6 Ways to Enhance Your Creativity

6 Ways to Enhance Your Creativity: "No matter what your artistic interests, whether photography, drawing, painting, sculpture, etc., the underlying force behind your work is creativity. It’s much easier to talk about technical aspects of photography as it’s a tangible skill, unlike the more mysterious intangible skill of creative thought. While every art form is unique unto its own, harnessing one’s creativity is a universal skill.

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10 Things I Learnt from Daily Shooting

10 Things I Learnt from Daily Shooting: "A lot of people shoot daily as they are lucky enough to have a career in photography. Others embark on a 365 project while others just take photos all the time. I decided after I started ShootTokyo that I wanted to shoot daily as a way to try and rapidly improve my photography. "

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10 Ways to Develop Yourself Photographically

10 Ways to Develop Yourself Photographically: "A painter once said, “The soul of art is inspiration.” I couldn’t agree more. I can’t count on two hands the number of times I continued to work on a shoot because I was inspired by the light, or got up in the middle of the night to brainstorm a shoot idea because I was inspired by the movie I just watched."

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5 Ideas to Kick Start Your Photography Again

5 Ideas to Kick Start Your Photography Again: "Last week I was speaking with an amateur photographer who told me that he’s been struggling for photographic inspiration and ideas lately."

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3 Workouts to Improve your Photography

3 Workouts to Improve your Photography: "Athletes would never consider showing up to a game without having practiced, so why is it that most photographers shoot for the “wall-hanger” photo every time they go out without ever practicing new techniques? Consider applying these new workouts in your photography routine and you will improve your skills and creativity."

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5 ways to stop being a luck photographer {and start taking pictures on purpose}

5 ways to stop being a luck photographer {and start taking pictures on purpose}: "We’ve all been guilty of taking pictures with our eyes closed. Just go crazy, go on a shooting spree and see what happens. See what happy mistakes you can pawn off as well-thought out, purposefully captured portraits. Here are 6 ways you can identify yourself as a luck photographer:"

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How to Take Photos that Stand Out from the Crowd

How to Take Photos that Stand Out from the Crowd: "I think this is a valuable piece of information to pass along to both newcomers to photography and the more experienced crowd…

Perhaps the best piece of advice I can provide which will immediately improve one’s photography and cause it to stand out from the countless other photos on the web, is to act unusual while taking the photos"

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A Simple Exercise to Train your Photographic Eye

A Simple Exercise to Train your Photographic Eye: "Here is a simple exercise you can do anywhere that will help develop your photographic eye. Take your camera with just one lens and go for a walk (of course any point and shoot camera will do the trick too)."

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3 Stupidly Simple Reasons Why Most People’s Photography Does Not Improve

3 Stupidly Simple Reasons Why Most People’s Photography Does Not Improve: "I’m presuming that this article will not apply to most of us… but after 3 conversations in the last week which revealed the same photography problems in 3 different people – I thought I’d better jot them down."

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Night Time Photography Tips – PictureCorrect

Night Time Photography Tips – PictureCorrect: "Many digital photography beginners I know stick rigidly to daytime shots, apprehensive about their rate of success at night. If you’ve delayed taking that next step, or find you just don’t seem to take many night time photographs, here are a few common sense tips that will quickly help you on your way."

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An Introduction to Tilt-Shift Photography

An Introduction to Tilt-Shift Photography: "Tilt-shift photography (or “miniature faking”) is a photographic genre that seems to have been gaining popularity in the last few years. Essentially, it’s taking a photograph of a real-world scene and making it look like a miniature scene, such as you’d find in a model railroader’s setup. Highly detailed miniatures have always fascinated me, so tilt shift photography was a natural draw. The White House? Shrink it. Piccadilly Circus? Make it Lilliput Lane. What’s not to love?"

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Adding Emotion and Feeling To Photographs

Adding Emotion and Feeling To Photographs: "One thing that makes a great photo is its ability to convey emotion. Emotion in a photograph, or any work of art, is what helps a viewer connect with a piece if that emotion is prevalent in the viewer. Happiness and joy, sorrow and despair, these are some of the easier emotions as they are universally felt, at one time or another, by all on this planet."

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7 Tips For Great Low Angle Shots

7 Tips For Great Low Angle Shots: "Low angle shots give us a different view on the world. Most of our lives are spent well above ground level and by the time we are teenagers we rarely spend much time down low any more. Yet there is a whole world down there!!"

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How to Photograph Fireworks Displays

How to Photograph Fireworks Displays: "Do you want to know how to photograph fireworks? With New Years Eve just days away I thought I’d refresh this article in which I give 10 Fireworks Photography tips to help you get started."

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18 Stunning Self Portraits

18 Stunning Self Portraits: "For thousands of years, artists have used self-portraiture as a means of perfecting their technique. From ancient cavemen, to the classical masters, to Salvador Dali in the 20th century, artists have looked to self-portraiture not only to discover new aspects of their artform, but also as a means of self-discovery."

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How to Take Beautiful Bokeh Christmas Images [With 31 Stunning Examples]

How to Take Beautiful Bokeh Christmas Images [With 31 Stunning Examples]: "It’s beginning to feel a lot like Christmas… and in our forums I’ve noticed more and more great Christmas images being shared – some of which feature a technique that is always popular at this time of year – Bokeh Christmas lights shots."

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23 Inspirational Images of a Rainy Day

23 Inspirational Images of a Rainy Day: "Ever put time aside to get out with your camera and do some photography only to find that the weather turns and the heavens open – spoiling your outing?

Don’t let the rain spoil your day – instead USE the rain – make it a feature of the images that you take. Rainy days can be moody, they present you with wonderful features like reflections, people dashing about with umbrellas, kids playing in puddles, water drops almost every surface and much more."

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How to Take Portraits that Stand Out

How to Take Portraits that Stand Out: "In the US consumers have access to portrait studios at every nearly mini -mart, shopping mall, and super store on the block. There’s Intouch. Flash! Picture It. Sears. Olen Mills. Lifetouch. Celebrity Kids. Picture Me – And those are just the chains. Add to that every other studio offering a twenty dollar session option, and we have thousands upon thousands of portrait studio’s all around us."

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How to go Beyond the Regular Composition Advice for Getting the Best Shots of your Kids

How to go Beyond the Regular Composition Advice for Getting the Best Shots of your Kids: "If you search for advice on how to take better pictures of children there are certain gems that are sure to appear on any list of tips. “Get on their level” and “Get Closer”, are the two that come to mind right away and they are both solid ways to improve your kid shots. Let’s look first at why these work and then how to expand those ideas to create infinitely more interesting images"

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10 Techniques for Amazing Portraits

10 Techniques for Amazing Portraits: "As full-time photographers shooting 30+ weddings a year, we have to admit, sometimes it’s easy to fall into the same old formulas when it comes to portraits. Even with new poses, taking portraits can become very mundane if the same compositions and angles are used for every couple–we’ve definitely been through that creative rut where our pictures start looking very familiar. Throughout the years, we’ve challenged ourselves to stay on top of our game with a few useful techniques. Here are some of our best tips to help keep things fresh and unique for each couple."

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Hotmail - sgpease@msn.com

Hotmail - sgpease@msn.com: "It’s approaching Christmas (faster than I would like!) and it’s a sure bet that lots of “point and shoot” digital cameras will be in many peoples stockings. Hopefully, the gift givers will have charged the batteries (or provided them for those cameras that come without) and perhaps made sure that there is a media card of the right type for the camera, or else there will be some very unhappy would-be photographers on Christmas Day."

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How to Use an Umbrella in Photography – PictureCorrect

How to Use an Umbrella in Photography – PictureCorrect: "Using this sun and rain protection tool is a great help for those serious in their photography hobby. In particular, it assists photographers in achieving professional images."

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My favorite point-and-shoot cameras of 2011 | Crave - CNET

My favorite point-and-shoot cameras of 2011 | Crave - CNET: "It's crazy just how many cameras were released in 2011 from the major manufacturers. According to camera site 1001 Noisy Cameras, the count stands at 203; the majority of those are point-and-shoots."

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Cleaning Your Lens | Lens Care - YouTube

Cleaning Your Lens | Lens Care - YouTube: ""

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10 Beach Photography Tips

10 Beach Photography Tips: "We’re one big island and most of our population is scattered along the coast line so the beach is a natural place for us to go both on day trips and longer holidays."

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How to Photograph a Child’s Birthday Party

How to Photograph a Child’s Birthday Party: "I’ve been asked by parents of children to photograph their birthday parties numerous occasions and each time it has been a lot of fun."

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8 Tips on Taking Party Photographs

8 Tips on Taking Party Photographs: "Parties are a great time for family and friends to come together and have some fun. Here are 8 simple tips to help with taking the party shots that last."

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How To Teach Photography To Your Children by Digital Photo Secrets

How To Teach Photography To Your Children by Digital Photo Secrets: "When I was a kid, I gravitated toward the camera. Of course, those were different days. Back then, a kid couldn’t take that many photos for fear of wasting mom and dad’s money on film. Now it’s a totally different era."

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Your Camera Has No Vision (But You Do) by Digital Photo Secrets

Your Camera Has No Vision (But You Do) by Digital Photo Secrets: "What would HAL do if he could take a picture? He’d probably look me straight in the face and say, “I’m sorry Dave, but I can’t let you do that.” In all seriousness, your camera is a lot like HAL. It’s got all this technical gobbledygook and sophisticated light metering algorithms built into it, but it still can’t do what you do. Camera are tools for making pictures. They don’t work unless you bring the vision."

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A Fresh Look at Depth of Field: Using foreground to achieve creative depth of field

A Fresh Look at Depth of Field: Using foreground to achieve creative depth of field: "We talk a lot around here at Digital Photography School about Depth of Field. I’m writing this based on the assumption that we all understand that in layman terms, “depth of field” is the portion of an image that is in sharp focus."

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Common Mistakes a Photographer Should Avoid When Working with a Model – PictureCorrect

Common Mistakes a Photographer Should Avoid When Working with a Model – PictureCorrect: "A week ago I was invited to take part in a workshop titled, Lights and Shadows. Demo models were available and various photographers were shooting in a temporary set photographic studio. I could not help but notice impractical mistakes done repeatedly by some of the photographers present. This led me to write this article, in order to pin point three basic mistakes that you should avoid when shooting a model, in particular a female model."

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HDR Time-lapse Photography – PictureCorrect

HDR Time-lapse Photography – PictureCorrect: "


Beautiful time-lapse photography is difficult enough to achieve, but attempting it in HDR (high dynamic range) photography adds another layer of complexity as was done here successfully in France (Normandy & Britany). "

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A Lightroom Post Production Walk Through: Venice

A Lightroom Post Production Walk Through: Venice: "Venice. It is one of the most enchanting places in the world. There is an old-world charm to this city that endears you to it like no other destination you’ve traveled to."

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The Importance Of Preparation – An Interview With Michael Riffle

The Importance Of Preparation – An Interview With Michael Riffle: "I missed out on getting the shot above but it wasn’t for chance of a fair warning. Over on Google+, Michael Riffle posted information about a photowalk at Alki Point in West Seattle for an upcoming full moon. He had the location and time dialed in and seemed to know what he was after. The photo above is what resulted from that admittedly lucky December evening in Seattle. More than just a great moon photo, the image speaks to the importance of preparation and planning in certain aspects of photography."

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My favorite point-and-shoot cameras of 2011 | Crave - CNET

My favorite point-and-shoot cameras of 2011 | Crave - CNET: "t's crazy just how many cameras were released in 2011 from the major manufacturers. According to camera site 1001 Noisy Cameras, the count stands at 203; the majority of those are point-and-shoots"

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6 Strategies to Make Sure You Get Those Travel Photos Home

6 Strategies to Make Sure You Get Those Travel Photos Home: "Congratulations. You have finally decided to make that big trip on your bucket list. It is natural to get excited in planning the details of the trip from booking the tickets to arranging for tours, excursions, special sites you want to see, hotels, transportation… the list can be exhausting. The one important thing that you, as a photographer, need to consider is how you are going to ensure that you get all of your precious photographs safely home"

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Nikon Coolpix S8200 Review | PhotographyBLOG

Nikon Coolpix S8200 Review | PhotographyBLOG: "The Nikon Coolpix S8200 is a new travel-zoom camera featuring a 14x zoom lens with a versatile focal range of 25-350mm. Measuring just 32.7mm thick, key features of the S8200 include a 16.1 megapixel back-illuminated CMOS sensor, high resolution 3 inch LCD screen, full 1080p high-definition movies with stereo sound"

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Sony A77 Review | PhotographyBLOG

Sony A77 Review | PhotographyBLOG: "The Sony A77 is a new interchangeable lens camera that uses Translucent Mirror Technology to offer high-speed shooting and a smaller body size."

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Rick Sammon's Top Ten Digital Photography Tips - YouTube

Rick Sammon's Top Ten Digital Photography Tips - YouTube: ""

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Travel Photography in the Real World – PictureCorrect

Travel Photography in the Real World – PictureCorrect: "Many articles discuss the best practices for travel photography, and many of them, while providing worthwhile advice, tend not to take into account the fact that conditions are not always perfect for making photographs."

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HDR for Black and White: A Step By Step Guide

HDR for Black and White: A Step By Step Guide: "A few months ago, DPS published an article I wrote entitled “How to See in Black and White.” That article had a small bonus section at the end, in which I talked about how useful HDR can be to the monochrome photographer – a fact that is initially somewhat counterintuitive, since HDR is stereotypically held to be all about garish, over-done colors and excessive haloing."

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How to Photograph Nature and Wildlife – PictureCorrect

How to Photograph Nature and Wildlife – PictureCorrect: "Nature has the endless mine of wonders and beauty which we all want to capture. We often get amazed by the stunning Nature or Wildlife photographs in the popular travel or science magazines. So what is the secret of taking stunning Nature photographs?"

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10 Great Gifts For Photographers Under $20

10 Great Gifts For Photographers Under $20: "It’s that time of year again – the time when most of us photographers find friends, family, and co-workers asking us what photo related gifts we’d like to receive. As much as we’d love to say, “Oh I wouldn’t mind a EOS-1D X or a Nikon D700,” the cold, hard reality is if we don’t want a gift certificate for a hair cut or something worse, we’re better off giving the inquiring gift-giver options under $20. Here is a great list of affordable gift suggestions that will put a smile on any photographers face just in time for the holidays!"

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16 Digital Photography Tips for Christmas

16 Digital Photography Tips for Christmas: "It’s just a few days until Christmas so I thought a quick tutorial on the topic of Christmas Photography might be appropriate. Hopefully this will give you some good Christmas photo ideas."

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New York Institute of Photography - Football Photography Part 2| Football Photos | Football Pictures | NYIP

New York Institute of Photography - Football Photography Part 2| Football Photos | Football Pictures | NYIP: "Editor's Note: In Part One of Football Photography, NYI Student Advisor Chris Corradino took us to the sidelines of the high school games that are part of his sports photography business. He discussed the equipment and techniques he uses to record all the action and take other photographs that he can sell to players and parents. We even saw a timetable of Chris's busy weekend schedule during football season."

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Top Mistakes by Photography Business Owners – PictureCorrect

Top Mistakes by Photography Business Owners – PictureCorrect: "As something of an interesting experiment, I asked my Twitter followers to answer the question: “What are the top business errors by ‘rookie’ photographers?” Within just a few minutes I had several great responses, and thought they would make a great article."

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How To Design And Shoot A Long Term Photography Project

How To Design And Shoot A Long Term Photography Project: "Personal photography projects are the spice of life between the humdrum of every day life and shooting. As a professional, there are subjects I shoot because I’m paid to (portraits, weddings, products, etc…)"

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New York Institute of Photography - Holiday Photos | Christmas Pictures | Hanukkah Pictures | NYIP

New York Institute of Photography - Holiday Photos | Christmas Pictures | Hanukkah Pictures | NYIP: "At this time of year, many of the world's cultures and religions celebrate holidays that involve lights. While the use of lights and candles is often explained in terms of the rites of the particular culture, most scholars agree that the lights came first; the explanations followed. After all, since humans gained control of fire, light has been used to illuminate the darkness — especially, during the depths of winter — rather than curse it."

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HDR Photography With a Point and Shoot Camera – PictureCorrect

HDR Photography With a Point and Shoot Camera – PictureCorrect: "If you are wanting to expand your skills with a point and shoot camera nothing is more intriguing than High Dynamic Range Photography or HDR. It’s a blast!"

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Learning about Exposure – The Exposure Triangle

Learning about Exposure – The Exposure Triangle: "Bryan Peterson has written a book titled Understanding Exposure which is a highly recommended read if you’re wanting to venture out of the Auto mode on your digital camera and experiment with it’s manual settings."

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Nightscapes: Photographing the City at Night

Nightscapes: Photographing the City at Night: "The idea of taking photographs at night can be counterintuitive to the novice photographer. After all, photography is an art, a craft, a technology that is wholly built on light. Film or digital, it doesn’t matter: we need light to make a photograph—it is as simple as that."

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Bokeh Lights: Weekly Photography Challenge

Bokeh Lights: Weekly Photography Challenge: "This week your photography challenge is all about trying out the Christmas Lights Bokeh tutorial that we ran earlier in the week for yourself."

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Garden Photography Tips and Challenges – PictureCorrect

Garden Photography Tips and Challenges – PictureCorrect: "The beauty of living in the South is that I get to enjoy my garden almost year round. While gardens in the Northeast look a bit sad in the winter. Gardens in the South provide color throughout the year."

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Seeing Through the Eyes of a Wedding Photographer – PictureCorrect

Seeing Through the Eyes of a Wedding Photographer – PictureCorrect: "There are many behind-the-scenes videos about wedding photographers, but this one takes a very different perspective. Photographer Jaroslav Repta mounted a GoPro video camera to the side of DSLR so viewers could see the camera’s point of view during the wedding."

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The 20 Best Selling Point and Shoot Cameras [Among our Readers]

The 20 Best Selling Point and Shoot Cameras [Among our Readers]: "Over the last few weeks we’ve been updating our Popular Digital Cameras and Gear page with the best selling* photography gear among our readers."

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4 Practice Techniques to Develop Photographic Observation

4 Practice Techniques to Develop Photographic Observation: "The greatest skill of a talented photographer is not how accurate he or she can be with exposure; it’s not being spot on with all of the tech details, or putting out thousands of images a week."

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Using Macro Mode Effectively: A Point And Shoot Tutorial by Digital Photo Secrets

Using Macro Mode Effectively: A Point And Shoot Tutorial by Digital Photo Secrets: "Digital SLRs may have the upper hand when it comes to shooting macro, but that doesn’t mean us point-and-shoot owners have to give up."

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PictureCorrect - Photography Tips and Techniques

PictureCorrect - Photography Tips and Techniques: "When you look at smoke photos you might think that it is impossible to take such shots but it’s actually not that hard. You just need to be patient because the ratio of good images to bad ones is pretty low."

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Saying a Camera takes Nice Pictures is like Saying a Guitar Plays Nice Melodies

Saying a Camera takes Nice Pictures is like Saying a Guitar Plays Nice Melodies: The following was left as a comment on a previous post by one of our readers – Angelino Pan y Vino (no link given). I thought it was a great story and one that might encourage readers who might feel they have lower quality cameras and gear.

How to Use Microsoft Photosynth

How to Use Microsoft Photosynth: "Microsoft is a very busy company, they have people working on stuff all the time, so it shouldn’t come as any surprise that they have some products out there that you may not heard of; one of these might be a product called Photosynth; and what it does is allows users to dump their existing pictures onto its site, which it then convert to a Photosynth, or a 3-D panorama shot, which is what you see when you go to websites that offer virtual tours of places. So, now with Photosynth, you can create your own virtual tour."

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Macro Photography Tips For Beginners | Micro Photos - YouTube

Macro Photography Tips For Beginners | Micro Photos - YouTube: ""

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DSLR Tips: Night Photography - YouTube

DSLR Tips: Night Photography - YouTube: ""

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10 Reasons to Turn off Your Autofocus

10 Reasons to Turn off Your Autofocus: "When I started using a camera autofocus was something out of science fiction. I mean … it would never work in real life, would it? Apart from anything else, how could it know what you wanted to focus on?"

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Stage Photography Tips – PictureCorrect

Stage Photography Tips – PictureCorrect: "The cruddy weather lately has inspired me to temporarily move the focus away from outdoor photography, to a very tricky but worthwhile type of indoor photography; stage photography."

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BetterPhotoJim: How to Shoot Outdoor Portraits

BetterPhotoJim: How to Shoot Outdoor Portraits: "Jim Zuckerman is one of the top pros at BetterPhoto's digital photography school, and he offers some excellent tips for photographing portraits outdoors. Check it out..."

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Snow Photography: How to Get a Perfect Digital Exposure!

Snow Photography: How to Get a Perfect Digital Exposure!: "The number one question I am asked regarding exposure is how to expose correctly for snow. If you don't understand exposure and you take pictures of snow scenes without any kind of compensation, the pictures will be dark."

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BetterPhoto Instructor Insights: Photographing Snow: Light, Color, and Exposure

BetterPhoto Instructor Insights: Photographing Snow: Light, Color, and Exposure: "Snow is a great part of the winter landscape. It has a huge effect on the environment. It essentially "stores" water so that it enters the ground more slowly and it insulates the ground so that plants and little critters can live in much more comfortable conditions."

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Photography Tutorial - Understanding Exposure [Photos Included]: Aperture, Shutter Speed, ISO - YouTube

Photography Tutorial - Understanding Exposure [Photos Included]: Aperture, Shutter Speed, ISO - YouTube: ""

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Pinterest: Inspiration for Photographers

Pinterest: Inspiration for Photographers: "Social networking has exploded onto the scene over the last few years and many photographers use sites like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Google+ to showcase their work, network with others and to promote their businesses."

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How To Make an Incredibly Easy Panoramic Photograph With Any Camera - How-To Geek

How To Make an Incredibly Easy Panoramic Photograph With Any Camera - How-To Geek: "You might know that there are special cameras for shooting panoramic pictures. Today, we’ll put one together in seconds that we shot with a regular digital camera and a tripod. Grab your favorite image editor and camera, and let’s go!"

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Wild Scenics Pictures

Wild Scenics Pictures:

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How to Create a Home Photo Studio on a Budget – PictureCorrect

How to Create a Home Photo Studio on a Budget – PictureCorrect: "Do you dream of setting up your own home studio but have always found the cost too high? Fear not help is at hand. All you need is the space to take photographs and some basic equipment. The tips in this article will have you up and running in no time at all."

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23 Examples of Using Photography To Convey Humor

23 Examples of Using Photography To Convey Humor: "Just as beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so goes our ideas of humor. Using photography to capture humor can be tricky. Some moments are here and then gone in an instant and a quick shutter finger is needed. Other times it can be a concept you have thought of for a while and finally want to express in the digital realm"

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A Lightning Show At The Grand Canyon | All That Is Interesting

A Lightning Show At The Grand Canyon | All That Is Interesting:

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See The Extraordinary In The Ordinary

See The Extraordinary In The Ordinary: "Have you ever found yourself with your camera in a place where there is nothing interesting to photograph? The quality of light is poor or the surroundings are boring? You go home with an empty memory card and full of self doubt. Well, that happens to every photographer, but it can be easily turned into a journey of new discoveries."

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DIY Lighting: Photography Challenge

DIY Lighting: Photography Challenge: "This week’s photography challenge is a little different – we’re not telling you what to photograph, but we’re challenging you to light your shot with some kind of lighting gear that is not designed for photographic lighting."

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Star Photography Tips – PictureCorrect

Star Photography Tips – PictureCorrect: "Knowing how to take a good picture of the stars is not as complicated as it may seem. Now, there are things that would obviously make it easier to take the pictures, for instance having a telephoto or zoom lens would be very beneficial."

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Hotmail - sgpease@msn.com - Windows Live

Hotmail - sgpease@msn.com - Windows Live: "Sending holiday cards has been a tradition this time of year since the 1800s, but they've never been so fun and easy to create! Your online photo account allows you to create your own custom holiday greeting cards. You can use multiple images, or just one, and can arrange the size and layout of the photos however you'd like. You can also add your own custom text and other graphics to the card, then order it, right from your computer! Read on for the simple instructions."

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Christmas Light Photography Tips – PictureCorrect

Christmas Light Photography Tips – PictureCorrect: "At this time of year, many of the world’s cultures and religions celebrate holidays that involve lights. While the use of lights and candles is often explained in terms of the rites of the particular culture, most scholars agree that the lights came first; the explanations followed."

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How To Take Photos Underwater by Digital Photo Secrets

How To Take Photos Underwater by Digital Photo Secrets: "Have you ever wanted to make more out of your next vacation? I know. We’ve all been out diving, and maybe some of us have tried taking pictures, but how well did they turn out?"

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How to avoid blooming by Digital Photo Secrets

How to avoid blooming by Digital Photo Secrets: "Your mother told you never to look at the sun, or you’ll go blind. Whenever some cameras take a picture of a very bright object (like the sun), the light can get so intense that it doesn’t just affect one part of the image."

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5 Myths About Backgrounds by Digital Photo Secrets

5 Myths About Backgrounds by Digital Photo Secrets: "Backgrounds are an important part of any image. They set the context, and can make a dull image interesting. Most of us are constantly in search of a background with character, feeling it will add something extra to shot."

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Around the World with a Total Eclipse of the Moon

Around the World with a Total Eclipse of the Moon: "Whatever you have planned for this weekend, cancel it now.

Saturday Dec 10 2011 sees the last total eclipse of the moon until April 2014 – the last chance to photograph one of nature’s most attractive natural phenomena in over two years."

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On Location Photography Tips – PictureCorrect

On Location Photography Tips – PictureCorrect: "When I first started photography shooting strictly on location, a couple years back, finding a location for photo-sessions seemed to be such an obstacle for me. Where can I shoot that’s really interesting and eye-catching?"

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Snow Photography: How to Get a Perfect Digital Exposure!

Snow Photography: How to Get a Perfect Digital Exposure!: "The number one question I am asked regarding exposure is how to expose correctly for snow. If you don't understand exposure and you take pictures of snow scenes without any kind of compensation, the pictures will be dark. "

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A 15 Minute Lesson For The Photography Beginner

A 15 Minute Lesson For The Photography Beginner: "I was sitting in the heat and humidity of the the Amazonian rainforest inside the 1970’s designed airport at Puerto Maldonado, Peru. We had a few minutes before heading back to Lima and I had been trying to find time to help a young Norwegian traveling on the same itinerary as me."

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Sharp unveils the industry's thinnest camera sensor, paves the way for thinner smartphones

Sharp unveils the industry's thinnest camera sensor, paves the way for thinner smartphones: "Mobile phones may have the opportunity to get even thinner. Sharp has recently taken the wraps off its new 12-megapixel smartphone camera sensor, which it claims is the thinnest camera sensor on the market."

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SteadePod provides a pocketable alternative to the monopod

SteadePod provides a pocketable alternative to the monopod: "When most of us want to steady a camera for a long exposure or telephoto shot, we look for something that will accept the camera's weight, such as a tripod or a handy flat horizontal surface. The pocket-sized SteadePod, however, uses what could almost be considered the opposite approach - it requires the user to pull up on the camera, the upward tension serving to stabilize their shot."

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Top 10 Photos of 2011 – PictureCorrect

Top 10 Photos of 2011 – PictureCorrect: "


Hundreds of thousands of images captured all over the world were uploaded to the photography social network this year. With careful consideration, we chose these as the year’s best. This is a list of some of the most compelling and popular photos of the year 2011."

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Flash Photography Tips - YouTube

Flash Photography Tips - YouTube: ""

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Rick Sammon's Top Ten Digital Photography Tips - YouTube

Rick Sammon's Top Ten Digital Photography Tips - YouTube: ""

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Beginner Photography Training Tips for Newbies – PictureCorrect

Beginner Photography Training Tips for Newbies – PictureCorrect: "What does it take to get good at photography? Photography training the proper way can make learning how to take great shots easy and a “breeze” whereas other methods will make you never reach that “artistic” and “clean” quality in your photos."

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Black and White RAW Processing for a Landscape Image – Weekly Lightroom Edit Episode 2

Black and White RAW Processing for a Landscape Image – Weekly Lightroom Edit Episode 2: "Hey guys, welcome to Episode 2 of our Weekly Lightroom Edit. Last week, we had a few questions regarding black and white workflow. So, in this tutorial, we are going to do a black and white edit of the RAW image that you see below."

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Four steps to the perfect camera purchase | Crave - CNET

Four steps to the perfect camera purchase | Crave - CNET: "Let's be clear about one thing: there is no "perfect" camera. What you're looking for is a camera that will do most of what you need, do it well, and make shooting enjoyable. Anything beyond that is a big bonus."

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Guide to buying a cheap camera | Crave - CNET

Guide to buying a cheap camera | Crave - CNET: "It seems like every year there's a glut of point-and-shoot cameras getting blown out at ridiculously low prices for the holidays, all teased with the same three specs: megapixels, zoom, and screen size."

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Compact cameras for advanced shooters (roundup) | Crave - CNET

Compact cameras for advanced shooters (roundup) | Crave - CNET: "It's a common complaint: you want the photo quality of a dSLR but find you're leaving the camera at home because it's so large."

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A Guide To Infrared Photography

A Guide To Infrared Photography: "Infrared light is technically not a light source, it is invisible radiation, that our eyes cannot see but the sensors of our digital camera’s can.
By shooting in infrared, we can get some weird and wonderful effects, green foliage ends up looking like it has snow settled on them, due to the way it reflects IR wavelengths, blue skies and water end up very dark (near black) depending on which IR filter you use, as they absorb IR wavelengths."

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The Father Who Creatively Photographs His Children

The Father Who Creatively Photographs His Children: "Jason Lee. A wedding photographer by heart, who is tasked witht he duty of capturing a person’s most important moment of his life. It seems Jason keeps that task very close to him when with family too."

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Four steps to the perfect camera purchase | Crave - CNET

Four steps to the perfect camera purchase | Crave - CNET: "Let's be clear about one thing: there is no "perfect" camera. What you're looking for is a camera that will do most of what you need, do it well, and make shooting enjoyable. Anything beyond that is a big bonus."

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Wedding Photography Tips – PictureCorrect

Wedding Photography Tips – PictureCorrect: "s your photography equipment gathering dust because your desire to be creative is gathering dust as well? Don’t let it! By sticking to some basics, and doing your homework, wedding photography can be a very stimulating and rewarding pastime. People are always getting married, so the opportunities for photographing weddings – and making some cash to boot – are there if you want to inject some life into your hobby."

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Panning: Weekly Photography Challenge

Panning: Weekly Photography Challenge: "This week your photographic challenge is to take and share a photo that uses the technique of panning. We’ve written a tutorial previous on how to master the art of panning (also check out this one on panning too)so you may like to go read that one first – but the challenge essentially revolves around photographing a moving subject and attempting to keep it in focus by panning your camera along with it. The result is hopefully a relatively in focus and sharp subject with some lovely motion blur around it"

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12 tips for better holiday photos | Digital photography clinic - CNET

12 tips for better holiday photos | Digital photography clinic - CNET: "Before you start immortalizing your holiday gatherings of friends and family, learn to use your camera. Celebrate the new year by taking it off auto. Party in a priority mode."

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How to Use Templates to Create a Collage or Montage in Photoshop

How to Use Templates to Create a Collage or Montage in Photoshop: "A short while ago I wrote an article on using templates to create a collage or montage of images in Gimp. Sometime after, the templates that I suggested you could use were taken down from the original website."

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Nikon AW100 Review

Nikon AW100 Review: "As with their mirrorless camera, it has now taken Nikon a while to push its waterproof boat, sorry — camera — into the stream – and very welcome it is with some departures from the crowd."

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DIY Lighting Hacks for Digital Photographers

DIY Lighting Hacks for Digital Photographers: "Lighting can be the difference between a good shot and a great one."

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Build a DIY Camera Stabilizer for Ultra Smooth Video - How-To Geek

Build a DIY Camera Stabilizer for Ultra Smooth Video - How-To Geek: "If you’re looking to capture smooth pans and steady video without purchasing expensive commercial gear, this DIY stabilizer will give you rock-steady video."

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Outdoor Portrait Photography Tips – PictureCorrect

Outdoor Portrait Photography Tips – PictureCorrect: "t seems strange but do you know employing a flash when taking photos outdoor will give you sparkling, vibrant images?"

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Iceland Time-lapse Photography – PictureCorrect

Iceland Time-lapse Photography – PictureCorrect: "This beautiful short time-lapse film was shot during the Icelandic Midnight Sun in June of 2011 and has become a recent viral video garnering over a million views in the last few months. The midnight sun is a natural phenomenon occurring in the summer months north of the Arctic Circle and south of the Antarctic Circle where the sun never fully sets and remains visible 24 hours a day. Take a moment and enjoy"

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The Art of Food Photography [a Painters Approach]

The Art of Food Photography [a Painters Approach]: "Ever wanted to create more drama in your food photography?"

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