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Tips for Launching Your Own Commercial Photography Business

by Megan McClain

Starting a commercial photography business can sound complicated, but with the right tools and ideas, a small business can easily take off into a larger one.

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Improving How You See and Take Better Photos

by Bill Jones

As a primary school teacher I was vastly influenced by the theory of multiple intelligences, Google Howard Gardner and you’ll find out loads. He, amongst others, suggested that the old way of measuring intelligence, IQ, was too limiting and didn’t take into account the multiple contexts that we as individuals operate in. He suggested at least eight different intelligences e.g. mathematical, musical, interpersonal and so on.

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Techniques of Freezing Action in Digital Photography

by Bill Jones

There is a big dilemma when it comes to taking action digital photography. Should you completely freeze the action or should you allow some motion to come through in the image? Actually, it is a combination of the two that will create the most interesting images.

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Simple Rules for Composing Perfect Landscapes

by Bill Jones

When you get ready to start taking scenic pictures of landscapes, it is easy to get distracted or overwhelmed. It could lead you to over thinking your digital photography to the point of not getting the right shot. However, if you follow a few basic rules, you will find that you get the right breathtaking image each time you go out on a landscapes trek. Here are some helpful and simple rules to follow when you want to take the right landscape photography.

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Tips for Perfect Portrait Posing

by Bill Jones

When it comes to perfect portrait photography, one of the most important things to do with the subject will be posing. One of the downfalls of beginners in the world of digital photography will be that they do not know how to pose their subjects for portrait photography.

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The Breathtaking Beauty of Infrared Landscape Photography

by Bill Jones

Infrared photography is certainly a different way to look at the natural world. When you get ready to take scenic digital photography, take a look at your camera. Not all DSLR cameras have the ability to take this kind of imagery, but quite a few of them do and this is becoming an option that is more and more popular for modern digital cameras. If your camera does have the option of infrared photography, then you will definitely want to consider using this for landscapes.

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The Basics of Scenic Photography

by Bill Jones

Many people choose to take their digital photography to scenery for very good reasons. This type of photography offers numerous and diverse opportunities to capture a wide variety of elements, colors, and views. For that reason, if you choose to go the route of scenic photography, you will certainly want to make sure you have some direction.

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Winter Landscape Photography: Beyond Mere Survival

by Marcus Reinkensmeyer

With a good portion of the globe blanketed in snow and cold, it’s an opportune time for some enchanting winter landscape photography. That is, if the photographer is well equipped for freezing weather and mindful of winter light pitfalls.

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Digital Photography Tips for Concerts and Events

by Bill Jones

If there were one place in which storytelling digital photography would be the most important, it would be in photographing concerts, events and various local venues.

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Travel Photography Tips To Prepare You For Your Journey

by Bill Jones

Travel photography is favored by many different photographers because it gives them the chance to extend their skills and abilities to photograph in a variety of different situations. Digital photography has made taking images while traveling even easier than ever before.

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Bokeh: Using Blur To Your Advantage

by Luke Clum

Bokeh—from the Japanese ‘boke’, meaning ‘blur’ or ‘haze’—is the blurring or more precisely the aesthetic quality of the blurring of a photograph. Blurring is achieved by using a shallow depth of field.  It can be used to create a number of striking light effects or simply to highlight a subject by keeping the rest of an image out of focus.

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