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Wondering how to style your product photos so that your customer will draw a wow for them? You need to think about product photography over user-generated photos. So, learn how to style a unique & creative product photo shoot for work worthy result.

I love how simple this guide makes the photo book process. And I ADORE the results. I'm now nagging the hubby to renew our vows just so I can make one of these for our wedding. Gorgeous.

I love how simple this guide makes the photo book process. And I ADORE the results. I'm now nagging the hubby to renew our vows just so I can make one of these for our wedding. Gorgeous.

Short answer: Some Latex, A hat, cardboard and smoke. Hit the jump for the long answer. Be aware that it is mildly NSFW.

In his latest adventure, Benjamin von Wong headed to Fiji where he tied down a model to photograph her underwater with the local sharks. While this might sound scary (and crazy), the terrible stereotypes depicting sharks as menacing and terrifying creatures are exactly what Ben hopes to change with these surreal images.

DIYP was one of the first to report about Nikon Singapore awarding a trolley bag to a Photoshopped photo (you can read the full story here). While both the internet and Nikon SG have been having a great deal of fun with the photo, Yu Wei have been taking quite a deal of abuse. From something that was supposed to be a fun photo contest, this has become an open season on Yu Wei.

It seems like magazines just declared open season on photographers. After Vogue declares that you should not even hire a wedding photographer, now Brides Magazine says that you should not feed your wedding photographer. In a piece by wedding planner Sandy Malone named Which Vendors Do You Have to Feed at Your Wedding? Sandy asks which of the wedding vendors the bride and groom need to feed? Aside from the trivial "check your contract" advice, Sandy has some specific guidelines.

Your camera is very capable of capturing the truth, but that doesn't mean it can't also lie to you. In their latest video, lens rental company BorrowLenses shares '5 Lies Your Camera Likes to Tell You.' In the three minute video we're told five different issues that camera users will come across at some point in their career. After all, as impressive as any camera is, it's up to the user of it to ensure that the most is made of its capabilities.

Light rays are a difficult phenomenon to come by. Not only do you have to have the sun perfectly placed along the horizon, the atmosphere around you must also be filled with fog, dust or other particles to capture the light as it's passing through. Thankfully, for those times when you have the perfect shot, but don't have the rays to accentuate the scene, a little time in Photoshop can help add that extra little spice to the image to truly bring it to life.

Photography might be a young art for all intents and purposes, but that doesn't mean its history is anything less than complicated. Thankfully, if you don't care to take a semster-long course on how photography came to be, COOPH has created a helpful video that breaks down the history of photography in just five minutes.

As the New Year rolls in, I find myself looking forward to new things-new directions, new goals, new relationships. But with the start of a new year also comes a time for reflection (literally) of what I've accomplished and how much I've progressed. As I perform my annual "house cleaning"-purging old work which isn't up to snuff, and transferring the remaining photos to yet another new hard drive (I'm amassing quite the collection)-I've had the opportunity to put a fresh set of eyes on everything I've shot over the past year or so.