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Using Flash in Action Photography
Photo by Isaac Bauman When shooting outdoor action shots like mountain biking or skate boarding one great tool to keep in mind as you experiment is your flash. While an outdoor setting might not conjure images of brightly lit scenes in your mind the flip side of bright sunlight is that you can also end … Continue reading
Memory Cards – Get what you pay for!
Have you ever had a memory card fail on you? You’ve spent some time photographing an occassion, you’ve done your best and you’re excited about getting the images onto your screen and checking them out. You plug in your memory card and import your photos only to find half of them corrupt! or, even worse … Continue reading
How to Capture Motion Blur in Photography
Photo by bikeracer Capturing movement in images is something that many photographers only think to do when they are photographing sports or other fast moving subjects. While there is an obvious opportunity in sports photography to emphasize the movement of participants – almost every type of photography can benefit from the emphasis of movement in … Continue reading
Product Review – The Album Cafe Photoshop Templates
Before discovering pre-made templates for Photoshop, I spent hours on end creating new blank layers and painstakingly lining up images to create collages. At some point, I fell across The Album Cafe, a company whose mission it is to provide photographers with beautiful, imaginative and easy-to-use PS templates so you don’t have to. {A FEW … Continue reading
How to Create Lightroom Presets
One of the cool things about Lightroom is its ability to store develop settings as Presets so you can use them again later to edit other images. In addition to creating and saving your own presets, you can also download presets from the web and use them in Lightroom. In this post, I’ll show you … Continue reading