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Nightscapes like daytime, long exposure landscapes

How to photograph nightscapes with long exposure, so they look like daytime shots. As you’ll see by the example images, landscapes that would normally be photographed during the day, can look quite dreamy when taken at night with a long exposure.

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Hand held panorama tips photographing panoramas

Tips for photographing panorama’s. Also includes an example of a hand held panorama taken at Manly Beach in Sydney Australia, with an explaination of how several shots were merged into one image with software.

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Tips for photographing sunrises

How to photograph perfect sunrises. Nature photographer Rick Sammon, shares with us his best tips for photographing sunrises. Includes camera settings and composition tips.

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Portrait photography tips outside daytime portraits

Tips for photographing portraits outside during the daytime One of the biggest gripes of photographers shooting portraits outside during the daytime, is that photo’s often turn out with a perfectly exposed background or skyline, yet the person they are photographing are too dark or underexposed. Take the image below for example. The camera has adjusted [...]

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Fashion photography, how to photograph fashion models

What’s involved with photographing fashion models? The equipment used to photograph fashion models, isn’t that different to portrait photography. Fashion photography equipment should include: A backdrop that needs to be placed behind the model. In the demonstration shown below, the photographer used a metalic sheet, however a simple material sheet would have also been sufficient. A studio flash with [...]

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How to photograph seagulls

Photographing seagulls Living near the ocean, one of the first birds I tried to photograph after buying a digital SLR camera, was a seagull. Like most photographers, I aimed my camera at a bird flying overhead and continuously pressed the shutter button, hoping for the best. Using this method of photography did work from time [...]

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Flowers with background blur telephoto zoom lens

How to photograph flowers with background blur. In contrast to popular belief, you don’t necessarily need a dedicated macro lens to achieve a nice background blur when photographing flowers. It can just as easily be achieved with a telephoto zoom lens.

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