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I’ve had a good number of requests asking about specific night photography techniques, and although I cover Photographing Scenes at Night and Handheld Photographs at Night, neither of those cover capturing intense, quick motion.
It’s difficult enough during broad daylight to capture fast-paced sports action, but oh my, come nightfall the problems are compounded. The two […]

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Because taking a photograph is essentially a matter of capturing light, the night photograph is not always an easy thing to accomplish. Nevertheless there is a profound public interest in capturing photographic images at night. This article is geared towards the night scene or landscape and helps you “bend the rules” of photography a bit […]

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The photographer’s trick bag can run pretty deep with gizmos and optical sorcery, but this one is downright intuitive. You may not be throwing away your VR lens in favor of the “$1 Image Stabilizer”, but perhaps it’s a good thing to throw in your gear bag for emergencies. From experience, I’m thinking something like: […]

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As most of us have figured out at one point or another, a lens hood isn’t always the end-all solution for removing lens flare.
While editing some shots from an outdoor event I covered this weekend, I realized that one or two of the shots came out with some bad lens flare. If I had been […]

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Time for some Q and A. Believe it or not, this is a common one…
Q: I have an f5.6 image stabilized or vibration reduction lens that gives me two more stops of brightness because of the (IS, VR, or whatever). So it’s just like having a f2.8 lens, right?
A: Not exactly. Remember that, while image […]

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