- The Art of Boudoir Photography: Creating Sensual Movement
- Jan 8, 2013
- Christa Meola shows you how to create gorgeous movements that have sensuality, emotion, mood, feeling, and authenticity. She also offers a great primer for all women on how to feel comfortable with their bodies and cultivate sex appeal.
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- What’s New in HDR Efex Pro 2
- Dec 31, 2012
- Photoshop expert Dan Moughamian delves into HDR Efex Pro 2, one of the most popular HDR plugins for Photoshop and Lightroom.
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- Five Favorite Features of onOne Software’s Perfect Photo Suite 7
- Dec 26, 2012
- onOne Software's Perfect Photo Suite 7 is not only brand-new, it's also polished, refined, and has some beautiful new additions to make photographic post-processing easy and fun. Join Photoshop expert Nicole S. Young as she goes through some of her favorite features of the new Perfect Photo Suite 7.
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- Author Talk: Lindsay Adler and Erik Valind on Shooting in Sh*tty Light (Podcast Transcription)
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- Dec 14, 2012
- Publisher Nancy Aldrich-Ruenzel chats with authors Lindsay Adler and Erick Valind about the recently published "Shooting in Sh*tty Light: The Top Ten Worst Photography Lighting Situations and How to Conquer Them." They share some of their photography horror stories, and offer photographers a few tricks to use when facing poor lighting situations.
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- "The Best Photography Advice I Ever Got" with Rob Sylvan
- Dec 11, 2012
- Rob Sylvan suggests that being a better photographer doesn't have to do with anything directly related to photography, but with a simple (and not-so-simple) directive about how to live your life.
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- "The Best Photography Advice I Ever Got" with Ibarionex Perello
- Dec 4, 2012
Ibarionex Perello hosts and produces The Candid Frame podcast, teaches at the Art Center College of Design, and has written for numerous magazines. He's also the author of several popular book on photography, including Canon 5D Mark III: From Snapshots to Great Shots. Here, Ibarionex talks about how to handle others' thoughts and criticisms about your work.
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- Author Talk: Photographer Vincent Versace on Black and White Conversion Techniques (Podcast Transcript)
- Nov 30, 2012
- Publisher Nancy Ruenzel chats with author and photographer Vincent Versace about his latest book, From Oz to Kansas: Almost Every Black and White Conversion Technique Known to Man. Vincent explains why it's important for photographers to learn more than one black and white conversion technique.
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- Indexing Photos Using Faces and Places with Aperture 3
- Nov 19, 2012
- In this lesson on Aperture 3, you’ll examine two features that provide very natural ways to index photos—Faces and Places. Faces is a feature that not only detects faces of people in your photos, but with some minor assistance from you can also recognize those people. The second feature, Places, uses GPS data to identify where photos were taken.
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- "The Best Photography Advice I Ever Got" with Khara Plicanic
- Nov 13, 2012
- Khara Plicanic, author of Your Camera Loves You: Learn to Love it Back, explains that know-how, patience, and persistence are the keys to a successful photograph.
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- Author Talk: Photographer Jeff Schewe on Raw Image Processing (Podcast Transcript)
- Nov 10, 2012
- Peachpit and New Riders Publisher Nancy Ruenzel interviews professional photographer Jeff Schewe about his latest book. They touch on Jeff's role in the early development of Camera Raw and Lighroom, and why he chose to title his book The Digital Negative.
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- "The Best Photography Advice I Ever Got" with Teri Campbell
- Oct 30, 2012
- In a field with no contracts, reputation and relationships seem important to building a steady stream of work. But Teri Campbell, author of Food Photography and Lighting thinks it takes a lot more than that.
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- Food Photography & Lighting: Creating "Natural" Daylight
- Oct 29, 2012
- If you want your images to look like they were shot using natural light, then you need to study what you see, and consider how you can then re-create it in the studio. Some of the best ideas are out there waiting for you.
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- Lighting for Digital Photography: The Five Characteristics of Light
- Oct 25, 2012
- Photography is “writing with light.” So, let’s build our conversation about lighting on five fundamental characteristics of light: Direction, Intensity, Color, Contrast, and Hardness.
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- Photographing Women: Head & Shoulders
- Oct 24, 2012
- Head and shoulders—or beauty—photography represents an enormous slice of both the advertising and editorial markets worldwide. In this excerpt from Photographing Women: 1,000 Poses, Eliot Siegel explores two general categories of head and shoulders poses: front angle and side angle.
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- Tips for Shooting in Sh*tty Light: Mixed Color Temperatures
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- Oct 23, 2012
- Learn how to take charge of the light and photograph great images, even with multiple sources of unflattering light.
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- 7 Secrets to Creating Irresistible Food Photography Images
- Oct 22, 2012
- Creating truly irresistible images of food requires attention to a lot of different details. Teri Campbell, author of Food Photography & Lighting: A Commercial Photographer's Guide to Creating Irresistible Images, shares 7 secrets to creating amazing food images.
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- "The Best Photography Advice I Ever Got" with John Batdorff
- Oct 16, 2012
- Award-winning landscape and travel photographer John Batdorff shares six critical points of advice that are sure to inspire you˜no matter what stage you're at in the creative process.
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- Advanced Raw Processing Using Lightroom or Camera Raw
- Oct 11, 2012
- Jeff Schewe explains how to combine the various image adjustments and tools capable of being deployed in Lightroom or Camera Raw to arrive at an optimized “master digital negative.”
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- Canon EOS Rebel T4i / 650D: The Creative Zone
- Oct 8, 2012
- The Creative zone is the name given by Canon to the shooting modes that offer you the greatest amount of control over your photography. Jeff Revell explains how to work with the various modes in the Creative zone, including Program Mode, Shutter Priority Mode, Aperture Priority Mode, and Manual Mode.
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- "The Best Photography Advice I Ever Got" with Brian Smith
- Oct 2, 2012
- Pulitzer-prize winning photographer Brian Smith has been featured in LIFE, Time, Forbes, Sports Illustrated, and many other publications. His newest book, Secrets of Great Portrait Photography, chronicles the stories behind his best photos over the past 30 years. His advice is driven by a central theme—take the time to get to know your subject.
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