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Tips for beginners

Top 10 articles for photographers

Our top 10 most sought after photography articles and lessons After reading our Google analytics reports, we thought it would be useful to share our top ten tutorials and articles. Hence, the pages receiving the most visitors here on SLR Photography Guide. 1. ISO Camera Settings: Seems everyone wants to know more about the ISO [...]

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zoo photography, tips for photographing zoo animals

Tips explaining how to photograph zoo animals. Lenses, tripods, as well as 10 useful photography tips for beginners wanting to take good zoo shots.

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Tips for illustrating height within photographs

Tips for illustrating height within photographs. How to show the enormity of a place or subject by photographing people standing next to them. Illustrative examples of height and perspective.

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Free PDF ebook downloads for Photographers

Free photography PDF ebooks Here are 3 useful O’Reilly PDF files for photographers to download. They are not the full text, however are still useful in the chapters that they do offer and are definately worth the download. Note: You will need a copy of Adobe PDF reader to view the ebooks you download.

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Understanding shutter speed fractions

Shutter Speed = Fractions To understand shutter speeds fully, you also need to understand how fractions work. More specifically, it’s important that you understand the relationship between fractions and your camera’s shutter speed setting. The faster or shorter your shutter speed, the less light that is let in to your camera’s sensor. Therefore, to use a fast shutter [...]

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Pure white backgrounds in product photography gray card

How to get a pure white background in product photography If you do a lot of product photography, either for stock or ebay listings, you’d have probably realised by now that items that sell the most, are those that have a pure white background. Many photographers new to this style of photography, start off by placing [...]

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Baby photography tips, how to photograph your baby

Baby photography tips Professional photographer and mom Tracey Clark, shows you how to create treasured baby photo’s you’ll want to keep and show off to all your friends and family. Her top tips for photographing babies include: Take lots of photographs. More than you normally would in any other photo shoot. This gives you a greater chance of [...]

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Top ten digital photography tips by Rick Sammon

Photography tips for beginners by Rick Sammon Rick Sammon shares with us ten of his top photography tips for beginners and amatuer photographers. Rick Sammon is a famous nature and travel photographer who has published 27 books and writes for 3 photography magazines including PC Photo, Outdoor Photographer and Layers magazine.

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