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Oct 27th
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Whats next?
So, imagine this. You have bought your first entry level DLSR  + an advancement from the kit lens and you think you are pretty proficient with using the camera. You ask yourself - “whats next?” For many people, strobes are the answer. Strobes give you an amazing amount of control. How? Because they let you control light! neato! By far the best place to learn about strobe...
Oct 24th
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Why do some high-level studios shoot on film?
Settle down for a rather large blog post. This question is an interesting one that has sparked debate for a long time; it boils down to image quality and resolution. Modern day CMOS sensors are by no means perfect. They are rather “stupid” devices. That is to say that all they are is a bunch oh photosites that record a given intensity of light. - Problem is they they are not colour...
Oct 21st
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Canon 35-70 AF Zoom! Frankenlens.
The Canon 35-70 AF Zoom was the very first AF lens made by canon for their SLR system. (Back then FD mount) It’s also called the frankenlens, because of the AF mechanism that came out of one of Canon’s compact camera’s at the time, and the lens was actually recycled standard 35-70 f/4’s!  So, just remember. SLR’s weren’t always AF.
Oct 20th
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Photoshop Action: X-processing (Cross Processing)
Cross processing is a process that came from colour film development. There are 2 main types of colour film chemistry; E6 and C41. Both do slightly different things in order to get accurate colours. But what some crazy hipsters did was put E6 film into C41 chemicals!!! The reuslt was wildly inaccurate colours that looked somewhatcool. Cross processing or (X-PRO) was born. In the digital age...
Oct 12th
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Hello world!
Welcome to the newly created LuuPhoto blog! The basic idea for this blog is to demonstrate some more advanced photography techniques. (It’s also great because the blog doesn’t require you to be in a certain place at a certain time to learn something new!) The content should be manly in the form of videos and image tutorials - some of the best features of tumblr is it allows neat and...
Oct 12th