Articles by Michael Fraiman, Author at PictureCorrect - Page 10 of 38371 results

Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer 2i Tracking Mount Review

Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer 2i Tracking Mount Review

The Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer 2i is an updated version of the original Star Adventurer tracking mount. It brings the app-based control of the Star Adventurer Mini (SAM) to its slightly larger brother. Setting Up The mount has had a cosmetic overhaul, with white paint and green attachments in place of the original black or red. […]

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Telling a Story with Just One Photo

Telling a Story with Just One Photo

There is an art to making a story out of your photos. Let’s learn how to do that. Photography is an art in itself. It has many different categories that a photographer can choose to become good at. You can become a good portrait or wedding photographer, or you could be a master at scenery […]

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Zoo Photography Tips & Camera Settings

Zoo Photography Tips & Camera Settings

This article is based on concepts from The Photography Action Cards if you want to dig deeper for further training. Do you remember the children’s game, Barrel of Monkeys? The one where you would hook their curved arms into a chain until you dropped one? I did a little research on the phrase “barrel of […]

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Spring Season Photography Tips

Spring Season Photography Tips

As a photographer, when I think of spring, I think of new flowers that only bloom once a year: tulips, daffodils, crocus and tree blossoms. Spring is also exciting because it signifies the renewal of nature. Images pop out that get you excited about life and the life of new plants. But the question I […]

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How to do Street Photography During a Pandemic

How to do Street Photography During a Pandemic

The pandemic has obviously thrown the entire photography community out of whack, and it has made photographers rethink how they do street photography. Things that were once okay are now much harder to do. But that doesn’t mean we can’t still take street photos. It’s just the opposite—now is a very important time to continue […]

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Maternity Portrait Photography Tips

Maternity Portrait Photography Tips

This article is based on concepts from The Photography Action Cards if you want to dig deeper for further training. The key to great maternity portraits is to share the sense of caring and intimacy of the moment. Some mothers will wish to be alone in their picture; others will include one or more family […]

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Interesting Photo of the Day: On the Nose of a Dog

Interesting Photo of the Day: On the Nose of a Dog

If you’re procrastinating on the Internet right now, you probably want to see something cute. Something like, I don’t know, a butterfly sitting on a bulldog’s nose, for example: Austria-based photographer Anne Geier captured this adorable image with a Nikon D750 using a 50mm lens at f/2 to create the soft focus surrounding the pup, then balanced out the […]

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How to Install and Use LUTs in Photoshop

How to Install and Use LUTs in Photoshop

If you fancy yourself the next Tarantino or Spielberg, you need to hone your visual style. Most of us, however, are a little impatient and don’t want to spend years learning colour grading in a colouring house. This is where a lookup table—or LUT—can help speed up your video and image editing process and help […]

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How to Adjust Tones in Lightroom for Quality Detail

How to Adjust Tones in Lightroom for Quality Detail

This article is a general workflow overview of the tonal slider lessons from the Lightroom for Landscapes Course (currently 70% off), if you’d like to learn more on how to master the fantastic world of Lightroom. Your tonal sliders in Lightroom (exposure, blacks, whites, shadows and highlights) directly influence the foundation of your photograph—specifically, how […]

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Can Cell Phone Photos Compete Against DSLR Cameras?

Can Cell Phone Photos Compete Against DSLR Cameras?

I will be honest: there are photos on my blogs that I have taken with my phone, instead of with my DSLR. Readers sometimes ask me why my smartphone photos look better than theirs. Well, here is what I know. To start, some phones cameras are just better than others. I often will go on […]

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