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Top 8 Questions a Second Shooter Should Ask: Wedding Photography Tips

Top 8 Questions a Second Shooter Should Ask: Wedding Photography Tips

As many of you know, I work alongside my wife Jasmine Star as her second shooter. Together, we’ve shot hundreds of weddings and transformed a pipedream into our dream business. It’s been an amazing experience working with her—not many people get to spend all day alongside their significant other and get paid to do so! […]

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Tips for Using Contrast in Photography

Tips for Using Contrast in Photography

Good photography depends far more on skill than it does gear. Good cameras don’t guarantee great photographs, and several professional photographers have been known to shoot with disposable cameras. The secret to great photography is rooted in having a solid understanding of the technical elements of photographs and how they interact with one another. Composition, […]

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Luminosity & Contrast Landscape Photo Guide

Luminosity & Contrast Landscape Photo Guide

Everything in photography can be summarized using Luminosity & Contrast. And this new guide by professional landscape photographer Alister Benn will show you how to see it and master it. The second we open our eyes, we experience luminosity and contrast; Darkness turns to light, blurriness and diffusion reveal details, textures, depth, three dimensionality and […]

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Tips if the Bride and Groom are Camera Shy

Tips if the Bride and Groom are Camera Shy

How do you deal with a stiff bride and groom when it comes to the portrait time? Well, I have a few tricks up my sleeve, but they all boil down to the same thing: familiarize yourself with the people you’re photographing and do whatever you can to get them to relax, to know that […]

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New: Ultimate Lightroom Finishing Moves at 52% Off

New: Ultimate Lightroom Finishing Moves at 52% Off

If you’ve ever used Lightroom presets, you know they never give you the perfect result you’re looking for. They can get you a good way there. But there’s always ‘something’ missing. And it’s that ‘something’ that makes all the difference. Enter these new Ultimate Lightroom Finishing Moves. We were able to negotiate a 52% discount for […]

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How to Choose the Correct Aperture, Shutter Speed, and ISO

How to Choose the Correct Aperture, Shutter Speed, and ISO

The previous article in this four part series about moving beyond the P Mode on your DSLR explained what your camera assumes about the quantity of light when being used in Program mode and that combinations of shutter speed and different apertures can result in the same amount of light reaching your DSLR’s sensor. This […]

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Using Your Digital SLR Camera Beyond the P Mode

Using Your Digital SLR Camera Beyond the P Mode

First of all, what is the P mode? Your camera is blind to the world and has to make a lot of assumptions about it including how much light is out there, where to focus, how fast your subject is moving and the ideal depth of field (or how much in front and behind your […]

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Interesting Photo of the Day: Stars over Yellowstone Falls

Interesting Photo of the Day: Stars over Yellowstone Falls

Today’s interesting photo is the perfect combination of amazing landscape and stunning nightscape. Photographer Royce Bair captured this truly surreal shot of the Milky Way over Yellowstone Falls: Baird shot this 15 second exposure with a Canon 5D Mark III and a 24mm f/1.4 lens. At first glance, one might think that this is some […]

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Light Painting Photography Tutorial

Light Painting Photography Tutorial

Photography is a way to be creative. Whether it be by taking regular landscape photographs or making surreal and abstract images. Another fun technique you can try is light painting. The gist of light painting is, well you guessed it, to paint with light. This article will tell you how it works, what kinds of […]

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Hyperfocal Distance Photography: Calculations & Focus

Hyperfocal Distance Photography: Calculations & Focus

In this article I’m going to discuss the special focus condition called hyperfocal distance (HFD) and how you can employ it with today’s DSLR cameras to achieve the absolute greatest possible depth of field (DOF) for any given situation. Hyperfocal focus allows you to produce a depth of field that extends from the nearest possible point […]

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