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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