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How to Use Your Histogram for Better Exposure

How to Use Your Histogram for Better Exposure

The histogram is a really useful tool for photographers. It can provide guidance about whether you’re getting a decent enough exposures, given the lighting and the subject. This saves you from the hassle of having to wait until you get home to check the image in Lightroom or Photoshop. If you understand how the histogram […]

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Interesting Photo of the Day: Inside a Dragon’s Belly

Interesting Photo of the Day: Inside a Dragon’s Belly

Even though fire breathing dragon’s are mythical creatures, there’s no stopping our imagination. Ask any first grader and you would be inundated with tales where a dungeon is guarded by one and a knight in shining armor rescues a damsel in distress by displaying his valor. But what about stories where detailed first hand accounts of being swallowed […]

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Quick and Easy Tips to Improve Your Food Photography

Quick and Easy Tips to Improve Your Food Photography

Whether it is something special made on a rainy afternoon or a birthday cake, food photography is something that we do without even realizing. The following tips can be used by anyone looking to improve their food photography skills: Good Backgrounds “Good pictures starts from the back.” — Marcin Lewandowski There can’t be a more apt epithet […]

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Interesting Photo of the Day: Mount Hood Breaking Through the Clouds

Interesting Photo of the Day: Mount Hood Breaking Through the Clouds

This breathtaking image by Steve Schwindt is everything you’d expect from a golden hour landscape photo. It has great details of Mount Hood, mesmerizing shadow areas in the form of snow-decked coniferous trees, and a sky that is an indescribable combination of blue, flaming orange, and grey. To top it all off, the snow covered foreground […]

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Interesting Photo of the Day: Heart of the Tree

Interesting Photo of the Day: Heart of the Tree

It’s like staring at the Tree of the Dead from the gothic movie Sleepy Hollow. Except the perspective is almost from the inside of the tree—and it’s full of life. This image by wilderness photographer Marc Adamus is a stunning example of how life can survive in some of the most barren places on the […]

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Interesting Photo of the Day: Radiant Flowers in Darkness

Interesting Photo of the Day: Radiant Flowers in Darkness

A dramatic Icelandic sky never fails to mesmerize. And then when someone adds a foreground subject as beautiful as this, it becomes even more breathtaking: Albert Dros shot this photo in Iceland. The bright white and yellow daisies form a stunning contrast to the darkness of the gray clouds and the overall dark palette of […]

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Advanced Bokeh Tips

Advanced Bokeh Tips

Combining flash with ambient light isn’t always an easy thing to do, especially when you have to balance the exposure in a way so that you get a nice bokeh going in the picture. The flash, even when it is fired at its lowest power, can produce a blinding amount of light. Gavin Hoey shows […]

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Panning Photography Basics

Panning Photography Basics

Panning is a photography technique often used in sports, fast action, wildlife, and even street photography to an extent. But it can be used in a much wider scope. The basic principles of panning are always the same, as explained by Marcin Lewandowski: What is Panning? Panning isn’t a new technique. You might have used […]

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How to Photograph Panoramas Without a Wide Angle Lens

How to Photograph Panoramas Without a Wide Angle Lens

So, you want to make breathtaking panoramic landscape photos or super wide cityscapes but you could never afford and ultra-wide angle lens. Don’t worry. David Bergman has simple tips that will allow you to make those breathtaking photos, without ever needing an expensive lenses. Interested? Watch this: The trick is in shooting multiple photos and then […]

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UV Filter Pros and Cons for Photographers

UV Filter Pros and Cons for Photographers

The use of UV and clear filters is a hotly debated topic in photography. In the case of film photography, it’s absolutely imperative that you use a UV filter, because film is extremely sensitive to UV rays. But if you’re using a digital camera, is it so important? Phil Steele shares his insight: The question […]

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