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Learn How to Use the Sharpening Tools in Lightroom

Original Author: Digital-Photography-School.com

There’s no question that Lightroom is a powerful piece of photo processing software, but due to that power sometimes it’s not as easy to wrap our heads around everything it has to offer, that’s in part why I started my Let’s Edit YouTube series a weekly segment in which I share my...

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Canadian Travelogue – Newfoundland – Cape St. Mary’s

Original Author: Digital-Photography-School.com

Cape St. Mary’s Ecological Reserve is about a one hour drive south on Highway 100 from the Marine Atlantic ferry terminus of Argentia. The drive to the reserve itself is fascinating and provides many opportunities for images of the rugged maritime coastline, particularly around Ship Cove and Gooseberry C...

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Discover the Secrets to These 11 Special Effects Photography Projects: New dPS eBook

Original Author: Digital-Photography-School.com

NewImage Today we’re launching a new dPS eBook that I suspect is going to give a lot of our readers hours of fun while playing with their digital cameras.

It’s called Photo Magic: Special Effects Photography Made Easy – an eBook by Neil Creek.

As an Early Bird special you can grab it today at 25%...

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How to create a reflection in Photoshop in 6 easy steps

Original Author: Digital-Photography-School.com

Creating a reflection using Photoshop is one of those things that at first glance looks really hard, but really isn’t, once you break down the steps (just light Light Painting which I covered in another two part series). In this article I’m going to demystify creating a reflection, a technique...

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DISCUSS: When you Photograph People in Black and White, you Photograph their Souls

Original Author: Digital-Photography-School.com

NewImage Canadian photojournalist – Ted Grant – is quoted as saying:

“When you photograph people in color, you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in Black and white, you photograph their souls!”

This quote often comes to mind when talking about portraiture and I thought it might...

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Props Are Evil: How To Use Them For Good

Original Author: Digital-Photography-School.com

A Guest Post by Lynsey Peterson.

Nothing freaks me out like props.  Every time I see a picture of flower girls holding an empty frame that is outlining a bride and groom kissing in the distance, I die a little inside.  

Whenever I am subjected to a photo that attempts to bring in a letter jacket and a...

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6 Winning Ways to Work Wide

Original Author: Digital-Photography-School.com

Today Joe Decker shares some tips on wide angle photography.

One of the first lens purchases aspiring landscape photographers typically made is a wide or super-wide lens, anything (in full-frame 35mm terms) from 24mm on down, and with good reason, wides offer photographers the ability to capture the...

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Make your Photos Sparkle with GIMP

Original Author: Digital-Photography-School.com

A Guest Contribution by Anotherphotograpbynoob.com.

What this tutorial will show you
In short: how I made the photo on the right become the photo on the left.

Make your Photos Sparkle with GIMP

In this tutorial, we will cover basic tools of the free photo editing software GIMP.
Here is a quick rundown of the features covered in this tutorial:

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How to Create a “Standard Import” Preset in Lightroom 4

Original Author: Digital-Photography-School.com

Introduction

The following is an excerpt from the SLR Lounge Lightroom Workflow System Workshop on DVD, a system designed to increase your post production speed by 5 to 10 times! Click here to learn more.

In this article, we are going to talk about creating a develop preset that you would like to apply to...

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My First Concert: Lighting Craziness

Original Author: Digital-Photography-School.com

My First Concert: Lighting Craziness

I had noticed this lighting scheme earlier in the song and missed it, focusing elsewhere. But when guitarist Brendt Allman went into his solo, I waited to see if it would happen again. Sure enough, it did. EOS-1D Mark IV, EF 70-200 f/2.8L IS II. ISO 3200, 1/200 f/2.8.

A few years ago, I managed to start...

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