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Star trails over an abandoned Mission-style building, Mojave Desert.

Star trails made easy: A beginner’s guide to StarStaX

The easiest star trails ever, using StarStaX. Here’s a very simple beginner’s guide for using StarStaX. Best of all, StarStaX is free! What is StarStax? StarStaX is free software that runs on Mac and Windows. They describe themselves quite well, so we’ll let them kick off the description. StarStax is

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Mother’s Day Gift Guide for that special photographer

You know a mom who is a photographer. However, you’re not sure what to get her for Mother’s Day. Here are five ideas that are sure to bring a smile to her face. 1. Lomography camera Here’s one fun idea. Check out the LomoApparat Neubau, what Lomo describes as ”

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Finally … a Premiere Pro guide done right

Last week, Adobe released a comprehensive 138-page guide to Premiere Pro. While this guide is filled with best practices and workflows aimed at film and TV editors, I think it will be useful for anyone that uses the software because it covers numerous essential topics. It’s well thought out and

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2020 Holiday Gift Guide for night photographers

As a night photographer, I have different needs than a lot of everyday photographers out there. While we already have an amazing gift guide on Photofocus, I thought I’d make another targeted at us night photographers. Want to see the latest gift ideas for the 2021 holiday season? Check out

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Moving from Apple Photos to Lightroom: The WHY and the HOW!

So you’ve decided to step up your photography game and get Adobe’s Lightroom to manage and edit your photos, eh?! This guide will help you get your photos from Apple’s Photos into Adobe Lightroom Classic. As of the date of this publication, there isn’t an everyday tool or utility that

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Apple’s Photos: The Hidden Power Tools

Apple’s Photos for Mac was a combination between the previous generation’s iPhoto and Apple’s discontinued professional software, Aperture. Good thing is that everyone with a new-age Mac can get Photos for free! While free may not get you all the crazy powerful tools that you’d find in Photoshop, thanks to some

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Check It Twice. Photography Gift Ideas for less than $100

Every holiday season I face the same issue that many other photographers face: my loved ones want to get me photography-oriented presents but they have no idea what to get me. This problem is compounded by the fact that anything affordable that I can use in my photography I bought

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