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Nikon 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G DX VR II Announcement
Along with the D3300 DSLR, Nikon has also introduced the new AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G VR II kit lens, another iteration of the lens with a completely new design. Compared to its predecessor, the new 18-55mm kit lens is now much more compact and lighter, because of its retracting design similar to some of […]
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How to Get Accurate Canon Colors in Lightroom
Our readers often ask us if it is possible to get Lightroom to provide the same colors as one would see from camera-rendered JPEG files when shooting in RAW format. Unfortunately, as you might have noticed when importing files, Lightroom changes the colors immediately after import, when the embedded JPEG files are re-rendered using Adobe’s […]
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How to Create a Vintage Look using Lightroom
Before you create a vintage look using Lightroom, you have to decide what characteristics you think that look should have. It may mean different things to other people, but here’s my version. Photos with the vintage look are nostalgic, evoking the look of faded photos taken decades ago. There may be a colour cast or […]
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Lightroom Workflow – from Setup to Finished Sunrise Photo
One of my favorite times of the day to photograph is sunrise. There’s just something about the peacefulness of being up before the sun, before most of the human world, that allows me to clear my head. Sunrise photos have always been high on the list of fan favorites and I know that there are […]
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Why you Need a Telephoto Zoom Lens for Landscape Photography
When you think about landscape photography, you might immediately think of the wide angle zoom lens, which is great for capturing those expansive landscapes and “taking it all in.” But, a telephoto zoom lens can also be helpful when photographing landscapes. To understand why, it’s important to know what determines perspective and how perspective can […]
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Give Your Subject Space to Look Into
In my last last post I wrote about the rule of thirds and placing your subject to one side of the image in an attempt to create balance. The question that one reader sent me in response to this tip was: ‘When taking pictures of people which side is it best to put them on, […]
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4 Lessons Being a Programmer Taught me about Photography
While photography might be where my heart is, I make my money as a computer programmer by day. At first I thought these were two completely different fields. One is very mathematical and logical – where your program either works or doesn’t – and you usually know right away which one it is. The other […]
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Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5 Public Beta Overview
Update: according to official system requirements and some of our readers, Lightroom 5 Mac version can only be installed on Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion) or newer (official Windows support includes 7 SP1 and 8). I am yet unsure if such restrictions are only theoretical. We can only guess why Apple and/or Adobe chose to […]
