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Taking great baby pictures
Here is a New York times article and pictures with Ms Sanduval, and photographer in the San Diego CA area. Very nice work and good tips on taking those, oh, so , cute, baby pictures.
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Become a master at photo retouching
Here are 26, count em, 26 tutorials on different types of photo retouching.
Doing one a day should make you a master at this in less than a month!
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Q. What is one way to learn from the Master Photographers?
Answer- Go to there websites and take in their work. See what they are dong. Figure out if there is anything they are doing that you can also do. Angles, colors, setups, shadows etc. Just go to their websites to get inspired.
To get you started here are links to 35 photographers websites and descriptions and a shot or two from each one on the links page.
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Thinking of giving a photo as a gift or just want to have some fun
These 7 free programs allow you to do some cool image manipulation without much work at all. Your friends will think you spend all day designing something artsy, when you most likely just chose some template and hit “create”. I won’t tell them if you dont
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If you own a mac and you are using it to process photos read this
A great set of tools, programs and apps for Mac heads that do photography. If you use a pc like me, you are out of luck, but I will let you know if someone comes up with a similar list for PC users.
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Getting people to pose for you and simple background setup
His guy does street portraits, gets people off the street and puts them in front of a simple white piece of paper. Watch his technique as he quickly asks people to pose. It is confident, funny and fast. We all can learn by watching his style.
It is also inspiring to see that you can take good pictures with a single focus lens and no lights. His framining of some of the images is very unique also.
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53 Crazy good digital photography tutorials.
I saw this site, and I have to agree with them. These tutorials allow you to some very creative things with photoshop. Scan though the titles and examples and if you find one that works for you it will be well worth it.
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The right way to sharpen pictures
Many people think you just hit the sharpen control, but unsharpen mask and some other button pushing is the way to go. A good refresher on the basics and more.
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Create dramatic slide shows for your website,
Here are 15 plug ins for your website that allow you to do creative slide shows with your pictures. I have not tried any of them yet, but if anyone thinks one is much better than the others let me know
