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Top Recommended Digital Photography Books
Realistic Spotlight Effect
In this digital photography tutorial you’ll learn a cool effect to lighten your photographs. The technique you will learn will add depth to your lighting and emphasis to your subject.
Through this digital photography lesson you’ll add a pro touch to your montages and collages.
Adding Dynamic Lighting to a Flat Photograph
Have you ever wondered how some photographs, like landscapes have such great lighting? Well, achieving it is easier than you think. In this digital photography tutorial, you’ll learn how to spice up fairly dull and flat photographs.
The Complete Photographer By Tom Ang: Book Review
The The Complete Photographer by Tom Ang, available at Amazon.com is a dream book for both amateur and professional photographers. As an amateur I soaked in each chapter and learned many great techniques. Each chapter is dedicated to one form of photography. Ang covers everything from portrait, sports, documentary, fine arts and much more. Inside [...]
Understanding Shutter Priority Mode
The Shutter-Priority Tv Mode is a semi-automatic mode that allows you, the photographer, to tell the camera which shutter speed you want it to use — and let it automatically determine the appropriate aperture for a correct exposure. The main purpose of using the shutter-priority mode is to have a faster shutter speed to freeze [...]
Ten Ways to Take Better Portrait
Tutorial by: Andrew L. Hunter As a professional portrait and fine art photographer, I work in a studio environment photographing children and families as well as special occasions on a daily basis. I prefer to shoot on location and have had the opportunity to do so a few times a month. After photographing the number [...]
Understanding Aperture Priority Mode
When your camera is on fully AUTO mode, it uses all the fancy technology it has to determine a shutter speed and an aperture to use for a correct exposure. The Aperture-Priority AE Mode is a semi-automatic mode that allows you, the photographer, to tell the camera which aperture you want it to use — [...]
The Photographer’s Eye, Composition and Design for Better Digital Photos by Michael Freeman: Book Review
The Photographer’s Eye, Composition and Design for Better Digital Photos by Michael Freeman, available at Amazon.com, is a book devoted to photographic composition. This is an elusive topic which is most difficult to teach and equally difficult to master. While most photography books devote a chapter to composition, this is insufficient to learn anything more [...]
Camera Shake – What Is It? How Can We Avoid It?
The phenomenon known as camera shake is caused by movement of the camera (hence the name, which becomes noticeable as blur when using a slow shutter speed. The resulting blur is not quite the same as the blur caused by incorrect focusing. How can we tell the difference between blurred focus and camera shake? Have [...]
Selecting Photos
Image by GeoffLawrence.com – Don This is starting at the end really, but it is also the simplest and most useful tip to improve your photography. Tip – select only the best of your pictures to show to others and leave the rest in the drawer. Showing someone every picture you have taken dilutes the [...]
