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How do you decide one of your photographs is fine art? Do you ask your friends? Read on...

Great advice for those aspiring to become an exhibiting photographer.

This is a great article by Bob Lansky, he is a great photographer and give some good tips. Hope you enjoy.

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This is a great article and should help all who read. Hope you enjoy and let me know what you think....

How to Take Pictues of Your Work Things were harder in the film only days, and professional photographers used copy stands to do make slides of your work.  The good news is that if all else fails--or is impossible for you--you can use an inexpensive, hand-held, digital camera, shoot with a flash, at a framed and glazed  image and, with almost ...

To correctly mount your Canon EF-Efs lens follow these steps. 1) Locate the red dot on your camera's lens mount. 2) Locate the red dot / white square on your lens. 3) Match red dot to red dot - match white square to white square. 4) Dont force the lens into the mount. Let it softly rest in the mount. 5) ...

New York, NY      To correctly use your "Expo Disc": A)  First you place the device on your lens. B) Then you take a shot (while your camera is set to auto white balance) of your light source. If you are outside, take a picture of the sun. If you are indoors take a picture of the light source. C) ...

UNDERSTANDING CAMERA LENSESUnderstanding camera lenses can help add more creative control to digital photography. Choosing the right lens for the task can become a complex trade-off between cost, size, weight, lens speed and image quality. This tutorial aims to improve understanding by providing an introductory overview of concepts relating to image quality, focal length, perspective, prime vs. zoom lenses and aperture ...

DIY or Professional? You can photograph your work yourself or have it done by a professional. This can be a difficult decision. Both are expensive, but if you enjoy photography and are planning to photograph your own work for a long time, investing in equipment will cost less than hiring a photographer every time you need to photograph your work. On ...

There are many situations in the world of photography where you will have to decide how you want to capture a moving subject. Whether it is an athlete running down the field or a bird swooping over the water there are many different photo outcomes possible. You could end up with everything in the scene perfectly displayed without any blur or ...

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 camera to automatically chose aperture and shutter speed, what your camera is actually doing is using the built in light meter and measuring how much light is being reflected to the camera. But that doesn't mean ...

Exposure is the amount of light collected by the sensor in your camera during a single picture. If the shot is exposed too long the photograph will be washed out. If the shot is exposed too short the photograph will appear too dark. Almost all cameras today have light meters which measure the light in the given shot and set an ...

We've teamed up with "JPG Magazine":http://jpgmag.com/?utm_source=AB_other&utm_medium=other&utm_campaign=AB_Challenge to offer a unique "Photo Competition":http://jpgmag.com/themes/58/?utm_source=AB_other&utm_medium=other&utm_campaign=AB_Challenge: The following article will tell you exactly what infrared photography is and how to produce these amazing images. This photo challenge is technical in nature and is only for photos taken with infrared film or using an infrared filter. Please don't add photos taken just in low light. If ...

Cleaning Camera SensorsPreventive Measures There are a number of precautions you should take to minimize your camera’s exposure to dust and contaminants. The most important practice is keeping the body cap or a lens on the camera at all times. Do not remove the body cap and leave the camera exposed while searching for a lens. Always have the next lens ...

First ask yourself: do you like to take digital photos? I know it might sound like a stupid question, but it is the proper question to analyze. To break it down further do you have the patience, time and attitude to make a successful stock photography portfolio. To clarify the term stock photography sites, they are places where people can buy ...

Whether beginning a career in photography, or just trying to snap off a few pictures of friends and family it is important to pick out the right camera. There are two basic types of digital cameras: Point-and-Shoot cameras and Single-Lens-Reflex (SLR) cameras. Point-and-shoot digital cameras most often are compact and have permanent lenses. SLR cameras are almost always more bulky than ...

Anyone who has ever studied photographs has seen images whose timing seems to defy the odds. Photojournalists regularly document the world with photos that many of us simply don't think we'd ever be capable of making. While some of their skill is unquestionably the result of years of experience, there are things we can all do to improve the likelihood that ...

Cautiously Indy takes the CD-ROM from the tower computer and places it in his book of master CD-ROM’s. He knows that archiving images onto CD’s or DVD’s immediately after creating them is the only way to insure his images will be available for future prints. He knows a hard drive can crash at anytime like a “Temple of Doom.” Don’t let ...

The Brain-Eye Partnership Vision springs from the eye and brain working in unison to form and maintain a working and workable representation or model of the external world. However faithful, the representation is all we ever "see". When Immanuel Kant first espoused it in the late 1700s, this view of perception was considered philosophy, and rather shocking philosophy at that, but ...