Improve Your Photography By Learning to Edit - Digital Photography School

Improve Your Photography By Learning to Edit - Digital Photography School: "You might have read the title to this post and thought that I was going to talk about how editing your photographs can make you appear to be a better photographer, but no, I really do mean better – behind the camera."



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Sunset Photography Tips: Avoid The Cliche

Sunset Photography Tips: Avoid The Cliche: "In the Cliché Olympics, long walks on the beach and sunset photography almost always tie for gold. In reality, either one of these would add a welcomed change to our day-to-day routine. The good news, then, is this: not everyone has a beach, but everyone gets a daily sunset."



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6 Street Photography Tips

6 Street Photography Tips: "In the travel photography class I teach I get a lot of questions about street photography, and in particular photographing people. I will do a more detailed article soon on people, but for today I wanted to give you a few general street photography tips to get you started."



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Incident vs Reflected light and which type gives you better photos - Digital Photo Secrets

Incident vs Reflected light and which type gives you better photos - Digital Photo Secrets: "Advanced Successful photography has everything to do with understanding light. Light comes from many different sources ranging from natural, such as the sun, and forced, such as flashes and studio and other indoor lighting. By understanding light and its influence on your images, you can better control the outcome of your photo shoots."



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Taking Creative Couples Portraits - Digital Photo Secrets

Taking Creative Couples Portraits - Digital Photo Secrets: "If you use social media, the chances are pretty good that you’ve seen at least one of the many photo montages circulating the Internet entitled “bad wedding photos“, “awkward couples photos” or some variation thereof. If not, just Google it, because some of those images are pretty hilarious."



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5 Situations To Use Your Camera's Program Modes - Digital Photo Secrets

5 Situations To Use Your Camera's Program Modes - Digital Photo Secrets: "Any self-professed “real” photographer will tell you to turn off your camera’s auto mode and stick with manual. Manual mode gives you more control over your final image. Manual mode is what the pros use. It’s true, sort of. Manual mode does give you more control over your final image, and in many situations it’s better than using your camera’s auto setting. It’s certainly preferable to that fully automatic setting, where you don’t have any choice over basic things like aperture and shutter speed."



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Photographing the Elderly - Digital Photo Secrets

Photographing the Elderly - Digital Photo Secrets: "The elderly members of our communities are some of our greatest assets. They have seen the roar of change, the cruelty or war, the upset of recession, and the power in our humanity at work. Photographing them gives us a chance to capture the history they have witnessed and participated in but there are some distinctive challenges that are paired with reaping these benefits. Here are some tips to make photographing elderly people an overall smoother experience."



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23 Outstanding Photos Shot in Darkness - Digital Photo Secrets

23 Outstanding Photos Shot in Darkness - Digital Photo Secrets: "There’s something really magical about taking photos in near-darkness. A nighttime landscape takes on wonderful, sometimes eerie, sometimes surreal, often beautiful qualities that you just can’t duplicate during the day. Near-dark photography takes a lot of patience and guesswork, but when all that patience and guesswork pays off the reward is an amazing image that may not look exactly the way you imagined it would. And that’s a good thing."



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How To Shoot Photos in the Dark - Digital Photo Secrets

How To Shoot Photos in the Dark - Digital Photo Secrets: "Light! It’s the single most important element in any photograph. Without light, you’ve got no image. Without the right light, you’ve got a bad image. In photography, light is everything.

And with that in mind, I’m going to tell you how to shoot photos in the dark."



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29 Spectacular Images of Carnival and Amusement Park Rides

29 Spectacular Images of Carnival and Amusement Park Rides: "Who doesn’t love amusement park rides? Even if they make you dizzy or nauseous they are still fun to watch and even more fun to photograph!

Here are 29 carnival and amusement park ride images for a little fun this week!

Enjoy!"



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Weekly Photography Challenge - Portrait of a Child

Weekly Photography Challenge - Portrait of a Child: "Over the last couple weeks we’ve featured several articles on photographing people and doing portraits. Our newest eBook on How to Pose Portraits is a smash success – grab it here now!

The weekly challenges have also been portrait related, so to continue that theme and finish off our portrait deep dive, this week’s challenge is Portrait of a Child."



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The 7 habits of highly successful portrait photographers | Digital Camera World

The 7 habits of highly successful portrait photographers | Digital Camera World: "Portrait photography can be many things – frustrating, exasperating, rewarding, career-changing – but it’s never dull. It covers a wide range of subjects and approaches, and in their latest guest post the photo management and Canon Project1709 experts at Photoventure offer seven quick tips to ensure that you enjoy being a people person when it comes to photography."



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