How to make things float in your photos with fishing line, hooks and a little Photoshop

Making things float in photographs is something that seems to pop up for many photographers. Sometimes it’s the entire point of the shot, and at other times, floating objects are merely decoration for a wider scene. Whatever your reasons, there’s easy ways to do it, and there are hard ways. One of the hard ways […]

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A wooden stump, a cookie sheet and foamcore – and you can make great food photos with your iPhone

Do you take photos of food for your Instagram profile? If you do, you most likely do it with a smartphone. If you are into food photography (or just food), it’s good to know some tips and tricks how to make these food photos look their best. In this video, Peter McKinnon shares some tips […]

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A wooden stump, a cookie sheet and foamcore – and you can make great food photos with your iPhone

Do you take photos of food for your Instagram profile? If you do, you most likely do it with a smartphone. If you are into food photography (or just food), it’s good to know some tips and tricks how to make these food photos look their best. In this video, Peter McKinnon shares some tips […]

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Transfer your Polaroid photos onto other materials using Emulsion Lift techniques

Thanks to companies like the Impossible Project, Polaroids have seen a massive resurgence in popularity. While Fuji and others have come out with other forms of “instant film” in recent years, Polaroid still seem to see the most demand. One advantage of using Polaroids, is that you can actually lift the emulsion from the backing and […]

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24 Awe-Inspiring Photos of The Milky Way Galaxy (+Free Wallpapers)

The Milky Way is the name of the galaxy in which we live, and when captured in a photo, it produces some of the most awe-inspiring, other-worldly images you will ever see. If you’ve heard how beautiful these images can be, but spend the majority of your days living in

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If I want to print a photo, what size does it need to be?

I took the photo just down there from the deck of the ferry that took me from Auckland to the Coromandel Peninsular in New Zealand. My camera was in my lap and in one split second, everything came together to create that image. It looks almost as if I’ve shopped in the cruise liner, doesn’t […]

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Change Select and Mask back to Refine Edge in CC 2017

Many things have troubled me this past year. Global warming, war, consumerism, my beard that seems to grow ginger past a certain length…..but right above those, at the top of the list is Adobes new Select and Mask feature. Why? Because it just doesn’t work! No matter how many times I try, how many sliders […]

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Our Best Tips for Photographing Fireworks

With the Fourth of July right around the corner here in the United States, along with other summer celebrations around the world, photographers everywhere will be photographing fireworks over the next couple of months. Many will try, but how many will succeed? Fireworks photos, in my experience, are usually an all-or-nothing proposition. You either get […]

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