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Seven Tips for Winning Photo Contests
August 17th, 2010
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Guest Post & Photo by Joe Farace – Follow Joe on Twitter
You can use two different approaches for entering photo contents: One method is to submit your favorite picture and you might even win but the odds are against you. I enjoy photographing …
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Food Photography Styling Tip: Use Styrofoam to Add Bulk
August 16th, 2010
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Guest Post and photo by Nicole Young – Follow Nicole on Twitter
Food styling is all about making food look delicious. I do my best to try and make food look natural, fresh and clean, and sometimes that involves adding elements that you wouldn’t ne…
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Snap Art 2 [Software Review]
August 16th, 2010
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Although I am a purist by heart, I cannot forget my early days with a digital camera and a copy of Photoshop. The filters got me … right where I live!
Nowadays, I try to create compelling images right at the moment of exposure and not at the post edi…
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Two Photofocus Contest Winners Today
August 16th, 2010
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Today we’re announcing the winner of the MAC Group Photo Essentials Prize package worth more than $2200. You can read about the Photo Essentials contest here. The winner was randomly selected from the tens of thousands of you who entered. We’d lik…
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Backing Up and Saving Your Images: Part 1
August 16th, 2010
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There are few photographers who can claim they haven’t at one time or another accidentally deleted an image or lost an important file, yet so many of us negate the need to back up our libraries. It could be due to laziness, lack of time, lack of know…
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Announcing The Photofocus Emerging Photographer of the Year
August 16th, 2010
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On August 4, 2009, we launched the Photofocus Emerging Photographer of the Year Award – http://photofocus.com/2009/08/04/update-on-the-emerging-photographer-of-the-year-award/
We received too many entries to count. We processed what we think is a gr…
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Travel Photography Subjects: Food
August 15th, 2010
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Ahhh, food. Wonderful, scrumptious, tasty food. Or, if you’re not familiar with the local cuisine, maybe it’s more like odd, greasy and down right horrid. No matter your experience, food will be another integral part of your travels and a st…
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Photofocus Podcast Episode #48
August 15th, 2010
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PLEASE BE PATIENT – OUR SERVERS SEE LARGE LOADS ON PUBLISHING DAYS. THE DOWNLOADS MAY GO SLOWLY BUT THEY WILL FINISH.
If for some reason it doesn’t show up in your copy of iTunes, please refresh your feeds.
You can subscribe through iTunes free of…
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6 Tips for Setting your Photography Prices
August 15th, 2010
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Do you feel completely in the dark about setting your prices? Do you have a formal price structure or are you just coming up with numbers? Do you constantly change your price list? Then you’re just like me. Well…me a few months ago anyway. It’s f…
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Night Photography: Finding your way in the dark
August 15th, 2010
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Author: Lance Keimig
Publisher: Focal Press
Review by Conrad J. Obregon
As an optical instrument, the human eye is generally better than the camera, with a wider dynamic range. But in one case, night photography, because of the ability of camera media…
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