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A list of tips in order to improve your photography.

"1. Learn Where You Need To Improve

Before getting better at anything, you need to work out what you actually need to work on. Write a list of things you don’t feel confident with, it can be as long or as short as you like but try to keep each one as narrow as possible. When you have your list, concentrate on just one item from it and spend time practising, researching and doing everything you can to improve that particular aspect of your photography. When you feel confident with it, cross it off and move onto the next one.
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Here are a few lighting diagrams from recent studio shots :

Bare monobloc studio flash positioned behind model, camera left.

Monobloc via shoot-through umbrella close to model , camera right.

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Taking photos from buildings

Computer tethered photo capture

Every branch of photography has its challenge. Portrait photographers have to capture the subject’s entire personality and character in a single shot. Architectural photographers have to fill shadows, dodge reflections and shoot a picture that portrays the feeling of space. And still life photographers? They get to move lights around so that the object is properly lit, focused and sharp.

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DIY DSLR Ring-Flash Videos

My latest enthusiasm in photography has been nightwork and lightpainting. A lot of my work is done with a simple pen torch, a flashlight and string, but I wanted to create a broad stroke of colour, a paintbrush rather than a pen effect.

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PhotographyBB announced today, the release of the 14th edition of the PhotographyBB Magazine Online. The PhotographyBB Magazine Online, now into its second year of publication has grown into a leading resource for beginner to intermediate digital photographers. Each issue offers information such as digital photography techniques, DSLR camera function training, image post processing tutorials in Adobe Photoshop, and RAW processing in Photoshop Lightroom.

The March 2009 edition explores some of the issues facing photographers as of late; Photography and the Law. This month’s issue also features an in depth look at DSLR sensor sizes and how they relate to lenses, focal lengths, and crop factors. Additionally there are Photoshop and Lightroom tutorials for photographers to get the most out of their post processing techniques.

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A video discussing the quality of light in photography, using a one light source lighting set-up.

How to Use The Histogram in Digital Photography

A video tutorial explaining some of the key elements to indoor and low light photography, and ways you can get sharper photos and avoid the blur that comes with indoor shooting.

However amazing the vision of a photographer may be, however sharp their lens and regardless of the number of pixels on their camera’s sensor, the shot can only succeed if the lighting is right. It follows that we should commit both thought and budget to our lighting equipment.

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