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Today’s photography tip is a short one. As Winter is turning to Spring (at least in the Northern Hemisphere where I am) there are many changes occurring around. The days are getting longer, birds are migrating, flowers are begging to sprout. In the coming weeks, the first early wildflowers will begin to arrive, some already …
I am a control freak. When I shoot, I like to have as much control over my photo as possible. I use primarily aperture priority mode to control my depth of field though will switch over to shutter speed priority when I am shooting an image where I need to stop action or where there …
Most digital cameras with advanced manual override controls often have multiple focus modes, most often single focus or continuous focus. Today I will explain the difference between both and situations when you may want to use them. Single focus mode will lock focus on your subject and hold that focus point for as long as …
Both Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Photoshop Elements 5.0 are great tools that offer precise control over your photographs. Back in the days when I printed my own black and white photographs in my basement darkroom, I used tools for both burning and dodging (adding or holding back exposure) specific parts of my photos. Today’s photo …
I know I mentioned last week I will discuss layer masks this week but time has not been on my side so will hold off until next week for that topic when I can give it the time it needs to be properly explained. This week, I want to offer a brief suggestion for point …
There are a few steps I do to almost all of my images after I have captured them. Over the next couple of weeks, I will go over some of them, step by step. The first step to obtaining a great final image is setting your black and white points. Most, but not all photographs …
Photoshop Lightroom, the much anticipated new software from Adobe is now available for purchase from the Adobe Store. Developed for professional photographers who need to manage and adjust large volumes of photographs, Lightroom allows quick and easy adjustment to a large number of images from a variety of formats. Watch here for review of Adobe …
Regular reader Pat sent along a link to some file conversion utilities: Ever get that need to convert a file and you don’t have the software to do the job? There are two sites that I have been using, and are quite handy. One is Pixer.us, and the other one is Zamzar.com. Pixer.us let’s you …
I briefly discussed cold weather photography in a previous tip. Today I will expand on that a little more. In my tip on not being a fair weather photographer I talked about keeping spare batteries inside your coat to keep them warm. I also suggested that you do not take your camera out of your …
The very first tip I wrote for the Digital Photography Tip of the Week was to not delete you images.This week I am going to ask you to review the photographs that hopefully you have not deleted. While I generally feel that everyone is their own worst critic, it takes some discipline and awareness of …