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Trick Your Digital Camera to Emulate Film

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Tweet The Color of Light White balance is a subjective decision, and I would suggest not letting the camera make that decision for you—thus, it’s best to avoid AWB, or the automatic white balance setting on your camera. In AWB, the scene is analyzed during the exposure and calculations are made by the camera’s software, usually...

Photography White Balance Techniques

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Tweet Color The Background Often we take photographs outside, pointing our cameras into the deep-blue sky. The shutter clicks, then we check our LCD screens and find that the sky looks unsaturated in color—clear and colorless, more gray than blue—and even placing a polarizer filter on our lenses doesn’t always seem to help. By...

Rim Lighting in Photography

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Tweet Adding Lighting Accents to Your Photos The Technical: Rim lighting of your subject is usually accomplished in one of two ways, either through strip boxes or metal reflectors outfitted with grids. Some photographers purchase expensive metal snoots for the same effect, only to realize that they are limited due to their non-pliable,...

The Triangles of Photography

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Tweet Great Posing Tip! Often when you hear a photographer talk about a triangle in photography, they are referencing the correlation of exposure, or how the ISO, lens aperture and camera shutter-speed affect one another to create the correct exposure in a photograph. However, the word “triangle” in photography also applies to...

Photographers Throw Money and Megapixels Away

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Tweet Are You Throwing Away Your Pixels in Digital Photography? In the past eleven years, I’ve taught over 450 photography workshops and seminars, and the one common thread I see, is photographers throwing money away, literally, by leaving room in their 35mm digital cameras for cropping their images to fit industry standard frame...

Photographers Can Gain an Edge

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Tweet Applying Photojournalism Techniques Adds New Angles In trying to survive in this shrinking economy many wedding, commercial, advertising, fashion and glamour photographers employ a photojournalistic style in their images to separate them from their competitors, thus producing images that stand strong and often make bold...

Photographing Mature Women

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Tweet Sometimes Digital Cameras Are Just Too Sharp Often photographers are challenged with photographing a mature, female subject that wants a glamorous photo, usually for their significant other or for their own self-esteem. Unfortunately, with maturity and today’s tack-sharp, digital cameras, the evidence of aging, such as...