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Using Water to Lighten Landscape Photos
Most Pro landscape photographers recommend shooting either at (or around) dawn or dusk in order to capture their scene in the ‘golden hours’ when the light is at it’s best (in fact some will rarely shoot at any other time of day). However, one of the problems associated with shooting at this time of day […]
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How to Take Sharp Images
Getting your digital images perfectly sharp is something that most photographers want – however clean, crisp, sharp images can be difficult to achieve. Perhaps before we start exploring how to improve sharpness it would be good to talk about the main causes for lack of sharpness: Poor Focus – the most obvious way to get […]
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Step By Step How to Make Panoramic HDR Images
Panoramic HDR image of Coal Harbour – Vancouver, Canada I am convinced that digital photography has changed so many aspects of photography forever. HDR and photo stitching are just two of those aspects. In the film era you could achieve a lot in the darkroom with blending, dodging and burning, but not to the extent […]
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How to Use Focal Lock
At a recent wedding I handed my camera over to a friend to take a shot of my little family and I. We posed for a few shots, looking forward to getting home to see how they turned out (it’s amazing how few shots we have with the three of us all in them). I […]
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Used Full-Frame DSLR – Which Ones are Worth It?
Yesterday, while thinking about the upcoming wedding that I have to shoot, I glanced at my trusty old D700. The rubber is coming off in places and needs to be glued back on, nothing serious. Two of the batteries that I have need replacing. The plastic screen protector has a few minor scratches on it, […]
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Full Rainbow
I have probably seen a dozen full rainbows in my adult life and every time I saw one I wished I had a camera with me. When I did have a camera, the scenery just sucked and photos never came out good enough. This time I thought the pictures came out a little better, but […]
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How to Add Film Grain
With mainstream days of film long gone, one would expect all the disadvantages it had on offer to be rid of for all times, as well. Digital is all about clean, high quality images now. Contrary to such an assumption, however, film has not left our everyday lives without a trace. A trace that is […]
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How to Use External Editors
In every Mastering Lightroom series article, I mention certain strengths of this, in my opinion, superb piece of software. Only every now and then do I find something small to complain about, as I have in my “How to Manage Presets” article. I strongly believe Lightroom offers more or less everything needed to process a […]
