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These days, more and more of what you think are real photos are actually CGI renderings. But have you seen "CGI renderings" that are actually real photos?

German photographer Christian Schmidt was commissioned last year to shoot a series of photos of the world, from the perspective of Earth itself.

My name is Paul Fehr, and I recently proposed to my girlfriend, Ale, in a photography darkroom. Here's how I did it.

As a professional photographer, getting noticed by potential clients means getting creative. Don't just send out postcards or basic mailers to the art directors you want to work with; take a leaf out of designer April Hansen's playbook instead.

Christmas 2016 has come and gone, but if you still have access to a Christmas tree, here's a quick and neat photo idea you can try. Turn down the lights and your shutter speed, and shoot a long exposure photo of a lit Christmas tree while turning the tree.

Brooklyn-based fine art photographer Johnny Tang has spent the past five years working on an impressive series of clone photographs. Some of the images are created with over 100 photos... shot entirely on 35mm film.

I’ve had my Snapchat Spectacles for a few weeks now, and I’m really impressed by the videos you can make with them.

The idea of standing in front of a camera is terrifying to most photographers, but when it comes to your own engagement and wedding photography, you have no choice, right? Well... maybe not. Toronto-based photographer Navy Nhum recently managed to capture a great engagement session with her sweetheart all by their lonesome.

CDs... remember CDs? Me neither. But they were apparently a thing for a while, and if you have a box cutter and an old CD case lying around, you already have everything you need to make this fun DIY star filter to spice up your Holiday shots.

This is an older video (2014… practically prehistoric in social media terms), but if you’re looking for a totally …

In 2015, Hugo Cardoso embarked on an interesting experiment: built a 35mm slit-scan film camera. That experiment was a big success, which left Cardoso only one choice going forward... go bigger! So he hunkered down at his work bench and set about creating a medium format version.

I entered the world of photography when digital cameras where already on the rise, and as a result, I learned photography on digital. That being said, I am a sucker for anything analog... the sensation of using real organic materials to produce photographs excites me.

As a photographer, it can be hard to come up with inspiration. It’s so easy to go online and see fantastic photos of exotic places, get complacent with our own surroundings and think, “What’s the point of shooting in my yard or neighborhood when there is nothing interesting to see?”

UK couple Dave and Sarah love both films and felines, so they've launched an Instagram project that combines the two. Called @moviecats, each photo they shoot is a scene from a famous movie recreated with the help of their two cats.

If you don't play with your food, it'll just have to go play by itself! That seems to be the message behind photographer Benoit Jammes' fun photo series Skitchen, which features all sorts of fruits and veggies bustin' sick skateboarding moves all around the kitchen.

When someone says you need to "think outside the box" when it comes to marketing your skills and getting work as a photographer, Toronto-based photographer Aric Guité's #CollabWithAric campaign is exactly what they're talking about.

When a total solar eclipse occurred back on March 20, 2015, photographer György Soponyai decided to capture it in a creative way. He shot a series of photos of the sun traveling across the sky above Norway, and then stitched the images together into the above "little planet" photo of the sun being eclipsed.

Let's start the week on a creative note. Our friends at COOPH have released a fun new video packed full of tips and ideas that will help you break out of that creative rut and flex your instant photography muscle.

Rugged cases like Pelicans are great at protecting your gear: they're waterproof, climate proof, indestructible, and make a great apple box when you need to sit or stand on something.

Simple, creative, and useful. There's not much more we look for from our photography accessories, and the band.it checks all three boxes.

Here's a quick DIY build for cash-strapped studio photographers who are sick of gaffer's tape-ing their reflectors to light stands. YouTuber Joe Edelman will show you how to build not one, but two DIY studio reflector holders for 10 bucks total.

Photographer Tse Kao calls these photos 'Blendscapes,' and they're not created using Photoshop. These odd images are captured by taking a photo of a landscape, using that photo to create clothing, and then photographing those clothes against the same exact landscape.

If you want a neat example of creativity in action, look no further than photographer Andrew Tihi's recent portrait adventure. Watch as he uses a backlit bus stop advertisement to help him capture a glowing portrait against a white backdrop.

So what is a "Universal Tripod L-Bracket"? Well, I'm not sure, because I couldn't find another on the market quite like it. Some tripod manufacturers make L-brackets specific to their own tripod, but I found nothing universal.

These water glass photos are not created in Photoshop. In fact, all photographer Alexandre Watanabe needed to shoot these striking shots was water, two colored plastic sheets, and a little bit of refraction.

If you have an old film camera or point and shoot lying around collecting dust, why not put it to some practical use? This quick video will show you how to use the camera's flash to light product shots and portraits on the cheap.

Thanks to Toy Story, I'm still convinced my old toys come to life when I leave the room. But photographer Guillaume Chevalier of Guic Photographies isn't waiting to find out, he's creating this reality for himself in a fun and whimsical photo series.

If you take a look at photographer Charlie Kitchen's latest work, the images appear to be landscape photos with 3D shapes added in digitally. But appearances can be deceiving: each photo was created entirely in-camera without any help from Photoshop. The secret? Stencils.