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In the world of photography, water droplets are something of a rite of passage. It’s the perfect rainy day photography projectand one that many of us try at some point or another – to varying degrees of success. You can increase the chances of that success with a bit of DIY tinkering. Some kind of […]

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Panoramas are a great way to approach photographing landscapes. By allowing you to capture a larger amount of the scene in front of you, it is easier to portray what you actually saw with your eyes in your photographs. Software has made it stupidly easy to stitch your photos into panoramas; however, there are still some considerations you can take to get the most out of your landscapes and make better panoramas.

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A friendwho shall remain anonymous (for his own protection) shared this discussion he had with me. His friend, Jake Redacted, just bought a new camera. I suspect he’s never seen one of those new lens cap designs, where you “Pinch” the lens rather than push on its sides. Obviously, pushing the sides of the lens […]

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Every photographer’s kit needs to include both a wide and ultra-wide lens. These lenses provide the flexibility to shoot a variety of subjects such as portraits, landscapes, astrophotography, and food. Wide lenses provide a unique and fresh way to portray subjects and are a great way to shoot contextual scenes that emphasize foreground elements. New to the market in 2018 is the... more

I’ve used smoke machines on shoots indoors before, and they never end up looking quite the way I expect. Thanks to this video from Gavin Hoey, though, I think I now know why. Obviously, I was using the wrong kind of smoke. In the video, Gavin shows three different liquids that can be used to […]

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On Not Photographing My Mom I picked up a camera in 2008. And I laid my mother to rest in 2010. Guess what I never got around to? Thats right I never created a real portrait of her before we said goodbye. Back then, I knew I wanted to be a portrait photographer. I […]

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Thr Halldrsson is an accomplished goalkeeper, I mean, not everygoalkeeper gets to deny Messi from a penalty shot. But, whengoalkeeper Thr Halldrsson is not keeping the goal, he is working as a film director. In fact, one of the latest Coca-Cola commercials, the Icelandic Coca-Cola ad for the World Cup 2018, was directed byHalldrsson and […]

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Have you ever heard the phrase “light is everything” or perhaps “composition is everything”? I know I have many times. But they cant both be everything, thats not possible. So what is really going on? Obviously, there is at least a grain of truth to both expressions. But are there other factors that make great photos?

As it turns out, there are and things are not quite as simple.

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If youve ever done any video editing then youre probably familiar with a little something called color look-up tables. These look-up tables are lovingly referred to in the industry as a LUT.

At the basic level, a LUT is a preset that performs color grading and various other visual effects. Each is based on a blindingly complex set of mathematical sorcery that luckily for you (and me) doesnt need to be explained in this article.

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