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Geyser Eruption Photography Tips

Geyser Eruption Photography Tips

Geysir in Haukurdalur, Iceland is the home of the original geyser. The large geyser doesn’t erupt any more due to a history of soap powder and earthquakes. However, its little brother, Stokkur, does erupt regularly at intervals of around 5 to 7 minutes, so a typical visit to Geysir should allow any photographer to capture […]

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Advantages of a Vantage Point for Street Photography

Advantages of a Vantage Point for Street Photography

If you are uncomfortable putting a camera in front of a stranger’s face yet still want candid street photography, look for a good vantage point up over the action and shoot down. You will be amazed by the sense of freedom and the results. The Setup Down in the streets a light-weight, fast camera is […]

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Seeing the Image as a Photographer

Seeing the Image as a Photographer

As photographers in the digital age, we are totally spoiled for choice when it comes to equipment, accessories, software, hardware, and you name it. Added to this is the vast amount of information freely available on the web. It’s all a big step up from the age of film photography. Or is it? Whatever our […]

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10 Tips on How to Survive as a Freelance Photographer

10 Tips on How to Survive as a Freelance Photographer

Freelance photography can be a rewarding and fun career, even if you just pursue it part time, but it’s a jungle out there with endless competition. Here are some quick tips to help you get started: 1. Always work. You won’t always have paying customers, but that shouldn’t stop you from working. Go out and […]

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Engagement Photography Tips and Techniques

Engagement Photography Tips and Techniques

The precursor to the actual event, engagement photography is what helps show the couple’s spark with each other and creates widespread awareness of their upcoming wedding. As the photographer, it is important for you to do your research so that the couple’s engagement pictures will be creative, interesting, entertaining, love-struck, and most of all, satisfying […]

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How to Take Food Photography in Restaurants

How to Take Food Photography in Restaurants

We’ve all been there. Sitting in a dark, corner table of a fantastic restaurant, wishing that we had more light, so we didn’t have to use that terrible built-in flash. Perhaps the meal was one of the best we’ve ever eaten and the one thing that would have made it better is gorgeous photos to […]

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Studio Portrait Light to Dark Techniques

Studio Portrait Light to Dark Techniques

Studio lighting often means our subject may feel that they must stay in exactly one spot. While this is helpful when setting up a lighting rig, immobility can make a subject feel rigid and uncomfortable when posing, which could make the images appear unnatural and stiff. Photographer Daniel Norton from Adorama shares an interesting technique […]

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How to Get the Most Out of Your Photography Hobby

How to Get the Most Out of Your Photography Hobby

Almost invariably, digital photography leads to one big truth—hundreds, even thousands of images end up stored on your hard drive. I have run an “Enjoy Your Camera” course for many years—I’ve instructed almost 2,000 keen photographers face-to-face—and they all seem to have one key question. “What do I do with all my images, and what […]

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Photoshop Selections Tutorial Using 3 Tools

Photoshop Selections Tutorial Using 3 Tools

Do you want to make quick selections in Photoshop? Are you looking for how to make precise selections in Photoshop? Then you are in the right place. In this article, I will share with you how to use three excellent Photoshop tools to quickly make precise selections. In fact, I always use these tools to […]

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How to Balance Perfectionism as a Photographer

How to Balance Perfectionism as a Photographer

Every single day, thousands of pieces of content come into the internet. Somehow, amazingly, so much of it appears very well done. Thanks to the incredible quality of modern cameras, even amateur photographers can take professional-quality images, often by only choosing to post their best images. This is generally a good thing. But being too […]

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