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On her blog, our member Noleen has posted about Stephan Cooper, accomplished car photographer. There are a number of photographs covering motor racing as well as some more personal work in the form of landscapes and portraits. She begins, Famed photographer and author Scott Kelby listed Stephan Cooper as one of “The Best five photographers [...]
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Chris, one of our members, sent me this link to a beautiful time lapse video of the Milky Way. The picture about is a grab of one frame and gives some idea of what the video is like. Terje Sorgjerd, the photographer behind the viral video The Aurora, has done it again. Here, Sogjerd captures [...]
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Florian, one of our members, sent in this article that he thought others might find interesting. It begins, For years, lens makers have fought hard to market lenses of wider and wider aperture. Wide apertures (e.g., f /1.4 instead of f /2) but a series of measurement published on dxomark.com cast some doubts on the [...]
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From Lightstalking, When you start to get serious about photography, something becomes very apparent to you – that getting different effects while photographing the same subject doesn’t need to be particularly difficult. It is actually quite easy to render totally different effects on a single subject using a few tried and tested tactics. What you [...]
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Jim Goldstein writes, Employing long exposure photography techniques is a great way to create an image that makes others go “Wow!”. If you’re unfamiliar with long exposure photography the major ingredient needed is low light conditions, which will require your camera to expose for longer periods of time. In fact it’s even possible to use [...]
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Jason Row writes on the Lightstalking blog. Until a few years ago, workflow was a virtually unheard of word. Now it is the mantra of nearly every professional photographer but what does it mean? Well, put simply, its carrying out the day to day work tasks in a consistent and hence efficient way. Following on [...]
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Peter Levi writes, I love photographing real life, but it has to have an artistic feel to it. I prefer when, for example, street shots almost looks like they are staged but aren’t. Those are in my own opinion the best ones. When you manage to pull out the beauty of real life, a mood, [...]
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Our member Gavin Whiteford sent in this link to a time-lapse video of a 28-hour period composed of 3359 individual photographs. The images were all shot from a single point in the city of Dubai. Watch the video
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Our member Chris Joubert sent in this link to a collection of 100 photos billed as still life. Included are photos of creatures, landscapes, frozen motion and other subjects that don’t conform to a traditional definition of still life images, but they are worth a look anyway as there are some very interesting photos in [...]
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On her blog Mostly Lisa, Lisa Bettany writes, Happy New Year Everyone! Every year I vow to become a better photographer. Last year I set some pretty lofty New Year’s resolutions for myself. This year I have very different plans that involve a little bit of travel — watch for an exciting announcement coming very [...]
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