Joshua Dunlop

Joshua Dunlop


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How to Travel with Camera Gear (9 Safe Tips)

If you’re a photographer, you know how challenging it can be to travel with camera gear. In this article, we’ll discuss 9 safe tips for traveling with camera gear. So if you’re looking for ways to make traveling with your camera gear easier, keep reading! Best Way to Travel with

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7 Best Ways to Use Eyeline Photography to Influence Viewers

If you take photos of people, then you take photos with eye lines, so it’s important to understand the effect that they have over how we view photos. If you’ve read up on visual weight before, then you should understand the effect that having a face in a photo has, but there’s much more to it than that. Eye-lines have the ability to focus our attention on another part of the photo, as well as producing tension and other photographic elements.

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How to Add Depth to a Photo (6 Best Depth Photography Tips)

If you’ve read many of my tutorials on composition, then you’ll know by now that by implementing some of these techniques, that you can add depth quite easily, and we’re gonna have a look at them now.

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How to Take Awesome Twilight Portraits

This post is all about showing you how to take a great photo, at night, in very low light. This may not sound particularly difficult, but I assure you that if you try to shoot in auto mode, or even a priority mode then you would massively struggle to produce the same results. It’s not hard when you know what you’re doing, and that’s exactly what I aim to achieve from this post.

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Portrait Lighting Terms – a List of Photography Terms

When it comes to portrait photography, the lighting can make or break the shot. In order to get the perfect light for your portraits, you need to understand the different types of portrait lighting terms. This guide will teach you everything you need to know about portrait lighting, from modifiers

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Best Milky Way Photography Gear, Lens & Camera 2026

When you consider capturing the Milky Way, you likely believe specialized equipment for photographing the Milky Way is necessary. But the reality is that you can get some spectacular photos with even a basic mirrorless or DSLR camera. Our post walks you through the best gear for Milky Way photography

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How to Edit Milky Way Photos: Photography Tips

Forget everything you know about how to process a photograph. When it comes to adjusting the settings for images of the Milky Way, nothing is the same. You will make adjustments to sliders that you would never dream of when editing a regular landscape photograph. With Milky Way processing, this

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How to Start (And Maintain) a Successful Photography Blog

A photography blog is one of the most powerful tools at your disposal when it comes to promoting yourself as a photographer, and finding new clients. Think of how many people search Google for a photographer in their area. If you’re not blogging, you’re not in Google as a portfolio just

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Urban Exploration Photography Tips – a Beginner’s Guide

Urban Exploration Photography (urbanex for short) is the art of finding old and abandoned buildings and locations, exploring them, and taking photos as you go. It’s exciting, potentially dangerous, legally ambiguous, and a lot of fun. Not only do you get to take photos of a really cool location, that

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When to Use Different Shutter Speeds (A Complete List)

I’ve covered shutter speed in great detail before, but recently this question popped up: ‘When would you typically use all the different shutter speeds?’ It dawned on me, that it wouldn’t hurt to provide a list of when you would typically use different shutter speeds, so here it is. Thanks to

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How to Focus in Photography (Where to Focus)

In photography, as in life, focus is key. The ability to focus on the task at hand and zero in on what’s important is a skill that can be learned and mastered with practice. In this article, we’ll discuss how to focus in photography and provide a few tips on

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The Best Way to Capture a Low Angle Picture

When it comes to photography, angles can make all the difference. A low angle picture, for example, can add interest and drama to an image. In this article, we’ll discuss a few tips for taking low angle photos that are sure to impress. So if you’re looking to try something

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