1998 Canon D2000 Goes Head-To-Head Against The 2015 Canon 5DSR

Sometimes we complain about how our cameras function. Even if we are not doing so out loud, there is this voice in our heads that says “If only the ISO could go higher…” or “If only the card was faster…” or “If only the camera was lighter…”. And this is OK. Or course, those complaints […]

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Polaroid: GoPro Session looks a lot like Polaroid Cube, Let The Court Decide

Just when I thought that the photography gear industry is getting a bit boring, Polaroid is stirring things up with a new patent suit against GoPro. Polaroid (or rather C&A Marketing, which holds the Polaroid brand) filed a patent infringement suit claiming that the (now discounted) GoPro Session is infringing on their Polaroid Cube.  Polaroid’s patent, dated May […]

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Photography From The Future: Using A Gimbal And Sageway For Smooth Wedding Shots

I just know that many wedding photographers will hit their heads and go “how come I did not think about his before” but it looks like this could be an emerging trend with wedding photographers. Photographer Mendel Benams posted this cool short video on Facebook showing how a videographer gets a super smooth shot of the bride. […]

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10 Different Lighting Setups Using A single Light And A Single Softbox

Many times photographers think they are held back by lack of gear. However, having just one strobe and one softbox is more than you need to create so many looks and apply your photography to so many subjects. Photographer Tony Corbell uses a single light and a softbox to show ten different lighting setups and applications. […]

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31 Self Portraits Series Made For Halloween

Photographer Amanda Chapman has been giving Halloween the proper treatment since 2012. The project called 31 Days Of Halloween started when Amanda’s husband was diagnosed with Cancer and Amanda was looking to give something positive for the family to focus at. Her definition of “something positive to focus at” was 31 Days Of Halloween – a month where […]

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This Is How To Make Fake Blood And How It’s Been Used Throughout History

Blood is crucial to movies. And it is not just the gore-filled, army oriented, zombie killing movies. Every time someone get hit and need to bleed a bit, there is the issue of where blood comes from. Of course, you can not use real blood. There are moral and ethical issues with that. Not to […]

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Portraying The Passing Months As Sliced Vegetables Scans

As the year cycles, each month has some flora that reaches its peak. It would be interesting to looks at a year as a sum of each month’s ripened fruits and vegetables. And this is  what photographers Caitlin Levin and Henry Hargreaves did. They scanned the ripe fruits of each month an created a kaleidoscopic image out […]

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You Will Never Trust Instagram Again After Watching This Movie

Do you follow any of the big lifestyle/travel Instagram account? You know the type. They share amazing views and emotion evoking photos, usually accompanied by inspiring and motivating proverbs. Cinematographer Matthew Rycroft suggests a different interpretation to those accounts with his HASHTAG NOFILTER short. And for me, I may never fully trust an Instagram account again. […]

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Shooting Jason Voorhees Slashes A Golf Player

Photographer Leo Rosas wanted to create a Halloween inspired golf themed photo. And what better way to make to have Jason Voorhees (from friday the 13th) slash away at an innocent golf player? With the final results quite fitting this weekend, Leo was king enough to share both the lighting setup and the photos before and after […]

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