Understanding White Balance

Perhaps one of the most important camera settings that beginning digital photographers don’t understand is white balance. In this article, we’ll introduce the basic concept of white balance as well as a few photography tips for managing the white balance within your images.What is white balance? Put simply, white balance is the color of the lighting in...

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Avoiding Red Eye in Your Photos

While many new DSLR cameras do a great job of filtering out red eye problems, it’s not always the case. In this article we’ll take a look at a couple of quick photography tips for dealing with the dreaded red eye effect in your images. So what causes red eye in photos?While you’re probably just interested in finding out how not to have red eye effects in...

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Photography Tips for Holiday Gatherings

As we head into the Thanksgiving holiday here in the U.S., we wanted to put together a few of our photography tips culled from various past articles that you can use to capture great images of the typical holiday festivities you might be involved in. As we approach this time of year, it’s very likely in most parts of the country that many of your holiday...

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HDR and Beyond – Seeing is Believing!

A Guest Post by by Gavin Phillips What is High Dynamic Range Imaging? (HDR)HDR is when you take 3-5 or 7 photos at different exposure settings, and then merge them into a single image using speciality software. What you get are beautiful photos with incredible detail, controlled lighting and accurate colour. You cannot reproduce an HDR image manipulating a single JPG...

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Action Sequence Photography Tips with Strobe Lighting

Professional snowmobiler and X-Games Gold Medalist, Justin Hoyer, teamed up with photographer Andy Kawa to create a freestyle snowmobile action sequence using high speed strobes and a Nikon D300. Take a tour of the shoot here:  FSTOPPERS BTS CONTEST 2011: HDR Strobed Action Sequence from Luke Parmeter on Vimeo. Because typical speedlights won’t repower quickly enough...

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Tips for Travelling With Photography Equipment

Travelling with photographic equipment can difficult, but travelling without photographic equipment could be considered a waste of a journey by any photographer who truly loves taking pictures, so here are some handy tips that should take some of the stress out of travelling with your camera equipment."Sunset Finals" captured by Thomas Millard (Click Image to See More...

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Nikon D800 and D800e announced

There has been chatter on the interweb for what seems like ever, surrounding the the new offering from Nikon. Here it is, finally, for you to lust after! Nikon D800 & D800E $2,995.00 and it’ yours! Will you be cashing in and picking one of these cameras up? Comment below! Here’s the feature list. Nikon FX-format CMOS sensor with 36.3 effective Megapixels Native ISO...

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