Digital Photography Tips

Here’s an interesting site…
Its a map of the British Isles. They are tying to get every square kilometer of the country photographed. Amateur photographers submit their photos of each grid square on the map.
Geograph British Isles - photograph every grid square!
Welcome to Geograph British Isles
The Geograph British Isles project aims to collect geographically […]

Photo contest of the day.
A winner every day… plus the monthly winners and 3 monthly winners receive prizes from various photographic companies… Sound good?
Why not give it a shot. Its free to enter…
Let us know if you manage to win and we’ll post your image here aswell.
Photo of the Day Page
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Here’s an interesting blog to take a look at. Lots of tips and tricks and it has quite a friendly community feel to it too.
Digital Photography School — Digital Photography Training for You
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Just found this quite complete photoshop tutorial portal for want of a better name…  check it out.
Free Online Photography Course | The Photoshop Blog | PhotoshopSupport.com
Jodie Coston’s Free Online Photography Course
Adobe Photoshop BlogWow. This is no ordinary tutorial website. Taught by freelance photographer Jodie Coston, the Morguefile site has archived a free online […]

This is a free to enter photography contest - with a $6,500 first prize.. and its says its open to all..
Give it a shot?…   Good Luck!
photo laureates enter photolaureates contest for amateur photographers and win cash prizes photolaureates.org
The mission of photography laureates is to promote photography and photographers through technical workshops, improvisation sessions […]

Thinking of becoming a professional photographer?
The article linked to here covers many aspects to help you make your desision.Beware though, I think they are really selling their online photography course.
The best photography course you can buy!
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Here is a great site which has a load of instructional tutorials / Lessons on many aspects of professional photography. Check out the entertaining idea below of promoting an 8 inch bmw
Basic Product Shot

The car above is a BMW 700 series sedan, but you can’t drive it because it’s
only 8 inches long! With […]

A great resource which takes some of the mystery out of flash photography. Everything from how the flash units actually work through guide numbers, distances and synchronization to what to look for when purchasing a flash unit.
Electronic Flash Information
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A great resource which takes some of the mystery out of flash photography. Everything from how the flash units actually work through guide numbers, distances and synchronization to what to look for when purchasing a flash unit.
Electronic Flash Information
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A selection of great little tips and tricks for bettering your holiday photography.
Fodors.com > Focus on Photography > Classic Vacation Shots
Shooting from the Air Shooting from the Land and Sea Signs Along the Way
Photographing Your Cruise Parades and Ceremonies Stage Shows and Events Zoos and Aquariums Fireworks Silly Pictures
Around the Campfire
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Our resident photography expert, Philip Bramhill has just been named the ‘Official Download Photographer’ for the infamous British rock festival held each year at Donnington.
After having worked the festival for the last 2 years and having the pleasure of photographing rock stars to the like of Lemmy and Motorhead, Slayer, Feeder and Black Sabbath, […]

Below is a link to shortcourses.com where they hold a fairly comprehensive list of short courses, most online and most free.
Some interesting tips can be picked up by scanning through the various sites. However, a lot of the tips ore repeats, some are of no use at all and of course there are some […]

Another question that we have been getting recently is how to get your photos looking like paintings.  There are many many different ways of doing this… You could use the painting filters from photoshop or one of many other techniques… Here is a good one.
A New Painterly Effect | Planet Photoshop
There are lots […]

Another interesting gallery site I just came across. There are some really great photos here, you should definitely take a look.
Computer Darkroom - Photo Galleries
Image
Photo Galleries
This page contains links to a series of galleries each of which comprise a range of images laid out in […]

Yet another great site I stumbled upon. This one is quite large and has many different sections.

On-Line Magazine for everything Photography from the Photoimaging Information Council. Read helpful photography tips and articles from the pros and celebrities, take surveys, and join in photo contests.
Master Photographers Tell You How | Take Great Pictures
Master Photographers […]

Things NOT to forget when you are about to photograph a wedding.
Essential wedding photography checklist for digital wedding photographers

So, you’ve been asked to photograph someone’s wedding. Congratulations! Do you have your wedding photography checklist ready?
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The art of composition summed up in 5 easy to swallow pieces.
Composition 101
Do you want to take better pictures? Sure you do.
In these days of instant gratification our Nikonians professionals have noticed that some of our members don’t want to wade through a pile of technical explanations. They just want good pictures — […]

Once you have effectively selected the hair as described in the previous article then you can go about changing the color as indicated in the article here:
From Brunette to Blond | Planet Photoshop
Changing hair color is often simply a matter of adding a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer. However, when the hair needs substantial lightening, […]

We have had several people asking how to change hair color using photoshop. Well there are many ways to do this… I plan to elaborate a little upon this in the next post or two.
For now here is an excellent tutorial on how to select the hair and all of the flyaway hair too.
Once you […]

Saying Of The Day
A Picture might be worth a thousand words but it take up a thousand times more memory!!!
Philip

Tony Howell uses his website to show off some of his superb images and along the way he gives tips and advice including some tutorials and a load of images where he explains exactly how he created them.
Flower Photo Tips
Flower Photography Tips
Photographs of Flowers and how to take them
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Here’s a tip for Windows XP Users.
If you have large folders of Images and wish to rename them you can do this sequentially in the windows explorer.
Say you have put all your ‘Holiday 2006′ Photos in one folder so you now have 127 images in a folder that look something like this…
DSCN6336.JPGDSCN6339.JPGDSCN6344.JPGDSCN6345.JPGDSCN6346.JPGDSCN6347.JPGDSCN6356.JPGDSCN6358.JPGDSCN6336.JPG
etc…
To rename the files […]

How To Photograph Fireworks:
Photographers from the Smithsonian Institute share some of their knowledge on how to get the best results shooting fireworks.

Smithsonian Photographers Shoot Fireworks
As much fun as they are to watch, fireworks are equally as challenging to photograph. Working on the Mall gives the Smithsonian’s staff photographers on-going opportunities to capture these […]

Ever considered how this is undertaken?
Matt BenDaniel explains just how he achieves his astounding results and follows up with a link to his ‘Getting started in astrophotography’ page.
Astrophotography
Astrophotographyby Matt BenDaniel

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If you are a professional photographer or if you are thinking of getting into selling your work as stock photography then you  should definitely take a look at the site below. Take a look at the work of the other professionals to get an idea as to what you are up against. Also have a […]

I just found this website.
Ronnie Gaubert’s Galleries. You just have to check them out. He has done some OUTSTANDING images. I was astounded at the quality of his work.
Ronnie Gaubert’s Photo Galleries at pbase.com
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This article explains the simple but important technique of bracketing, even more popular in these digital times where wasting film isn’t an issue.
Bracket Your Important Photos - Digital Photography
Bracket Your Important Photos
SUMMARY: Explains bracketing, and how it can improve your overall digital camera picture taking.
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The proper use of light in photography is the single most important factor to be considered. Take a look at the article below.
Digital Photography Tips - Light Usage
The use of light in a photograph can be the deciding factor of whether that picture will be spectacular or terrible. When you use your […]

Another background extraction method is illustrated here on the Photoshop Nerds Blog.
Photoshop Nerds : Photoshop Tutorials » Blog Archive » Photo Background Extraction
The extract command
The Extract command in Photoshop enables you to isolate a foreground object from its background. Even objects with undefinable edges like hair can now be clipped from their backgrounds […]

I just had to let you in on this one… Dr Russell Brown Has put together a whole library of free and highly effective Photoshop tutorials. They’re all really good and I counted over 75 of them. There are also loads of free photoshop scripts.
Definitely worth checking out.
The Russell Brown Show
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP TIPS […]

Photoshop  subject extraction
How to extract your subject from the background to enable the use of digital background templates as mentioned in the previous post.
This tutorial concentrates especially on the hair, the most difficult part of subject extraction.
Selecting & Extracting Hair - Masking Tutorial - Extraction Tips | PhotoshopSupport.com
One of the most challenging montage […]

Digital Backdrops can be a great Idea… The company below is selling CDs and DVD loaded with them so you can make your own studio backgrounds to your photos.
Check out the quality of these, and then ask yourself if you could do any better yourself.
I believe that if you have the skill and imagination […]

A highly important and overlooked piece of maintenance that without it can bring you disappointing results.
Calibrate your monitor for better photo prints | DigicamGuides.com
Calibrate Your Monitor
Make the photos you see the photos you print
I can hear those folks in the back row saying “Do WHAT to my monitor?” It’s not as bad as […]

Ever wanted to take spectacular lightning shots like this one?
Chuck Doswell goes into detail on how to best capture the many different kinds of lightning to produce breath taking images like this one.

lightning photography
Lightning Photography
[Tips by Chuck Doswell]
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