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How to Direct a Photo Shoot

Photo shoots can be busy, hectic events that if not well-planned and supervised can become a waste of everyone's time. Photo shoots often involve a number of different people performing different tasks. If the day calls for a number of poses to be photographed, keeping everyone on time and informed

How to Find Free Photography Courses on the Internet

After buying a digital camera many amateurs ask themselves if photography courses really help and if they're worth the money and the effort. The truth is that photography courses appeared as a demand

Tips on Becoming a Good SLR Photographer

Shooting with an SLR offers many creative options.camera image by Yury Shirokov from Fotolia.comGraduating from a "point and shoot" camera to a digital single-lens reflex (DSLR) offers the photographer a myriad of creative choices. An "auto" mode, in which the camera makes every decision,...

Why Including Pictures in League Registration Fees is Bad For Your League

In California many leagues buy a photo package for every child as part of their registration fee, the term for this is prepaid league. When the leagues allow the parents to choose their own package, we call this "parent's choice". I will explain here why, in almost all cases, it is no

A Collectible Camera

As a professional photographer in the sixties, I had the privileged to own and use the state of the art in cameras. Here a a couple of winners.

The Meaning of Informal Portraits

Many portraits work because they have an informal look that most people would call natural. But even pictures like these need thought to make them successful. For instance, it is pointless to take lots of pictures in a casual manner if the exposure or focus are incorrect or the shot is badly compose

Alessandra Meniconzi - The Fascinating Freelance Photographer

Alessandra Meniconzi was born in Lugano and she has studied as a graphic designer. Before she got into photography she was into traveling. The spotlight of her works is on the ancient heritage, customs, theology, and daily life of indigenous people who are strongly connected to the land and whose tr

How to Fix 35mm Slides That Have Gotten Dark

For years, 35mm slide film was used by professional and amateur photographers who were looking for accurate color reproduction. Slide film was known for how accurately it would capture the scene you were photographing. With 35mm slides being both the original and final copy (unlike a film negative

Night Photography Tips For Exceptional Photographs

Photographs taken between the hours of dusk to dawn are generally referred to as night photography. Photographers taking photographs at night usually have a choice between using a long exposure, exposing the scene for seconds or even minutes, or using artificial light.

The Best Digital SLR Cameras Ever

Now that you've decided to graduate to the big boys end of the pool.Time to buy yourself a shiny new SLR digital camera, and leave the old point and shoot for the kiddies to play with.However, after reading up on SLR technology, your a little baffled and bewildered.

Hasselblad H3D Existing-Light Photography Techniques

The H3D is an advanced digital medium-format camera from Hasselblad. It has been replaced by the H4D and is no longer in production. The H3D was available with 31, 39, or 50 megapixels. H3Ds are often used with studio strobe lights, as they are popular in fashion and creative stock photography. Howe

How to Fix Audio Sync Problems

If a video track is encoded with the wrong settings, or those settings do not match the settings in your media player, one issue that may occur is the audio being out of sync with the video during playback. While this cannot be fixed from within a media player, you can fix audio sync problems using

Neat Ideas for Photography Backdrops

Ideas for photography backdrops come from our own life experiences, creativity and imagination. Scenes can be created or naturally and architecturally reinvented. A photographer's goal is to capture the subject in its best form, whether it be human, animal or inanimate. This is done by creating the

The Best Underwater Digital Cameras

So you want to explore the unique world which lies below the surface of your favorite body of water and you want to record your findings for all to see. Sounds like fun. But if you are going to do it you should do it right. That means finding the best underwater digital camera for the job.

The Power Of Photography

Thirty-four years before the birth of this magazine, the Danish philosopher Sren Kierkegaard sourly prophesied a banal fate for the newly popularized art of photography. €With the daguerreotype,€ he observed, €everyone will be able to ...