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Product Photography With a Heart of Glass 1024 684 Gavin Parsons

Product Photography With a Heart of Glass

Photographing glass is a pain in the proverbial backside. It reflects everything and not just the lights a photographer uses, but the camera, the studio and even the photographer. So…

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Playing With the Sharp End – How to Photograph Sharks 1024 680 Gavin Parsons

Playing With the Sharp End – How to Photograph Sharks

There is one golden rule drummed into every new scuba diver: ‘never hold your breath’. Now in an article about photographing sharks you may have thought I’d start with something…

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How to Get Sharper Pictures

Do you want sharper pictures? It’s the holy grail of many a photographer who cannot work out how to do it. You see pin sharp pictures everywhere, yet have no…

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A Beginner’s Guide to Using Underwater Strobes 1024 680 Gavin Parsons

A Beginner’s Guide to Using Underwater Strobes

Underwater photography is a tricky thing to master, but one of the most important aspects is light. Water sucks the life out of light turning it a dull blueish hue…

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Saving Photo History

At some point in the early 1900s or so someone asked their family to get together and experience the wonders of photography. They’d spent a fortune on a camera and…

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A Quick Guide to Photographing the Milky Way 1024 605 Gavin Parsons

A Quick Guide to Photographing the Milky Way

Have you every tried to photograph the Milky Way and found your results to be lacking compared to those amazingly detailed images on Instagram? Yep join the crowd of disappointed…

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How to Photograph People Well 1024 683 Gavin Parsons

How to Photograph People Well

People like having their picture taken about as much as they enjoy walking into a lamppost. Being told to smile, stand up straight and look happy are some of the…

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Using a Polariser (A Beginner’s Guide) 1024 683 Gavin Parsons

Using a Polariser (A Beginner’s Guide)

You know those pictures where the clouds jump out and almost slap you in the face? Or the images of water so crystal clear it’s like you could drink it?…

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A Beginner’s Guide to Underwater Photography 1024 666 Gavin Parsons

A Beginner’s Guide to Underwater Photography

Back in the day when photography was hard, underwater photography was considered to be like other photographic disciplines, but with an extra zero on the price tag. It was expensive…

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Four Photo Hacks for Product Photography 1024 702 Gavin Parsons

Four Photo Hacks for Product Photography

Product photography is not as easy as you might think. Sure you can pop a beer bottle on a table and take a snap with your phone but it’ll look…

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