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Heading to the beach this summer? Here's some helpful tips on mobile photography and how to take the best pictures with your camera phone.
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Summer is officially here! If you're planning a trip to the beach or want to experiment with new mobile photography techniques this summer, this article is a good place to get started.
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There's no shortage of great photography resources out there for photographers of all levels who want to continue honing their skills, and joining their ranks today is a new video series from Olympus that is part marketing campaign and part learning opportunity.
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Olympus wants to bring the classroom to you, and to you we mean they are taking you out into the world for an eye-opening experience that will allow that flourishing photographer thrive. Check out their new video series.
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July 8, 2014 2:16 AM
There's no shortage of great photography resources out there for photographers of all levels who want to continue honing their skills, and joining their ranks today is a new video series from Olympus that is part marketing campaign and part learning opportunity. Our photo studio will seal the moment and our photographers are trained to capture those lifelong memories of the special event in your life. We are also looking for energetic people who would be interested in joining Ben Landa Studios.
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What makes a striking photo? Often, it's merely ordinary things composed in an ordinary manner. That's because they always tend to have a single theme or idea, and because clutter is kept to a minimum. They are simple, true, and sincere. Today we're looking at the elements of design (line, shape, form, texture, color etc) that can turn a simple subject into a striking photo. | Difficulty: Intermediate; Tags: Photography Fundamentals
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Photography is just as much an art as it is a technical skill. This article explains some of the different elements of design you can use to capture striking photos.
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“Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer—and often the supreme disappointment.” – Ansel Adams
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This article explores a few tips you can use to improve the quality of your landscape photographs. Whether you're a beginner or advanced photographer, you'll find the tips here very useful.
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"When you're first learning the basics of photography, one of the first things you find out about after dropping out of 'auto' is the exposure triangle."
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This comprehensive article explains everything you need to know about using exposure settings on your camera. You can use this tutorial to improve the quality of your smartphone and digital camera photos.
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"Balancing exposures between sky, water and lava can be incredibly tricky. Luckily, Lava Light has shared some tips to help you get the shot without combining exposures or using HDR."
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This article provides several useful tips about capturing volcanic scenes with your camera. It explains everything you need to know about exposure settings, shadows and highlights, and the type of equipment needed to capture the perfect shot.
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"Photographing the stars is one of the toughest parts of night photography. "
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This stunning collection of photos showcases some of the best night scenes captured by photographers. You could use these pictures as inspiration next time you want to capture stars in the night sky.
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A crash course in building your own instant camera collection
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This article contains very useful tips about starting a collection of vintage cameras. It includes everything from identifying different camera types to setting a budget. If you're interested in getting your hands on some of the most iconic cameras in photography history, this is an article you need to read.
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"Oleg Oprisco is a photographer based in Ukraine whose magical, dreamlike photographs have been shared far and wide on the Internet."
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If you're looking for some inspiration, these photographs by Oleg Oprisco will get your creative juices flowing. These images are set against a dream-like landscape and will capture your imagination in new ways.
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As long as art has existed, so too has the self-portrait. Van Gogh famously painted more than 30 self-portraits, using the available subject-of-self as both an outlet for his artistic talents, and as a method for perfecting his craft.
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Not to be confused with the selfie, self-portraiture is how a Photographer can show off their talent. While you become the patient model, setting up lighting conditions and then test shots. Self-Portraiture shows what you put into the scene.
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In an effort to bring 145 years worth of its historic photography collection to the computer age, the American Museum of Natural History has digitized over 7,000 of its archived images and made them publicly available online.
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History is an art form that shows us trying times and the people that were photographed while in the moment. Keeping in mind as well that some of these photographs could strike up emotion and give you a reason to dig deeper into the truth of the emotional photograph.
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Whether you’re making your annual drive through the Mojave Desert in Utah or trekking across the Sahara on a once-in-a-lifetime photography trip, any time that you’re lucky enough to spend in a desert environment shouldn't be wasted.
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Taking photos of the desert can prove to be challenging if you're using the same techniques you use to take pictures of other landscapes. This article provides some really useful tips about making your desert photos look great.
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"Taken in the 1920s on a rooftop in New York City, what you see being captured might very well be the first ever group selfie… although we’re pretty sure they didn’t call it that."
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Although the selfie is the buzzword in today's smartphone era, the concept of taking photos of your self dates back to the 1920s when the first cameras were invented. This article contains some of the first selfies ever taken.
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An informative video about the different techniques photographers can use to capture better landscape photography. Whether you're a smartphone photographer or professional, these tips will help you improve your photos.
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"One of the first things that we learn when we start taking photographs seriously is that ‘aperture’, the size of the hole in the lens through which light passes, controls depth of field."
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This article shares some useful tips about getting the right aperture settings on your DSLR and digital camera. It shows how you can adjust the settings to change the depth of field and improve the sharpness of your photos.
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One of the standard cliché Instagram shots that gets ridiculed on occasion is the plane wing photographs, usually accompanied by some clouds or a sunrise or sunset. And while we agree that taking a photo out the window of your commercial airplane is tacky and overdone, the photo above by astrophotographer Alessandro Merga is a big fat beautiful exception.
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Capturing photos of the galaxy is challenging, but even more so when you're cruising 30,000 feet above the air at 600 mph. For photographer Alessandro Merga, these are the perfect conditions for capturing a truly unique image of the Milky Way. This article explains how he managed to capture a breathtaking shot of the galaxy from his airplane window.
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So, you’re finally taking that dream vacation to Middle Earth New Zealand when, on your first day there, all of your baggage gets stolen. Two cameras and every piece of clothing you brought is now gone.
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Planning your next trip to New Zealand? Check out these photos to discover how the scenery would look like from inside your van or car window.
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"Composition for a photograph is like a screenplay for a movie. If the picture isn’t composed well, it won’t strike a cord with the viewer regardless of the technical expertise or the story being told."
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This interesting article covers the various techniques photographers can use to take better landscape photos. Whether you're using a DSLR camera or your smartphone, you can use these tips to improve the final composition of your photos.
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You carry a camera everywhere because you just never know when something or someone worthy of having its picture taken will appear. You also work plenty of weddings and events, or you may be a photo journalist for a newspaper.
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Ever wondered what city is the best for photographers? If so, this article gives you a list of 10 U.S. cities ranked according to cost of living, annual salary and job openings for photographers.
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Five Photography Bad Habits to Quit Today: hesitation, pixel peeping, too low ISO, luck shooting, and editing too many images.
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If you want to take your photography skills to the next level, these useful tips will show you some common habits to avoid. This is a great read for beginner and professional photographers.
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It’s a part of New York City that few have ever seen or will ever see. Called North Brother Island, this piece of land sits in the East River, housing a piece of land sits in the East River, housing a piece of NYC history that has been decaying ever-so-slowly for the past five decades or so.
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Discovering an off limits building is a treasure cove for a photographer. However, Christopher Payne was granted permission to explore New York's forgotten island called North Brother. The decaying history you will witness in the photos have a grand majestic approach encased with the mysterious notion of what may have happened to this diminished place.
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Created by photography magazine COOPH, this handy little video follows photographer Leo Rosas showing off 7 little photography hacks to help create more unique images with minimal investment, in either time or money.
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Capturing unique photos can be challenging especially when operating on a very limited budget. If you're tight on cash, you can always improvise with these 7 photography hacks especially created for budget conscious photographer.
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"Documentary wedding photography" is a style of photography which a small, but growing, number of couples are turning to for their wedding day.
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Makes sense after you think about it. Hiring a photojournalist to capture not only the important moments but capturing the hidden ones that usually no one ever witnesses, expect once.
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These have to qualify as some of the coolest car photographs we've ever seen. Yes, we've seen some amazing composites and some real live racing photos that are quite epic in their own right, but these images by photographers Dmitry Chistoprudov and Nikolay Rykov have the entire Internet wide-eyed.
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Lighting can be done in a number of suitable ways. This one just so happens to be out of the normal. Cars on ice that are creating some of the newest and best possible designs.
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If you're on a tight budget and looking for ways to make the most out of your photography, this article has some DIY hacks any photographer can try out.