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My Process for Creating Insect Portraits with Macro Photography

Each print that I create is a composite of hundreds…

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What is White Balance in Photography?

Ever wondered why your subjects turn out yellow when photographing…

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How to Build a Fake Sun That Looks Unbelievably Realistic

Want to shoot indoor “natural light” photos… at night? All…

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Calypso, The Original Underwater Camera That Became the Nikonos

Camera West recently received an unusual camera through a customer…

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10 Macro Photography Ideas You Can Try at Home

JT from the YouTube channel Run N Gun has put…

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Make Your Own Hard-Cover Photography Portfolio

When I started freelancing as a professional photographer, I knew…

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How to Make a Home Portrait Studio for as Little as $20

Pye Jirsa from Lin and Jirsa Photography and SLR Lounge…

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This is How a Match-Needle Exposure Meter From a 1971 Canon Works

Technology Connections, a YouTube channel that covers a wide array…

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How To Best Use the Powerful New Color Grading Tool in Lightroom

In the latest Lightroom update, Adobe removed the Split Toning…

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Three ‘Foolproof’ Beauty Lighting Setups Utilizing a Beauty Dish

Lindsay Adler is an accomplished portrait photographer and educator, and…

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How to Use the Exposure Diamond to Balance Ambient Light with Strobes

You might be familiar with the exposure triangle, but in…

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The World’s Widest Shift Lens for Full-Frame Cameras

Venus Optics has just unveiled a new “world’s first” in…

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How to Get Professional Results with Photoshop’s AI Sky Replacement Tool

One of the major updates to the latest version of…

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The Lensbaby Spark 2.0 is a Bendy, Hose-Like Manual Focus Lens

Lensbaby is known for making unconventional lenses that create unusual…

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Lexar’s New MicroSD Card Probably Can’t Take Advantage of Its Advertised Speed

Lexar, now owned by Longsys, has announced a new microSD…

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Nikon D850 Price Cut by $500, Now Cheaper than Its Ever Been

If you’re in the market for a full-frame DSLR, listen…

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Try These 8 DIY Lighting Ideas For Creative Photography

When COOPH has something new published, it’s very likely going…

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Canon Firmware 1.1.1 Makes a ‘Huge Improvement’ to EOS R6 Overheating

Jordan Drake and Richard Butler at DPReview recently put the…

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An ‘Aural Ode’ to the Classic Zenza Bronica S2a

In response to the classic camera shutter sound video we…

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What is Back Button Focus and Why You Should be Using It

Back-button focus is a camera technique that separates focusing and…

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This is How Image Stacking Reduces Noise and Recovers Signal

Image stacking is a technique used in astrophotography to reduce…

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Insta360 Announces ONE X2, a Tiny 5.7K Stabilized 360 Camera

Insta360 has announced the ONE X2, a new camera that…

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Hands On with the Tamron 70-300mm f/4.5-6.3 Di III RXD for Sony E-mount

As a landscape and travel photographer, I often carry around…

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Canon Will Definitely Release an APS-C Sensor EOS R Camera in 2021: Report

For many months, the Canon rumor mill has been split…

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Five Tips for Better Beverage Photos from Steve Giralt

You may know Steve Giralt from his outstanding effects work…

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This External LiDAR Device Can Add Continuous Autofocus To Any Camera

CDA-Tek, a company out of Dublin, Ireland, has developed the…

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FeiyuTech’s New $230 Compact Gimbal Might Undercut DJI’s Latest

FeiyuTech has been making affordable, compact gimbals for years now,…

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Pentax’s New APS-C DSLR Can Hit ISO 1.6 Million, Will Cost Around $2,500

Ricoh has released a new video all about the upcoming…

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Sony a7C Images Appear “More or Less Identical” to Those Taken on a7 III

Imaging Resource, one of the most reputable camera testing organizations…

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Sony a7S III vs. the iPhone 12 Pro: An Unfair Comparison?

Lee Morris of Fstoppers has uploaded a 6-minute video where…

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