Five Surprising Uses for your Camera's Self-Timer - Digital Photo Secrets

Five Surprising Uses for your Camera's Self-Timer - Digital Photo Secrets: "Most modern cameras have a self-timer feature. You might know this feature best as that setting that allows you to actually be in the photo as well as your subjects. This is particularly great for photogra-moms and/or photogra-dads. You know, the person in your family who is always behind the camera and never in the photo. The person who, as a result, is so absent from the family album that viewers wonder if she or he actually comes along on any of those family outings."



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Electrifying Lightning Photography - Digital Photo Secrets

Electrifying Lightning Photography - Digital Photo Secrets: "There are very few photographic subjects like lightning. Lightning is unpredictable, appears only for a split second and is best captured by pointing your camera at an empty piece of sky and hoping something happens. "



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Three Best Lenses for your DSLR - Digital Photo Secrets

Three Best Lenses for your DSLR - Digital Photo Secrets: "The best lenses for your DSLR depend on a lot of factors. Variables such as the camera brand, camera model, types of photography you do most, and your personal preferences are all components to picking the best lenses for your specific needs. Here I’ve outlined some recommendations that take those variants into consideration. Read on, but please try not to get gear envy!"



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Safety Tips for Travel Photographers (Particularly Women)

Safety Tips for Travel Photographers (Particularly Women): "et me first address the obvious that while this article talks about safety tips for women photographers, it does not mean that these tips don’t apply to men as well. Most are general tips that could be applied to both genders. Being a woman photographer who has started to venture out alone for photoshoots and solo photowalks, these are things that I notice and practice as I do travel photography."



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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.:

The difference between someone who takes pictures, and someone who makes pictures is all about how you see the parts of the photos you are making. Practicing with the art of taking great pictures is the way to get them to be great. This book is set up with with projects for you to do that will help you focus on seeing things the way you need to see them to take great pictures instead of good pictures.



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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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