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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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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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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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Top Tips for Low Light Photography

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Anonymous, 02 December 2008 09:19

Although at this time of the year the evenings get darker much earlier, this doesn’t mean you should pack up your camera as soon as the sun dips below the horizon. If you’re brave enough to hold out for a few more hours you’ll reap the benefits that can be had from the low light and, even better, there are ...

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Manual Bounce Cards

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Dusty Rhodes, 16 November 2008 05:07

When I purchased my flashgun, joyful days began. But, I was soon looking for ways to take some of the harsh light from some of my pictures. I knew that I could bounce the light off the ceiling (my strobe doesn't rotate horizontlly). That was great; but I couldn't always use the ceiling (too high or an odd color). My flash ...

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Which computer should I choose?

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Anonymous, 13 November 2008 09:17

Buying a computer can be tricky. With so many to choose from it’s natural to feel overwhelmed. In a way it’s a very similar process to buying a camera. You’re going to be forking out quite a bit of cash, so you want to make sure you make the right decision and purchase a computer that will serve you well ...

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Photo printing reader review

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fastfrankie, 01 November 2008 20:14

Having recently read the review in DP regarding Colour Processing labs, I decided to give one of them a try. As someone who has always been keen on photography it was only the beginning of 2008 that I purchased my first DSLR camera. I had taken a shot of a red maple leaf on a cracked old stump and entered ...

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Aperture selection and sharpness

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pilliwinks, 15 May 2008 10:15

Aperture and shutter speed are related; for a given level of light and ISO, you have a series of aperture/shutter speed combinations that will give the same exposure. Which combination you choose will depend on whether you need to use a particular shutter speed to freeze (or blur) the subject (or camera) movement, or if you need a particular depth ...

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Levelling images in photoshop

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Anonymous, 12 January 2008 10:37

2 WAYS OF LEVELLING IMAGES IN PHOTOSHOP (Particularly useful for levelling horizons) 1. Using Ruler Tool Open image and make a copy On Copy layer, open Ruler tool, which is located in the same section as the eyedropper Run the ruler along the image at the angle to which you want the image to be rotated Click Edit/Transform/Rotate Canvas/Arbitrary/OK Double ...

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Shoot atmospheric outdoor portraits

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Anonymous, 24 October 2007 14:54

Almost everywhere you turn these days you’re bombarded with images, so use these as inspiration to kick-start your photography into areas that you wouldn’t normally try. You could try to emulate an individual image, but why limit yourself to mere imitation? A more creative approach is to use the images as a starting point and react to your subject and ...

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