Build your own Speedlight power pack – a pictorial with Manuel Cafini

Photographer Manuel Cafini recently posted a great series of images on how he built up his own SLA based battery packs for his speedlights to help improve recycle times and give him a bit more power. The tools and construction is fairly basic if you’re confident with a soldering iron, but you’re still dealing with electricity here, so if you try [...]

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DIY: How to make your own ‘Centriphone’ bullet-time rig

A few weeks ago, we shared a video from professional skier Nicolas Vuignier wherein he used a clever DIY setup to capture bullet-time video using only his iPhone. The resulting footage was both incredibly unique and absolutely mesmerizing. Today, we get an inside look at how Vuignier created the rig that holds his iPhone in [...]

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Did you know flash photography can harm baby sea turtles?

Flash photography is harmless more often than not. But there are times when the powerful flash of cameras can do damage to things, both living and inanimate. One of the latest examples detailing how flash photography can harm a living creature is shared in a recent PSA given by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation [...]

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You may be a photographer, but are you an artist?

You may be a photographer, but are you an artist? That is the question rhetorically asked in COOPH’s latest video wherein world-renowned artist Roger Ballen shares seven thoughts on the matter. The video itself comes in at just under three minutes and has an eerie, almost circus feel to it. Visuals aside though, the insights [...]

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TIME photojournalist appears to be slammed, arrested by Secret Service at Trump rally in Virginia

Today, at Donald Trump’s rally at Radford University, in Virginia, a photojournalist was seen being taken down by a Secret Service agent while capturing the activists protesting the rally. In a video posted by reporter Joe Perticone, a photojournalists believed to be TIME’s Chris Morris can be seen being taken down by a man believed [...]

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The end of an era: Fujifilm kills off FP-100C, the last of its instant peel-apart paper

Today is a sad day, ladies and gentlemen. Fufjifilm has announced it is officially killing off FP–100C, the last of its instant photography peel-apart paper. This news comes roughly two and a half years after Fujifilm decided to discontinue its faster, monochrome sibling, FP–3000B. This discontinuation marks the end of an era, as Fujifilm will [...]

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Japanese Farmer Sick of Photographers Cuts Down Popular Photogenic Tree

Lone trees in the landscape are a popular photography subject around the world, but it’s not often that what makes such a scene so pleasing also causes the owner of the land on which it resides to cut it down. This particular tree, nicknamed the “Philosophy Tree”, has become something of an attraction to local [...]

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How To Create A Dodge And Burn Photo Signature

If you want to understand how a photo was worked on, one great way it to generate a Dodge & Burn mask (or a D&B signature). You can then use this signature to learn quite a bit about the dodge and burn that was done on a photo. You get a better “feel” for the [...]

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I’m Getting Rid of My Flash Gear and Here’s Why

People often ask me about the flash equipment I currently use, and what I would do differently if I were to start over today. I also often see “What should I buy?!?!” posts on photography groups on Facebook, and the simple truth is, we don’t know.  We have no idea what you need. We only know what we [...]

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