How to take pictures of beautiful flowers

How to take pictures of beautiful flowers: "Taking pictures of beautiful flowers is something I have always enjoyed. You see things on the photos and through the camera lens that you don't see just looking at them. Most people don't get down to flower level and really see the flower."

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Nailing and Locking the Focus: 2 Techniques for Focusing when Shooting HDR Photography - From the HDR Photography Workshop Series

Nailing and Locking the Focus: 2 Techniques for Focusing when Shooting HDR Photography - From the HDR Photography Workshop Series: "The following is an excerpt from HDR Photography | A 3 DVD Comprehensive Guide to Mastering Professional HDR Photography by SLR Lounge. This workshop dubbed “the gold standard of HDR education” by FStoppers contains over 13 hours of tutorials, RAW files for you to follow along, and dozens of full prep to post examples. We cover bracketed HDR, in-camera HDR, single-shot faux HDR, single-shot bracketed HDR, panoramic HDR and more! Click here for more info."

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How to Create Elaborate Light Painting Photo Compositions – PictureCorrect

How to Create Elaborate Light Painting Photo Compositions – PictureCorrect: "K photographer showcases his techniques for painting the “largest indoor continuously-drawn piece of light art” in this self-published short (Michael Bosanko). Anyone who is familiar with the concept of light painting knows what an enormous feat this is; light painting requires long exposures, sometimes stretching into hours, of precision work in almost pitch dark conditions. The artist must craft an entire painting without being able to see it progress, except in his mind:"

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How to Remove Distractions from the Background of a Photo with Photoshop – PictureCorrect

How to Remove Distractions from the Background of a Photo with Photoshop – PictureCorrect: "nyone who has shot group photos outdoors knows that determining the best camera location can be a difficult task.  On bright, sunny days you can’t have the group facing directly into the sun or the entire team will be squinting.  This may leave you no option but to shoot in an area with some distractions in the background of your shot.  The beauty of digital photography is the ability to fix it after the fact.  In this tutorial, I will show you how to remove distractions from the background of a youth football team photo–a common problem with youth sports picture days, but anyone who takes group photos outdoors will eventually need this in their bag of tricks."

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Top 15 Photoshop Tools Every Photographer Should Know – PictureCorrect

Top 15 Photoshop Tools Every Photographer Should Know – PictureCorrect: "hotoshop is a magnificent tool that can help you save time and money by editing images in an efficient manner. Unfortunately, the learning curve for post-processing programs is a little steep. Que photographer Jeff Cable and his photoshopping skills. In this video, Jeff lectures on and demonstrates the top 15 tools that you need to know for quick and easy editing:"

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Sunlight: Weekly Photography Challenge

Sunlight: Weekly Photography Challenge: "In the last week on dPS we’ve posted a couple of tutorials that focus upon the ‘Sun’ in different ways with our posts Using the Sun as a Compositional Element and How to Use Sunset Light to Light Portraits"

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