Photoshop Elements VS Photoshop: Knowing When or IF You need to Upgrade to PS

Most photographers who are beginners usually work with Adobe Lightroom. It’s low cost and does basic photo editing. However, it’s very limited in what it can do, so the logical next step is to graduate to Photoshop. That brings up the question of whether Photoshop Elements is preferred, or the complete and robust full version…

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Why Photography is The Ideal Hobby

A hobby should be anything you enjoy and enjoy doing regularly. This means that you shouldn’t need to be told what your hobby is, but many people have not discovered certain hobbies and a new passion could easily be waiting around the corner. Photography is something we are spoilt with in this day and age,…

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Why Female Photographers Matter

If you’re photographing anything, whether seriously or casually, you likely picked up your first camera because you believed that there was something worth taking a picture of; something that deserved to be documented and remembered long after that single moment in time passed away. The thing about cameras used by capable photographers is that they…

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5 Tips for a Newbie Photographer: How to Make Your Photos Look Simple But Professional

Photography for beginners Learning how to take a great photo takes some instinct and natural talent. As an academic pursuit, this might seem as challenging as writing an essay. But rest assured that taking a fantastic picture doesn’t require that you be a seasoned photographer. After all, even the best photographers started off as students…

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3 Tips to Create Stunning Black and White Photos

Black and white photography has a long and storied history, and till today many photographers consider it an excellent medium. Because of that many photographers often convert their color photos to black and white using filters that are built-in to digital cameras, or using photo editors. Irrespective of the method that you’re using, there are…

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5 Factors that can Influence Your Photography

Whilst photographers in Winnipeg may be in the dozens, but not everyone with a camera is a professional or knows how to toy with it. There are a lot of things that need to be taken care of for one to be able to click a memorable shot. It’s not just fitting the lens and…

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3 Important Areas to Consider When Resizing a Photo

Do you need to resize one of the photos that you snapped? Perhaps you intend to publish some of your photographs online and need to fit them into a certain set of dimensions, or maybe you want to submit them to a photography competition where all photos must be of a particular size? While there…

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Artist Interview: Alessio Trerotoli, Ubran Melodies and beyond

It always has been a pleasure to promote brilliant artists and a privilege to discover new talents. We met Alessio and his work through our submission art section.  He is an Italian photographer who travels around the world and creates stunning street photography. His latest project is called Urban Melodies and captures the beauty of…

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Willard Suitcases, Unpacking The Lives Of Asylum Patients

Jon Crispin’s photographic effort is quite peculiar. He started two Kickstarter campaign to help him achieve in what is one of the most emotional galleries about asylum patients. Willard Psychiatric Center was closed in 1995 by New York State Office of Mental Health and was transformed in a rehabilitation center. During this shift one employee…

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Sonja du Toit’s Eerie Photography

Freelance photographer and graphic designer Sonja du Toit shoots powerful and dark images in her studio based in South Africa. With an inclination towards gothic art, her pieces capture mostly mysterious and eerie portraits. Like this series, an episode of  an other-worldly, fantasy like “lady octopus”, who seems to be absorbed or transformed in the…

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Francesca Marcaccio Captures Unconcious Nostalgia in Floating Nest Project

Floating Nest is a project by Francesca Marcaccio which explores the relation between the nostalgia of leaving home and the objects that we attach ourselves to in our intimate spaces. By photographing people in bedrooms, their most private spaces, the artist aims to portray how they use their personal belongings in order to define their personal…

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Digital Paintings by Dorothee Golz

Dorothee Golz, Vienna-based photographer, sculptor, illustrator and artist is the author behind “Digital paintings”, a series combining famous portraits from the Renaissance era onto bodies and settings from nowadays. The reality from the two time periods are compared and combined in a series of challenging paintings that would fit the most avid art fan and…

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