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Macro photography tip: use focus bracketing

Macro photography tip: use focus bracketing

| Nando Harmsen | 37 views | 0 comments

With macro photography, the depth of field is always small, even when you choose a small aperture. There is also a risk that the background becomes too prominent. You can solve this with focus bracketing.

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Auto-capture with Nikon

Auto-capture with Nikon

| Nando Harmsen | 121 views | 0 comments

What if you could tell a camera to take a photo automatically when the subject enters the frame? Nikon offers this option with the Auto-capture function.

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Photographing in Dense Fog

Photographing in Dense Fog

| Nando Harmsen | 1,081 views | 4 comments

Autumn is not just about mushrooms and autumn colours. It is also about atmospheric images. Fog always provides that, whatever the time of year. But autumn is a particularly beautiful season for it.

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Using small lights with mushrooms

Using small lights with mushrooms

| Nando Harmsen | 891 views | 5 comments

Using the existing light with mushrooms can produce fantastic results. Sometimes your own light gives the image just that little bit more character. Is the light not quite right? Put the mushroom in the light yourself.

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Review: StackLab for focus stacking

Review: StackLab for focus stacking

| Nando Harmsen | 808 views | 0 comments

Want a large depth of field? Choose a combination of a small aperture and a short focal length. If you get extremely close to your foreground, you still won't get everything sharp. The solution is focus stacking. Take a look at StackLab.

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Nikon introduces the Z 120-300mm f/2.8 TC VR S

Nikon introduces the Z 120-300mm f/2.8 TC VR S

| Nando Harmsen | 527 views | 0 comments

The NIKKOR Z 120-300mm f/2.8 TC VR S is the first zoom lens with a constant aperture of f/2.8 and a built-in teleconverter. It is aimed, among others, at professional sports photographers.

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Cinematic portrait with three flashguns and a plastic bag

Cinematic portrait with three flashguns and a plastic bag

| Elja Trum | 564 views | 0 comments

You don't need a large studio, spectacular location or complicated editing for an impressive cinematic portrait. In this video, photographer Gavin Hoey shows how he creates an atmospheric cyberpunk portrait in his small home studio.

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From Course to Practice: My First Experience with Flash Compositing

From Course to Practice: My First Experience with Flash Compositing

| Rob Zwart | 475 views | 0 comments

Anyone who has seen Frederik Herregods' car photography course on Photofacts Academy knows the magic: perfectly lighting a car by walking around it with a flash and combining the photos later in Photoshop.

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Would you like to take better photos and keep up with what is happening in photography? Photofacts publishes articles that teach you something about photography — from a product announcement to a practical shooting tip or a look at a website. Photofacts covers photography every day and is a hobby project of Elja Trum's that got out of hand. The articles are written by a team of volunteer authors. If you would enjoy writing one or more articles for Photofacts, do get in touch.More about Photofacts

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