Photography

What You Should Know about ISO

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ISO film

With every photo you take, there are three key components to it: Shutter Speed controls how long is the sensor being exposed to light, Aperture controls how wide is the opening of the lens, ISO Sensitivity is the third one and that’s what I’m going to explain here. What is ISO? ISO defines how sensitive […]

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6 Reasons for Buying a CSC Camera

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Fuji X-E1 camera

Until recently, CSC cameras (or mirrorless cameras as they’re also known) were thought of being much worse and not compared to DSLR cameras. However, recent improvements in CSC cameras (CSC – Compact System Cameras) saw them become a serious competition for DSLRs. So what I want to share with you are some reasons why you […]

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Master Photoshop by Video

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Complete Photoshop CC DVD

Ever been stuck with a photo or image that’s just not right? Not quite the way you’d like it? Or needs to be perfect? You may want to change or add any of the following: picture size. Composition. Colours. Cropping. Contrast. Shading. Special effects. Caption. Text. And maybe more. The simplest solution is image editing […]

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Macro Tips

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With nature at our doorstep we have a number of photographic opportunities. And they often are closer than you think… Just step into your garden (or a local park if you don’t have a garden) and you will find so many opportunities to photograph flowers and other plants or insects. If you do have a […]

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New Dehaze in Photoshop CC 2015

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Have you checked the new Dehaze feature in Adobe Photoshop CC 2015? You probably have so what I thought I could do was to create a video about another approach to Dehaze. What we have seen so far, mostly, were videos with using Dehaze on images taken early morning. But what about using images taken […]

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Shooting Landscapes

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There are a couple of “rules” when it comes to shooting landscapes: follow rule-of-thirds, use lead-in lines and include interesting foreground. Rule-of-thirds is a great way to add balance in the image by positioning the main subject/object at one third of the image (on intersecting lines when you divide an  image frame into nine equally […]

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A Guide to Raw Photography

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Since digital cameras started appearing on the market raw became one of the most important developments. Raw is an amazing format that offers the ultimate control over your images and allows you to maximise all the quality from your camera. You are ready to start shooting raw if you have a DSLR or CSC or […]

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Time to Ditch Your DSLR for Fuji X-E1?

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Is it time to ditch your DSLR camera? Maybe. It depends on what you use your camera for. In the last few years, a new camera system appeared – mirrorless cameras. I wrote about it recently, here’s the post if you haven’t read it: Fuji Makes a Comeback with X-Series! So what I want to […]

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Raw Shooting coming to Android L

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Google are updating their mobile operating system – Android – and finally they’re taking it to version 5 named Android L, apparently. Probably one of the biggest new features, to photographers at least (if we can talk about photographers using mobile devices for photography…), is the addition of Raw shooting to Android. Android L will […]