Five Photo Ideas for Shooting Close to Home
A Guest Post by Wayne Turner from http://www.21steps2perfectphotos.com It’s Saturday morning, a beautiful day and your photography juices are flowing. Your trigger finger is itchy and you just want to get out and shoot photos. You pick up your gear bag, take a step towards the door and then stop. What are you going to shoot? [...]
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Prevent dSLR Camera Shake With These 3 Techniques
A Guest Post by Jeff Bartlett. Let’s face the facts; lugging a tripod isn’t always a fun way to take pictures. Ignoring the obvious complaints, which include their size and weight, tripods are actually becoming banned in a number great shooting locations. Unfortunately, hand holding a camera in low light can be extremely difficult and [...]
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Baby Photography: Photographing Babies Without Losing your Mind
Today Natalie Norton shares with us a series of 6 tips for photographing babies. *Image Credit Nicole Hill. Babies, babies everywhere! It seems like everyone around me is either pregnant or has a new born! I’m a total sucker for tiny people. I love the way they look, all pink and wrinkled. I love the way they [...]
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How [Not] to Take a Self Timer Portrait
This one hit our inbox 3 times today so I thought I’d share it here. How to Photograph yourself with a self timer: Step1: Choose a good background Step 2: Set Self timer on your camera Step 3: Smile Step 4: Be Careful Step 5: Call 911 What photography disaster have you had? Share them in comments below. Thanks to Douwe who was [...]
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An Introduction to Bird photography
A Guest Post by Lithuanian Photographer Tadas Naujokaitis. Birds are very interesting creatures, but it’s not so easy to photograph them. Wild birds usually don’t pose where you want and, moreover, it’s often difficult to get close enough to take quality pictures. But if you know some basics of bird photography, it becomes much easier to [...]
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Tips for Using Your Camera in a Hostile Environment
A Guest post by Saul Molloy from Shotslot. I recently took my DSLR sailing for a week on a yacht off the West Coast of Scotland. Now my camera, though heavy and rugged-feeling, is not the most waterproof of objects, in fact there’s no real weather sealing at all and the combination of salt-water, rain, repeated [...]
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8 On-Camera Flash Tips: How To Get Better Lighting From Your On-Camera Flash
Image by Steve Hanna Ed Verosky is a professional photographer and author based in New York. In this article, Verosky offers up eight useful tips for anyone wanting to get better portraiture results with on-camera flash. To learn more about this subject, check out Verosky’s popular eBook, “100% Reliable Flash Photography.“ You can get great [...]
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8 On-Camera Flash Tips: How To Get Better Lighting From Your On-Camera Flash
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10 Landscape Composition Tips: Illustrated with Pictures from Eastern Washington
A Guest post by Amar Ramesh. Composition for a photograph is like a screenplay for a movie. If the picture isn’t composed well, it won’t strike a cord with the viewer regardless of the technical expertise or the story being told. Composition skills improve over time with constant practice. Here are some of the basic composition [...]
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10 Quick tips for Photographing Antelope Canyons
A Guest post by Amar Ramesh. Antelope Canyons in page Arizona is one of the most exquisite gifts of nature that is generally overlooked by people traveling to Arizona. The sandstone canyons lit from the streak of light passing right through the slots makes it one the most serene places in the world. Located at the Navajo Tribal Park near [...]
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Prizmo for Mac [Review]
This review is all about using a digital camera for a purpose it was never intended for. Since taking on a new Mac with Snow Leopard operating system I sadly found that my marvellous image/text scanner does not work due to a lack of a suitable driver. Now, since taking on Prizmo for Mac I can [...]
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Professional Fashion Photo Results with an iPhone 3gs
Have you ever felt that your digital camera is holding you back and that if only you could afford to buy the latest and greatest DSLR that your images would get that ‘Pro’ look that everyone strives for? If you feel that way – you’re not alone. I hear those types of comments all the time. [...]
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Behind the Lens: 5 Short Documentaries with Aussie Press Photographers
If you have a spare 20 minutes today (even if it is spread over the whole day) and you’re looking for a little inspiration and motivation in your photography – check out this resource by Aussie paper Sydney Morning Herald. It is a series of 5 short documentaries where 5 Australian photographers from SMH share some [...]
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5 Tips for Photographing Houses
A Guest post by Joseph Osborn from Online Photo Resource. Most of us don’t drive through neighborhoods looking for houses to photograph because, let’s face it, houses can be pretty boring. But from time to time we have a good reason to capture a particular house. It might be a childhood home we want to remember [...]
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7 Situations When Manual focus is better than Auto
Image by Michael Markieta Auto focus is of unquestionable benefit in a large variety of shooting scenarios, but there are often times when it could actually be wiser to plump for manual focus. In these scenarios, which are outlined below, it is fair to say that autofocus doesn’t perform as well on some cameras, so simply [...]
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An Introduction to Focus Stacking
A guest post by Chen Wei Li from www.bythewei.com. After weeks of preparation, i finally set out to the Singapore Botanical Gardens to nail the shot above using the technique called focus stacking. Focus stacking is a technique used to increase depth of field in a shot with post production. This works especially well for shots using [...]
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