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Stocktrek, MacNaughtan Dies and Anne Leibovitz Project:This Week in Photography News

Stocktrek Images Reveals New Collection of Classic Warbird Photography Stocktrek Images, the well-known online stock photography agency based in Orlando, Florida, revealed its new collection of classic warbird airplanes today. Its Warbirds Gallery represents fighter planes spanning the period from World War I (1914) until the end of the Korean War (1953) and postwar era. [...]

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Photo Composition Technique – The Feinberg Rule

What the Feinberg Technique #1 is, is a guideline for where to crop (frame) photos and other 2D visual imagery like paintings, drawings, etc. It’s used to balance a composition within a set area so that it doesn’t look like it’s off-balance or has too much open space (negative space) on one side of the [...]

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Composing Better Backgrounds in Photography

In this photography tutorial you’ll learn how to compose better backgrounds by eliminating distractions, using depth-of-field and incorporating interesting background elements. When composing photos its equally important to pay attention to the background as you do to the main subject.

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Pentax Instant Rebate, Nikon Rumors and More: This Week in Photography News

Pentax Extends K-5 Instant Rebate Pentax has officially extended the $300 instant rebate on the K-5 through March 31st, 2012. With a list price of $1499.95, this means that the camera can be acquired for no more than $1199.95 throughout the US. While this is great news in itself, it also suggests that the K-5 [...]

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Top Portrait Photography Books

The number of portrait photography books available today can be very overwhelming. We’d hate for you to buy a book and then find out that its too hard to understand and doesn’t teach the subject very well. We don’t want you to waste your money. So, in order to help save you (and other photographers) [...]

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Choosing Night Photography Settings

Taking photos at night can be a real challenge for many photographers. Most photographers don’t know how to set up their camera with the correct night photography settings. This often results in photos coming out too dark or grainy with a lot of visual noise. What most photographers don’t know is that the trick to [...]

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Canon G1 X Announced and More: This Week in Photography News

Nikon hoping for 15% market share Nikon has told TechRadar that it is aiming for a 15% share in the cameras market, hoping to boost itself from its current 12% share by becoming number one in every sector of the market. Speaking at the launch of the recently announced Nikon D4, Jeremy Gilbert, Nikon UK’s [...]

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The Golden Hour in Photography (Magic Hour)

Did you know that there’s a certain time of day that produces the most amazing light for outdoor photos? A time of day referred to as the “golden hour in photography.” If you’ve ever taken a photo outside you know that lighting affects how your photo comes out. You may have composed an amazing landscape [...]

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Creative Ways to Use Hard Light in Photography

In this advanced dslr tutorial you’ll learn tricks on how to use hard light in photography to create stunning photographs, including: shadow portraits, dramatic effects, GOBO, showing off texture, backlighting and more. Lots of sample photos for each trick included!

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Nikon D4 and Sony XOD Announced: This Week in Photography News

Sony unveils new high-speed XQD™*1 memory cards Giving photo enthusiasts and professional photographers a new level of speed and performance, the new range of XQD memory cards by Sony supports the recently adopted XQD specification for high-speed, high-performance digital image capture. Using the new cards, XQD compatible high-end DSLR (Digital Single Lens Reflex) users can [...]