With digital cameras at their most affordable, anybody can be a photographer these days. Problem is, it takes more than a camera to take good pictures. It takes a certain eye, a way of seeing things, to take pictures that make people go “Wow!”. Fortunately, it can be learned. And the more you practice, the [...]
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Your Guide to Digital Photography: a Review
Summary: The Your Guide to Digital Photography by Dan Feildman is a downloadable guide for digital photography beginners and also those looking for better results from their digital photography.
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Introduction to High Dynamic Range and Histogram
Whether you are a professional or an amateur photographer, it pays to keep up with technological developments in the industry. The traditional processes of any photographic system, whether a SLR or a digital method, involve capturing an image, storing that image,
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How To Photograph Winter Scenes
You wouldn’t think so but winter landscapes- or snow scapes – are one of the most challenging to photography enthusiasts. The difficulty can be that the average light tone of a snow scape is a lot lighter than what a medium grey tone is. This can put your meter readings out and give you an [...]
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Get a Photographic Farm!
If you ever wonder what you should be shooting, get a farm. I mean this in the photographic sense.
I am not the first to suggest that all photography is local, nor that if you are a serious photographer that you should take your camera with you everywhere you go, nor that the best light in [...]
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Of Water-Lily Ponds and Snow Filled Woods
All Landscape Photography is Local
Thomas P. “Tip†O’Neil, Jr., member of the U.S. House of Representatives for 34 years is credited with the line “All politics is localâ€. And Like politics, all landscape photography is local.
Sometimes photographers give a universal feeling to a shot so that the viewer will never know where it was taken. [...]
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Professional Photography – Extract from the Tutorials
Introduction to Roger Jeakings:
How does a professional combat photojournalist see the world of photography? This was the question we asked Roger Jeakings, combat veteran, tutor and author with more than 20 years of front-line experience to tell us. Roger has an enterprising communication style all of his own and the one thing he [...]
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How Body Posing Affects Composition
Photography becomes an art when one captures the true essence of a subject in its environment. Many individuals grasp photography's artistic composure when they encounter a photograph, whereby the subject influences an emotional or empathetic response. The elements for composing this type of art require the photographer to adhere to some rather basic and advanced concepts of posing the subject.
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Lighting and Composition
If you can come to grips with lighting and composition, you will take great photos with any camera. That is because these two primary technical aspects of photography are common to film and digital photography. Realize too, that there are technical aspects beyond lighting and composition as well, that are common to both mediums of [...]
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Five Creative Ways To Shoot Portraits
There are five really handy tips that you can use in your portrait photography. The truth is that it’s easy to get high classy, imaginative and exceptional portrait photos. You may have heard that there are only two methods of lighting used when taking healthy portrait shots; soft and romantic lighting or dramatic lighting. While [...]
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