You love your on-camera flash, but you’re beginning to realize its limitations. Flat facial features, limited direction and distance, and almost no creativity allowed. You need to step up to wireless strobes. Lot’s of people are in that boat, but don’t want to pay more money for a wireless flash system than they did for [...]

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Bringing Out Highlights in Photoshop

There are dozens of techniques that photographers regularly use to set their shots apart from others, and to achieve their own “look”. One important technique has to do with highlights. It’s always a good idea to bring out the client’s best features, and pulling out key highlights in the eyes, hair, teeth, etc… can be a subtle yet effective way to do this.

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I’ve been using the Nikon D90 as a backup body lately. Recently, however, I’ve been interested to put it through some paces in terms of the HD (720p) video feature.
The biggest drawback I found was the propensity of D-movie to figure its own exposures on the fly, while recording. Huge jumps in exposure mar [...]

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It’s one of the big struggles when shooting outdoors. You’re fighting with the sunset for a good exposure and your subject comes out too dark. In other words, the sun always wins.
Unless you have your own sun.
Augmenting lighting with a flash to shoot models in the late afternoon or during sunset can produce some [...]

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I’ve had a good number of requests asking about specific night photography techniques, and although I cover Photographing Scenes at Night and Handheld Photographs at Night, neither of those cover capturing intense, quick motion.
It’s difficult enough during broad daylight to capture fast-paced sports action, but oh my, come nightfall the problems are compounded. The two [...]

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Because taking a photograph is essentially a matter of capturing light, the night photograph is not always an easy thing to accomplish. Nevertheless there is a profound public interest in capturing photographic images at night. This article is geared towards the night scene or landscape and helps you “bend the rules” of photography a bit [...]

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As most of us have figured out at one point or another, a lens hood isn’t always the end-all solution for removing lens flare.
While editing some shots from an outdoor event I covered this weekend, I realized that one or two of the shots came out with some bad lens flare. If I had been [...]

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