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Awagami - There is a reason to print.
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Awagami – There is a reason to print.

For today’s photographers, printing images on paper may not be the first thing on their mind when capturing images. In the history of arts and photography, the paper has played a significant role, and it made possible to preserve great artworks for hundreds of years. Today, in the digital age, […]

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PHOTONews Challenge Winter 2011/2012

Jason Drury captured this winter sunrise on the Alaska Highway in Northern British Columbia, just south of Watson Lake, Yukon, using a Pentax K-x with a 10-20 mm F3.5 lens, shooting at 1/25 second and f/13 at ISO 400.

Recreating 1920's Lighting By Mark Rockwood
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Recreating 1920's Lighting By Mark Rockwood

The Lesson: For thirty years, Mark Rockwood has worked as a highly sought-after commercial photographer for local and national accounts that include L.L. Bean and Brookstone. But his fine art photography is a decades-long pilgrimage that explores not only the natural world and man’s relationship to it, but the urban […]

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Shooting in Ambient Light

With the holiday season just around the corner, it is an ideal time to take a look at a few techniques to create better family photos with a minimal investment in time and equipment. An ambient light image shot at high ISO setting, slow shutter speed, to allow the use […]

Kevin Pepper - Panning Photography - Common Tern
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Panning Photography by Kevin Pepper

The skill of panning photography is going to take every ounce of patience you have. While the concept is simple, the execution can go wrong more times than it is successful.

Edgy Fashion Portraits By Miss Aniela
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Edgy Fashion Portraits By Miss Aniela

The Lesson: In this lesson, fine-art photographer Miss Aniela demonstrates how to create compelling fashion portraits using flash on location. This shoot took place in an abandoned building in Kent, England, with a model, hair stylist and assistant, and was shot with a Photoflex® TritonFlash™ Kit. The portraits were done primarily […]

Canon EOS Rebel T3i Changing ISO Graphic
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Changing Your Settings… "Ambient Light"

As a followup to the Ambient Light Article in the Winter 2011 issue of PHOTONews Magazine, we offer some help with changing the settings on your camera to maximize your shooting. Are you confused by some of the technical terms used in the Ambient Light article in the magazine? What […]

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Playing in the Sand

  Fashion Photographer David Hou was contracted by Fashion China Magazine to shoot a multi-page editorial. He decided the perfect location was Sandbanks Provincial Park near Belleville Ontario. The perfect site – 1km from the parking lot with no handy source of power! David graciously allowed Photoflex to tag along. […]

Wayne Lynch - The Pantanal - Brazil's Wildlife Paradise - Toco Toucan
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The Pantanal – Brazil's Wildlife Paradise

In 1913, after two terms as the president of the United States, Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt, an avid hunter, explorer, and naturalist, decided to take on the most dangerous adventure of his life – to explore and map the course of the Rio da Duvida (River of Doubt) through the Pantanal […]

Kevin Pepper - Photographing in the Fog - British Columbia Mountains
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Photographing in the Fog

I was on my way into work this morning and the fields and ponds were covered in a veil of fog. The clouds above were pink from the morning sun, the fall colours evident in the trees, and the landscape covered in a layer of white.