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Craft stunning Anamorphic Bokeh with Custom Lens Inserts.

4 January, 202426 January, 2024 by Vlad Moldovean

This article strives to be the ultimate design guide on modifying your spherical lens to produce the type of anamorphic boke you can see in the movies. And because I’m

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If you use vintage lenses you have to try this

21 July, 20231 January, 2024 by Vlad Moldovean

I’ll start this article by saying, I love shooting vintage glass for the character it can imprint on my images. I love the swirly bokeh, the bloom, and the flares

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Hot to use masks to take Lightroom Grain to the next level

26 June, 202311 January, 2024 by Vlad Moldovean

I will preface this by saying that I am not an Adobe fanboy and if this is not clear, I am not paid to praise the Lightroom Classic team in

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LEDs are THE WAY. I don’t want to use Flash anymore

24 February, 20233 January, 2024 by Vlad Moldovean

As a passionate photographer, I started my journey years ago by transforming my bedroom into a DIY studio. With nothing but a bucket of paint and a wall, I created

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How I remote control my camera over more than 150 meters

9 January, 202313 March, 2024 by Vlad Moldovean

As a portrait photographer, I’ve recently become fascinated with capturing silhouettes in nature. However, this poses a challenge when I’m out in the field without a model to pose for

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The rabbit hole of adding grain to digital photos is deeper than you think

4 November, 202231 May, 2024 by Vlad Moldovean

For months now I’ve been obsessed with emulating the film look into my digital photos. It all started with me exploring the panoramic aspect ratio of 65×24 and other wide

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A better way to use presets in Lightroom

12 October, 20221 January, 2024 by Vlad Moldovean

Lightroom presets are all around us, you might love them as a 1 click solution to your batch editing needs or you might think that they are useless and all

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What makes a photo cinematic?

28 September, 20221 January, 2024 by Vlad Moldovean

I’m sure over the last few years all of us photographers have heard the word CINEMATIC so much that in the end, it lost all meaning. Is every photo with

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Shooting only pinhole for a week

26 September, 20221 January, 2024 by Vlad Moldovean

Concept You know the drill. Nothing special here. You take an electric drill, put a hole into a lens cap, tape a piece of metal from a soda can to

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Getting a 200megapixel panorama out of a drone that I can put in my pocket

2 September, 20222 February, 2024 by Vlad Moldovean

In this article, I am planning to discuss the way I use my DJI Mini 2, a cheap drone that many people dismiss as being a toy for beginners in

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