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How to: Choose a Profile for Your RAW Photos
Scott Kelby — How to in Photoshop: Choose a Profile for Your RAW Photos, a tip from Chapter 3
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Practical tips, techniques and clear explanations about cameras, light, composition and editing — always with the newest article first.
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Effective Strategies for Photographers to Stand Out at a Trade Show
Effective strategies for photographers to stand out at a trade show and present their work in an attractive booth.
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11 mins
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How to Test the Quality of an SD Card
How do you test the quality of an SD card? A detailed test of the 128 GB and 512 GB Samsung SDXC PRO Ultimate cards.
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14 mins
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Still Life Photography at Home: Tips for Beginners
Create a still life studio at home: learn how to work with artificial light and what matters when composing a photographic still life.
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15 mins
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When does the EXIF data disappear from a photo?
There are several situations that can cause EXIF (Exchangeable Image File Format) data to disappear from your photo. EXIF is a set of metadata
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11 min
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Online vs. Offline: What’s the Best Way to Store Photos?
Compare online and offline photo storage in terms of accessibility, sharing, organization, capacity, internet dependence, and risks such as data breaches.
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12 mins
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Mastering Composition in Smartphone Photography
Mastering composition in smartphone photography: simple tips to help you get more from your phone camera.
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12 mins
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The power of photo printing
Why would you still print photos in a digital age? Discover 7 reasons why a physical photo print provides more value, attention and experience.
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4 min
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Used Cameras: The Benefits of Buying Secondhand
Why choose a used camera? Learn about cost savings, lower depreciation, sustainability, and the benefits of buying secondhand.
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3 min
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Scott Kelby's Seven-Point System, Lesson 13: Evening Photo
Scott Kelby shows you step by step how to improve an evening photo in Lightroom, from lens correction and color to masks, vignetting, and sharpening.
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7 min
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Create a panorama in Lightroom according to Scott Kelby
Learn how Scott Kelby merges and edits a panorama in Lightroom using his seven-point system, from white balance to sharpening.
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7 min
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When Should You Use a Telephoto Lens?
A telephoto lens brings distant subjects closer—ideal for sports, wildlife, portraits, and faraway details. Here’s how to choose the right focal length.
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8 min
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10 Tips for Better Landscape Photos
Take better landscape photos with these 10 practical tips on composition, light, depth of field, filters, HDR, RAW, and using a tripod.
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7 min
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Photography Handbook, 11th Edition: Image-Montage Preview
A preview of Chapter 15, Image Montage, from Pieter Dhaeze’s Photography Handbook, 11th Edition.
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15 mins
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9 composition basics for landscape photography
Discover the nine basic compositional forms from Composition in landscape photography by Nando Harmsen and learn how they help with stronger landscape photos.
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5 min
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Tips for photographing shiny objects
Learn how to photograph shiny and reflective objects without harsh reflections. Practical tips about light, settings and post-processing.
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8 min
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10 Offline Marketing Tips for Photographers
Want more photography clients? Build your reach beyond the internet through networking, business cards, local visibility, and other offline marketing.
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8 mins
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Why Does the Rule of Thirds Work?
Why does the rule of thirds work in photography by David Peterson on Fotografie.nl
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Midjourney: a Complement to or Threat to Digital Photography?
Midjourney is image creation through the use of artificial intelligence and is seen as a new type of photography
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12 min
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Food photography that makes you hungry
Good food photography is all about light, styling, detail and timing. These tips will help you make food look truly appetizing.
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6 mins
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The use of AI in smartphone cameras
AI improves smartphone focus, portrait and night modes, image stabilization and editing, helping your phone take better photos automatically.
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Tips for photographing winter landscapes
Tips for photographing beautiful winter landscapes: Winter landscapes are interesting and that mainly has to do with colors.
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6 mins
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When Flash Photos Disappoint
Flash Photos: Take pleasant-looking flash photos. With current camera and flash technology, flash can be used very subtly.
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8 mins
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Optical zoom vs digital zoom: what’s the difference?
Discover the difference between optical and digital zoom, why optical zoom usually delivers better image quality, and when digital zoom can still be useful.
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Product Photography: Tips for Beginners
Practical, straightforward product photography tips for beginners on backgrounds, tripod use, white light, daylight, and softboxes.
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3 min
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9 Night Photography Tips for the Samsung Galaxy S9(+)
9 tips and tricks for taking your best night photos with a Samsung Galaxy S9(+).
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2 min
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How Photographers Found Success Through Their Websites
Want to attract more clients and expand your reach with your own photography website? Discover 7 practical tips, with inspiring examples from professionals.
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3 min
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360-Degree Photography and Virtual Reality
Discover the difference between 360-degree photography and full virtual reality, and which camera, software and presentation format you need.
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4 min
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Home Photo Studio
Want to create a small photo studio at home? Learn in four steps how to use walls, backgrounds, light, and light modifiers effectively.
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3 min
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Magic MagMod
Magnet Mod is a modular magnetic attachment system for quickly mounting and swapping light modifiers on an on-camera flash.
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1 min
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Making Money with Stock Photography
Professional photographer Caroline Piek shares five tips for earning extra income with stock photography.
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3 min
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Affinity Photo Named App of the Year
Serif Labs’ Affinity Photo was named the year’s best app in the Mac App Store and offers an alternative to Adobe Photoshop.
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1 min
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Sony’s Updated Camera Sensor Technology
Sony’s camera sensor technology helped Mikael Buck capture unprecedented images inside Iceland’s ice caves.
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4 min
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The Best Photos Taken with a Smartphone
Smartphone photography was becoming increasingly popular as newer devices offered ever-better camera specifications. Which phones took the best photos?
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3 min
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Eight Photography Tips for a Safari
Eight safari photography tips from professional nature photographer Benjamin van der Spek, winner of the 2014 Frans Lanting Award audience prize.
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2 min
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Photographing Flowers: 10 Tips for Creative Flower Photography
Flower photography starts close to home. Caroline Piek shares 10 tips on low viewpoints, depth of field, light, rain, and creative compositions.
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Five Tips for Festival Photography
Festival photographer Paul Underhill shares five tips on perspective, light and dark, color, and emotion to help you capture memorable festival moments.
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3 min
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Professional Photography with Your Smartphone
With a few useful apps and the right smartphone settings, you can quickly start taking professional-looking photos with your phone.
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4 min
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Taking Photos with Your Phone
Here are several tips for taking highly professional-looking photos with the small camera in your smartphone.
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2 min
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10 Wildlife Photography Tips for a Polar Expedition
Wildlife photographer Brutus Östling shares 10 practical tips for wildlife photography on a polar expedition, from equipment to safety.
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3 min
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Photographing Moths? Bring Syrup!
Kars Veling explains how a sweet, alcoholic syrup attracts moths and how to approach them carefully for observation and photography.
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3 min
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Oldest Photograph in the Netherlands
The oldest photograph in the Netherlands comes from the album of Zutphen pharmacist Willem Hallegraeff (1798–1870).
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1 min
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Time-Lapse Photography
Time-lapse photography sits at the intersection of video and still photography: you take photos to ultimately create a video.
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4 min
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Scott Kelby: Adjusting Individual Colors with HSL
Scott Kelby explains how Lightroom's HSL panel and Targeted Adjustment tool modify hue, saturation, and luminance by color.
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3 min
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Macro Photography: Making the Small World Large
Macro Photography: Making the Small World Large: macro photography encompasses many different techniques.
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2 min
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Scott Kelby: Adjusting a Photo's Exposure
Scott Kelby explains how to adjust exposure in this preview from Chapter 4 of The Lightroom 3 Book.
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4 min
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Scott Kelby: Use Your Lens's Sharpest Aperture
Using the sharpest aperture: an excerpt from Scott Kelby's Digital Photography Book, Chapter 3, The Truth About Lenses.
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1 min
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Photographing Large Mammals: Wildlife Photography Tips
Practical tips for photographing deer, wild boar, badgers, and other large mammals, covering behavior, camouflage, wind direction, and gear.
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3 min
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Straighten a Crooked Horizon in Photoshop
Learn how to use Photoshop's Ruler tool to straighten a crooked horizon or slanted lines quickly and easily.
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2 min
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Adding a Watermark to Photos in Photoshop
Learn how to add a watermark to photos in Photoshop and automate the process with Actions without distracting from your image.
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2 min
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Digital Camera Inventor Honored
How Kodak engineer Steve Sasson built the first digital camera in 1975, laying the foundation for modern digital photography.
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Setting White Balance for Better Photos
Learn how white balance works and how to set it for better color. Tips for daylight, artificial light, Kelvin, and custom white balance.
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Kodak Recycled 1.5 Billion Disposable Cameras in 19 Years
Kodak has recycled disposable cameras for 19 years and has now reused 1.5 billion of them. Here is how its unique single-use camera recycling process works.
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2 min
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Flash in Nature Photography: Uses and Tips
How do you use flash in nature photography? Practical tips for birds, macro, and close-up photography, including the Better Beamer and diffusers.
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6 min
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Super-Telephoto Lenses: How Do You Use Them?
How do you use super-telephoto lenses? Practical tips on wide maximum apertures, stabilization and teleconverters.
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4 min
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Photographing Birds in Your Garden
Want to photograph birds in your own garden? Read practical tips on feeding stations, backgrounds, lenses and camera settings.
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5 min
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The Histogram: Your Exposure Ally
Learn what a histogram shows and how to use it to determine the right exposure in this practical guide.
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5 min
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Exposure: Better in M Mode?
Learn how to choose aperture and shutter speed in M mode for creative exposure, and when it offers an advantage over automatic modes.
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4 min
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Spot Metering: Measure What You Want
Most SLR cameras offer spot metering. How can you use it to take better photos?
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3 min
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Kit Lens or Something Better?
Modern DSLR cameras can deliver excellent image quality. Which lens will help you get the most out of them?
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2 min
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Can We All Use Photoshop?
Photoshop has become commonplace. Half the Netherlands says without hesitation, ‘We’ll just Photoshop that in.’ It sounds pretty cool—a piece of cake.
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6 min
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Macro Accessories
An overview of macro accessories such as extension tubes, close-up lenses, and bellows. What do you need to photograph subjects at extremely close range?
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5 min
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Digital Post-Production
Still-life specialist Feddo van Gogh explains how digital photography and image editing radically changed his creative process and workflow.
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3 min
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Documentary Photographer Robert Knoth
Which photograph had stayed with documentary photographer Robert Knoth when this interview was published? Discover why this particular image resonated with him.
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2 min
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Bird Photography, Part 3
Join us in the field for practical bird photography. Learn about observation, camouflage, composition, patience, and photographing birds in the wild.
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6 min
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Bird Photography, Part 2
Which camera and lens should you use for bird photography? Explore practical tips on autofocus, telephoto lenses, exposure, tripods, and teleconverters.
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6 min
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Creating Shadows in Photoshop
Creating shadows in Photoshop: You can, of course, easily create a standard shadow in Photoshop.
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6 min
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External Flash: What Are the Advantages?
Lars Polder explains how an external flash provides more light and control, with softer bounced light and more flexible lighting than a built-in flash.
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6 min
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Bird Photography, Part 1
Want to take better bird photographs? Discover practical tips on composition, behavior, observation, viewpoints, and equipment.
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6 min
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Color Management: Sense and Nonsense
What does color management really offer photographers? This article cuts through the jargon and explains when it is useful—and when it is not.
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4 min
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AF Tips: Make the Most of Your DSLR’s Focusing Options
Digital SLR cameras offer several AF options. What are they, and when should you use them?
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