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5 Tips for Your Best Flower Photography Yet

5 Tips for Your Best Flower Photography Yet

Are your photos of flowers not turning out how you’d like? Get five tips for capturing flowers like never before! Then, see here for a chance to take the online Craftsy class Photographing Flowers with macro-photography expert Harold Davis, and learn even more essential exposure, focus, and macro techniques for shooting captivating floral photography. 1. […]

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DIY Photo Covered Coffee Table

DIY Photo Covered Coffee Table

Family photos or vacation pictures make excellent gifts as canvas prints, framed artwork, or greeting cards. But, what photo gifts can you give your friends and family once you’ve exhausted the usual options? Canon has collaborated with “A Beautiful Mess” blogger sisters, Elsie and Emma, to create DIY projects using your favorite photos. In this short […]

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Wedding Photography Tips and Techniques

Wedding Photography Tips and Techniques

So – you love photography and have been asked by a friend to take pictures at their wedding. Why is it that it seems like every professional photographer will recommend you don’t do it? Are they a bit biased? Maybe they don’t want to be blamed for encouraging you to take the photos if you […]

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Street Photography Tips & Tricks for Traveling Abroad

Street Photography Tips & Tricks for Traveling Abroad

It can be awkward and nerve wracking to become involved in street photography, especially when taking photos of strangers in a foreign setting. Zack Arias, a street and portrait photographer, explores Marrakech, Morocco, with his Fujifilm X-T1. Along the way, he gives advice on how to take street photography and some tips and tricks for […]

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Photographers Take a Pygmy Hedgehog on Adventures Around the World

Photographers Take a Pygmy Hedgehog on Adventures Around the World

He’s every photographer’s dream subject: photogenic, relaxed, and without objection. He’s also exceptionally easy to transport from shoot to shoot. Meet Biddy, the extremely well-traveled three-year-old African Pygmy Hedgehog. Photographers Thomas and Toni bring their little ball of prickly-awesomeness on adventures exciting enough for humans and hedgehogs alike, while documenting it with the cutest travel […]

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How to Keep Your Light Stands from Falling Over in the Wind

How to Keep Your Light Stands from Falling Over in the Wind

One good gust of wind and your expensive lights could hit the ground resulting in breakage and broken hearts. This scenario can be avoided, however, by using this quick little pro tip as shared by Enlight Photo: The trick, which helps to justify over-packing your camera bag as we all like to do, is a […]

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Kids Posing Guide, How to Photograph Kids

Kids Posing Guide, How to Photograph Kids

Created by Rachel Devine, these 5 kids posing guides include a tutorial, printable and digital guides ready for when kids next find their way into your lens. Found here: Kids Posing Guide Inspired by their eBook Click: How to Take Gorgeous Photos of Your Kids all modules are clear and simple, professionally designed and illustrated […]

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Natural Light vs. Artificial Light: Can You Really Tell the Difference?

Natural Light vs. Artificial Light: Can You Really Tell the Difference?

A perpetual question in photography: is it better to use natural or artificial light? Each has its respective pros and cons, but many photographers might feel uneasy when trying to replace natural lighting with a strobe. Felix Kunze and Sue Bryce show us how–when used carefully–strobes can convincingly mimic the look and feel of natural […]

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The Best Way to Enlarge Low Resolution Images in Photoshop

The Best Way to Enlarge Low Resolution Images in Photoshop

Making images larger often leads to pixelization and noise, especially if the image is low resolution to start with. That being said, it isn’t impossible to upsize an image using Adobe Photoshop and still be left with a usable photo–you just need to know the best way to do it! The folks over at Photoshop […]

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Keep it Real: How to Retouch Without Resurfacing

Keep it Real: How to Retouch Without Resurfacing

The following article features post production tips from Lindsay Adler. For further training, see her course Skin 101: Lighting, Retouching and Understanding Skin on CreativeLive. Thanks to websites like Photoshop Disasters, it’s easy to delight in humorously awful photo retouching—but for professional photographers, every amateur post-processing foible is a reminder that with great power comes great responsibility, […]

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