tips and Techniques

Building a laser trigger for your camera

There are loads of reasons for why you could want to trigger your camera remotely – to avoid camera shake, for example, or to be able to take a photograph of yourself without having to rely on a timer. If you want to build more ambitious projects, however, you may have to consider getting more [...]

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News

Podcast #74 – Back to the Basics – Composition with Roberto Valenzuela

This week we go back to the basics and talk about composition with our good friend Roberto Valenzuela.
Roberto talks about composition and gives the following guidelines:

Choose a selective focusing technique
Placement and composition of your main subject
Use converging lines
Use repetitive elements
Use Framing techniques

http://www.robertovalenzuelaphotography.com or follow Roberto on twitter at http://twitter.com/robertophoto
Roberto also mentioned the Magic Lantern Guides [...]

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Resources

Tip – Exporting Photos with Last Settings

Here’s a neat little tip I use a lot so I hope you will too. If you want to export some photos and use the same export settings you used the last time, you can bypass the Export dialog and just go to File > Export with Previous. Better yet, memorize the keyboard shortcut Cmd-Option-Shift-E [...]

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Galeries

Hot Wedding Photographers – Phoenix Arizona

Hot Wedding Photographers from Phoenix, Arizona.  After a short hiatus from this project, we are proud to present the sixth installment of our Hot Wedding Photographers feature, originally started in Houston, Texas. The project highlights 10 Wedding Photographers from randomly selected cities around the world which show exceptional creativity/originality and have a great web design [...]

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Travel

Photographing Bodie

Bodie State Historic Park, California

East of California’s Sierra Nevada, north of Mono Lake lies the abandoned mining town of Bodie, California. Bodie boomed after the discovery of gold ore in the 1870s, by 1920 the town was in a steep and never-reversed decline. In 1962 the area was designated a California state historic park and [...]

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Workshops & Events

Want To Have A Good Working Environment? Engage In Corporate Social Events

Social events are very conducive to the efficient working of an organization. These events have many benefits and if you are not using them, then you are not maximizing the performance of your organization.

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