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How to Photograph Stars in the Night Sky

How to Photograph Stars in the Night Sky

Love shooting long exposures of the night time sky but struggle with the exposure and other settings? This simple tutorial by Mango Street might just be what you need to get going: The Best Lens for Nighttime Long Exposure Photography The recommended lens for night time sky/star photography is a wide angle with a fast, […]

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How to Use Lens Aperture to Demonstrate Importance and Tell Stories

How to Use Lens Aperture to Demonstrate Importance and Tell Stories

Single lens reflex cameras have interchangeable lenses that allow photographers to change the aperture of those lenses. The aperture is the hole inside the lens whose size is determined by you, the photographer. And that is as long as you’re using your camera in Manual or Aperture Priority Mode. You may wonder why the size […]

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Beginner Workflow for Macro Photography

Beginner Workflow for Macro Photography

Whether you accept it or not, we all love macro photographs. I mean, who doesn’t like an intensely detailed bug or a flower on a silky creamy background? The first thing that we do after getting our hands on a DSLR for the first time is to go to our backyard and start taking flower pictures. But […]

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Better Results In-Camera Without Using Photoshop

Better Results In-Camera Without Using Photoshop

Photoshop has been a blessing to most of us photographers. It is undoubtedly a very powerful and important tool, but in some ways, it has also made us lazy. It lets us easily fix things in post-processing rather than try and get the image right in-camera. But if you think about it, getting things right […]

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Flash Photography: Manual or TTL in a Home Studio

Flash Photography: Manual or TTL in a Home Studio

If you’ve worked with flash, you know you can choose its power yourself or let the camera do it for you. By setting the flash power manually, you gain complete control over the exposure. And by using the automatic mode (TTL), you let the camera do the heavy lifting. Each of these modes has certain […]

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Composition Photo Editing Tools in Luminar AI

Composition Photo Editing Tools in Luminar AI

With the release of the highly anticipated Luminar A.I. Photo Editor we’ve been exploring some of the new editing tools and what they can do. CompositionAI is a new tool that automatically adjusts a photo’s composition, crop and perspective. After using CompositionAI, you can still make changes manually to fine tune the result. Click the […]

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Better Photography in 7 Tips

Better Photography in 7 Tips

Since the day you started learning photography, you’ve probably gone through hundreds of videos on photography tips. Well, learning is indeed a continuous process. To that end, landscape photographer Nigel Danson shares seven tips and tricks that have made a big difference to his photography. You could definitely learn a thing or two from this […]

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5 Free Ways To Improve Your Photography

5 Free Ways To Improve Your Photography

By now you must have come across plenty of articles and videos that promise to improve your photography. They either want you to buy something, or they promise to teach you some “techniques”. And while not all of such content is helpful, most of them are redundant. There are plenty of ways to improve your […]

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Composition Tips for Nature and Forest Photography

Composition Tips for Nature and Forest Photography

When you look at a photo of a forest, what’s the first thing you notice? Maybe the color, maybe the story, but most likely it’s the composition. The “congested” surroundings photographers have to contend with make woodland photography a seriously challenging genre of photography. To help you out with some composition tips for forest photography, […]

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How to Use the Atmosphere Tools in Luminar AI

How to Use the Atmosphere Tools in Luminar AI

As of today the new Luminar AI photo editor is now available for download. In this article, we’ll walk through how to add atmospheric effects such as haze and fog to your photos. AtmosphereAI uses content-aware and depth masking to place fog, mist or haze in the background and/or foreground of an image. This smart […]

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