Backlight: Weekly Photography Challenge

Backlight: Weekly Photography Challenge: "Backlighting is something that can add impact to many types of photography – portraits, landscapes, wildlife etc and it can be done with both natural and artificial light – so you should have lots of scope to take some great shots this week."

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Pregnancy Photography Tips – PictureCorrect

Pregnancy Photography Tips – PictureCorrect: "Over the past few years there has been an increasing demand for experienced pregnancy photographers. This has mainly fueled an increasing number of services that promise women that they will get amazing and memorable photos. However, the problem with maternity photography is the fact that it is very challenging. A photographer is expected to manage a number of important variables, including the mood of the client, makeup, posing, lighting and clothing. In addition, because a woman is pregnant, she may not be able twist her body into some types of portrait poses."

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Techniques to Photograph Fire and Pyrotechnics During Daytime Hours – PictureCorrect

Techniques to Photograph Fire and Pyrotechnics During Daytime Hours – PictureCorrect: "If you’ve ever thought the difference between digital and film photography was simply a matter of media, think again. There’s just no comparing the level of detail hidden in the average RAW file with what you’re bound to get out of an old-school photo negative. So when an abandoned Belgian abbey and a team of Brazilian martial-artists fell in photographer Von Wong‘s lap for a daytime shoot, the sunny skies didn’t dissuade him from getting collaborator and fire-eater Andrey DAS to join:"

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Understanding Exposure Value in Photography – PictureCorrect

Understanding Exposure Value in Photography – PictureCorrect: "Before explaining Exposure Value (EV for short), it helps to know what Light Value (LV, for short) means. When you find something (whether it’s a person, a landscape, or even a ninja), there are (generally speaking) two main levels of light you need to deal with. The first is the average amount of light in the area (we call this luminance or brightness), and the second is the amount of light bouncing off of the subject (also known as Light Value, or LV for short)."

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Gigapixel | OutdoorPhotographer.com

Gigapixel | OutdoorPhotographer.com: "Digital photography is an amazing medium. The rate in which quality and performance are increasing is staggering, and the possibilities are endless. It's as if the digital age has opened up an entirely new world of thinking; I'm constantly amazed at the new things I see and how modern-day photographers push the envelope to create mind-blowing work that borders on the bleeding edge.
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Photographic Exposure Explained by Digital Photo Secrets

Photographic Exposure Explained by Digital Photo Secrets: "Exposure can be defined as the process of capturing light with your camera to produce an image on the digital sensor. Basically, this is how much light gets into your camera. Each of us has had the experience of taking pictures only to find that they are very dark or way too light. This is caused by incorrect exposure. Today, let’s talk about exposure, what it means to be overexposed and underexposed, and how to achieve proper exposure."

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26 Outstanding Landscapes by Digital Photo Secrets

26 Outstanding Landscapes by Digital Photo Secrets: "Landscape photography is one of the most popular branches of photography, and also one of the most difficult to master. Landscapes are vast, and photographs are not. It is the landscape photographer’s job to recreate that sense of enormity onto a flat, small-scale medium."

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16 Tips for Better Landscapes by Digital Photo Secrets

16 Tips for Better Landscapes by Digital Photo Secrets: "To the snap-shooter, nothing could be simpler than a landscape. Just find some pretty scenery, lift your camera and press the button. Viola! Landscape."

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Wedding Photography: How to Maintain Ambient Background Light by Bouncing Your Flash – PictureCorrect

Wedding Photography: How to Maintain Ambient Background Light by Bouncing Your Flash – PictureCorrect: "Weddings, by their nature, have very beautiful background scenery. This scenery is carefully planned and set up hours before the big day. For these reasons, you want to include it in your photos–that is, not just have the subject of the photos lit up by your flash, but everything behind in shadows, too. This is referred to as the miner’s light."

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Best iPhone and iPad Photo Apps for 2013 | Photography Tips TV

Best iPhone and iPad Photo Apps for 2013 | Photography Tips TV: "The Top 10 photo apps for iPhone and iPad in 2013 to help you take better photos and create amazing looking iPhoneography shots using these awesome camera and photo editing apps. These are great apps for iPhoneographers and we hope there will be a few apps you have not seen before. If we are missing something please post it in the comments or connect with us online or at our website "

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