The fear of photographing in public and how to overcome it

The joy of Photographing on the street comes from close and engaging photos. Displaying the human nature and emotions in a way that the audience can relive these moments requires the photographer to be close and engaging as well. Unfortunately for a lot of us, it is not easy to stand out from the masses […]

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Can you improve your photography by reflecting on your life?

What drives you? This week I wanted to venture into the ideology of our personality traits (or mine) and take a look inside to see what drives us (me). Ultimately to answer the question of whether it’s truly possible to see ourselves in a way which allows us to understand our triggers to keep creating […]

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Is The Hometown Camera Store Dead?

Many of you have been asking this question pretty much since the Internet exploded into the world’s largest marketplace. But change comes so fast and so deep these days that even change – well changes. When I hear the question – Is the hometown camera store dead? – I think the first thing that needs…

Videographer creates animated GIFs to show his daily rutine

If you thought that doing a photo 365 project is hard, how about a 365 animated GIF project? Vidoegrapher Oleg Balzanov has taken on such a project where he intends to create 365 animated GIFs. Of course being a videographer, many of those GIFs deal with his work and daily routine. Some of his other GIFs are […]

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Photographer of the day: Andrea Fucà

Category: Street. Photograph: “IMG_0913-3” by Andrea Fucà (username “Andrea Fucà” on Flickr). Originally shared on the Photofocus Flickr community right here. Why I picked this image:  I love everyday street scenes that are captured and composed well. And Andrea did a great job with the composition, B&W tonality and the depth of field in this image. But an…

Watch: a small octa acts as a sail in extremely harsh wind

By now, you probably know that you should sand bag your gear. I mean, who would want their gear flying on their face when they talk about sand bags? But sometimes the wind is just to fierce. Not only for a light stand, but for any sort of modifier. In the movie below, German photographers Flash […]

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Watch: a small octa acts as a sail in extremely harsh wind

By now, you probably know that you should sand bag your gear. I mean, who would want their gear flying on their face when they talk about sand bags? But sometimes the wind is just to fierce. Not only for a light stand, but for any sort of modifier. In the movie below, German photographers Flash […]

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Harvard is putting a 13 module photography course online for free

Four months ago, it was Stanford who made their photography course for free, and now comes Harvard’s turns. Harvard has an online learning platform – Alison – and their photography course has been upaloded in whole and accessible world wide. There are 12 modules with an extra module as bonus, so you can follow on […]

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