| Photography Tip: What is Adobe Lightroom? Part 1 |
 Lightroom is a database driven, asset management system with an inbuilt raw processor. Unlike Bridge, which is a browser, Lightroom is a database, so everything needs to be imported before it can be viewed. However, once your images are imported they become incredibly quick and easy to work with. Like the Camera Raw/Bridge workflow, Lightroom is a non-destructive metadata editor, so pixels are never altered, they... |
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| Photography Tips For Composing Better Pictures |
 Ok, you don’t want to be professional but you want your pictures to be as good as they can be, right? Well, it’s really not that hard! The key to successful pictures is often in the composition. Here are some really easy tips to making your photos successful. We should never have to explain why we took a picture or what the interesting thing about it. If we find ourselves having to do that all the time, we are not faring too well at our picture taking... |
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| Free Software Alternatives |
 Every day here at Buy-n-Shoot.com we search the net constantly for the latest news items. However, in our day-to-day surfing we quite often come across links to various free software that could be quite useful to our visitors. So we've decided to create a quick list of them... |
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| Photography Tip - Using Circular Polarizers |
 There is the temptation to believe that you don’t need any filters for your digital camera, that you can do it all in Photoshop. But at least one is, in my view, essential for digitals, the circular polarizing filter. Site contributor Wayne Cosshall writes: In my film days my camera bag was filled with filters, and filter systems, such as the Cokin one. When you first switch to digital, or for all the photographers who are coming to it without a film history, there is a reasonable tendency to ignore filters. After all... |
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| Photography Tip - Understanding Depth of Field |
 Depth of field is one of the least well-used aspects of photographic control. Yet it really is very simple to get your head around. A camera lens will actually only focus one single, flat (if it is a good lens) plane perfectly. As you move away from the plane of sharp focus, objects become gradually more blurred. In practice we can tolerate a small amount of blur (called a circle of confusion, from the blurred circle of light you get if you focus a point... |
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| Photography Tips To Get The Best Results From Your Inkjet Printer |
| 1. Shoot at your camera's highest resolution and quality settings. Most digital labs will be able to print your images directly from your camera's memory card. Note: if you decide to capture images with the RAW file format, you will have to convert them into JPEG or TIFF files before they can be printed. This can be done with the software supplied with your camera... |
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| Photography Tips For Travelling With Unprocessed Film |
| The last five years or so have seen a gradual increase in security scanning at airports and other departure points in most countries, with the introduction of new scanning equipment that has been designed to detect explosives and weapons in checked-in and hand-carried baggage. Security precautions in airports worldwide have been further tightened since the tragic events of 11 September 2001 and last October"s bomb attacks in Bali... |
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| Photography Tips For Digital Camera Buying |
| Digital cameras and camcorders are hot products this year, but if you make the wrong purchasing choices you can end up with an expensive camera that doesn’t meet your needs. The following ‘mistake’ list outlines the most common mistakes buyers make and how to avoid them... |
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| Photography Tips For File Formats & Digital Photos |
| When you save a digital image, you normally have to choose what format you want to save it in, regardless of whether you're saving the shot in the camera's memory card or to a computer. Most digital cameras provide between one and three file format options plus a range of 'quality' settings. And while all cameras allow you to save images in a compressed file format (which reduces the file size), top quality digital cameras also offer an uncompressed file format that delivers the best possible quality... |
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| Photography Tips For When Your Camera Stops Working |
| Although most cameras today are well built and reliable, occasionally a camera will stop working unexpectedly or start to display a few minor operational faults. You can actually do quite a lot to eliminate possible problems before you take the camera to your local camera store for repair... |
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| Photography Tips For Producing Digital Photos For Publication |
| Over the past few years Internet chat rooms that cover photography have often discussed whether digital images are acceptable for magazine reproduction or turning into large, fine art prints. It seems certain overseas travel and ‘fine art’ magazines are still refusing to accept digital images for publication on claims their quality isn’t good enough. Australian publications are, usually, happy to accept digital image files and many even prefer them because they integrate more readily into the production workflow. But only files that are ‘good enough’ will be accepted.... |
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| Photography Tips Explaining Color Fringing |
| Expect to hear a lot more about colour fringing in digital photos as the pixel counts for compact digicams continue to rise, while sensors become smaller. At the same time, expect to see the true reasons for colour fringing misattributed more often than not. To ‘put you in the picture’ (so to speak), if you see coloured fringes along edges in a photograph it can be attributed to one of two effects: chromatic aberration or blooming. The problem is deciding which one is the cause... |
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| Photography Tips: 6mp DSLR Vs 8mp Digicam |
| On the basis of new cameras announced in the past couple of months we can state with confidence that by the middle of this year there will be at least five 6-megapixel DSLRs and five 8-megapixel, non-interchangeable compact-type digicams on the Australian market. This creates a quandary for photographers who plan to invest in a new digital camera: which type to buy? Going on the pixel count alone, the 8-megapixel digicams seem to have a significant advantage. But high pixel counts aren’t everything: you need to check ‘beneath the bonnet’ to understand the pros and cons associated with both camera types before you can make a well-thought-out decision. The best place to start is with the sensor.... |
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| Photography Tips For Recovering Lost Image Files |
| Although flash memory cards are, in general, sturdy and reliable, there are times when it becomes difficult for digital camera owners to retrieve images from their camera’s memory card because the card has been corrupted in some way or because they have accidentally deleted a wanted image... |
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| Photography Tips For Which Camera Lens & When |
| Apart from their practical purposes, telephoto and wide-angle lenses are known for the change in perspective they create in your images. Simply put, telephoto lenses compress and wide-angle lenses widen, lengthen and exaggerate. These properties alone make them invaluable tools for seeing everyday subjects in a way the human eye never will, thus opening up your world of visual opportunity and subject matter... |
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| Photography Tips For Aperture or Shutter Speed |
| For decades now, cameras have included automatic exposure modes for speed and convenience. At first, exposure automation was strictly aperture priority. Then, shutter priority became an option, followed by multi-mode operation, program modes, and then multi-program modes. What does it all mean? When should you use which – and how... |
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| Photography Tips For Taking Great Holiday Photos |
| Knowledge of your camera"s controls and storage media, coupled with planning and preparation can help you take holiday photos you'll enjoy sharing with friends and family. Here are nine key areas to focus on. Regardless of whether you shoot on film or with a digital camera, better pictures are obtained by using an appropriate sensitivity setting for the subject. If you"re using a film camera and holidaying in Australia in summer, choose an ISO 100 or ISO 200 film for best results (faster films, including the popular ISO 400 type, are not really suitable for beach shots... |
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| Photography Tips For When To Use Flash |
| While flash is a necessity for every serious photographer, it is being used with more success these days due to improvements in high-speed film and the advantages in digital photography. Faster emulsions mean that flash photography is less objectionable than it used to be. Digital offers the photographer the option to immediately check our results, something which was not available to 35mm photographers previously... |
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| Photography Tips For Shooting Great Landscapes |
| It stands to reason that location is important. This is without doubt the reason we raise our camera. We look at a scene and say, ”this is great. I have to photograph this”. However, no matter how beautiful or captivating a scene may be, it is not the entire secret to a great landscape photograph. Often, even the most everyday scenery can be transformed into a stunning landscape – and vice versa... |
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| Photography Tips For Taking Basic Studio Portraits |
| It is not unusual for amateur photographers to want to try their hand at studio portraits, but without the studio or the lighting equipment to do so it may appear impossible. Actually, portraits in the home are not difficult and often the equipment is easier and cheaper to obtain than you might think. Professional photographer, Shelton Muller, explains... |
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| Photography Tips For Photographing Kids |
| The photos we take of our children are among our most treasured. Pictures that map our child’s growth and recall so many priceless moments fill our family albums, perhaps more than any other subject. These techniques will help you capture those moments at their very best... |
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| Photography Tips For Photographing Pets |
| We all love our pets - whether they’re goldfish or golden retrievers. But they can be very hard to photograph. They move, they disobey, they fidget, they get distracted - and all in all behave like complete animals. But when it comes to taking their picture, this may be an advantage. |
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