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Portrait photographer Manfred Baumann travels the world shooting celebrities, models and generally beautiful people.

To do this successfully (and he does) he needs to be prepared for any eventuality. Martin tell us the five most important items in his kit bag on any shoot. Continue reading

Flash can be essential in low light, particularly when you’re shooting living subjects. But it often ends up being a necessary evil, killing the atmosphere. Ironically, flash is often of more creative use in the hours of daylight.

Sometimes called ‘synchro sun’, and better known as ‘fill flash’, a burst of artificial light can be effective in practically any outdoor situation. What’s more, you don’t need any specialist kit – you can make do with the pop-up flash that comes built into most popular Nikon DSLRs. Continue reading

An Arizona company has launched a super high-resolution digital camera that is capable of photographing a starry sky in the middle of the day.

The 1110 series from Spectral Instruments boasts a 112-megapixel CCD sensor measuring 95 x 95mm, which are extremely light sensitive and can take exposures lasting hours without recording any noise.

The company says its 1110 series cameras have a dynamic range so big that they can photograph both the sun and the stars during broad daylight. Continue reading