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- Understanding Photography Exposure
  As photographers, we are truly artists of a different kind. We strive to use both hemispheres of our brains to make a two dimensional image appear three-dimensional. To do this we use various techniques of composition, color, posing, shadow, and light. This last is sometimes the most forgotten and yet the most important. We tend
- Three Photo Composition Techniques: Art Rules for Photographers
  Because photography is an art itself, it’s only logical that composition rules used for drawing and painting can apply to taking great photos. Don’t worry – there’s no preachy, stuffy artistic theory involved – but there are some important things you can learn from the painterly crowd. The same techniques are even used in architecture,
- White Balance: How to get it right every time
  Twenty years ago, when digital camera was just being conceived in the minds of engineers, and film was the popular medium of photography, concept of white balance didn’t exist yet. Colors were the function of chemicals used in the production of a film, and there was only few things you could do about it (like
- Photography Pricing, the Easy Way
  I’ve always been doing photography for art’s sake, and never for monetary gains. But there is always a moment in photographer’s life, with career long enough, when somebody knocks on your door and asks for a print or a permission to use your photos… This article deals with pricing images that you’ve already captured. I
- Light can make or break a photo
  Photography is all about Light! Well, it’s obvious right? … or maybe not. In my opinion quality of light is single most overlooked variable in photography. Amateur photographers constantly try to get new gear, upgrade lens or camera, they pump photography with money and muscles – but not many of them realize that, it’s the
- Stop taking pictures, start creating images!
  This not so short text explains the transition of documentary photographer into conceptual artist. I always wondered how great photographers managed to shoot their subjects in the right place at the right time. I was trying to understand circumstances behind decisive moment… was it luck? was it intuition? did photographers pay actors to perform? Answer