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What to Know if You’re Going to Photograph Destination Weddings

As a husband and wife team specializing in capturing adventurous couples in the beautiful places they choose to get married, we love to travel. Destination weddings are a blast and definitely something we do. And destination weddings have their challenges that are worth addressing if you’re going to photograph destination weddings.

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DJI Responds to Border Issue as US Customs Scrutinizes Chinese Drones

Earlier this week, DJI launched the Air 3S, its exciting new dual-camera drone with a larger image sensor and support for 10-bit video recording. However, as noted in PetaPixel's coverage, retail availability hasn't been announced yet, an unusual shift from DJI's typical product launch. DJI detailed why in a new blog post, explaining that a "customs-related misunderstanding" is to blame.

The Automotive Photography Survival Guide

For some people, a car or a motorcycle is nothing more than a method of getting from point A to point B. It is a tool, an instrument, something that serves a purpose and nothing more.

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How Setting Expectations Can Make Wedding Photography Go Smoother

Whether or not a wedding day goes smoothly can come down to a lot of different factors. Is it raining, is everyone stressed, or did someone drop the cake? The key is to control the controllable by setting expectations with your couples so that the wedding photography goes as smoothly as possible.

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Don’t Get Cold Feet: Packing and Preparing for Shooting a Wedding

Today we’re going to talk about wedding planning. Not wedding planning from the perspective of the happy couple, but wedding planning from the perspective of the wedding photographer. Packing and preparing for shooting a wedding can set you off on the right foot, failing to do so can leave you scrambling.

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How to Use an Arduino to Trigger a Flash With Sound

The high-speed class at Rochester Institute of Technology learns Arduino programming and some simple circuits as an introduction on triggering high-speed flashes in complicated situations. One of the easiest high-speed events to study is a balloon popping. This simple event is also one of the safest high-speed events too.

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Adobe Lightroom Promises Much-Needed Performance Gains

Alongside Photoshop, Adobe Lightroom is Adobe's most popular software for photographers. Since launching in 2006, Lightroom has helped photographers of all experience levels manage and process their images. The latest updates aim to make Lightroom more powerful and easier to use.

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Frame.io V4 Arrives, Delivering Huge Cloud Workflow Improvements for Photo and Video

Back at NAB 2024 in April, Adobe and Frame.io revealed Frame.io V4 (version four), promising significant improvements to the cloud-based platform. While some of these features were available in beta for select users, they're available to everyone now. Plus, new Camera to Cloud partnerships brings Frame.io Camera to Cloud workflows to even more photographers and videographers.

Mint Rollei 35AF Review: Style Over Substance

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Pentax's popular Pentax 17 showed the market that there is demand for a new-production analog film camera. It wasn't clear if this risky venture would float, but the Pentax 17 has found a loyal following and now we have another player ready to make waves: Mint's Rollei 35AF.