54 Portrait Ideas: free downloadable posing guide | Digital Camera World

54 Portrait Ideas: free downloadable posing guide | Digital Camera World: "Are you stuck for portrait ideas? Sometimes we’ve found that you can over-think these things. When you put so much thought into backdrops and colour schemes and following others’ portrait photography tips, you can overlook some of the fundamentals of portrait photography, such as your subject’s pose. We believe our posing guide below should help!"

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The Party Bouncer is Back in Business (Card) | DIYPhotography.net

The Party Bouncer is Back in Business (Card) | DIYPhotography.net: "f you are a big executive and have your own business card, you can cut the time it takes you to get a business card and you are at 5 seconds. The results are not professional and there is some light lost, but when all else fails, it is a neat trick to have up your sleeve. It will defiantly work for Canon internal flashes. Other brands - you might need to adjust a bit."

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13 Things Your Camera Wishes You Knew | Improve Photography

13 Things Your Camera Wishes You Knew | Improve Photography: "Every time I go to my nephews’ soccer games and see all the parents with their cameras on “green mode”, or attend a sporting event and see spectators using their flash from a quarter mile away, it makes me grit my teeth.  It’s all I can do to stop from walking up to them and fixing their camera for them."

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40 More Cool Optical Illusions in Photos | Bored Panda

40 More Cool Optical Illusions in Photos | Bored Panda: "Seeing how much you liked our first selection of optical illusions, we figured it was high time to show you more. We’ve spent a lot of time looking for more incredible examples of illusions in photos, and we must say it was much harder this time."

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40 Incredible Examples of Optical Illusions in Photos | Bored Panda

40 Incredible Examples of Optical Illusions in Photos | Bored Panda: "Some find them frustrating, while others just can’t get enough – optical illusions is something that will always leave you perplexed and questioning your eyesight. We all know the classic young girl turning into an old lady portrait, or sets of geometric figures that turn out to be of a different size than it appeared. Optical illusions are images that differ from the objective reality. But how do they work?"

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Advanced tips for mastering your DSLR camera | Improve Photography

Advanced tips for mastering your DSLR camera | Improve Photography: "As with learning any topic, students usually learn a tremendous amount of information about a topic for the first while, then they reach a certain level of competency and halt all learning."

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Chill Lessons from Ice Cream Food Photography – PictureCorrect

Chill Lessons from Ice Cream Food Photography – PictureCorrect: "Product photography — especially food photography — is a highly specialized skill, as any photographer who has ventured into this category will attest. It’s a given that the resulting photo needs to look delicious. The challenge is that the fragile subject has such a limited life."

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Using Backlight in Nature Photography

Using Backlight in Nature Photography: "Shooting a backlit scene is more difficult technically but that is no reason to shy away from what can become a dynamic and energizing image."

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4 Rules of Composition for Landscape Photography

4 Rules of Composition for Landscape Photography: "While I’m not always a fan of sticking strictly to the ‘rules’ or ‘guidelines’ of photography I think they can be well worth knowing and keeping in the back of your mind as you shoot (whether it’s so you can follow them or break them for effect). Here’s four ‘rules’ for landscape photography that might be helpful for those just starting out (ie they’re not meant as a definitive guide but rather a starting point) :"

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Landscapes: Weekly Photography Challenge

Landscapes: Weekly Photography Challenge: "Photo by OneEighteen
This past week we’ve had a few tutorials on Landscape Photography so I thought it might make a good topic for this week’s challenge."

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