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Seasonal tip: Shooting snowdrops

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PA News Team, 03 February 2012 18:00

Snowdrops are out now but how do you shoot them? To get the best from this small and low-growing flower you ideally need a macro lens or at least a lens with a macro facility in it. If you don’t have either, just focus as closely as you can with your lens because you’ll still get some lovely images. Get ...

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Seasonal tip: Shooting snowdrops

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PA News Team, 03 February 2012 18:00

Snowdrops are out now but how do you shoot them? To get the best from this small and low-growing flower you ideally need a macro lens or at least a lens with a macro facility in it. If you don’t have either, just focus as closely as you can with your lens because you’ll still get some lovely images. Get ...

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Find out how well your monitor performs with our Digital Photo test charts

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Michael Topham, 13 October 2011 16:02

In Digital Photo’s December 2011 issue, (due out on the 2nd November 2011) six monitors are put under the spotlight to find out which performed the best in terms of image quality and which offers the finest build. You can read up on which monitors picked up the highly acclaimed Digital Photo Gold and Silver awards on page 118, but before you ...

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Peeling Paint texture

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Anonymous, 07 October 2011 15:55

If you don't have your own texture photo use this photo of peeling paint to give your old toy shots a more interesting twist. The technique you need to follow to blend this shot with another can be found on page 14 in the November issue of Practical Photography. Using blending modes and selective masking you can create a photo ...

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Using a macro lens

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Andrew James, 13 July 2011 10:34

If you’ve ever felt that you’ve run out of subjects and ideas, then a macro lens for shooting the world in close-up is one simple solution to photographer’s block because you suddenly have a whole raft of new subjects to sample. In fact, once you own one, you’ll wonder just how you managed to get along without it! Shooting with ...

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Shooting Infrared

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Andrew James, 30 June 2011 18:03

Several years ago I had an old Digital SLR converted so that it took infrared images (courtesy of Advanced Camera Services). I wrote an article about in the February 2009 issue of Practical Photography. Well, if you followed my advice back then and had a camera adapted then here’s a timely reminder that this is a great time to use ...

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Shoot steam trains at stunning locations

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Michael Topham, 17 March 2011 15:45

Photographers: Michael Topham & Andrew JamesEven if you’re not a steam buff, there’s a certain buzz that comes from photographing steam trains. Photographed at the right location in the right conditions the results can be spectacular. To give you an insight of how we achieved the shots on this page, here is an account of how we found out about ...

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Download templates for your Christmas portraits

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Anonymous, 30 November 2010 10:14

These downloadable templates accompany the ‘Wrap up your portrait skills for christmas’ feature on page 30 in the Christmas 2010 issue of Practical photography. You’ll need these templates to follow the step-by-step for creating a portrait grid on page 43. Now you’ve got your Christmas portrait shots in the bag, how can you present them? A grid of nine images ...

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First Look at Pentax's 645D Digital Medium Format Camera

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Michael Topham, 11 November 2010 12:35

At the time of writing it was a week ago that we took delivery of Pentax’s latest D-SLR to date – the Medium Format 645D. Requested into the office for four days for review purposes on both Digital Photo and Practical Photography magazines, there’s been a reasonable amount of hype about this 40Mp camera ever since it was launched into ...

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Create a Publish Service in Adobe Lightroom 3

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Anonymous, 23 September 2010 15:47

Publish Services are a feature new to Lightroom 3 that allow you automatically update your favourite photo sharing sites quickly and seamlesly within the Lightroom 3 interface. In this instance we will set up a publish service for Facebook. To get started make sure you are connected to the internet and have your sign in details at hand. 1. Firstly, ...

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Fringeing in Elements

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Anonymous, 18 August 2010 15:25

Fringeing, or Chromatic aberration occurs with some zoom lenses. It happens because the red, green and blue light that makes up a colour image has slightly different wavelengths, and this means the different colours focus at different distances. Correcting the optics within a lens to account for this is fairly straight forward in fixed focal length (prime) lenses, but it’s ...

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