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Mobile Photography: How Chris Alvanas’s Smartphone Images Changed a Workshop’s Focus
Barry Tanenbaum  |  Aug 02, 2016

About four years ago, Alvanas, a photographer, filmmaker, educator, digital artist, and postproduction retoucher, was attending a week-long advanced printing workshop at John Paul Caponigro’s studio. “The first day of portfolio review featured lots of prints of grand vistas from big film cameras—4x5s and 8x10s,” Alvanas says. “I showed on the second day, but I digitally projected my images.”

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4th & Long: How I Beat Bad Field Position to Score Winning Shots of the Broncos’ Victory Parade
Blaine Harrington  |  Jul 15, 2016

On Monday evening, February 8th, I got an e-mail okaying my request for press credentials to cover the Denver Broncos’ Super Bowl victory parade. It was triple good news: I’m a Broncos fan, I’d get images for stock, and I wouldn’t have to travel far (I live about 10 miles from Denver).

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How to Take Stellar Night Shots of Stars: Better Astrophotography Through Settings And Science
Seth Shostak  |  Jul 01, 2016

We’ve all seen them: night shots of some wind-weathered rock formation in the American Southwest, backed by a dramatic, star-spangled sky. Earth, the universe, and everything.
Your first thought: “What sort of unaffordable equipment does it take to make a photo like that?” Your second thought: “You know, a 16x20 nighttime pic would sure look good above the pool table.”

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10 Tips to Tell Your Novice Photography Friends on How to Shoot Fireworks
Jon Sienkiewicz  |  Jun 30, 2016

As a Shutterbug reader, you know how to shoot fireworks. But what do you say to your friends and kinfolk when they ask you for advice? Simple—just send them the link to this article. It’s a nice, relatively short list of 10 tips for photographing aerial pyrotechnics. Because after all, there’s more to fireworks than what meets the sky. 

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Always Remember to Take a Good Look: How to See What’s Right in Front of You as a Photographer
Barry Tanenbaum  |  Jun 24, 2016

I got the idea for this how-to story from something the Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist David Hume Kennerly said to me: “Believe me, the challenge of photography is not going to France for the first time and photographing the Eiffel Tower. The challenge is really seeing and then photographing the stuff that’s familiar and ordinary, stuff we see all the time but never really observe or give much attention.”

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How to Create Realistic Artificial Sunlight: An Elegantly Simple Solution To Light a Tricky Location
Barry Tanenbaum  |  Jun 21, 2016

David X. Tejada’s assignment was a lighting demo for a how-to video and end-use images. The location was a private home where he was asked to create the effect of artificial sunlight. The weather cooperated by providing rain.

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How to Choose and Use the Right Wide-Angle Lenses: Getting the Most Out Of Your Wide Shots
Ron Leach  |  Jun 10, 2016

Nothing beats the versatile wide-angle lens for street shooting, travel, and landscape photography. Whether you’re capturing mountain vistas or bustling street scenes, the wide-angle lens offers an ideal combination of features for quick, candid shooting.

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Interested in Light Painting? This Fascinating Video Tutorial Teaches You How
Ron Leach  |  May 18, 2016

Shutterbug featured the unique work of expert light painter Jason Page back in 2014, and he has a fascinating new tutorial that will help you learn this popular technique. In this video, Page uses the Light Painting Brushes system to create some imaginative effects.

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Program AE Mode On Your Camera Is Better Than You Thought
Jon Sienkiewicz  |  May 12, 2016

Even photographers who usually shoot in Manual Mode should take a closer look at Program AE Mode. Why? Because in the right hands, the two modes are more similar than they are different. 

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Why Photos Go Viral: How 10 Of My Images Blew Up the Internet
Jordan Matter  |  May 03, 2016

A good friend once told me, “When you’re doing something, you’re not doing something else.” This Yogi Berra-ism is actually great advice. When considering a photo project, think about its commercial potential. You can spend a year photographing the slime left by snails at night, but does anyone want to see that? More importantly in this increasingly web-focused world, will they share it in their social media feeds?

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Do Your Photos Have the Gray Sky Blues? David Bergman’s 2-Minute Video Gives You An Easy Fix
Ron Leach  |  May 02, 2016

Have you ever been on location with a beautiful model and great scenery, only to be foiled by a drab, overcast sky? In this two–minute video, celebrity/sports photographer David Bergman explains how to combine creative color-balance control with off–camera flash to get some stunning results on a gray day in Belize.

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Aperture Priority vs. Shutter Priority
Jon Sienkiewicz  |  Apr 29, 2016  |  First Published: Apr 28, 2016

Many, many years ago, in a silver halide universe far, far away, amateur photographers were divided into two camps. Their differences were not based on political orientation. And they had nothing to do with the Cold War, nationality, ideology or anything else so trivial. What was the division that separated otherwise rational people? Read on…

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Lighting Tip for Action Shots: A Flash Of Inspiration Makes a Startling Image Possible
Barry Tanenbaum  |  Apr 29, 2016

BMX rider Daniel Coriz comes in at speed from the right side, launches himself up 10 feet, touches both tires, pulls the handlebars to pop a wheelie off the wall, then turns the bike for a clean exit. He lands a foot in front of adventure sports photographer Michael Clark, who’s been hand-holding his camera, tracking and firing to capture every turn and twist of the trick.

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Ask A Pro: Scott Kelby Answers Your Photography Questions
Scott Kelby  |  Apr 26, 2016

Scott Kelby is a photographer, Photoshop Guy, award-winning author of more than 50 books, and CEO of KelbyOne, an online education community dedicated to helping photographers take the kinds of images they’ve always dreamed of.

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How to Unleash Your Inner Photographer
Jon Sienkiewicz  |  Apr 14, 2016

Do your friends often tell you that your photographs are so good you should become a professional? Do you sometimes stare blankly at the pages of National Geographic and hear a voice inside your head that says, “I can do better than that!”? Do you post on Instagram more than 70 times a week? If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, read on—and unleash the master picture-taker that’s lurking in your soul.

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