Photoshoot and Beyond
This time of year, there’s a good chance the conditions will be damp, dull and grey where you live, and not exactly ideal for outdoor portraits. However, with the help of a couple of flashguns you can add drama on a dreary day and bag a shot that’s striking. The key is to fire the… Continue reading →
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Flashguns are great pieces of kit, but they need a little help to really make them shine. We test six modifiers to see how much they can add to your shoot.
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Jason Parnell-Brookes reveals how to use lens flare to your advantage to create atmospheric, summery scenes. Usually photographers work hard to avoid lens flare. It can be distracting, causing metering issues and introducing specular highlights. Sometimes, however, you can take advantage of it. For this technique to work, the sun needs to be near the… Continue reading →
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In this tutorial we show you how to distort the shadow of a ring into an arty shape that makes a heart. This ring heart shadow technique is very popular in stock photography.
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In this tutorial we show you how to capture quirky images without a lens, by making a digital pinhole camera using your DSLR’s body cap.
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This year, we have been creating a series of posts detailing the complete range of several key manufacturers, and this time we’ll be looking at the full range of Samsung cameras. Although relatively new to the camera market, the Korean giant has some fantastic products in its line-up, and was one of the first companies… Continue reading →
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One of the oldest brands on the market, Pentax was bought by Ricoh back in 2011. Now, although Ricoh manufactures all of the models, some of them are branded with Ricoh, others with Pentax. Generally speaking, it is DSLR and medium format models which continue to bear the Pentax name, presumably in a nod to… Continue reading →
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The term ‘camera drag’ may not sound like a particularly good idea, but don’t worry, we guarantee that your camera will come to no harm. Camera drag is actually a technique that adds motion blur to your images by moving the camera during an exposure to render the scene as an abstract palette of colours…. Continue reading →
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