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Aiarty Video Enhancer: Clean Up Noisy, Low-Light Footage and Upscale to 4K (New Year Deal)

With 2026 underway, creators looking to bring new life to their old, noisy, or low-resolution videos should take note of a compelling promotion from Aiarty. The company’s AI Video Enhancer, a desktop application designed to upscale, denoise, and restore footage, is now available at its lowest price ever as part of a New Year special. ... Read more
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High Angle Photography – Ideas to Try Some “From Above” Photos

High angle photography is a technique used by photographers to capture stunning aerial shots that reveal scenes from perspectives impossible to achieve at eye level. This approach involves taking photographs from an elevated vantage point, whether from the top of a building, a balcony, a hill, or even a drone hovering overhead. High angle photography ... Read more
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Black and White Landscape Photos and Tips to Inspire Your Adventures

Looking for inspiration for photographing your next road trip (or walk around the block)? Check out our curated list of black and white landscape photos!
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Sitting Pose Tips, Ideas and Common Mistakes

You can have the best, most perfectly prepared subject with phenomenal hair, makeup and styling and have gorgeous light at your disposal, but bad or mediocre posing will make it all moot. Even an experienced model who knows how to work the camera can use a little coaching to look best from the camera’s perspective ... Read more

How to Shoot a Basic Model Test | Gear, Shot List, Agency Requirements & More

With the shifting requirements for model tests, there is a misconception that all test shoots must be grandiose productions and equipped with a full team. In fact, when first approaching a modeling agency to test you will almost always be asked if you have your own team.  In this article, I’ll walk you through how ... Read more

Dynamic 3-Light Sports Portrait Setup

When it comes to taking sports photography portraits, capturing dynamic energy is the name of the game. Sports portraits often convey a sense of action and energy with dramatic poses and lighting, the latter of which often relies on using off-camera flash. While some photographers try their best to avoid using flash, it’s really not ... Read more

3 Ways To Photograph Family Group Photos With Flash

Setting up one directional off-camera flash with a shoot-through umbrella may be your go-to lighting setup for family formals, but what other ways can you light a group of people to create more drama or visual interest? Light alters the mood of a scene through modifiers, quantity, and color. Even with family photos, you should ... Read more
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Easiest One Light Portrait Setup for Professional Headshots

How many lights does it take to create a great, pro quality image? In my early career, my answer was “as many as I can get.” But over time, I learned that some of the most beautiful portraits are captured using simple setups. No need for multiple lights, sets, and gear to get gorgeous results. ... Read more

5 Creative Accessories to Conceal Distracting Backgrounds

We’ve all been there: you have great clients but a less-than-superb background. How do you deliver the high-quality, creative imagery that your clients have come to expect? Creative accessories are perfect when you need a spark of creativity or need to block distracting elements in your scene. These simple tools can transform an ordinary shot ... Read more

DIY Reflector | 3 Ways to Make Your Own Reflector

It's a long holiday weekend which means the beach, BBQ, and DIY projects! If you're going out to Home Depot to pick up a few tools to fix something around the house, make sure you add bead foam to your shopping list.
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Interview with Jeremy Cowart – Celebrity Portrait Photographer Extraordinaire

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Jeremy is truly an inspiration, and in this interview we talk through several topics including: how Jeremy got his start in celebrity photography, concepts and visions behind shoots, what photographers need to stand out, favorite gear, and much more. Enjoy!

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Nikon Announces A 24 Megapixel DX Crop Sensor!

Matthew Saville

Nikon just announced their newest beginner DSLR, the D3200, with a 24 megapixel DX sensor. This "new" Nikon sensor is borrowed (and probably improved) from the Sony A77 sensor, a 24 megapixel behemoth that performs surprisingly well actually ...For 24 megapixels on a crop-sensor, that is.

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$30k Canon 4k 120FPS C500 & $15k 4K Cinema 1D-C Announced!

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Well folks, looks like EOSHD.com got the scoop on the upcoming Cinema cameras that Canon is going to reveal at ...

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Dramatic Black & White Portraits [Getting The Shot – Episode 1]

Matthew Saville

Alright, it's time for a new series! Welcome to "Getting The Shot" with your camera-geek host, Matthew Saville. The goal of this series will actually be to explain (in a NON-geeky way) what goes into making a photograph. Instead of going crazy with techno-babble and assumptions of reader skill level, these articles will focus on three simple things:

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News: Zeiss to finally make a zoom lens for Canon & Nikon?

Matthew Saville

Here's something interesting! Zeiss, a maker of legendary lenses throughout the decades, may finally be making their first zoom lens for the Nikon and Canon DSLR mounts. It looks like it'll be a 70-200 f/2.8, and it's quite a beauty! Check

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New Pocket Wizard Plus 3’s – More Affordable, Yet WAY Better!

Matthew Saville

For years now, Ebay etc. has been erupting with affordable, half-decent triggers. While Pocket Wizard, the ORIGINAL brand of reliable, industry standard radio triggers, kept coming out with more and more expensive gizmos, many that didn't even work very well at first, or at all. Radio wireless TTL was all the range, for some silly reason,

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Creating a 1970 Vintage Time Magazine/Nat Geo Effect – Weekly Lightroom Edit w/ Post Production Pye – Episode 5

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When looking at this image, it reminds me of a 1960-1970 era photograph that I might have seen in Time magazine or National Geographic. So, we are going to create that look and effect in Lightroom.

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Lee Morris Founder of FStoppers.com – SLR Lounge Artist Profile

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In this post, we interview Lee Morris, photographer and co-founder of the FStoppers, the premiere website in behind-the-scenes photography videos.

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Kevin Shahinian of Pacific Pictures – SLR Lounge Artist Profile

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Our interview and artist profile of Kevin Shahinian who is known in the industry as one of, if not the premiere, South East Asian Cinematographer. His work, simply incredible. In fact, you could say that Kevin's work is the next step in the evolution of wedding film making. Click to read more!

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How to Create Professional Photography Using $30 Reflectors for Lighting – Photography Video Tutorial

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In this photography video tutorial we are going to be showing you all of the reflector lighting techniques that we used to pull off every shot that we took in the SLR Lounge iPhone Photo Shoot.

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The iPhone Photo Shoot by SLR Lounge

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It doesn't take great gear to take great photos, we prove this with just an iPhone and a few $30 accessories. Check out the SLR Lounge iPhone Photo Shoot.

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Karson Photography Interview – South Carolina

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Karson Photography is located in a little avante-guard artist community called "The Old Village of Park Circle" located about 5 minutes outside of Downtown Charleston S.C. They are both a photography studio and an art gallery.

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