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How to Upload Photos to Flickr and 500px using Lightroom 5
The main benefit of Lightroom’s Library module is that it saves you time. It is much quicker, and ultimately simpler, to organize your photos using Lightroom Collections, than it is to search through the folders on your hard drive containing those photos when you need something. The skills you’ve learned so far in this series […]
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4 Essential Ingredients for Great Landscape Photographs
When you are out in the field and you’re not sure if your the image you are making is any good, go through this quick mental checklist to see if your image contains these four essential ingredients. 1. Good Light Light is by far the most important element of a landscape photograph. A photograph of […]
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Fuji X-T1 Preview and Image Samples
I have been shooting with the Fuji X-T1 for the past several weeks and I must say, I am just blown away by what this little camera can do. While I will be working my way to a review fairly soon, I wanted to provide a quick summary of my thoughts so far on the […]
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How to Stack Two Vertical Images in Photoshop
While Nasim is working on posting another big article on how to create a photography blog, I decided to jump in and write a quick tutorial on how to stack two vertical images in Photoshop, also known as “diptych”. I hope those of you, who already have a blog or will be creating one soon […]
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Five Minutes to Realistic HDR using Lightroom and a 32-Bit Plugin
Easy Peazy HDR in Adobe Lightroom to make realistic HDR images! HDR photography used to be time consuming, difficult to learn, and required expensive software. Recent new technology now allows anybody, even beginners, to make perfect HDR in less than 5 minutes – while eating a bowl of ice cream. It’s that easy! Using Adobe […]
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10 Tips for Landscape Photographers
“Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer – and often the supreme disappointment.” – Ansel Adams. So many times I have pointed my camera at a landscape simply because it was there and looked beautiful. This was a a trap. I had been lured me into believing that simply taking the photograph was […]
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Thoughts on the Sigma 50mm f/1.4 Art
Sigma announced the new Sigma 50mm f/1.4 Art lens back in January of this year, but we were left with a couple of big unknowns such as the price. I guess it has become the latest trend to announce early development efforts by a number of manufacturers now – Nikon did the same with their […]
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How to Smoothen Skin and Get Rid of Blemishes
Many of our readers ask me how I smoothen skin and get rid of blemishes. While the manual process below is fairly simple, there are some available presets and programs that could be utilized to help streamline the process for photographers. Many professionals though (including myself) prefer to have a full control over the image […]
