Whether you're already planning to shoot fireworks during the upcoming Independence Day celebrations or will soon be attending events with fireworks displays, it's always worth preparing for photographing the big day. We have loads of tips and tutorials that you can use to learn how to shoot fireworks, whether you're a total novice or someone who needs a refresher. Don't know where to begin? We've picked a bunch for you to check out first!
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Sunday 30 June 2019
How Mirrorless Cameras Are Changing the Game for Photojournalists
One of the best features of mirrorless cameras is their ability to shoot totally silently thanks to the lack of a mechanical mirror. That feature turned out to be a great boon to a photojournalist at the recent Democratic debate, allowing him to shoot in a position where others couldn't.
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A Guide to Putting Together Your First Lighting Kit
When you are new to artificial lighting, the veritable plethora of terms, modifiers, prices, and more can be a bit overwhelming and paralyzing when you are attempting to put together your first kit. This helpful video will give you all the guidance you need to put together your first lighting kit and be up and shooting in no time.
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NASA’s Massive Starshade Developed Just for Aerospace Photography
It looks like NASA is deploying its own flag in space to block starlight and take better photos with satellites. That’s the idea at least behind the gigantic Starshade which is still in the conceptual stages but could be something NASA deploys in the future. The Agency said of the concept, “Although starshades have never […]
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Cheat Sheet: How to Use a Light Box for Product Photography
Whether you have a product shoot planned or want to do some clean still life snaps, a light box will let you do the job right. However, if you're new to it, proper lighting is one of the first things you'll have to learn. Fortunately, we found a cheat sheet by PareAndFocus.com (link now unavailable) that should make it easy for you.
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If You Want to Take Your Photography Full-Time, You Need to Aim for the Tipping Point
There is often a lot of talk of "taking the leap" to full-time photography. It might be a cliché, but it does feel as if you have to throw yourself into the partially unknown to have any chance. But whether you're winding up to jump, or you've landed on the other side and are wondering what's next, you can benefit from the Tipping Point.
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The Importance of Patience and Curiosity as a Photographer
We live in a culture where we expect instant results and gratification, and sometimes, that attitude can transfer to our photography workflow. That's not always a good thing, though. This great video discusses the importance of patience and curiosity as a photographer and how it can improve your images.
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Helpful Tips for Landscape Photography at Longer Focal Lengths
When you think of landscape photography, you probably think of wide angle lenses for the majority of shots, but there's more to life than just shorter focal lengths. This helpful video will give you some great tips for creating landscape images with longer focal length lenses.
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Alternative Processing Film: A Third Approach
In part of three of making prints of my shoot with Cognito, I made a kallitype from a film scan. A kallitype is an iron-based contact printing solution that yields a wonderful tonality that, in my opinion, can only be found in analogue printing. Here's a quick overview of the process and some thoughts on why you should venture out and try something different!
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Capture One Tips: Three Beginner Tips for a Faster and More Efficient Workflow
Capture One is one of those programs that, once learned, is hard to do without, but due to the common experience of learning post-processing software within an Adobe ecosystem, anything different like Capture One can appear less intuitive or more challenging, even if it isn’t.
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SPINN.DESIGN’s Photographers Tool is Essential for Tripod Users
This is it. This is the one! The photographers tool you never knew you needed until right now. Life will never be the same again once you get your hands on SPINN.DESIGN's new photographers tool. Prepare to have your mind blown, because this revolutionary photographers tool could be yours. Once you lay your eyes on it, you'll revel in its glory, and you'll feel weak at the knees. This new take on the trusty old Allen key (or Allen wrench depending on where you live in the world) is available as part of SPINN.DESIGN's KickStarter campaign for the Perfect Camera Carrying System. You simply cannot afford to not have this in your life. Join us after the break for more details.
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How to Master This Cinematic Lighting Setup
Understanding how to use light is one of the most important lessons a photographer needs to learn. Master this easy yet effective setup before your next shoot.
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Pulitzer-Winning Photographer Discusses Capturing Tragedy
There's no doubt that photojournalism is an incredibly difficult profession full of a range of challenges for the photographer. This excellent and fascinating video sits down with a Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist as he discusses how he captures tragedy in a respectful yet powerful way.
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4 Ways To Use Symmetry For More Interesting Images
Symmetry is defined as “the quality of being made up of exactly similar parts facing each other or around an axis.” Or “correct or pleasing proportion of the parts of a thing.” Or “similarity or exact correspondence between different things.” The fact that symmetry provides a sense of balance and harmony is primarily why humans […]
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Three Common Photography and Videography Business Mistakes
You can have all the talent and creative vision in the world, but if you don't have good business skills, you won't make it as a photographer or videographer. This excellent video details three common business mistakes photographers and videographers make.
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Three Mistakes to Avoid as a New Videography Business
Jumping feet first in to a new business venture is daunting and it doesn't matter how much preparation you make, you'll mess up.
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Here Is Your Weekly Round-Up From The Light Stalking Community
Hey there Light Stalkers! Another week passed by, and as we get closer to reaching the year's midpoint, we are starting to see some good things coming around the corner! The most notorious one is the forum moving Rob announced earlier this week. This past week we got plenty of new users that went unnoticed, […]
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Format Websites Now Give Photographers Full-Bleed Images
Whether you've been using Format for a while or have just decided to sign up, one of the features you were most likely looking for is the option to display your photos at full bleed. Well, the folks of Format bring good news, as they've recently made this option available for their custom pages. If you've been using custom pages for your photo essays, project briefs, and artist statement, this new feature should be useful for you.
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Saturday 29 June 2019
Boudoir Photographers with Under 10k Instagram Followers Worth a Click
By the time you’ve finished this article, we’re confident you will be screaming at your screen, “how have they got less than 10k Instagram followers?” But as surprising as it is, these talented bunch of nude and boudoir photographers are yet to get over the 10k line. Hopefully, we can help them! So if you like the shape of the human body, get excited by authentic creativity and mesmerized by natural beauty, then we encourage you to keep reading!
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The Sony a7 III Versus the Panasonic S1: Which Is Today's Best Hybrid Camera?
Both the Panasonic S1 and Sony a7 III are strong do-it-all cameras that can satisfy the needs of most hybrid shooters, but which one is right for you? This great video review aims to answer that question.
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DJI VP: Company Doesn’t Send Flight Data to China, Pondering US Manufacturing Base
The world’s large commercial drone manufacturer is pondering a factory in the United States according to recent reports. Oh, and it doesn’t send flight data to China, just in case you were worried about that. DJI Vice President and Regional Manager Mario Rebello said as much in a letter to a Senate subcommittee looking into […]
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Seven Helpful Landscape Photography Composition Tips
Good composition is one of the subtler and trickier aspects of landscape photography, and it goes far beyond just memorizing a few heuristic guides such as the rule of thirds. This excellent video will give you seven advanced composition tips to improve your landscape photos.
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500px Removes the Profile of a User It Once Hailed a 'Photoshop Master', Claims Images Aren't Photographic Enough
In what is not the first instance of its kind, 500px has banned a user whose work the photo-sharing site decided wasn’t “photography” enough. The decision is even more surprising given that the artist in question was once spotlighted by 500px when they featured him, labeling him a “Photoshop master.”
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3 Quick Tips To Help Get You Started With Off-Camera Flash
Do you recall the moment you decided that you need to get better at — or get familiar with — flash photography? Thinking back, what was one of the first pieces of advice you encountered? I’ll bet it was an exhortation to “get that flash off your camera.” Did you even know what that meant? […]
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The Joby Gorillapod 3K is the last Vlogging Gorillapod you’ll need
Joby sent us their new Gorillapod 3K pro ($151: Amazon| B&H). Now, I’ve been using Gorillapods for a while, from their old 3K kit to the aluminum heavyweight 5K kit… and even some tiny, tiny pods. I’m going to have a deep look into the Gorillapod 3K pro, and see, how it stands between the original […]
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It Is Time to Redefine the Professional Photographer
Photography has changed beyond all recognition from the profession of the 2000s, so it is time that we re defined what it is to be a professional photographer.
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Photographer Jack Dykinga Celebrates 100 Years of Grand Canyon National Park
2019 marks the 100th anniversary of The Grand Canyon’s designation as a National Park, but for Arizona resident and Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer, Jack Dykinga, that’s not the only milestone to celebrate this year. For Dykinga, this summer also marks the 5th anniversary of his life-saving double lung transplant. Both occasions are being celebrated in the summer-long exhibition Jack Dykinga: The Grand Canyon National Park (1919-2019) at Tucson, Arizona’s Etherton Gallery.
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Silent Sony a9 a ‘Great Advantage’ for Photographer at Democratic Debate
There are pros and cons to both DSLR and mirrorless cameras, but one advantage of mirrorless is making headlines after the Democratic debates this week. The completely silent shooting of the Sony a9 turned out to be a “great advantage” for one photographer.
The Washington Post reports that at NBC’s Democratic debate on Wednesday night, the pool of mainstream media outlet photographers requested permission to shoot the candidates from the side of the debate stage. But when the first group started shooting, the rapid-fire shutter noise of the DSLRs was picked up in the broadcast audio by an NBC producer.
Photographers were then immediately instructed to only shoot during moments of audience applause in order to mask the camera sounds.
But New York Times photographer Doug Mills wasn’t among those who had brought along a Canon or Nikon DSLR, which are still the dominant tools of choice among photojournalists. Mills was shooting with the Sony a9 mirrorless camera, which can shoot at 20 frames per second completely silently thanks to its electronic shutter.
“When I got [to the stage in the second group], the woman who was from NBC said, ‘Hey, you can’t shoot,'” Mills tells the Post. “I explained to her my camera was mirrorless and she was like, ‘Why doesn’t everybody have one of these?’ So then I just kept shooting. I had a great advantage.”
Here’s a video in which loud shutter sounds can be heard during Trump’s meeting with Obama after the former was elected in 2016:
DSLR photographers can use sound blimps to muffle their shutter sounds, but it seems most photographers didn’t bring one to the debates.
“Clackety camera mirrors commonly corrupt audio feeds, and incidents such as the one on Wednesday night should accelerate their extinction,” the Post writes.
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10 Things You Are Probably Forgetting From Your Videography Quotes
Pricing your work as a small-scale filmmaker or videographer is not that straight-forward, because it has many nuances that are specific to the type of work, style of work, and type of client. Here are my 10 suggestions for items you may probably miss from your estimate.
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5 Reasons To Consider Using A Square Crop
To crop or not to crop. Every photographer has to make a decision about this vital facet of editing an image. Some do it in camera and refuse to crop after the fact. Others crop — either out of necessity or preference — in post-processing. A case can be made for both techniques, and I […]
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Is Sony Finally About to Release a 35mm f/1.8 Lens?
One lens has been weirdly missing from Sony’s full-frame line-up and it seems that the Japanese manufacturer is about to fill that gap. From recently registered model numbers it appears that Sony is a few months from finally announcing the FE 35mm f/1.8.
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Watch How Movies Create Mood by Avoiding Flat Lighting
Sometimes you look at a photo or scene in a T.V show and think "that looks rubbish." For me, 9 out of 10 of those cases are the result of flat lighting. Let Vanity Fair's Reverse Film School series show you exactly how much of a difference it makes.
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Julia Potato’s “Sad Colours of the Ocean” Reveals a Huge Problem
Environmental issues are among the most pressing topics that photographers today are addressing, not only for documentary work, but also fine art projects. Among these is the work of Moscow-based Julia Potato, which uses a creative and colorful spin to the world's worsening plastic crisis. Still, it's easy to see that the goal remains the same: to open our eyes to the reality that this problem comes in all shapes and colors. If you like the idea of making art -- and delivering a compelling message -- out of the unlikeliest materials, you will appreciate the approach of this series.
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TurtleRig bulb extensions say they provide up to a whole stop of extra light with Godox strobes
One of the big problems with the Godox AD600 and AD600 TTL was the position of the bulb relative to the modifiers. It just sat a little too far back into the head, and many people felt they weren’t getting the power they should. Godox largely solved this problem with the AD600Pro and AD400Pro, but […]
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Friday 28 June 2019
Watch This When You're Feeling Down About Your Work
It's certainly easy to go through periods of feeling down about your creativity or the quality of your work; it's something we all go through. If you're currently going through such a phase, it's worth taking a few minutes to watch this great and inspiring video.
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Our Favorite Landscape Photographers with Under 10k Instagram Followers
A beautiful landscape can almost be universally enjoyed. There’s just something about the earth’s nature that makes us all feel good. But creating a good landscape photograph is no easy job. Those glorious views, full of colour and light take time, experience and patience to turn into an image. And that hard work that landscape photographers put in should be valued and respected. The talented bunch below are no exception to the rule and their efforts need to be seen by more people!
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Ultra-Cheap Full Frame: Is the Canon EOS RP the Camera for You?
The Canon EOS RP is an ultra-cheap mirrorless full frame camera, and as such, it's an intriguing option for those looking to try the full frame or mirrorless world without breaking the bank. Of course, to get to that price point, compromises were made. This comprehensive video review takes a look at the camera to help you decide if it's right for you.
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The Photos That Helped Bring an End to Child Labor
At the turn of the 20th century, the Industrial Revolution had led to a need for workers, and in the pursuit of cheap labor that was less likely to unionize, many companies turned to hiring children, often putting them in dangerous conditions for long hours and low pay. As the cries for child labor reform began to grow, one man's photos helped to humanize the movement and spur the change. This great video tells the story of his work.
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Is Canon Going to Redefine the Holy Trinity of Zoom Lenses?
For a long time, the holy trinity of zoom lenses has been considered the 16-35mm f/2.8, 24-70mm f/2.8, and 70-200mm f/2.8, with slight variations in the focal lengths from manufacturer to manufacturer. However, Canon may be looking to up the ante in a major way by creating a holy trinity of f/2 zoom lenses.
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‘Ask Me Anything’ With Architectural Photographer Mike Kelley
Architectural photographer and Fstoppers alumni Mike Kelley recently did an AMA (ask me anything) over on Reddit that’s easily worth checking out.
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Does Sensor Size Matter? The Test Results Are In
Do cameras with larger sensors have a specific look? Last week I posted images taken with four different sensor sizes and let you decide. Spoiler Alert: Nobody could tell the difference.
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Photographers share what it’s like to shoot the Formula 1 race + photos
Do you like watching Formula 1 races? I find them really exciting, and as you can imagine – it’s also exciting to photograph them. In this short but fantastic video, Formula 1 shows some love for amazing, dedicated photographers who capture the thrilling moments of races all over the world. The video features Mark Thompson, […]
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Photographers, don’t fall into this trap with Instagram
Instagram is a useful tool for photographers who want to share their work with the world. While this medium can be great to reach out to your viewers, it hides potential traps you can fall into. In this video, Jamie Windsor discusses one of his problems with Instagram and explains how it can negatively affect […]
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