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Window Light Portrait Photography Tips

Window Light Portrait Photography Tips

Have you ever tried to create a lovely portrait but didn’t know how? It’s not hard to create a beautiful portrait. The secret is the lighting. You don’t always need thousands of dollars in photographic lighting equipment to create a good portrait. In fact, all you need is a window. If window light is so […]

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First Person View of the Wet Plate Collodion Photography Process

First Person View of the Wet Plate Collodion Photography Process

In 1851, Frederick Scott Archer introduced the wet plate collodion process of making negatives. The process became the most popular method for making photographs until the 1880s. It allowed photographers to print multiple copies of the same image onto paper using a durable glass negative, something that couldn’t be done with the daguerreotype or the […]

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Abstract Light Painting Photography with a Light Sword

Abstract Light Painting Photography with a Light Sword

Light painting is such a great technique for anyone who wants to create unique results each and every time. With the use of small light sources such as lasers, flashlights, torches and more, one can literally do anything with a blank space. Patrick Rochon’s light source of choice was a customized light sword piece that […]

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How to Take Great HDR Photography

How to Take Great HDR Photography

HDR (High Dynamic Range) photography is one of the more exciting techniques in the world of digital photography. HDR is essentially a number of different exposures of the same composition merged in specialty software to one single, high dynamic range image. In simple terms, the camera will see what you or I can see, rather […]

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Lighting Techniques for Professional Food Photography

Lighting Techniques for Professional Food Photography

For William Brinson, it’s all about the details. In fact, it’s the attention he innately gives the details that made him one of the country’s premier food photographers. Having graduated Savannah School of Design, Brinson moved to New York City to pursue a dream of becoming a fashion photographer. However, after working in the industry […]

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Camera Lenses: Narrowing Down the Choices

Camera Lenses: Narrowing Down the Choices

First of all, what is focal length? According to the textbook definition, “focal length is measured in millimeters (mm), and it represents the distance from the optical center of a lens to the digital camera sensor when the subject of the photo is in focus.” In plain language, this means that with a shorter focal […]

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Beautiful Night Sky Timelapse Photography of Utah

Beautiful Night Sky Timelapse Photography of Utah

Many photographers complain about not having enough time in their schedule to shoot for themselves. Clients’ work takes priority over their own personal work, and they soon find themselves getting bogged down. Enter JJ Dreier and Django Greenblatt-Seay, two mid-western guys who spend their free time shooting timelapses around the country. Their latest night timelapse […]

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Portraits – Lighting the Shot

Portraits – Lighting the Shot

When it comes to shooting stunning portraits, lighting can be the X factor in making your pictures pop. This new eBook is designed to help you better harness the potential of light in your photos, communicate emotion more powerfully through every portrait, learn the techniques pros use to capture stunning portrait photography, and understand the […]

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Photos of Food That Will Make You Hungry

Photos of Food That Will Make You Hungry

Food photography is a still life specialization of commercial photography, aimed at producing attractive photographs of food for use in advertisements, packaging, menus, or cookbooks. Here are some examples of food photography that will make you hungry immediately. Bon appetit! Luckily, we have lots of articles that will help you explore the world of food […]

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On the Trail with a Professional Downhill Mountain Bike Photographer

On the Trail with a Professional Downhill Mountain Bike Photographer

When you think of a professional photographer, you probably think of a clean-cut person wearing slacks and a nice button-up shirt or blouse who owns a large studio and a hundred pieces of expensive photography equipment. You may also think of them as treating their job like a science, knowing where and how to pose […]

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