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6 Steps To Finding a Photography Mentor

Martin Gommel, in a guest post at Digital Photography School, listed “Search for a Mentor” as #92 in his post 100 Things I’ve Learned About Photography. This post by Peter Carey expands on that idea with 6 steps to help you in your search. Image by Shenghung Lin Mentoring is a time honored method for [...]

How to Take Great Group Photos

Photo by rentoholic 17 In this post we want to give you 12 tips for taking great group photos. One of the most common types of digital photographs is the ‘group photo‘. They happen everywhere from weddings, to camps, to parties, to sporting teams, to school etc. There must be thousands of group photos taken [...]

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom vs. Polarizing Filter

It seems computers can do most anything with an image now a days. So why bother with all those cumbersome filters? The answer is that most of them are still superior to the techniques used with a computer. Plus, if the image is more accurate coming out of the camera, less time and effort will [...]

Photography 101.4 – Exposure and Stops

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5 Quick Tips To Keep You Motivated

We all have those days. Days where you know you want to do something with your camera or photographs, but the motivation tank is on Empty. I’ve been having some of those days recently and came up with a list to help pop me out of the rut and back to being productive. This list [...]

9 Lighting Types to Harness & Improve Your Photography

The following post on 9 Lighting Types is by San Francisco based photographer Jim M. Goldstein. Learn more about him at the end of this post. In my previous article “Make the Best of Bad Weather – 6 Challenges for Photographers” I noted how photography is all about the light. Sounds easy enough on the [...]

Photography 101 – Lenses, Light and Magnification

Photo: Rainer Ebert used under CC license The following post is from Australian photographer Neil Creek who is part of the recently launched Fine Art Photoblog, and is participating in Project 365 – a photo a day for a year – on his blog. Welcome to the third lesson in Photography 101 – A Basic [...]

Photography 101 – Lenses and Focus

The following post is from Australian photographer Neil Creek who is part of the recently launched Fine Art Photoblog, and is participating in Project 365 – a photo a day for a year – on his blog. Welcome to the second lesson in Photography 101 – A Basic Course on the Camera. In this series, [...]

Photography 101 – Light and the Pinhole Camera

Photo: Rainer Ebert used under CC license The following post is from Australian photographer Neil Creek who is part of the recently launched Fine Art Photoblog, and is participating in Project 365 – a photo a day for a year – on his blog. Welcome to the first lesson in Photography 101 – A Basic [...]

Photography 101 – Introduction

Photo: Rainer Ebert used under CC license The following post is from Australian photographer Neil Creek who is part of the recently launched Fine Art Photoblog, and is participating in Project 365 – a photo a day for a year – on his blog. A couple of weeks back, Darren asked readers to “Ask a [...]

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