Digital Photography in NZ - Be Wrong to Be Right - Using the 'wrong' exposure Often, we take a shot that doesn't quite work out how we planned. Perhaps it's over-exposed, perhaps...
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Surviving Studio Photos with the Kids - Photography for Parents: A great series of tips for photographing kids - mostly, these are aimed at parents dealing with kids in a studio setting, but a lot of...
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Using Wide Angle Lens Distortion Creatively: Different focal lengths have different side effects - short focal lengths (wide angles) can produce really interesting distortions. Sometimes, you can use...
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Food Photography and creating edible Food Photos with food styling | Benjamin Christie Australian Celebrity Chef from TV Cooking Show Dining Downunder Blog: Man, that's a mouthful of a blog...
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The Gadgets Page » 10 Ways to Make Your Digital Photos Last Forever: All good sense suggestions. The one addition I'd make is to item 6 - if you shoot RAW, and you use Adobe software for...
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Photodoto » Blog Archive » What gear should I buy to take great photographs?: Lack of gear doesn't matter. What matters, is being there, with a camera, and being prepared to take the shot. What...
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Mastering Panning - Photographing Moving Subjects: Yet another great post from Darren over at digital photography school - this one, on panning, to get a crisp clean shot of a moving subject, while...
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As we all know, I'm a fan of digital. Not so much for the technology itself, but for the freedom it offers, for the pure cost benefits whether you're a professional or an enthusiastic...
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Shooting the Kids - » Point & Shoot Depth of Field - Part I: Depth of field and tight-cropping are, I believe, the best way of producing a sense of intimacy in an image. The blurring of a...
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10 Questions to Ask When Taking a Digital Photo: Another great post from Darren, this time asking 10 questions that you should bear in mind when taking photos. The big mistakes I see photographers...
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Using Visual Diaries To Find Inspiration for your Photography A common problem that many digital photographers face after a while is that they look at the results of their work and find that most of...
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Photodoto » Blog Archive » Quick tip: Flare control: When you're shooting towards a bright light source, like the sun, light may hit the lens directly. When that happens, flare will inevitably...
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Composition: Composition, the act of composing the image in the Viewfinder, is a visual process of organizing the elements and individual details of a scene into a balanced and pleasing arrangement....
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Starting Black And White Photography: You see black and white is not just 'no colour'. Its so much more, so much deeper then that. The purpose of black and white nowadays (as opposed to when...
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It's easy to go out with a camera, point it at anything that looks interesting, and push the button. Anyone can do that. It's harder to find things that look interesting, then take an...
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This is the third in a mini-series of lessons from my photographic life. Mostly, these are habits that I'm working to improve on, or correct. Some of them are habits I've seen in others. If...
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Cute Overload: The Pulitzer within his tiny grasp...: No real photographic content here, but this is just too cute to not share.........
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How to Crop Images: Darren hits us with another great tip over at Digital Photography School - this one on cropping. Amusingly, this is something I've been experiementing with on my own photos in...
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Instructor Insights: Timing is Everything in Photography: Something I read in one of the books of martial philosophy I have around the place (yes, I have strange reading habits) goes something like...
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Thomas Hawk's Digital Connection: Photographing Architecture is Still Not a Crime, Police Harrasment at 45 Fremont Street: OK, so thomas is taking some photos of buildings. According to him, the...
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This is the second in a mini-series of lessons from my photographic life. Mostly, these are habits that I'm working to improve on, or correct. Some of them are habits I've seen in others. If...
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Wired 14.06: The Rise of Crowdsourcing: Wired writes about the rise of Crowdsourcing - which seems to be just a fancy way of summarising the network effect on niche markets. "They were on a...
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Top Tips for Concert Photography | DSLRBlog: I've done my share of gig photography, and it's an art in and of itself. The lighting is challenging to say the least, and you'll never have a...
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