How to Take Long Exposure Shots in Daylight

How to Take Long Exposure Shots in Daylight: "In this video Scott Kelby demonstrates how to take long exposure photos – during the day. The image he takes is exposed for a whole 2 minutes at ISO 200 and at f/11."

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Wide-Angle Lens Tips in Landscape Photography – PictureCorrect

Wide-Angle Lens Tips in Landscape Photography – PictureCorrect: "Whenever I conduct landscape photography, I always shoot in Aperture Priority mode. Reason being I am able to shoot with more choices of appropriate f-stops and depth of field. I normally use the optimal aperture of my lens, and that is between f/8 to f/14."

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Sometimes Close-ups Are Better From Far Away

Sometimes Close-ups Are Better From Far Away: When you think of close-up photography, you probably think of getting in close with a macro lens. After all, it’s called “close-up” photography, right?

Basic Photo Editing in Lightroom

Basic Photo Editing in Lightroom: With all the tools available today to retouch digital portraits, it’s easy for us to go way overboard with editing on photos. We make a few adjustments here and there, then make a few more, and before we know it, the photo looks completely different – sometimes good, and sometimes, well, not so good.

Photography Tips for Wall Art – PictureCorrect

Photography Tips for Wall Art – PictureCorrect: lmost every photographer has had the urge to mount and display his or her photo’s as wall art, either at home or maybe in the office at work. At one time or another – we’ve nearly all done it – we took one of our ‘best shots’, had an enlargement made and framed.

Picturing the American Drought, George Steinmetz - LightBox

Picturing the American Drought, George Steinmetz - LightBox: As Bryan Walsh writes this week, drought is one of the most insidious types of natural disaster, but no less devastating. The recent record-setting period of dry weather in the American South has caused billions of dollars of damage, ruined crops, and altered entire ecosystems, and it may get worse.

Portraits of Dogs as They Shake Off Water

Portraits of Dogs as They Shake Off Water: For her series “Shake“, pet photographer Carli Davidson photographed curious portraits of dogs shaking off water. Use a fast shutter speed and you can capture all kinds of strange expressions on your dog’s face.

Canon PowerShot SX150 IS | PhotographyBLOG

Canon PowerShot SX150 IS | PhotographyBLOG: The Canon PowerShot SX150 IS is a new superzoom for all the family.

How to Photograph Newborns

How to Photograph Newborns: Among the many different photo shoots one can do, I’ve always considered newborn photography as one of the most challenging. Having great equipment and great technical know-how is never enough. For me, this is the genre of photography where the human touch is most important.

Travel Photography and Kids: How to Juggle Yourself in Between

Travel Photography and Kids: How to Juggle Yourself in Between: For an amateur who had just been introduced to photography after having had two kids of seven and six year olds, I often find travel photography can be very challenging as I never had the choice but to carry both camera and kids!