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How to Tell an Effective Brand Story With Your Photos

Any writer worth their salt knows that a good story is comprised of three primary components: Character, Setting, and Plot. The same can be said of visual storytelling, regardless of the medium. As a commercial photographer, my goal is to tell a brand’s story as succinctly as possible, sometimes in as little as a single image. To do this effectively, I lean on those same three story motifs and…
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Sony’s removes remaining DSLRs from its website suggesting the A-mount is all but dead

Sony’s last A-mount camera was the a99 II, which was released in September 2016. It appears as though Sony has discontinued its remaining DSLRs, suggesting the A-mount era is over. As noted today by Sony Alpha Rumors, Sony’s a68, a77 II and a99 II A-mount DSLR cameras are no longer listed on its website and are even disappearing from online retailers. It’s unknown when these changes…
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‘Timeblend Dubai’ Series Folds the Soul of Timelapses into Still Photos

New Districts – Day to night panorama of Dubai Marina with the sun setting in between. Part of the beauty of photography lies in capturing a single special moment that will never appear the same way again. While this is what makes each photograph unique, a normal photo alone can typically only freeze a fleeting split second. In trying to expand what I can record with my camera, in 2011 I shot…
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Exploring wine country with James Joiner and the Fujifilm X-E4

The Fujifilm X-E4 is an APS-C format mirrorless interchangeable lens camera aimed at beginner and enthusiast photographers. The X-E4 offers the same the 26MP X-Trans sensor and quad-core X-Processor 4 found in higher-end Fujifilm ILCs, but in a smaller, more affordable camera. In this video, we head into the heart of the Pacific Northwest wine country in the company of photographer James Joiner…
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