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Wedding Photography - 10 Top Tips

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Anonymous, 13 January 2010 17:19

Taking on your first ever wedding commission can be an immensely scary prospect. If you’ve recently agreed to photograph a wedding for family or friends, it’s important to know what you need and what’s involved to achieve the best possible pictures on the big day. We’ve pulled together 10 top wedding tips to help you prepare. Some of the tips ...

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Wedding Photography - 10 Top Tips

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Anonymous, 13 January 2010 17:19

Taking on your first ever wedding commission can be an immensely scary prospect. If you’ve recently agreed to photograph a wedding for family or friends, it’s important to know what you need and what’s involved to achieve the best possible pictures on the big day. We’ve pulled together 10 top wedding tips to help you prepare. Some of the tips ...

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Zombify yourself this Halloween!

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Anonymous, 29 October 2009 09:43

Getting into the swing of Halloween isn’t all about wearing costumes and plastic masks. Digital manipulation allows us to have all sorts of fun with images of ourselves, but it can take a long time to get things looking right. Zombieland is a comedy horror film that’s out this month, and the makers have a website where you can upload ...

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Photograph a ghost

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Anonymous, 29 October 2009 09:25

Halloween is almost upon us, so why not let your imagination take over and shoot something especially for this spooky festival. You don’t even need a willing model because you can do that yourself, while shooting. How? Well, because you can do a lot in a 30-second exposure. Set the aperture to f/22 and ISO to 100 to allow for ...

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Turn water into art

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Anonymous, 01 October 2009 13:00

Practical Photography’s November Weekend project shows you how to shoot water ripples to create your very own unique wall art. This step-by-step is an additional technique for blending two or more of your water droplet shots together to make a larger symmetrical pattern. It’s not as difficult to achieve as it looks and the results can be very impressive. Scroll ...

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Get inspired this Autumn

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Anonymous, 29 September 2009 14:18

It's all to easy to leave your camera in the bag as the evenings draw in and the leaves start dropping from the trees, but there's a wealth of photographic oppourtunity awaiting you after the summer sun has gone, it's just a matter of knowing what to look for. Read on for our 5 expert's top tips for capturing the ...

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Cure Vignetting in digital images

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Anonymous, 18 June 2009 14:29

Ever taken a shot and wondered why your image is suffering from dark corners? These dark corners are commonly referred to as Vignetting and are caused by light falling off at the edges of the image circle projected onto the sensor by your lens. It’s a common problem encountered on budget lenses and usually occurs when using a wide aperture ...

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Nikon D300 or D700?

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Anonymous, 14 May 2009 10:29

When it comes to forking out for a 12Mp Nikon D-SLR you’ve got a big choice to make. Will it be the D300 or the D700? There’s no getting away from the fact that these are both well made cameras and offer the same 12Mp output, so you’ll get an image around A3 in size at 240 pixels per inch. ...

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Correcting White Balance

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Anonymous, 21 April 2009 12:44

Are you shooting in Raw, but never really know what White Balance to set when converting your files in Photoshop? There is a way of getting it spot on, without simply guessing what you think looks correct to the eye. When you convert a RAW file, you have the choice of what colour temperature you set, and apart from determining whether ...

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Flash vs continuous light - which is best?

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Anonymous, 16 April 2009 12:25

Flash isn’t the only type of lighting available for setting up a home studio. The other type of lighting is continuous lighting. As the name suggests, rather than flashing, the lights stay on continuously. Traditionally, continuous lights would use tungsten-balanced bulbs that get extremely hot and produce a yellow-tinged light. Modern continuous light systems use daylight-balanced fluorescent bulbs that have ...

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David Hobby on the phenomenon that's Strobism

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Anonymous, 01 April 2009 09:31

Strobist website boss David Hobby has built up a worldwide following, but it's in the gloomy UK that we're most passionate about using off-camera flash. David Hobby worked for more than 20 years as a newspaper photographer in his native USA before starting his free blog site Strobist.com in 2006, explaining how to use small flashguns creatively. It now has ...

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