprehensive optical snoot review
Jake Hicks
When photographers use terms like ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ light, it’s actually incredibly vague. You would rarely describe your meal as simply a ‘meat’ dish, so...
Modern cameras: how they make it harder to take a bad photo
Blair Bunting
Twenty years, they have gone by fast. I can remember the first time I saw a camera with a screen on the back of it...