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Its October again and that means Halloween is around the corner. This is good news for you as a photographer, Halloween is a visual holiday like no other. With all of the decorations, theme shaped food, Jack-o-lanterns and costumes you have more potential for photography than you can shake a selfie stick at.

One of my favorite parts of Halloween are the masks. Many of the better quality masks available are extremely detailed and creepy, lending themselves well to visceral imagery.

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Some gear needs extra protection especially when going on an outdoor production. Here is how to quickly make a hard case to protect your gear. I am actually going to use part of the packaging that the gear was sent with. While this is not a solution for every piece of gear, it is often [...]

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One off the key factors in making a believable composite is to handle how the light falls on your elements. One of the best ways to wrangle the light is through dodging and burning.

Here is a recent composite that I created.

We are just going to focus on the Ent creature on the right side. Here is what he originally looked like when downloaded from pixelsquid.com and the following... more

One off the key factors in making a believable composite is to handle how the light falls on your elements. One of the best ways to wrangle the light is through dodging and burning.

Here is a recent composite that I created.

We are just going to focus on the Ent creature on the right side. Here is what he originally looked like when downloaded from pixelsquid.com and the following one is... more

I am often asked for advice by those startingout in the photography industry. And if theres onething I have noshortage of, its advice. So with that in mind, I present you with my 8 Tips for Starting a Photography Business: 1. You Are But One of Many People will ask you what you do for [...]

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Photographers often understand color theory and seek to incorporate objects of complementary colors in their images. We understand and appreciate the harmonious effect of green and red or orange and blue items framed within our composition, so why do so many of us focus only on the color of the content of the image and [...]

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The glaciers at Glacier National Park are rapidly shrinking. In fact, theyre melting so fast that the glaciers that can be seen today represent just one-sixth of the number of the icy bodies that were in the same park just 150 years ago. It is imperative that scientists measure glaciers and follow their changes, and [...]

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How often do you get to interact with the universe? This 46 Gigapixel ‘panorama’ of the milky way, was made at theGerman university Ruhr-Universitat Bochum, and took half a decade to complete. . Actually, this image of the Milky Wayis so big that it had to be broken down into268 sections, each photographed over a [...]

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Whenever you take a photo, no matter what the subject, it would be extremely unusual if it couldnt be improved in some way by making local adjustments in Lightroom.

Local adjustments affect part of the image. Whenever you carry out any processing action in Lightroom you are either making a local adjustment (only affects part of the image) or a global adjustment (affects the entire image).

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The LED monitor on the back of a camera is most often used to review captured images. But heres a tip: Live View can also be a useful tool, helping you to focus your camera before taking the shot. In fact, Live View may be the most accurate means of focusing a camera. Lets take a look at six ways you might use Live View to focus.

1 – Focus Stacking

Use Live View to focus at different distances for focus stacking.

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