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The 90-Percent Rule Of Lighting In Photography

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Tweet It’s About Absorption And Reflection You often hear about percentages, sometimes in statistics, like 75-percent of all statistics are made up, which often leaves you wondering about the accuracy of such numbers, but when it comes to photography, one percentage that is accurate is the 90-percent rule of lighting. It’s not just...

The Process Of Taking A Great Photograph

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Tweet Mirror vs. Mirror-less Cameras Is Just The Beginning With today’s advancement in portable digital cameras, from iPhones to mirror-less SLRs, DSLRs have been catching negative buzz from well-known photographer personalities like Trey Ratcliff (see: DSLRS ARE A DYING BREED – 3RD GEN CAMERAS ARE THE FUTURE) and many others. Blog...

New Year’s Resolutions To Improve Your Photography

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Tweet It’s About Setting Goals To Get There Well it’s that time period again were we say goodbye to one year and welcome in another year, usually with a customary resolution, or a goal(s) to live by for the next 12 months. Many people also like to look back or recap the highlights of the previous 12 months, though many leave out...

iPhoneography, The New Genre Of Photography

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Tweet Instagram And iPhoneography Combine For Social Power I was doing some research on the newest genre of photography, iPhoneography, and found a claim that stated, “10-percent of all photos taken in the lifetime of photography were done in the past year due to the infusion of smartphones in the world population.” While...

Photography Basics—Three And Four Light Set-Ups

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Tweet Start With The Basics First I still remember the film days of the old photography books I used to read, almost all recommended a three or four light setup, usually a main (key), fill, back and background light when working with artificial lighting, such as studio strobes or continuous tungsten light sources. These same lighting...

Editing Photos vs. Photo Editing, Know the Difference

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Tweet Post-Production Is Not The Same As Selecting Images Before digital photography became a reality, most people never knew about photo editing or editing photos, unless they were familiar with shooting photos for publication. Unfortunately, with the advancement of digital photography, many people get the terms confused, similar to...

Free Instagram Website Using Tumblr

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Tweet A Free Marketing Multiplier That Increases Your Klout Update: Activate your Facebook and Twitter on your Tumblr account, so when you “link” your Instagram to your Tumblr, Tumblr will automatically post on Facebook and Twitter. This post is “linked back” to your Tumblr account, thus providing you more...