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How to Pose Hands in Portraits
Sometimes the smallest things in a photo can impact the overall feel of the image. I learned this important lesson the first time I photographed a wedding. The grooms hands gave it all away. On the day itself I thought the bride and groom were very relaxed an enjoying the day, but on getting the […]
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How to Apply the Look of Hand Coloring in Lightroom
Give a photo the look of a hand coloring in Lightroom Before there were color photos there were black and white photos, colored by hand using paints or dyes. Today, courtesy of any good photo-editing program, you can apply your own hand coloring effect to your photos. Here’s how to apply the look of hand […]
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Photographing Urban Landscapes
I love cities. While I enjoy getting out into the wide open spaces of the countryside I am also a big fan of the hustle and bustle of inner city life. It’s not for everyone but I find that such areas are so interesting to spend time in – both on a personal level but […]
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How to Install GIMP On A Portable Device
One of the great things about GIMP is its portability. Small and agile, GIMP is easily loaded on a USB thumbdrive or even ‘digital film’, then taken with you for easy use on any PC (yes, I’m afraid I’m only talking about the Windows version here). Typically only requiring less than 30MB of space and […]
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Let’s Share Some Photography
I am a big supporter of the “get to know your gear” opinion. I strongly believe that the more you use something, the better you learn to take full advantage of the strengths of that particular piece of equipment, and the better you learn to manage its shortcomings without even thinking about it. To a […]
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How to Use the Tone Curve Panel
In this short tutorial I will show you how to use one of the easiest and most powerful tools found in Lightroom – the Tone Curve. In my previous tutorial about black & white conversions, I briefly showed you how to use the HSL Panel’s Luminance section to control the lightness of separate colors of […]
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Where is Your Subject Looking and Why Does it Matter?
When posing a portrait subject, two important questions to ask yourself include: 1. ‘where are they looking?’ 2. ‘what impact does this have on the shot?’ Where your subject is looking can have a real impact upon your image and how those looking at your image view it. In many instances your subjects eyes determines […]
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Useful Lightroom Plug-ins
In previous articles you learned: how to create a photo website using the Koken plug-in for Lightroom, how to use The Fader plug-in to add an opacity slider to Develop Presets, and how to upload photos to 500px using their own plug-in (scroll down to read that section). Today I’d like to look at some […]
