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Tip Of The Week

Mastered the art of the wide angle lens? Know how to get stunning close-ups of wildlife? Our quick tips for photographers offer up landscape and wildlife photo techniques that produce immediate results. Choose a subject and see how your images improve.


 
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Monday, October 22, 2012

Top Ten Ways To Become A Better Photographer

Helpful tips to enhance your skills

Top ten lists have been created for a myriad of topics. In wanting to show some love for photography, I created my own Top Ten List.

Monday, October 15, 2012

Fall Foliage Photo Tips: Part 2

It’s autumn - gone are the mornings of hazy white skies.

Sunrise now greets us with a crisp blue and a chill in the air. The air is fresh and clean, a sense of change permeates the environment, and all living forms seem to sense the transformation that’s about to take place.

Monday, October 15, 2012

Sponsored Tip: Creating A Personal Palette

A very simple way to think about color and tone is to orchestrate them as if they sat at either end of a see-saw: if you raise contrast, try lowering saturation, and vice-versa.

Monday, October 8, 2012

Fall Foliage Photo Tips: Part 1

Autumn is my favorite time of year for both photography and life in general

The hazy days of summer give way to crisp fall mornings, the landscape is painted with a mosaic of warm toned leaves, the morning air has a fresh clean fragrance, and a rejuvenation of the environment takes place.

Monday, October 1, 2012

"Chess" Photography

This is not a primer on how to take pictures of pawns, castles, bishops, knights and rooks.

The second word in the title is the true focus, photography. So what's the "chess" connection you ask? The tie in between photography and chess is actually quite logical.

Monday, September 24, 2012

Gifts From Nature

No matter how many times I revisit my favorite national parks or natural areas, they never fail to bring out the same reaction - WOW!

No matter how many times I revisit my favorite national parks or natural areas, they never fail to bring out the same reaction - WOW!

Monday, September 17, 2012

Get Motivated

Every photographer I know has experienced a period when he or she hits the wall and needs to create distance from the camera.

Call it a lull, rejuvenation period, or simply time off, it's necessary to maintain creativity.

Monday, September 17, 2012

Sponsored Tip: Making Images That Endure

How can we make great images, photos that will still be looked at generations after they were made? A search for "greatest photographs" produces mostly historically significant images: war, disasters, records being broken.

Monday, September 10, 2012

Better Clone Stamping 101

The Clone Stamp tool is very powerful

The Clone Stamp tool is very powerful. Whether it’s used for image clean up, to add, or subtract elements, proper clone work is essential so the stamping is not obvious.

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