Photography Tips – Shooting County Fairs

by Bill Jones

Anyone who has ever attended a true country fair will know that they are often places that are crowded with excited people, delicious foods, and tons of things to see and to do. This means that anyone who wants to get good photographs of a fair is going to spend a lot of time on their feet.

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An Introduction to Panning in Motorsports

by Chris Weller

Sports photography usually focuses on capturing split second moments

- A wide receiver stretching out for the ball in the end zone
- A batter making contact with a baseball
- A powerful dunk
- A runner breaking the finish line tape

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Quick Tips on Photographing Public Memorials and Statuary

by Bill Jones

Parks, gardens, museums, and public buildings offer some of the loveliest photographic subjects possible – statuary. Quite often it is difficult to convey the power of a large statue or public memorial in a photograph. Think of the enormous Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., although most people have seen photographs of it they are still surprised at its enormity in person.

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Photography Tips – How to Capture Festivals

by Michael Lynch

The season is just around the corner. Warm weather and more daylight is a guarantee people will be out of their homes and into the streets. It’s Festival season, around the world and you can capture the faces, atmosphere and brilliant-colored costumes like a pro, with a few simple tips.

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The Histogram and the Advantage of High Bit Files

by Markus Wanninger

As explained in a previous post by Chris Derrick, the histogram on your digital camera of a shot is a simple bar graph. This bar graph shows the distribution of the tonal values in an image, from total black on the far left to total white on the far right. The histogram is the tonal fingerprint on any image. There is no such thing as a “perfect histogram”: an image captured at night or in a dark setting will lean towards the left while a high key image ( a very bright setting) will lean towards the right.

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Capturing Hidden Natural Beauty

by Colleen O’Neill

Many people traveling on well-worn forested trails view the scenery with tunnel vision; perceiving it as bland and similar. However, those that look closer will be rewarded with natural beauty at almost every turn. Some lies hidden and may require some creativity to discover, but most remains in view and simply not noticed or appreciated by most people. In either case, uncovering the most beautiful displays of nature in the most unexpected places makes witnessing them even more special. Capturing natural beauty appeals to an exciting and creative style of photography which incorporates a passion for discovery and adventure.

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5 Simple Ways To Improve Your Candid Photography

by Christopher B. Derrick

People love candid photography, because it truly captures slice of life moments that will never be repeated and it invokes a sense of the “now.” Only, most people go around taking staged photos and asking people to say “cheese”

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Quick Tips for When to Use Your Flash and How to Avoid It

by Bill Jones

The flash unit of a camera can really come in handy, but it can also destroy an image too. It really pays off to understand the times when the flash will help the final photograph or when it can pose some threats to it. Additionally, it also helps to note that the flash can be tinkered with a bit to create some interesting results.

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Tips for Creating a Photographic Journal of a Single Year

by Bill Jones

We’ve all seen them – the flip-book style animations created by someone who takes a single photograph of themselves every day for a year. These are somewhat impressive, and can actually be a bit shocking because of the dramatic changes in appearance that some people experience.

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Helpful Portrait Photography Tips

by Christopher B. Derrick

One of the easiest things to do with your camera is take a portrait, and the majority of photos we take are images of ourselves, our loved ones, or complete strangers who have an uniqueness about them that we want to capture, save and show other people. The spontaneous or posed portrait is a mainstay of the photographic canon. However, that means 90% of them of boring stilted and uninspired. So how do you increase the punch of your portraits? That’s what we’re going to talk about today, and hopefully you’ll improve your simple snap shots after reading this.

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How to Capture Bold Colors in Your Photography

by Bill Jones

Photography is a great way to “learn by doing”, and in the digital age it is no longer a costly thing to experiment with photographs. Memory cards are relatively inexpensive and taking one hundred photographs costs nothing except the time the photographer dedicated to making them.

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