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Nailing Focus from Front to Back in Landscape Photography

Nailing Focus from Front to Back in Landscape Photography

Want to get your landscape photos looking as polished as the shots you’re seeing on Instagram? It’s not as easy as you might expect. Luckily, there are a few secrets to getting pin-sharp images that onlookers can’t turn away from: As Nigel Danson explains in the informative tutorial above, mastering focus is all about finding the […]

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How to Use Low Camera Angles for Depth and Dimension

How to Use Low Camera Angles for Depth and Dimension

Photography is essentially a two dimensional representation of a three dimensional scene. That presents photographers with a lot of challenges. How do you show depth and dimension in two dimensions? Lighting, overlapping subjects, focal length, depth of field, perspective, and camera angle all play a role: Camera angle is one of the most definitive ways to create depth […]

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Product Photography Tutorial from Start to Finish

Product Photography Tutorial from Start to Finish

Just how do professional product photographers get their amazing results? Maybe you’ve been thinking about doing your own product photography or learning how to do it on something other than the standard white background. If so, then this video from Phlearn will certainly give you some things to think about: Excellent product photography is all about […]

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Don’t Make These 5 Common Photography Mistakes

Don’t Make These 5 Common Photography Mistakes

No matter how good you are or, conversely, how new you are, there are certain mistakes that all photographers make–yes, all of them! Don’t believe me? Take a look at this compilation of five mistakes that photographers make by Tony and Chelsea Northup. Luckily the Northups give tips for avoiding the mistakes as well: Everyone makes […]

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Street Photography: 7 Tips to Get Creative

Street Photography: 7 Tips to Get Creative

Street photography lets you capture the authenticity of a location. It demands a lot of attention from the photographer who needs to be very aware of their surroundings. But this doesn’t necessarily mean that there’s no room for creativity in street photography. COOPH shares seven simple tips for you to get creative with street photography: […]

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Do You Have a Prime Lens in Your Camera Bag?

Do You Have a Prime Lens in Your Camera Bag?

Do you own a prime lens? Every DSLR owner should have at least one fast, fixed focal length lens in their camera bag. Zoom lenses are great; they can reduce weight and expense. When the situation calls for it, however, a good prime lens can be a photographer’s best friend. In the following article, you […]

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Cheap Photography Props for Fun Photos

Cheap Photography Props for Fun Photos

Props can add great value to your photography work. Depending on how the props are used, they add a sense of fun, drama, or even mystery. But you don’t need to spend a fortune to get started. COOPH shows you how you can take great photos with some cheap everyday objects you can find at […]

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Home Lighting Portrait Tutorial with Gel Filters

Home Lighting Portrait Tutorial with Gel Filters

If you’ve ever wanted an easy way to add color to your portrait lighting, using gel filters might just be for you. They’re easy to set up and make for some great effects. Here to walk you through the process is editorial photographer Jake Hicks: Unless you’ve worked a lot in theater or television, you’re […]

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Taking Photos Through a Prism: Photography Trick

Taking Photos Through a Prism: Photography Trick

This is an innovative technique using prisms and light refraction to capture bizarre and beautiful images from all different angles. After dropping a Canon 600D (Rebel t3i/Kiss X5) with an 18-135mm kit lens down a flight of concrete stairs, our narrator gets to move up to a much more beautiful 5D Mark III with a […]

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How to Focus for a DSLR Self-Portrait

How to Focus for a DSLR Self-Portrait

If you belong to the burgeoning populace obsessed with the perfect selfie, and you happen to own a DSLR, this is one trick you definitely need to know. Joseph Parry has a method which tends to produce a perfect result every time you push the shutter release: These are the main tools that Parry used for the […]

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