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How to Maximize Your Photography Workshop Experience
A Guest Post by Eva Polak. Attending a photography workshop is the best way to learn new skills. Not only will it improve your technique and expand your knowledge, it will also expose you to a range of interesting subjects to shoot and give you an opportunity to meet and have fun with like-minded people. Whether you [...]
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How to Maximize Your Photography Workshop Experience
8 Tips for Photographing Butterflies
In this post, Steve Berardi from PhotoNaturalist discusses eight tips for photographing butterflies. Photo by Steve Berardi Butterflies are pretty sensitive little creatures. Get too close, and they’ll fly away in a hurry. And, even when you do get close, they’re constantly moving from flower to flower, gathering their most precious prize: sweet nectar. All this makes [...]
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8 Tips for Photographing Butterflies
To Heal or Not to Heal – Blemish Removal
Have you ever erased someone’s moles only to get a “oh…um….ok” response? I have. We might think we’re doing someone a favour by removing imperfections from their features but when does is go too far? What are the rules about removing blemishes? The first thing I would consider is whether I know the person personally or not. [...]
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To Heal or Not to Heal – Blemish Removal
Portraiture in Motion: How to take Striking Portraits in 15 minutes or less
Let’s face it. We don’t always have all the time in the world to do a portrait session. Clients run late. The light fades. Opportunity is not always on our side. What happens when you are in a crunch, and the time you have for a session is less than ideal? Have no fear. With a [...]
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Portraiture in Motion: How to take Striking Portraits in 15 minutes or less
44% of those who own a Digital Camera with Video Never Use it
Over the last few weeks we’ve been asking readers whether they use the video feature on their digital camera. While the largest response was ‘My Camera Doesn’t Have Video’ (35%) the break down between the other three responses was interesting. Here is the breakdown of responses from those who DO have the ability to take video [...]
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44% of those who own a Digital Camera with Video Never Use it
Cloud Photography
How to take advantage of what is right above you. The sky is the single most abstract and dynamic canvas that a photographer has at his disposal. It is an endless source of inspiration that can change a boring photo into one of tremendous interest. Sweet Home Under White Clouds - by tipiro The sky is a key [...]
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Cloud Photography
Do You Share The Images You Take Online?
Time for a new POLL. Do You Share The Images You Take Online – if so, how often? I know many of our readers do share photos online on photoblogs or via photo sharing services like Flickr – but this poll is looking at not only IF you do it but how regularly. Note: There is a poll [...]
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Do You Share The Images You Take Online?
This Week in the Digital Photography School Forums (7-13 Mar ‘10)
Weekly Assignment This week we repeated an old assignment that we had a lot of fun with the first time around, Jump. We wanted you to get your feet (or someone elses’ feet) off the ground and into the air. We wanted to see people jumping and having fun, and let me say, there’s just something [...]
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This Week in the Digital Photography School Forums (7-13 Mar ‘10)
Rock Climbing Photography [Video and Tips]
Building on our recent poll that explored whether readers are using the video feature on their cameras I thought today I’d share this video by Nikon and Australian rock climbing photographer Simon Carter – a video that was shot purely with the Nikon DS3. For best viewing watch it in HD (press play, then quickly hit [...]
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Rock Climbing Photography [Video and Tips]
Product Review: Lightscoop
Do you hate the look of on camera pop-up flash? Do you avoid taking photos indoors because of harsh shadows and completely insane looking eyes? Fret no longer – Professor Kobre’s got your back. Professor Kobre’s Lightscoop is an amazing little invention. Another of those ‘why didn’t I think of that?!’ moments. It’s a perfectly angeled mirror which [...]
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Product Review: Lightscoop