Aperture Blades Open To Reveal Engagement Ring In This Awesome Lens Inspired DIY Ring Box

  California based educator and DIY maker, Matt Chalker, really, really loves his girlfriend. That’s why when he decided to propose to her, he wanted to make something extra special. And that he did. Chalker spent about 60 hours building one of the coolest engagement ring boxes I’ve ever seen. Chalker’s girlfriend, a wedding and [...]

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Building An Ultra Violet Flash For Black Light Photography

Back in May I got collaboration offer, from a body painter, to make photo session with airbrushed models. This offer gave me the incentive, to finally try out blacklight photography, what I wanted to try out for years now. After searching through web, I found, that blacklight photography is technically rather complicated process. The main obstacle of [...]

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First Underwater Video From The Sony A7R II – It’s Gorgeous

If you’re thinking about using the Sony A7R II for underwater photography and/or video, you’ll want to take a look at this gorgeous underwater video “Grand Cayman/Dive Tech” posted by Rusty Sanoian. On Vimeo, Rusty Sanoian explains that the footage was captured using the Sony A7R II in a Nauticam housing, using the Sony F4 16-35 lens, [...]

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It’s A Bird…It’s A Plane…No, It’s Superman Riding A Drone Over London!

This is one I’ll definitely be filing under the “Why didn’t I think of that?!” category…A U.K. based photographer and professional image retoucher by the name of Barry Craig, had the ingenious idea to attach a plastic Superman toy to his Phantom 3 drone and take it for a fly-about over London’s Victoria Park. Oh, [...]

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How to Write a Photographer’s Bio…Or How NOT to

I wrote a blog post yesterday explaining why I shan’t be attending a 2-day $1850 “business conference.” Read here. I posted it on my Facebook page and someone replied, asking me what I think constitutes a GOOD bio. It’s a very legit question, so I put on my very legit thinking cap and wrote down my [...]

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Watch A 12 Hours Photoshop Breakdown That Places Newly-Weds on The Planet Hoth

Tanya Musgrave edited those lucky newly-weds away from their comfortable lawn and into the planet Hoth. If you look at the before and after it is quite a travel, even at Ludicrous speed. Tanya shares that the process took about 12 hours of actually working the image, without research object retrieval and getting council. What’s [...]

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3 Lighting Setups (And 2 Tips) For Tasty Beverage Lighting

I was inspired by Allen Mowery’s post on creating fake Ice cubes for beverage photography, but after a month I still can’t find clear craft beads here in my country. While I am trying to find those clear craft beads I wanted to share a tutorial with some tricks and lighting techniques you can use for non-fake-ice beverage shots. So here [...]

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The Best Macro Lens You Probably Already Own

Here’s a quick tip for amazing macro photography using a the best macro lens you probably already own… Your old point-and-shoot camera – which is probably sitting in a closet somewhere gathering dust. Most point and shoot cameras have “macro mode” – otherwise known as “the little flower icon”. I use my nine year old Canon G9 exclusively [...]

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Fail: Cameraman Crashes Segway; Knocks The World’s Fastest Man To The Ground

He may be the world’s fastest man, but he’s no match for a segway riding photographer. After winning the 200 meter dash at the World Athletics Championships, Jamaican athlete Usain Bolt was taking a celebratory barefooted stroll down the sidelines as he waved to the throng of cheering fans in the arena stands–it was a pretty [...]

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