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Photography Tips

BBC Wildlife Magazine Offers Free Online Classes

May 12, 2010

With the summer almost here (well atleast here in Michigan it’s still in 50s), you may getting ready to get out and shoot some wildlife photography.
You don’t have to start out blind. You can get started with a few solid tips from popular & established wildlife photographers.
BBC Wildlife Magazine is offering a score of photography [...]

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Extreme Macro Photography Trick [Video]

March 10, 2010

If you are new to DSLR photography and just brought your first Digital SLR camera, you may not have bought an expensive Macro lens. I know i haven’t yet.
But, if you have a zoom lens and a prime lens in your arsenal, here is a neat trick to get some cool macro photography without spending [...]

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Mind Boggling Panoramic Photograph

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If you like and enjoy panoramic photographs, you are in for a real treat. Our friend Peter sent this in so thank you, Peter!
Gigapixel by Dresden.de is a collection of HUGE panorama pictures.
The main picture in the site has following technical characteristics and is set to go any photobug to go wow!
The picture was [...]

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Aviary Sets Online Web Editing Suite Free

February 18, 2010

Aviary has been one of the popular premium web-based image editing tools.
Thanks to its popularity and a new round of funding from investors, full access to this excellent tool doesn’t cost $24.99 anymore!
Aviary is now totally FREE!
When it won’t replace Adobe Lightroom or Adobe Photoshop for me, Aviary can fill in the gap when [...]

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Find Local Professional Photographers with Snapm

February 16, 2010

Snapm is a website dedicated to belong you find a professional photographers as well as help the photographers promote themselves.
Snapm lets you search for local pro photographers by zipcode. You will see local talents, their sample portfolios, bio, their specialties, customer and peer reviews and their rates.

It doesn’t matter you are shopping for a [...]

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View Flickr Photos Like The Big Picture

February 11, 2010

As any photography fan, I love browsing the Boston Globe’s The Big Picture photographs and enjoy it a lot.
Flickr App Garden has a gem of an app – The Big Pictr – that lets you view and share your Flickr pictures in the ‘Big Picture’ style.
The Big Pictr Flickr app is a bookmarklet. You [...]

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Food Photography Process Explained. In Pictures.

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Food Photography blog is an excellent resource for learning anything and everything about, you guessed it, Food Photography!
Michael Ray is an expert in this area and I just stumbled across an amazing article via Twitter (@balanon).
Michael Ray has explained the thoughts and the whole process that goes into creating an amazing food photograph.

Check out this [...]

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Manual Aperture in Canon Rebel T1i or EOS 500D Video

Manual Aperture for Canon T1i or EOS 500D Video January 1, 2010

One of the great features of Canon Rebel T1i aka EOS 500D is it’s high-definition video recording in this DSLR camera.
If you have a fast lens like a EF 50mm f/1.8 II lens or the EF 50mm f1.4 USM prime lens, you would want to control the aperture when shooting video. But, unfortunately the 500D [...]

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10 Awesome How to Photograph Fireworks Tutorials

December 31, 2009

So, the New Year is right on us and you are probably getting ready to enjoy the festivities a New Year brings.
With Christmas just out of the way, it’s time to put your new digital camera to work. May be you even got one of these top selling dslrs.
As a photography enthusiast, you may also [...]

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120 Years Of Stunning Nature Photographs In Digital Format

December 30, 2009

National Geographic is one of the oldest magazines that is known for it’s stunning world’s best photography. An entire 120 years collection of National Geographic magazines are now available in a digital format!

Here is a quote from their site
Explore 120 years of amazing discoveries, fascinating maps, and the world’s best photography with The Complete [...]

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How to Create HDR Photos?

December 28, 2009

HDR is an abbreviation for High Dynamic Range photography.
Most camera sensors can only process so much information in the scene and usually either the brighter or the darker highlights are lost in an image.
HDR photography is a technique where you take a series of exposures of the same scene and later combine them using software [...]

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