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What Is An Intervalometer And Do I Need One?

September 2nd, 2011

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Odds are you have seen some of the more recent grand offerings from masters of time lapse photography, such as Randy Halverson and Terje Sorgjerd. DPS also has a post on how to shoot these types of videos using a camera and something known as an interv…

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Photographers – What Happens After You Press The Shutter?

September 2nd, 2011

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When you make a photograph using a digital camera – particularly a DSLR – what happens next?
Most people don’t think about this. They just press the shutter, download the image to their computer, then use some sort of cataloging or processing, a…

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Will Google+ Become Another Flickr-style Feeding Ground For Photo Theft?

September 1st, 2011

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Two month-old Google+ has already broken a number of records in adoption (and likely desertion) for a social networking site and is growing like no other. One of the groups most prolific on the new site are photographers. As you may have read here on D…

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The Problem With The Focus-Recompose Method

September 1st, 2011

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This post was written as a follow up to my last article on using Single Point AF. In the comment section of that article there was a bit of debate over which focus point to use and when. One camp was stating that there was really no point in using …

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Understanding High Key Portrait Lighting – NSFW

September 1st, 2011

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We received another question for our “basics” series at Photofocus -What is high key portrait light? While this isn’t a white paper and just a first blush attempt to answer the question, you shou…

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Fujifilm Release X10 Premium Compact Camera

September 1st, 2011

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One of the most talked about new cameras to be released in 2011 was Fujifilm’s X100 – a large sensor compact camera with retro styling that was aimed at the semi-pro/enthusiast market. It has received many raving reviews and is quite often compared…

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Vintage Effect in Under a Minute in Photoshop

August 31st, 2011

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Introduction and Overview
Vintage fades and washes seem to have recently become quite popular. Perhaps since the modern DSLR has enabled everyone to shoot such high quality/high definition images, there is more of a desire to reach towards the past wi…

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A Question For Photographers – What If You Concentrated On Making Only Meaningful Photos?

August 31st, 2011

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UPDATE: Please note that the central thesis here is that you should concentrate on what is important to YOU – it’s a given that everyone will have their own opinion as to what is meaningful. You’l…

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Food Photography: From Snapshots to Great Shots (Book Review)

August 30th, 2011

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Hi, my name is James and I am not a food photographer. However, I love food and could be considered a foodie to some extent. I also wouldn’t mind perusing food photography in the future and incorporating it into my business here and there. I think…

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How to Beat the Midday Sun!

August 30th, 2011

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A Guest Post by Tam Steele Daly

We’ve all heard the saying, even in photography, that the only people out in the midday sun are – Mad dogs, Englishmen and Wedding photographers!
Well after years of following that train of thought I decided to pla…

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