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How to Use Photoshop to Remove Tan Lines and Sunburns

How to Use Photoshop to Remove Tan Lines and Sunburns

With summer in full swing, Aaron Nace provides some helpful tips on removing those unwanted tan lines and sunburns from your photos using Photoshop. In the following instructional video, he opts to match the burnt skin to the skin tone of the normal skin and then adjust all of the skin to the preferred tone: […]

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What Does a Famous Photographer Do All Day?

What Does a Famous Photographer Do All Day?

Albert Watson  picked up his father’s Voigtländer when he was twelve years old and has since known that photography is what he wants to do. Though famous for photographing supermodels and celebrities for magazines, such as Vogue and Rolling Stone, Watson never settled for one genre of photography. Now 71 years old, Watson shares a […]

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7 Questions to Ask When Buying a Tripod

7 Questions to Ask When Buying a Tripod

Do you ever take blurry photographs? Do you want to improve the quality of your photographs? Using a quality tripod is often the missing key to better, sharper photographs. If you like to adjust your exposure settings, use a telephoto lens, or if you just want to experiment with the manual settings on your SLR, […]

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Advanced Studio Lighting for Intimate Photography

Advanced Studio Lighting for Intimate Photography

Does studio lighting scare you away as a photographer? Too many lights, light modifiers, gear and stuff? Have you never ever worked seriously with studio equipment? This new eBook is designed to help newcomers, amateurs, aficionados, even versed pro photographers in those areas. Found here: ESSENTIALS. Studio Lighting for Intimate Photography The concept and art direction in this book […]

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What Every Photographer Needs to Know About Copyright and Model Releases

What Every Photographer Needs to Know About Copyright and Model Releases

Copyright issues are an integral and undeniable part of a professional photographer’s job. If you are shooting for money and employ models, locations, or anything else that is identifiable in commercial usage you could get sued for improper usage of the pictures unless you have specific permission to use these images. Though this sounds quite […]

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How to Take Care of Your DSLR Camera

How to Take Care of Your DSLR Camera

Have you recently acquired a new DSLR, or are you interested in prolonging the life of the one(s) you already own? Holly from the Canon Call Center has some tips on how to keep your camera and lenses in working order in the following video: Keeping your camera and lenses free of grit and grime […]

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Simple Photography Tips to Get You Better Nature Shots

Simple Photography Tips to Get You Better Nature Shots

It can sometimes be difficult to photograph unique and creative images when shooting nature and wildlife, especially for photographers just getting started. There are a lot of technical and creative decisions to be made that may not be apparent. Take a look at the quick video clip below of renowned nature photographer Jay Dickman, as […]

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Awesome 4-Year Timelapse Video of a Star’s Light Echo

Awesome 4-Year Timelapse Video of a Star’s Light Echo

Timelapse photography has been used to capture all sorts of natural phenomena, from cloudscapes and stars to people moving about in a cityscape and plants growing, but this four-year compilation from the Hubble Space Telescope made history: On January 6, 2002, an unknown star in the constellation Monoceros (the Unicorn) underwent a huge explosion, briefly […]

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Getting Started in Water Droplet Photography

Getting Started in Water Droplet Photography

Water droplet photography can seem intimidating to many photographers, yet it’s actually pretty straightforward. All you really need is a camera and a way to make water drops. But if you want stellar shots like the ones in Shawn Knol‘s album, pull out a few basic lenses and a speed light, then mix in a […]

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How the Pros Photograph World Cup Soccer Players

How the Pros Photograph World Cup Soccer Players

Along with the 2014 FIFA World Cup happening comes this timely behind the scenes clip of a photoshoot featuring Mexican National Team goalkeeper, Guillermo Memo Ochoa. A veteran at these types of shoots, photographer Monte Isom walks us through the process of capturing the soccer superstar: For such an extensive commercial photoshoot for Allstate, Isom […]

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