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Synchronizing Your Flash with the Sun (Synchro-sunlight)

Filling deep shadows with artificial light has been a part of photo technique since the invention of flash powder in the 1880s. Synchronizing a handheld flash with ambient sunlight is a terrific way to soften shadows and create professional looking images. Synchro-sunlight or fill flash, two names by which it is often called, is used by many of the greatest street and travel photographers; press photographers using handheld cameras (watch those flashes go off at any press conference), and is a required skill for portrait, wedding, and fashion photographers.

synchronize-main The concept is quite simple: use your flash to illuminate the subject and use sunlight to illuminate the background.

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Top 8 Affordable Quality Printers for Photographers And Do You Need One?

In this digital age, a large number of photographers submit digital copies of their work to their clients via digital storage devices, email or web based file sharing services. However, there are still some photography niches where clients usually expect physical prints to be delivered to them.

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For instance, if you’re into wedding, event or portrait photography, you may often need to produce high quality prints for your clients.  Let’s look at 8 of the current photo printers for photographers focused on quality and affordability.  Read on to find out more.

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Travel Like A Pro, Take Travel Photos Like A Pro

Travel is the best excuse to pull out your camera and take photos until your memory is full. The sights, people, culture, food — everything about going to a new place calls for a photo opportunity, one that you wouldn’t want to miss.

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Taking the perfect travel photo, however, isn’t just a simple click. Sometimes, it can be challenging to capture the entire essence of a place. Think of the Grand Canyon: a majestic landmark that is vast and colorful, so much so that capturing its grandeur is difficult.

So how can you do justice to the places you capture and take travel photos like a pro?

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Five Powerful Ways to Get Your Photos Noticed

Managing to get your photos some attention is one of the biggest hurdles that you may face as a new photographer in the market. The situation becomes even tougher when there are well-known and well-established photographers available.

Thousands of photographs are being clicked on a daily basis, so what will make your photographs stand out from them? How will you manage to provide them the attention they deserve?

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Tips & Tricks: A Survey of Iconic Family Lifestyle Photography

Family lifestyle photography is a unique and incredibly exciting subsection of the photographic field. This is a method that is widely practiced, though to be done right, one needs to properly understand its history, its limitations, its necessities, and how it can be executed to get the most incredible and poignant photos possible.

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First, defining lifestyle photography is imperative: here, a photo shoot is carried out with the intent of capturing an individual or group in their natural environment.

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5 Awesome Ways to Improve Your Clothing Photography

Clothing photography… it’s chic, it’s in demand, and it can score you a pretty penny if you prove yourself. What’s even better is that clothing photography has weaved itself into numerous popular industries and niches, ranging from fashion and runways (duh), to Ecommerce stores, all the way to social media and its influencers – there is no shortage of gig opportunities for the aspiring clothing photographer.

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Even if you’re not a photographer per se but would love to snap a few pics of your handmade apparel to sell it online, you stand a decent chance of elevating the price with a high-quality image.

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3 Basic Steps for Photographing Motion, Moving Objects and the Art of Panning

Photography is one of the most powerful arts of all time. It gives time a meaningful value, some might say even more valuable than memories. Photos can express deep emotional features of places, things, people, and objects. They are part of our legacy to the future generation.

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But it’s not all about the future, or the past. It’s about capturing the moment not only with our eyes, but with our hands. Making that awesome day stay alive forever, and being able to review the same moment over and over again. This is what gives beauty to this art. Today, when we are all so caught up in technology and innovative machinery, we forget to take a break, look up, and see the trees, the sunshine, or the people around us. Photography gives us the chance to do it! It takes us out of our shelves and puts us straight into the centre of action.

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PhotoWorks: Photo Retouching Will Never Be Tedious Again

Retouching photos could be a nightmare. Wrinkles, acne, oily skin – sometimes the camera is cruelly precise. It is unpleasant to say the least if those are just your own private pictures. But what if photography is your business? No client wants to see their faces imperfect, especially on pictures taken during a special event (wedding, anniversary, etc.).

If you don’t want to spend a sleepless night erasing all those blemishes, you can try PhotoWorks.

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Everything You Need to Know About Photographing Cars

Car photography is every bit as exciting as photographing people. Each car is unique and has its own beautiful traits that translate perfectly into a photo. Whether you are taking photographs of vehicles on an F1 circuit or a full-on photoshoot of the most beautiful antique cars at an exhibition, your ultimate goal is to portray the personality and uniqueness of each of your “models”. Expert photographers use a multitude of techniques, all tailored to make the most out of every possible situation.

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In this article I will tell you everything you need to know when photographing cars.

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