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When Composing a Photo, Think About Where the Camera Is

As a photographer, you might be out on the street or at a vantage point in the landscape. You raise the viewfinder to your eye, compose the framing that you envisioned, then click the shutter. You have a picture that was acquired using the technical elements at your creative disposal: focal length, shutter speed, and aperture. But where was the camera? If love is in the eye of the…
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The Best Plugins for Photoshop and Lightroom in 2022

Photoshop and Lightroom are mainstays in most photographers’ workflows for a reason. While other options abound, no other set of programs matches the popularity and widespread adoption of Adobe’s signature photography software. But while Photoshop’s manipulation…
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Incredible Aerial Photos Show Thousands of Abandoned Military Aircraft

Photographer Bernhard Lang flew over thousands of decommissioned military aircraft and captured fascinating images of the seemingly endless rows of fighter jets, helicopters, and massive cargo planes. Lang aerially photographed the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group (309th AMARG) — better known as the Boneyard — in Tucson, Arizona, in March 2022. It is the world’s…
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How to Clean a Camera Lens

Realizing that your lens was dirty during a shoot is not a great feeling. While some specks of dust and other consequences of a dirty lens can be fixed via spot healing and other post-processing, it’s much easier to make sure your lens is clean to begin with and save…
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Victorian Photos Show the Bizarre Workouts That Led to Modern Gyms

Gyms are commonplace in the 21st century as are the machines within them. But back in the 19th century when lifting weights didn’t exist, it took a series of bizarre photographs to educate the world on a new way to improve fitness. Dr. Gustav Zander is the physician credited with inventing the first exercise machine and gym in 1865. His work was so successful that by 1911 there were…
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Do Canon, Fujifilm and Sony's launches point to a new future for APS-C?

It probably won’t become quite as ubiquitous as the Rebel DSLRs it’s likely to replace, but the Canon EOS R10 is likely to attract new users to the APS-C format. Sure, coincidence is likely to be playing a fair role, but the last few days have left me feeling more confident about APS-C’s survival as a standalone format than I’ve felt in a while. As a primarily APS-C…
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