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Category Archives: Beginner

Section for beginner topics in photography and photograph processing

How to critique and evaluate your images

We all enjoy making pictures.  For me personally I am always excited to copy the images to the computer and start picking the winners in Lightroom.  If the trip was a big one I may have quite a job filtering through the images.  I want to share a bit of my workflow of how I […]

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Finding Vision and Style

Seems like we have neglected the blog in recent months as life has absorbed most of our energy and time, however, in a reinvigorated effort we are going to get this ship righted and be a bit more consistent with content. I find myself lately wondering what it is that makes a photo great. Why […]

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Instantly Improve Your Photography-Tripod

We all want to improve our images and have them match the quality of the eye catching images we see online and in our email boxes and in high end galleries.  Some of the equipment to elevate our personal photography to that level takes years to acquire.  Some of the technique and skills to elevate […]

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RAW Magic

One of the most frustrating yet useful aspects of digital photography, is shooting in the RAW file format. The frustrating part is that RAW files will always lack contrast, saturation and sharpening and absolutely require post-processing. This is why when you look at RAW files after downloading them that you often are disappointed in your […]

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Learning Your Camera Part II-Program Mode

Learning Your Camera Part II The next setting to learn on your camera is the program option.  This will nearly be universal to the letter P.  Using your camera in Program mode is just another step to manual mode adulthood!  I still occasionally use the Program mode if I am in a situation where I […]

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