How to Simplify and Improve Composition with Normal or Long Lenses

How to Simplify and Improve Composition with Normal or Long Lenses: "A potential issue with wide-angle lenses is that you try to include too much information in the frame. It takes real skill to create a strong composition with lenses that have a wide field-of-view. It is easier with normal and telephoto lenses, because you can utilise their narrow field-of-view to compose strong yet simple images with little in the background to distract the viewer."



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Using Focal Points in Photography - Digital Photography School

Using Focal Points in Photography - Digital Photography School: "Next time you take your digital camera out and line it up for a shot pause before you press the shutter button and ask yourself:

“What is the Focal Point in this Picture?”"



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How to Create Impossible Images: Erik Johansson - Digital Photography School

How to Create Impossible Images: Erik Johansson - Digital Photography School: "Got a spare 6 minutes? Here’s photographers Erik Johansson presenting at TED about his ‘Impossible Photography’."



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Use Diptychs to Tell a Story - Digital Photography School

Use Diptychs to Tell a Story - Digital Photography School: "Photography is about visual communication: sharing stories, ideas, and feelings through images. A diptych of two images, or parts of two images, is an impactful storytelling tool. Look for thematic, compositional, and other visual synergies that will make your diptychs more powerful than the sum of their parts."



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How to Fake Depth of Field in Photoshop – PictureCorrect

How to Fake Depth of Field in Photoshop – PictureCorrect: "Photography is done as much with the camera as it is done with post-processing tools. You can always tweak photos to make them look closer to what you had in mind when pressing the shutter button. Doing this in Photoshop is a simple process that should only take a couple of minutes, and Aaron Nace does a great job of explaining the steps to take when faking depth of field in Photoshop:"



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4 Approaches to Black & White Conversion in Lightroom – PictureCorrect

4 Approaches to Black & White Conversion in Lightroom – PictureCorrect: "Black and white photos can be powerful and inspiring, but it’s not always simple. With digital photography it is easy to convert a color photo to black and white, but if you want to get quality black and white images you will need to do more than simply take that RAW file or JPG file straight out of your camera and convert it to black and white."



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How to Blend Images with Different Depths of Field in Photoshop – PictureCorrect

How to Blend Images with Different Depths of Field in Photoshop – PictureCorrect: "If you shoot macro photography, you know that you have to focus on just a little bit of content, so your final image will be out of focus in some areas. There’s no way around that—until you get to post production. Bryan O’Neil Hughes explains a great trick you can do in Photoshop to blend multiple images with different depths of field to create one completely focused final image:"



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Advanced Steps to Sharper Pictures - Digital Photo Secrets

Advanced Steps to Sharper Pictures - Digital Photo Secrets: "One of the basic goals of a photographer is to have a sharp image, unless you’re going for a stylistic blur. If you placed two photographers in the same spot with the same lighting, and even the same camera, I can guarantee you that it doesn’t mean they will both get the same sharpness to their photos. To help ensure sharper images, try these tips."



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The Key To Great Photography Is A Good Lens, Right? - Digital Photo Secrets

The Key To Great Photography Is A Good Lens, Right? - Digital Photo Secrets: "opinion The Key To Great Photography Is A Good Lens, Right? You wouldn’t be the first one to think that. Quite a few inexperienced (and sadly, experienced) photographers seem to believe this, and it’s completely false. In the grand scheme of things, the lens you’re using is one of the least important aspects of photography."



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How to take dreamy long exposure photos - CNET

How to take dreamy long exposure photos - CNET: "Fast shutter speeds are great at freezing action in place, but slow the speed right down and watch as movement in a scene turns to smooth, abstract forms. Long exposure photography is a great technique to play with and lends itself particularly to clouds moving across landscapes, waves crashing onto rocky shores, or busy night-time city streets."



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Digital photography landscape projects: To make you a better photographer - Kindle edition by Steve Pease. Arts & Photography Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.

Digital photography landscape projects: To make you a better photographer - Kindle edition by Steve Pease. Arts & Photography Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.: "Do you love to take pictures?
Do you want to take good pictures
or great pictures?
Do you want people to look at your
photos and say, that is awesome?"



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Popular Casual Poses When Photographing People - Digital Photo Secrets

Popular Casual Poses When Photographing People - Digital Photo Secrets: "People make for one of the most popular subjects, if not the most popular subject, photographed. But, obviously they’re quite different to photograph than a mountain or a waterfall. There’s a reason why there’s an art to portrait photography… you can’t just put someone in front of the camera and expect to get great results. Thought and consideration must go into each session."



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Different Perspectives To Spice Up Your Photos - Digital Photo Secrets

Different Perspectives To Spice Up Your Photos - Digital Photo Secrets: "Perspective refers to the relationship of imaged objects in a photograph. Sounds exciting, right? Believe it or not it actually is! You probably do not give it much thought but every time you take a picture your camera is taking a three dimensional scene and creating a two dimensional image of it. Perspective is what gives a sense of depth and spatial relationships between the objects in your photograph. "



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What Is Camera Dust and How To Get Rid Of It - Digital Photo Secrets

What Is Camera Dust and How To Get Rid Of It - Digital Photo Secrets: "f you own a digital SLR, you’ve probably started to notice something on your photos that wasn’t there before. Have you ever gotten a photo full of little black specks or smudges and wondered how they got there? If you clean your lens religiously and wonder how this could happen to you, then you are about to be introduced to the world of image sensor dust. A lot more goes on inside your camera than you think."



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9 Nude Photography Tips - Digital Photography School

9 Nude Photography Tips - Digital Photography School: "Warning: Lets start this tutorial with a warning. This post is about Nude Photography and does cover a topic that some may find offensive. We’ve only included one very tame image and the post is (in my opinion) very tastefully written by a woman (one of our forum members who wishes to remain anonymous) who shares her experience and some lessons learned while photographing a friend."



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