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For photographers looking to either become a professional or improve their current business, a critical part of the process is “building your brand.” Jay P. Morgan and The Slanted Lens has employed the help of Jordan Zobrist to share tips and tricks for growing your brand on Instagram. For many professional...
Instagram has not only changed the way that people share and view images, but it has also changed the way that people are processing photos. With people seeing so many images in such a short period of time on Instagram, photographers are looking for ways to make their images stand out. You only have a second or two to...
Instagram isn't just for photos of food and cats thanks in part to accounts like the GettyFlashback page. GettyFlashback is an account dedicated to sharing rare old photos from Getty's massive archive of images. The images come with informative captions, which makes perusing through their past posts an educational...
In today's edition of Shutter Release, we have a rich assortment of content to share with you. We start by pointing you toward the winners of this year's EyeEm Photography Awards, which attracted entries from nearly 90,000 photographers. After that, dog fans will be pleased with a video about a neat photo project...
Today's a good day for Canon fans with the announcement of the Canon EOS M100 and four new lenses: the TS-E 50mm f/2.8L, TS-E 90mm f/2.8L, TS-E 135mm f/4L and new 85mm f/1.4L IS USM portrait prime. Let's make it a good day for all photographers with an interesting blend of photo-related content from around the web in...
We hope you had an excellent weekend. Let's kick off the new week with a bang. In today's edition of Shutter Release, our ongoing roundup article feature, we will look at an interesting Instagram study, a quick tutorial for how to capture corporate headshots, an opinion piece on watermarking images, a tutorial for...
Apple's Shot on iPhone campaign has garnered a lot of attention over the years. As more and more people use their smartphones as their cameras, there has been a fascinating shift in the photography industry as a whole, particularly when looking at inexpensive consumer-oriented cameras. Regardless of how you feel about...
Shutter Release is an ongoing series where we share news and other interesting content from around the web. Today we look at Adobe Lightroom’s new Instagram account, a neat method for making large prints when you have a small printer, shooting sunset dog portraits and point you toward the Sony World Photography Awards,...
As good reading material for this weekend, we have a variety of topics to share with you. Topics covered in today’s Shutter Release include storage considerations for photographers, a behind-the-scenes look at photographing cosmetic products, a unique 24 hour time lapse, an overview of new Instagram features and a cool...
If you’re looking for daring photographers to follow on Instagram, you’d be hard-pressed to beat this group of storm-chasing shutterbugs. While many of us prefer to stay as far away from severe weather as possible, some people opt instead to track down the action and document it as it unfolds.
Take Chris Sanner, for...
Earlier today, DIY photography published a piece on the supposed uproar of disapproval of an Instagram photo published by National Geographic. Though their heart is in the right place, as taking photographs on railroads is absolutely a bad idea, it's important to know how or why an image like this got posted in the first...
Michael McCoy served two tours in Iraq. He returned home with a photography hobby and post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). “On my first trip to Iraq, I would take tons of pictures to keep up the morale and to send back to friends and family,” McCoy told TIME. All the photos he captured had been backed up to a hard...
Instagram "Imagesets" galleries are a feature that has been available for two years to advertisers (and was teased earlier this month via a beta release) but today, they are being rolled out to all Instagram users. In their most recent app release, you can now upload up to ten photos or videos at a time, which will be...
Many mobile photographers rely heavily on Snapseed and Instagram for image editing and social media and both apps have received interesting updates. Snapseed has added curves, a tool which has been highly requested by on-the-go photographers. You can utilize curves to easily adjust shadows, midtones and highlights and...
Apple’s latest iPhones, the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus, have wider color gamut displays than their previous iterations. The phones’ built-in cameras support the wider color range but many image sharing platforms convert images to sRGB when you upload them. Instagram has now changed their platform to allow iPhone 7 users...
Photographer Ruddy Roye is TIME Magazine’s Instagram Photographer of 2016. Roye’s photojournalism and documentary photography has centered on the modern struggles of black people in America and he considers his work to be activism. He describes himself as a “photographer with a conscience” on his Instagram profile.
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The highly-popular social media app, Instagram, has been updated with two new features. The first of the additions is live streaming. It's very simple to start live streaming from your phone as you only tap the start live video button in the camera menu and then you are good to go. When live streaming video, the feed can...
Reality television personality Kylie Jenner has her own cosmetics line, Kylie Cosmetics, which recently launched their holiday campaign. You would think that with the money behind the brand, they could afford to be original with their photography. This is apparently not the case as Kylie Cosmetics has essentially stolen...
Photography can occasionally be dangerous, but New York City-based photographer Christopher Serrano - known by his Instagram handle Heavy_Minds - often took it to new heights, literally. Unfortunately, his propensity for taking risks has cost him his life. Serrano was only 25 years old at the time of his death Wednesday...
Adventure photographer Chris Burkard is not only a highly-talented pro and excellent educator, but he's one of the biggest names on Instagram with over 2 million followers. He recently teamed up with COOPH to offer up to other photographers some tips on building their Instagram following. Now you may or may not be able...