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How to Add Tension to Your Photography

How to Add Tension to Your Photography

Your photographs are merely snapshots if the viewers do not engage with them. You don’t want the viewer to simply glance at your photos and say they look nice. Instead, aim to make viewers pause when they look at your photos; make them take some time to wander through them. The question then becomes, how […]

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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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How to Take Better Backlit Macro Photos on Your Phone

How to Take Better Backlit Macro Photos on Your Phone

The beauty of macro photography lies in the fact that it allows us to capture the minute details of a subject. And because we need to get really close to the subject, lighting is often a challenge, because the camera itself blocks off most of the light hitting the subject. In today’s video, photographer David […]

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Gigapixel Photo Enlarger Gets Updated A.I. Engine

Gigapixel Photo Enlarger Gets Updated A.I. Engine

In photo editing news, Topaz Labs just announced a new update to Gigapixel AI. Designed to do the impossible with machine-learning-powered image enlargement. Upscale your photos by up to 600% while perfectly preserving image quality. See how it works here: Topaz A.I. Gigapixel Photo Enlarger After being trained with millions of sample images to learn […]

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Dynamic Symmetry: The Baroque Diagonal for Composition

Dynamic Symmetry: The Baroque Diagonal for Composition

Artists put considerable effort into deciding on their compositions. Besides visual judgement, artists are also influenced by geometrical relationships. Simply put, dynamic symmetry is a grid system which is geometrically designed to promote continuity, flow, rhythm, and balance within an artistic design. Photographer Tavis Leaf Glover explains how you can get started with the fundamentals […]

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Night Sky & Star Photography Techniques

Night Sky & Star Photography Techniques

Night/astro/star/star-trail photography—whatever you want to call it, this is a genre which has become increasingly popular over the past couple of years (partly connected with the increase in sensitivity of reasonably-priced camera sensors over the same period). The irony being that it’s also one of the easiest forms of photography that yields some of the […]

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3 Essential Photography Skills with Lasting Benefit

3 Essential Photography Skills with Lasting Benefit

During the course of your photography journey, you will potentially learn hundreds of skills. But at the end of the day, you will realize that not all of those skills and techniques are equally useful. In fact, some could be holding you back. It is therefore important to identify a certain skill set that has […]

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How to Photograph the Moon

How to Photograph the Moon

Photographing the moon can be tricky. Last year I had a go at it, and it was a complete disaster, with the moon looking like a big, bright, blurry mass in the sky. After a bit of trial and error I discovered how to take nice shots of the moon. The right lens The first […]

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5 Things You Need for Landscape Photography

5 Things You Need for Landscape Photography

When starting out in photography, it is quite common for beginners to be curious about gear. When it comes to landscape photography, this can get even more confusing because of the variety of equipment specifically designed to help take supposedly better landscape photographs. If you have been wondering about what you need to start landscape […]

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Updated: How to Photograph the Night Sky Tutorials

Updated: How to Photograph the Night Sky Tutorials

Capturing star trails and other night sky scenes is truly one of the most technically difficult forms of photography. This popular in-depth eBook written by David Malin Astrophotography Award winner Phil Hart, will show you how to shoot your own stunning images of the moon and the stars with just your digital SLR and a […]

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