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That Extra 5%
Five Ways to give your image a little extra quality to help it from good to great. I recently had a great professional photographer tell me about how he does all sorts of things to help him eke out...
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Lightroom 6 For Landscapes
An intro to Lightroom’s new HDR Merge and Panorama Merge toolsCreating landscapes has just become a lot easier. With version 6 of Lightroom (and updated Lightroom CC), our ability to stitch together...
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Understanding The Exposure Triangle
A look at the three camera controls that dictate exposure and how they work together Switching the camera’s exposure controls from Auto to Manual for the first time is a big step. For beginning...
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Altered Reality
Create artistic images with these seven techniquesMost photographers are artists at heart. Some are well aware of their artistic side, while others need a quick fix to awaken the artist within. In this...
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10 Tips For Better Travel Photos
Pro techniques to help you take unique and personal images for your photographic journalIf you want to return home with a great travel portfolio, you need to break out of the tourist mentality and move...
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New Gear: July/August 2015
To ensure the colors in your print are the same as what you viewed on your monitor while…dp0 QUATTRO Sigma's dp0 Quattro is the fourth model in the compact Quattro series, and features the widest angle...
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Mirrorless For Travel?
Small and lightweight, mirrorless cameras may be the perfect travel companionToday, there are mirrorless cameras and DSLRs for every budget and photographer, from beginner to pro. Distinctions between...
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Simply Realistic Retouching
The key to easy and effective skin retouching is minimizing the bad without obliterating the goodI have a theory about skin retouching: The only thing worse than an unretouched portrait is an overly...
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Pro Light With Flash Modifiers
Use these key accessories to refine the output of your portable speedlightsModern on-camera flashes are so powerful that many photographers are looking at them as a primary light source, and not just...
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Pro Compacts 2015
Small cameras with big sensors put superior image quality in your pocketSIGMA DP2 QUATTRO With an all-new Foveon X3 image sensor and a strikingly different design, Sigma's 29-megapixel dp2 Quattro is...
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Social Skills
Popular networks to know and use when marketing your studio onlineSocial media probably isn't the first thing you think of when putting together your studio's business plan, but in a digital world,...
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Photo Fulfillment
Innovative online services offer custom galleries, apps and shopping experiences for your clientsPartnering with a professional lab or fulfillment service isn't a new idea. Many pro photographers love...
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Managing Your Archive
Best practices to organize and protect your photo libraryEvery time I enter my office, I have to walk around a row of file cabinets. Meticulously captioned, labeled and organized are nearly 150,000...
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High-Power Monolights
For versatility in and out of the studio, these high-output strobes are idealWhen it comes time to invest in in serious strobe lighting, many photographers opt for the versatility of monolights....
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Capture The Light Field
Is the Lytro Illum the future of photography?Lytro came on the scene in 2012 with its first light field camera. Light field technology (hardware and software) captures all the individual light rays in...
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Pro Light With Flash Modifiers
Use these key accessories to refine the output of your portable speedlightsModern on-camera flashes are so powerful that many photographers are looking at them as a primary light source, and not just...
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Land Of Ice And Snow
Gear and techniques for photographing glaciers and other “icescapes”Glaciers and ice formations, with their unique and ever-changing shapes, patterns and textures, offer photographers wonderful...
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Photo Exercise: Afar
Leave room in the itinerary to wander off on your own"I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world." —Mary Anne Radmacher While our daily photo practice is mainly focused...
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Equipped To Explore!
Essential Gear For Your Next Photo AdventureTravel photography can be exhilarating as you explore new places and cultures, but it can also be frustrating if you're unprepared. Unlike a portrait sitting...
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Cityscapes
Capturing the pulse of urban lifeCities are full of photographic potential. Urban photography is a blend of city landscape, portraiture and street photography; it's a genre all to itself that's often...
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