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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 […]
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Popular Lens Combinations for Wedding Photography
When asked what gear I use most for my work, I will first of all give tribute to the classic fifty and talk about how useful and versatile it is for my style of shooting. And yet I would never willingly rely on that lens alone, no matter how much I liked it. Nor should […]
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How to Upgrade Lightroom 2 to Lightroom 3
This is a quick guide on how to upgrade Lightroom 2 to Lightroom 3. One of the good news for Lightroom 2 (LR2) users, is that unlike the beta version, the full version of Lightroom 3 (LR3) allows upgrading the LR2 catalog to LR3 catalog without having to re-import all images into a clean catalog. […]
