5 Lighting Tips to Improve Your Photography – PictureCorrect

5 Lighting Tips to Improve Your Photography – PictureCorrect: "Photography is all about playing with light and shadows. The way you illuminate your subject will decide your results. Using the right photographic technique can certainly make a lot of difference in your photographs. Even if you’re not a professional photographer and you only use your camera on weekends, you still want to take best pictures. Here are some lighting techniques that will help you to improve the quality of your photographs."



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Are You Using the Best Aperture Setting? – PictureCorrect

Are You Using the Best Aperture Setting? – PictureCorrect: "It happens all the time. People get a fast lens and only want to shoot with it wide open. Of course, the point of having a fast lens is to utilize its wide aperture settings, but not all photographs benefit from f/1.8 or wider. In fact, a wide aperture can take away from certain photographs. Sound crazy? Listen to Matt Granger as he provides a quick primer on aperture settings:"



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Bird Photography Tips for Beginners - Digital Photography School

Bird Photography Tips for Beginners - Digital Photography School: "A Post By: Anne McKinnell

The colour and texture of birds’ plumage makes them fascinating subjects for photography, made all the more exciting by their fleeting and elusive nature. With a lot of patience and practice, and the help of these tips, you’ll soon be on your way to making memorable photographs of our feathered friends."



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Photography Tips For Photographers and Posing Guides, Photography Marketing Templates, Contracts and Forms, Photoshop Actions, Lightroom Presets, Tutorials, Business, Online Photography School | www.bp4ublog.com – 5 Favorite Poses For Senior Girls

Photography Tips For Photographers and Posing Guides, Photography Marketing Templates, Contracts and Forms, Photoshop Actions, Lightroom Presets, Tutorials, Business, Online Photography School | www.bp4ublog.com – 5 Favorite Poses For Senior Girls: "Hi there! I’m a 23 year old from Wyoming, Illinois — about 20 minutes from the Hog Capital of the world! My interest in portraiture began as a senior in high school when my own senior photo experience went horrible (to say the least!). Over the past 5 years I have grown into a professional photographer specializing in natural light senior portraits and absolutely LOVE what I do!"



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Sony HDR-AS100V Action Cam review - CNET

Sony HDR-AS100V Action Cam review - CNET: "The Good High bitrate recording and a bunch of extra features like GPS make this Sony's best Action Cam so far, with good still image and audio quality added to the mix. A new tally light on the top of the camera makes it easy to see when you're recording."



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Beautiful Backlight | OutdoorPhotographer.com

Beautiful Backlight | OutdoorPhotographer.com: "Backlight can provide beautiful results, but it also introduces a number of problems: flare, erratic exposure, contrast issues and lost detail are among the most common. Understanding how they impact the image and learning how to work with each results in successfully and dramatically lit photographs. It's certainly not the easiest type of light with which to work, but taming it is a lot less difficult than you think. Don't let backlight horror stories frighten you. Use the following tips to learn how to shoot into the light. "



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Aperture and Shutter – Science of the F-stop – PictureCorrect

Aperture and Shutter – Science of the F-stop – PictureCorrect: "We all use cameras in our day to day lives. However, most of us know nothing more about the devices than “point and shoot”. If you ever wondered how to take portrait photos of a subject with a blurred background, or how they take those pictures of trailing lights or water across a landscape, keep reading."



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Five Photoshop Tools to Take Your Images from Good to Great

Five Photoshop Tools to Take Your Images from Good to Great: "We hear it all the time, “That photo has been Photoshopped”. Sometimes it sounds like the photo has caught a disease or that Photoshop is some undesirable effect that has been added to the image. Photoshop is the KEY to making your good images look spectacular. Yes, I said “good” images. Photoshop is not about fixing mistakes or trying to rescue a bad shot. It is more about refining your images and making them look amazing without overdoing it. Photoshop is a fantastic tool when it is used effectively but can be your enemy when you overdo it. Depending on what you want to achieve with your photos, this quick guide to five Photoshop tools will help you adjust your exposure effectively and make the colour really pop out of your image."



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5 Bad Photography Habits You Need To Keep Doing

5 Bad Photography Habits You Need To Keep Doing: " don’t floss every day. I still use the word “rad” as an adjective and not in the cool retro way, but in the I-don’t-have-another-word-for-it way. The driving speed limit and I have a love/hate relationship. And I have been known, on particularly hard days, to let my kids eat cookies for breakfast and ice cream for dinner. These are all terrible habits that I need to work on. My “bad” photography habits though, the ones that people say you shouldn’t do or should just get over already, those are actually helping me. They might be helping you too. Here are five habits, that most people would say are things we should move past, and why I think you shouldn’t."



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So You’re Going to Shoot A Wedding: Part 1 of 3 [Preparation] - Digital Photography School

So You’re Going to Shoot A Wedding: Part 1 of 3 [Preparation] - Digital Photography School: "About 5 seconds after I purchased my first professional camera, long before I hung a shingle or had any idea of what I was doing, the requests to shoot weddings came flooding in. Because let’s face it; someone’s always getting married. And your cousin’s dentist’s cleaning lady’s daughter would love a deal. And you are maybe just the photographer to give her one."



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