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Great New Camera Gear For 2013
Hopefully everyone’s holiday season went well complete with lots of photography and maybe even a few new gadgets. According to several blogs I read myself & will link to, new technology is focusing more and more on the consumer markets and smaller digicams or hybrid DSLRs. Basically many non traditional cameras are coming with interchangeable [...]
3 Easy Steps To Freshen Up Your Photography
It’s a topic that comes amongst photographers- you’ve taken an interest in a certain field, your shots are good but now your enthusiasm for the same scenes is waning. Here are 3 things that always work to rekindle things for me: 1- Go someplace new. A recent invite to visit good friends in their Cleveland [...]
Easy Steps To Photograph The Full Moon
A well timed email came in this week asking about full moon photography. It really is very easy but there are a few key steps. Nice sharp shots of the moon are fascinating on their own and if you like to create compositions with digital processing programs like Photoshop Elements they add a great background [...]
What Camera Should I Buy?
That’s easily one of the common questions I get and in some sense the breakneck speed of developments in photo technology makes it a tricky question while on the other photography is still basically light through a hole. So the question to the answer is “what do you plan to do with the camera and [...]
Your Weekend Photography Tip: Free Photo Editing Programs
This week a question came in about entry level or free photo editing software programs. Anyone has attended one of my seminars knows that I’ve always been a fan of picnik.com but Google decided to sunset that product last month. For those not ready for the standard bearers like Photoshop Elements & Lightroom, there are [...]
Hit The Links For Great Pictures
An outing with a client out on a very scenic golf course gave me the idea for this week’s weekend photography tip. With one of the largest number of golf courses per capita Collier County offers a bevy of photography opportunities especially in the Naples/Bonita Springs area: Landscapes- are an obvious opportunity. Look for [...]
Holiday Photography Tips- Indoor Shots
Now that we’re into December with the holidays right around the corner, how about some ideas for capturing the season with your camera? Now’s the time to take advantage of warm colorful artificial lighting: – Key in on your subject and fill the frame. Draw the eye and the mind right into the scene, the [...]
Exposing Exposure…
Have you ever had the pleasure of re learning something you’d forgotten or became so habituated to that it was taken for granted? I did recently. Today’s modern digital cameras take a ton of old fashioned calculation out of exposure settings so it’s easy to forget what’s going on. The other day I flipped to [...]
Birds of Florida, Photography Tips & Techniques
Now that we’ve identified and are familiar with 75 or so of Florida’s most prominent birds, let’s learn some specific approaches to taking great pictures of our avian wonders. Today, the portrait. Wildlife Portraits The key to good portraits is simple- a sharply focused, well exposed facial subject against a soft non distracting background. I [...]
1 Step To Saving Out of Focus Photos
Did you ever take a great picture only to find out at home that it wasn’t? One look at your LCD monitor on the camera showed a great composition with beautiful lighting and razor sharp focus. Only the latter wasn’t really. Let down, but there’s an answer. Use artistic filters in Photoshop & Elements to [...]
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