Know Your Legal Rights As A Photographer by Digital Photo Secrets

Know Your Legal Rights As A Photographer by Digital Photo Secrets: "As a photographer, you actually have quite a few legal rights. In fact, it’s more than you would expect. It’s important to know your legal rights for several reasons. To start, you’ll want to know when the authorities do and don’t have the right to confiscate your photography equipment and images. You’ll also want to know what can get you into trouble with law. In this article, I’ve give you a primer into your ights as a photographer."

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Scanning Film Negatives With Your DSLR Camera by Digital Photo Secrets

Scanning Film Negatives With Your DSLR Camera by Digital Photo Secrets: "It’s a digital world. Our books are digital, our visual entertainment is digital, and our pictures are digital. But if you’ve been taking photos for more than a decade, you probably also have files full of old film negatives that don’t fit into the same mold as all of your digital-age images. And if you’re like most busy people, you probably haven’t done anything with them in years. So the question is, how can you get them out of that old, archaic storage system and into the real world with your other photos? Digitize them, of course! Here’s how."

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Five 52 Week Project Ideas by Digital Photo Secrets

Five 52 Week Project Ideas by Digital Photo Secrets: "One of the best ways to become a better photographer is to commit yourself to exploring a certain theme for awhile. And what better time to do that than at the start of a new year! Some people go so far as to start a 365 day project where they take a photo every single day. It’s too bad that’s not entirely workable for most people who have jobs, kids and other activities they’re engaged in. A 52 week project is a lot more reasonable. I encourage you to make the next year your ’52 week project’. Here are some ideas to get you started."

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The Client Guide: Important Part of a Photography Business – PictureCorrect

The Client Guide: Important Part of a Photography Business – PictureCorrect: "A vital part of running a photography business is managing your client’s expectations! This is where a client guide comes in, it is essentially a booklet or pamphlet that walks the clients through the booking process, informs them about you, pricing, what to expect, and any other information you want to relay. I didn’t know where to start in trying to create one of these things. But luckily this photographer/lawyer/consultant has come up with a new simple template where you can essentially just plug in your information, photos, and your done (super useful product)!"

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Simple techniques for shooting close-up photos | TechHive

Simple techniques for shooting close-up photos | TechHive: "Close-up photos pull you directly into a subject so you can examine its details from a unique perspective. A close-up tends to focus on a specific thing—an insect, a plant, a flower, or a face, for example. Or it can highlight something we don't usually pay much attention to, but which turns out to be captivating, dramatic, or revealing when intimately observed."

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15 Inspiring Image Collections from 2012

15 Inspiring Image Collections from 2012: "This week as part of our ‘Best of dPS 2012 series‘ I thought it might be fun to look back on some of our most popular ‘image collections’ of the year gone by."

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Why You Should Never Delete Dodgy Digital Photos [Opinion]

Why You Should Never Delete Dodgy Digital Photos [Opinion]: "The digital age we’re now living in has changed our ideas of ownership and copyright. For better or worse. It’s also changed the way we do various things. In the field of photography moving to digital formats has made a huge difference. Most of it positive. However,"

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