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When you consider the scope of human history, it's kind of incredible to think how far photography has come since its birth just a few hundred years ago. From the humble camera obscura to the ridiculously cool technology we all use to shoot now, it's pretty amazing to look back on the history of photography itself and realize just how much has changed, and how much we take for granted.

If you could travel back in time and tap your earnest, naive younger self on the shoulder, what would you tell that younger version of you? We asked 8 of today’s top working photographers that very question.

[caption id="attachment_5828" align="aligncenter" width="620"] Photo courtesy Andrew Scrivani. [/caption] Product photographers watching the Colbert Report last week may have been a little surprised to hear that one of the most ubiquitous set-ups in the business now officially belongs to one particularly giant online retailer.

One of the best things about being a working photographer is absolutely getting to travel for work — but hours on an airplane (or a Greyhound bus) can get pretty boring, pretty quickly. Even if you're not traveling for work, if you've got summer adventures on the docket, it's wise to have a robust reading list ready to roll.

The rules and theories of cinema can seem pretty abstract without concrete examples — though few film schools opt to use LEGO Star Wars characters to do the explaining. Filmmaker Victor Ha explained the 180 Degree Rule, a crucial spacial element which helps the viewer understand the physical relationship between two onscreen characters, in his CreativeLive course, Fundamentals of DSLR Filmmaking.

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