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An Introduction to Photoshop Compositing for Beginners

Original Author: Digital-Photography-School.com

by Sarah Hipwell

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What is compositing? Simply, it means to combine two or more images to make a single picture.

As a photographer, I’m constantly coming up with different concepts that I feel might make a good photo. But it is not always possible to get the perfect shot in one session. There have been n...

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Spirit: Weekly Photography Challenge

Original Author: Digital-Photography-School.com

SpiritYesterday we published a post from Hailey Bartholomew with Tips for Taking Portraits that Reflect the Character and Spirit of Your Subject that gave me the theme of this weeks challenge.

Your challenge is to take and share an image on the theme of ‘Spirit’.

Feel free to approach the theme in any...

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Home Is Where The Heart Is: How To Take Portraits In It

Original Author: Digital-Photography-School.com

by Lynsey Peterson.

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I hate nature. There. I said it. It’s like glitter—it seems like such a fun idea but no matter how careful you are, it gets all over you and 7 showers later you still find it in your hair. This is further complicated by the fact that I live in what is known around the planet as one...

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The Sony RX100 at Dublin Zoo [USER REVIEW]

Original Author: Digital-Photography-School.com

by Sarah Hipwell

It’s been about four years since my last visit to the zoo. Last week my two girls had a break from school so I decided to take them along with my Mum for a day out to visit the animals at Dublin Zoo. I brought my trusty new Sony RX100 and as a backup I brought my Nikon D300 DSLR. In the end...

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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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The Sony RX100 at Dublin Zoo [USER REVIEW]

Original Author: Digital-Photography-School.com

by Sarah Hipwell

It’s been about four years since my last visit to the zoo. Last week my two girls had a break from school so I decided to take them along with my Mum for a day out to visit the animals at Dublin Zoo. I brought my trusty new Sony RX100 and as a backup I brought my Nikon D300 DSLR. In the end...

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3 Tips for Taking Portraits that Reflect the Character and Spirit of your Subject

Original Author: Digital-Photography-School.com

A Guest contribution by Hailey Bartholomew from You Can’t Be Serious.

1. Do Something

Who are you photographing? If you don’t know them well, find out what they love to do and where they relax the most.

Maybe they love to row boats or take picnics at their favourite park every Sunday.

Maybe you...

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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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