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Why Lazy Photographers Should Use Lightroom Smart Collections
Lightroom Smart Collections It’s easy to keep track of your images without painstakingly organizing them shot-by-shot. Lightroom Smart Collections allow you to filter and organize your images based on metadata contained within the images. Often times this metadata can be unique enough to sort your images based on subject, location, and genre. Smart Collections allow […]
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4 Tips for Shooting Drop Dead Gorgeous Waterfalls
Waterfalls are a very popular subject for landscape photographers. The draw to their natural beauty is clear, but sometimes coming home with the best shots is harder than you might think. As the curator for the Google+ Photography theme, #WaterfallWednesday I get asked how to take better pictures of waterfalls every week. So let me […]
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Birds in Flight with the Tamron 150-600mm Lens
Many Nikon owners have been chomping at the bit waiting for the F-Mount version of the new Tamron 150-600mm f/5.6-6.3 VC zoom lens to be available. I recently borrowed a review sample from Tamron’s Canadian distributor. In advance of my full review, I thought that Photography Life readers would like to see some sample images […]
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The Human Side of Photography – 4 Tips for Natural Looking Portraits
Over the years my camera has become an extension of my arm, relate? Of course you do. Those lucky souls like you and I who discover they have a passion for photography quickly find it to be magically intoxicating in every way. We just can’t get enough. Well passion and creative vision out the wazoo […]
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Darktable vs Lightroom – Does it measure up?
Recently I was introduced to a free open source RAW file editor called Darktable. I know most everyone loves free stuff and quality RAW file editors are not easy to come by with a price tag of $0.00, so I thought it would be worth taking a quick look at Darktable vs Lightroom here on […]
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4 Rules of Composition for Landscape Photography
While I’m not always a fan of sticking strictly to the ‘rules’ or ‘guidelines’ of photography I think they can be well worth knowing and keeping in the back of your mind as you shoot (whether it’s so you can follow them or break them for effect). Here’s four ‘rules’ for landscape photography that might […]
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Photographing Cormorants with the Tamron 150-600mm VC
Over the past week or so I’ve been out taking a lot of images to prepare for my upcoming review of the Tamron 150-600mm VC lens. At this point it looks like my review will be completed and up for Photography Life readers to see at the end of June. In advance of the full […]
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How to bypass the Portrait Mode on Your Digital Camera and Get Great Portrait
Photo by swankyShould I use my camera’s Portrait mode when shooting Portraits or would I be better off manually setting my camera up? Unless you have a high end DSLR, most digital cameras these days come with an array of shooting modes (including portrait mode) for a photographer to choose from when out using their […]
