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Split Toning in Lightroom: Coloring to Advance Your Images

We’re photographers. Our craft is our work. Our work is our art. To be moving forward with our work, we must be constantly on the search for creativity. We must develop; broaden the perspectives we see and the images we produce and the art we define.
When you come to that point when nothing seems to [...]

Indoor Sports Photography

Winter’s here for many of us, and so is the common place for indoor sports. Basketball. Volleyball. Gymnastics. Sure, indoor sports are fun to participate in and watch, but let’s face it; Indoors sports aren’t the easiest of events to shoot for a photographer.
During my time as a high school basketball photographer, I spent significant [...]

How to Photograph a Sunrise

The alarm clock buzzes. You crack an eye open and see the light blinking at you. 4:45am. After a few moments, your groggy mind remembers why you set your alarm in the first place. You groan, and after another minute, roll out of bed.
You take a quick peek out the window. Still dark out. But [...]

8 Sites for Free Adobe Lightroom Presets

Following up from her recent post about How to Create Adobe Lightroom Presets – today Christina shares a few sites to get great Presets.
You’ve decided to play around with Adobe Lighroom’s Presets. However, you want to spend neither a few hundred dollars purchasing them or dozens of hours developing them.
Check these sites out for some [...]

Creating Adobe Lightroom Presets

Creating Presets for Adobe Lightroom need not be as hard as many people think it is. In this tutorial Christina from Christina Nichole Photogrpahy shows us how to do it.
Successful photographers have a particular style of post processing for their images. This “style” is a signature that defines their product from other photographers. However, this [...]

Creative Solutions for Indoor Lighting: FLASH

In this post Christina from Christina Nichole Photogrpahy shares a few tips on flash photography for indoor lighting.
The rainy season in full swing in many parts of the world demands photographers to retreat indoors and shoot in often low-lit settings.
Instead of producing bad pictures – or worse – not even shooting at all, practice this [...]

Canon Powershot G10 Review

In this post Christina from Christina Nichole Photogrpahy reviews the Canon Powershot G10.
In a bind about what to pick up for your family for Christmas? Pick up the Canon Powershot G10 and look no further.
While traveling with IPS in gorgeous wilderness of New Zealand this November, I found myself in the most unfortunate of [...]

How to Use Flash for Night Portraits

Night Portraits can be tricky and generally require experimenting with artificial lighting. In this post Christina from ChristinaNichole Photography shares some tips on using Flash for Night Portraits.
As many of us approach the dead of winter, we photographers must deal with our natural light disappearing by 4pm or earlier. The possibility of cool natural lit [...]

7 Travel Photography Tips

Travel Photography is a lot of fun but presents some real challenges. Today Christina Nichole shares 7 tips to help you on your next trip.
I once heard travel photography described as one of the most important mediums of photographic communication. As the photographer, you are literally creating an entire culture for an audience of people [...]

Digital Storage for Your Images – Organization 101

How to store your digital images is an issue that faces every digital photographer at some stage. In this post ChristinaNichole Photography shares some tips on how to do it.
I once met a very talented photographer at a digital photography class. The topic of discussion was digital image organization. Of all the students attending this [...]

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