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Selective Exposure: The Key to Stunning Landscape Photos (VIDEO)
Ron Leach  |  Nov 15, 2023  |  0 comments

We regularly preach the importance of taking a selective, rather than a global, approach to processing your images. This simply means limiting your adjustments to specific portions of a scene that really need work, instead of making enhancements to the image as a whole.

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If Your Photos Are Soft You're Not Focusing in the Right Place (VIDEO)
Ron Leach  |  Nov 15, 2023  |  0 comments

Correct technique is essential for fast and precise focus, and sometimes it's necessary to give your camera some help. That's because if you focus on the wrong spot within the frame, all is lost before you snap the shutter—even if you use a high-end pro camera with a premium lens.

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Beginners Guide: Photoshop's Brush Tool Does More Than You Think (VIDEO)
Ron Leach  |  Nov 15, 2023  |  0 comments

If you're not a regular user of Photoshop's versatile Brush tool, this complete beginners guide from The PIXimperfect YouTube channel is guaranteed to change your mind. You'll learn how to master everything from fundamental properties and "essential" tricks, to time-saving shortcuts and much more.

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Straight Talk: Sell Used Photo Gear for Max Value & Zero Hassle
Shutterbug Staff  |  Nov 15, 2023  |  0 comments

Time to sell the photo gear you seldom use or no longer love?

Here are the goals.
1. Find out the value upfront.
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3. Receive the payout in your bank within a few days.
Sound too good to be true? It's for real, and it's spelled MPB.

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This 2-Minute Lightroom Texture Trick Makes Photos Jump off the Screen (VIDEO)
Ron Leach  |  Nov 14, 2023  |  0 comments

Every so often we come across a Lightroom tutorial that reveals a quick trick that you absolutely shouldn't miss. In this case it's what one expert calls a "secret Lightroom feature that that can really supercharge your workflow." Best yet, it takes less than two minutes to explain and can dramatically enhance just about any image you capture.

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How to Shoot Light Trails: City Photography at its Best (VIDEO)
Ron Leach  |  Nov 14, 2023  |  0 comments

Last week we posted an overview of making nighttime the right time for shooting after the sun drops below the horizon. That tutorial was designed for those new to the technique, and today we're following up with a deeper dive on one compelling aspect of this style of photography that's of particular interest to cityscape and street photographers.

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Midtone Contrast: A Super-Simple Editing Trick with Huge Results (VIDEO)
Ron Leach  |  Nov 14, 2023  |  0 comments

The quick video below is one of those "I wish I knew this before" tutorials with a super-simple technique for enhancing photos in a way that's almost too good to believe. It works in both Lightroom and Photoshop, takes barely 10 minutes to learn, and you can start using it today.

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Lightroom Basics: How to Dodge & Burn Photos for Optimum Balance (VIDEO)
Ron Leach  |  Nov 13, 2023  |  0 comments

Earlier today we posted a tutorial with a foolproof in-camera method for shooting photos with perfect exposure. But what if you want to improve photos you shot in the past that don't quite hit the mark? The lesson below from the FJR YouTube channel demonstrates how easy this is to do with Lightroom's powerful Dodge and Burn tools.

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How to Shoot Perfectly Exposed Nature & Wildlife Photos Every Time (VIDEO)
Ron Leach  |  Nov 13, 2023  |  0 comments

Nailing exposure is a critical aspect of all genres of photography as you refine your skills, and this can be difficult when shooting outdoors under varied illumination. This is a particularly challenging task when the light is everchanging as clouds pass through a scene, or when subjects in motion move in and out of sunlight and shadow.

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Do You Dig Photo Technology? Get to Know OWC
Jon Sienkiewicz  |  Nov 10, 2023  |  0 comments

If you geek out (like we do) over the technology tools that power our digital photography habit, you will fanatically Jones over OWC. In the sleepy little town of Woodstock, IL a wide awake company called Other World Computing offers just about everything a photographer, computer maven, Apple fan or Mac freak could ever want.

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