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6 Tips for Controlling Sharpness

6 Tips for Controlling Sharpness

Image sharpness can mean different things to different people. For the purposes of this article, sharpness is the crispness of a given photograph. It’s the clarity of detail in a photo, and it’s made of resolution and acuteness.

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Photography Tips: Creating Mood With Color

Photography Tips: Creating Mood With Color

Just as music builds mood, colors can also help create mood. A lot has been written on what each color denotes, what emotions it evokes. Colors also have an impact on one’s health.

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Tips for Purchasing a Digital Camera Lens

Tips for Purchasing a Digital Camera Lens

Your lens is an essential element to good photographs. It’s not just your camera. People spend thousands of dollars on a good camera and neglect the lens.

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Light Meter Readings for Film and Digital

Light Meter Readings for Film and Digital

This article deals with reflected light readings. This is the type of light reading taken with an in camera light meter or a hand held meter which is pointed toward the subject. This article does not deal with incident light readings which are a measure of the light falling on the subject.

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Candid Photography

Candid Photography

Candid photos are usually simple photos without a lot of technical equipment or any time taken ‘setting up the shot’. Thus they capture some wonderful ‘slices of life’!

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Cloudy Day Photography: Taking Advantage of Nature’s Diffused Lighting

Cloudy Day Photography: Taking Advantage of Nature’s Diffused Lighting

Cloudy days can present many opportunities for great photographs. In fact, once you discover how easy it is to get great results, you’ll look forward to a cloudy day as much, if not more, than a sunny day.

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Studio Photography and Digital Backgrounds

Studio Photography and Digital Backgrounds

Most photographers who are serious about improving their portrait taking skills have realized that a beautiful background can greatly enhance their photographs.

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Digital Camera Vs. Film – Pros And Cons

Digital Camera Vs. Film – Pros And Cons

Great strides have been made in digital technology over the past few years, but more sophisticated digital cameras have only recently come down in price enough to attract the “serious amateur” market.

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Zeroing in on Flash

Zeroing in on Flash

Professional photographers rely on the flash on their camera to capture the action at a wedding or other social event. They are probably not aware of the effect of their flash on the faces of their subject. Here is an analysis of the effect of different distances between the flash head and the lens.

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Getting Good Picture Results

Getting Good Picture Results

Before you can even jump to tinkering with digital photography techniques, it would be good to learn basic composition skills to produce good-looking photographs. By composition, we mean that the elements in the captured image are interacting with each other in harmonious relationship.

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