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4 Easy to Find Locations for Great Portrait Photography

4 Easy to Find Locations for Great Portrait Photography

Photos taken in beautiful places easily look awe-inspiring. But not everyone can afford to travel for every portrait photography session. A good photographer doesn’t have to depend on amazing locations for their photos to come out well. They have the skills to make the best of what’s available. Tajreen and Scooter Chloe show you how […]

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Tips for Setting up a Shot in Photography

Tips for Setting up a Shot in Photography

When you hear the word workflow, you automatically think about the editing process. However, there is a workflow when it comes to taking photographs too. It’s the few simple things you think about while getting ready to take your photographs. These steps are in the order I think about my photographic workflow, but you can […]

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Should You Switch Camera Brands?

Should You Switch Camera Brands?

There comes a time in just about every photographer’s life when they wonder what it would be like using a different brand of camera. Is Nikon really better than Canon (or vice versa)? Is working with a Fuji camera really that different? What’s all the hype about the Sony full-frames? What about Olympus or Lumix? […]

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Extreme Macro Photography of Butterfly Wings

Extreme Macro Photography of Butterfly Wings

I never thought I would be running around with a net desperately trying to capture butterflies and dragonflies. But that was exactly what I was doing two summers ago at the local golf course. Living north of San Francisco I am surrounded by natural beauty with flowing waterfalls, giant redwoods, and luscious green hillsides. However, […]

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7 Photography Tips You’ll Wish You Knew Sooner

7 Photography Tips You’ll Wish You Knew Sooner

As a beginner photographer, you’ve probably been inundated with articles, videos, and tutorials covering a whole slew of photography tips and tricks. So much information all at once can be overwhelming. Where do you start? To make learning easier, photographer Nigel Danson shares seven photography tips he wishes he’d known when he was a beginner: […]

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15 Tips for Starting and Maintaining a Successful Photography Business

15 Tips for Starting and Maintaining a Successful Photography Business

The professional photography industry can be a scary place for the new photographer trying to earn a living doing what he or she loves by establishing a photography business. The competition is fierce, the bookkeeping seems mountainous, and for those introverts among us, the thought of interacting so closely with people for a living—um… promote […]

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Here’s What You Need to Know About Aperture, F-Stops, and Depth of Field

Here’s What You Need to Know About Aperture, F-Stops, and Depth of Field

A lot has been said and written about aperture, f-stops and depth of field on PictureCorrect and elsewhere on the Internet. But rarely do you get a comprehensive breakdown of everything that you need to know about these elements of your lens in one place. In this video, Chelsea and Tony Northrup attempt just that. […]

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Aurora HDR Real Estate Photo Editing Tutorial

Aurora HDR Real Estate Photo Editing Tutorial

If you work in real estate, you know how important great imagery is in getting people interested in a property. First impressions last, and too many real estate shots don’t do justice to the building itself. A lot of the interior shots are distorted or too shadowy in some areas and too bright in others. […]

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Photography Project Brings Awareness to Ocean Plastic

Photography Project Brings Awareness to Ocean Plastic

As useful as plastics are, they have always been a pain to handle. They don’t decompose, and the enormous volume of plastic being dumped in the ocean is a serious matter of concern. Every 60 seconds, the equivalent of a truckload of plastic enters the ocean. In order to create awareness around the issue, photographer […]

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Composition Mistakes to Avoid as a Photographer

Composition Mistakes to Avoid as a Photographer

Leave out all the technicalities involved in taking a photograph, and it’s composition that makes or breaks an image. No matter how technically complex your photo may be, if the composition isn’t good, the photo is a failure. Photographer Sheldon Evans sheds light on some mistakes that photographers should avoid when composing an image: Evans […]

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