- Portrait Photography FuelTip: Composing a Portrait
- Apr 2, 2014
- In this excerpt from Composition for Portraiture: Creating Compelling Headshots, Group Shots, and Senior Pictures, Dan Ablan looks at portraits that go beyond the headshot.
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- Portrait Photography FuelTip: How to Use Available Light for Your Environmental Portrait
- Apr 1, 2014
- Kathleen Lavine, author of Environmental Portraiture: Tell Your Subject’s Story and Create Dynamic Portraits with One Bag of Gear, offers tips for how to use available light to tell your subject's story.
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- Portrait Photography FuelTip: Taking Environmental Portraits of Strangers
- Mar 31, 2014
- John Batdorff offers advice on how to approach a stranger on the street about taking his photograph, in this excerpt from Street Photography: A Guide to Finding and Capturing Authentic Portraits and Streetscapes.
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- Nikon D5300: The Professional Modes
- Mar 18, 2014
- If you really want to take that next step in controlling your photography, it is essential that you understand not only how to control the Nikon D5300's professional modes, but why you are controlling them. Rob Sylvan explores Program Mode, Shutter Priority Mode, Aperture Priority Mode, and Manual Mode.
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- FuelBooks Urban and Street Photography Tip: Know Your Goal
- Mar 13, 2014
- Todd Sipes, author of Urban Exploration Photography: A Guide to Shooting Abandoned Places, asks, are you shooting as an artist or a documentarian? Know what you're shooting and why.
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- FuelBooks Urban and Street Photography Tip: Be at the Right Place at the Right Time
- Mar 12, 2014
- John Batdorff, author of Street Photography: A Guide to Finding and Capturing Authentic Portraits and Streetscapes, explains that knowing the best times and locations to find interesting people for street photography are critical.
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- FuelBooks Urban and Street Photography Tip: Shooting in the Dark
- Mar 11, 2014
- Todd Sipes, author of Urban Exploration Photography: A Guide to Shooting Abandoned Places, shares some tips on shooting well and safely in an urban environment.
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- Tips for Creating Realistic HDR Imagery
- Feb 25, 2014
- In this excerpt from his FuelBook, The Realistic HDR Image, Tim Cooper shares a few tips that will help guide your hand while you are creating your HDR images.
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- A Lighting Gear Checklist for Photographing Kids
- Feb 20, 2014
- In this chapter from 100% Kid: A Professional Photographer's Guide to Capturing Kids in a Whole New Light, Allison Tyler Jones give you a rundown on how to use and how not to use your flash. She also talks about the studio lights that photographers use the most and how to set up your camera and trigger those lights.
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- How to Choose the Right Lenses for Your Digital Camera
- Feb 19, 2014
- The lens you choose (or that comes built into the camera you buy) plays a more integral role in the look, feel, and quality of your images than the actual camera body itself does. Khara Plicanic, author of Getting Started in Digital Photography: From Snapshots to Great Shots, gives a basic tutorial on lenses and then explains how to pick the best lenses for your camera and style.
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- 9 Pro Tips for Getting Better Results in the Field from Your HDR Images
- Feb 18, 2014
- In this excerpt from his FuelBook, The Realistic HDR Image, Tim Cooper offers some advice to assure that your HDR photos look their best.
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- Say Cheese! How to Create Great Portraits with Your Canon EOS 70D
- Feb 11, 2014
- In this chapter, you will learn some camera features and techniques that can help you create great portraits.
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- Perfect Photo Suite 8: Browse and Enhance
- Feb 10, 2014
- Dan Moughamian takes a look at some of the best new features in onOne Software’s new Perfect Photo Suite 8. This article looks at two newly integrated modules: the onOne Browser and Perfect Enhance. See how easy it is to get started with this exciting collection of digital photography tools, which can be used as a stand-alone application or as plugins for Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom, or Photoshop Elements.
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- Road to Seeing: Photographer Dan Winters on Aerospace
- Jan 23, 2014
- Photographer Dan Winters explains his love of the NASA space program and documents how he photographed the final flights of the space shuttles Discovery, Endeavor, and Atlantis in this excerpt from his book, Road to Seeing.
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- Getting to Know Analog Efex Pro from the Google Nik Collection
- Jan 21, 2014
- Google's Nik Collection has expanded its suite of plugins while paying homage to its analog past with the release of Analog Efex Pro. John Batdorff describes how the plugin is chock full of great effects and why it should be a part of any photographer's digital toolbox.
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- Scott Kelby on Photoshop for Lightroom Users: Retouching Portraits
- Jan 20, 2014
- In this chapter from Photoshop for Lightroom Users, Scott Kelby shows you how to do simple photo retouching in Lightroom, and then shows you more advanced retouching techniques in Photoshop.
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- Night Photography: Observing Light at Night
- Jan 15, 2014
- Our eyes are capable of adjusting to the contrast and colors of the night, but cameras often struggle to balance the many degrees of brightness. In this chapter, you'll explore color, light painting, and creative ways to play with light when photographing at night.
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- Create Visual Depth in Your Photographs with Color
- Dec 27, 2013
- Colors help us construct dimension in a photograph, from both a visual and a conceptual or interpretive perspective. In this chapter, Jerod Foster discusses color theory and how you can use it to add visual depth to your photographs.
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- Primary Color Adjustments for Video and Cinema
- Dec 23, 2013
- In this chapter Alexis Van Hurkman examines the common methods you can use to make primary color adjustments to affect an overall image.
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- Post-Production for Senior High School Portraiture: Where It All Comes Together
- Dec 20, 2013
- Sal Cincotta shows you pairs of photos showing each shot’s Before and After image for you to use for inspiration and to get a sense of what’s possible with your imagery when you choose to take your images further than what you get at the time of capture.
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