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How to Use a Tilt-Shift Lens for Creative Focusing

How to Use a Tilt-Shift Lens for Creative Focusing

The tilt-shift is an extremely versatile lens. In a neutral position the lens acts as any other, but add a tilt and the options for selective focus play are many. Jay P. Morgan guides us through a shoot at the Yanks Air Museum in Chino, California and offers a simple explanation of tilt-shift focusing: The […]

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Photographing Brazil’s Amazon Warriors for National Geographic

Photographing Brazil’s Amazon Warriors for National Geographic

If you’re a photojournalist, there’s no telling where your editors will send you. Some National Geographic photographers visit remote areas of the ocean to swim with sharks and sea turtles. Other creatives are shipped out to North Korea, entrusted with the task of showing what life is really like behind those gates that never open. National Geographic […]

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The Art of Photographing Children

The Art of Photographing Children

Children are the most wonderful subjects to photograph. They can make you sweat blood, stand on your head, max out every emotion of frustration, helplessness, and exhaustion you have ever had — and then make up for it all with their innocent exuberance, gorgeous open smiles, and their beautiful young faces. Often the pleasure of photographing children […]

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Tips & Tricks for Outstanding Smartphone Photography

Tips & Tricks for Outstanding Smartphone Photography

With the advent of the smartphone, mobile photography has carved out a niche in the world of photography. Nowadays it’s quite easy to get a high quality shot with the camera on your phone, and with the numerous apps out there for editing, a photo doesn’t even have to leave your mobile OS before turning […]

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Timelapse of a Digital Space Mission to Jupiter

Timelapse of a Digital Space Mission to Jupiter

In 1979, NASA’s Voyager 1 probe presented a spectacular photo series of Jupiter during its final approach. The photos revealed the intricate movement of Jupiter’s cloudbelts for the first time. In 2013, almost exactly 35 years later, seven of Sweden’s amateur astronomers, led by Peter Rosén, attempted to replicate the historical NASA footage using their […]

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HDR Lightroom Presets

HDR Lightroom Presets

This comprehensive suite of presets for use within Adobe Lightroom is designed to achieve HDR effects with a single image. The bundle was just re-released with 20 different one-click presets for achieving the high dynamic range (HDR) style of photography, plus over 50 workflow presets created specifically to allow you full flexibility while applying HDR effects easily and quickly. The […]

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How to Fix Red Skin Tone in Photoshop

How to Fix Red Skin Tone in Photoshop

Whether you are an amateur or a professional photographer, red skin tone is a problem that you’ll see in your photos quite often. Thanks to Photoshop, however, getting that perfect skin tone is just a few mouse-clicks away. In this tutorial, Aaron Nace shows us how to easily remove the dreaded red tone using Photoshop: This […]

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5 Tips for Photographing Toddlers

5 Tips for Photographing Toddlers

Photographing toddlers seems like no easy task. But, there’s hope for those of us willing enough to take on the challenge. Tamara Lackey has put together a quick video that’s full of great tips and advice that will help you get great portraits of your little ones: Lackey’s key to success when photographing toddlers is […]

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Spot Color Theory and Tips for Photographers

Spot Color Theory and Tips for Photographers

The luxury of owning a copy of the latest photo editing software doesn’t come with the automatic right to ruin a perfectly good composition using weird spot color effects. Similarly, if the composition is way off there is no way to salvage it using spot color (sometimes referred to as selective color). Unfortunately, that is […]

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Blindness is No Barrier for This Photographer

Blindness is No Barrier for This Photographer

Brenden Borrellini is one of those rare individuals whose lives only serve to inspire the rest of us. He was born completely deaf and with limited sight that soon became complete blindness. Even so, he became the first deaf and blind person in Brisbane to complete high school and go on to attend college. Next […]

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