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DIY Tips

How to Make Shaped Bokeh

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Making shaped bokeh can add a touch of fun to your holiday photos.  In this free tutorial, our contributor Dana Suggs shows you how to create bokeh shapes.

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Tips on How to Take Better Photos with Your Phone

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We’re on My Craft Channel this week with tips for taking a better photo with your phone! We absolutely love our iPhone and wanted to share our photo tips and links to iPhone apps that we talked about in our show. You don’t have to have an iPhone to learn from these tips. Use them with any type of [...]

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Lifestyle Self-Portraits: Yes! It’s possible.

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I am the queen of arms-length self-portraits. Don’t believe me? Here’s but one example from a short 3-month period of time. But I was recently given a sweet gift from dear friends: a wireless remote shutter. And I’m now trying to leave my long arms out of the equation [grin], and catch more natural, lifestyle [...]

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How to Use Google Reader in Real Format {Tutorial}

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I love blogs. I love blogs almost as much as I love coffee. Reading blogs while drinking coffee? Well, that’s just heaven on earth for me. I subscribe to all of my blogs in Google Reader. All 100+ of them. Google Reader makes me very happy, because if I had to go through bookmarks or [...]

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The Photographer’s Workout

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I had a Photo shoot workout with a friend and fellow photographer, and after I could barely move the next day, I realized I may have stumbled upon something. Yes, I’m gonna patent it, back off. Eat your heart out zumba, I’m finally gonna be rich!!

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Think About Composition With Your Photography

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Written by: Susan Keller from Susan Keller Photography At the end of last year, my husband decided we needed a point & shoot camera. I, never being one to turn down any photographic-equipment purchase (ha!), immediately began to research different options and to find a p&s that would still allow me to fiddle with settings [...]

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Top Tips for Taking Photos at the Zoo

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Written By: Susan Keller from Susan Keller Photography 1| First things first: Turn off your flash. 2| Second things second: You’ll want a lot of zoom. Bring the longest lens you have. The longer, the better. And then remember to keep your shutter speed high enough to support that long lens. I brought a 70-200mm [...]

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Tinted Black and White Effect using Gradient Map

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I love a good black and white photo! How about you? There are so many different methods of creating black and white conversions. This week I am going to show you a fun way to create a tinted black and white effect. I’ve done the screenshots for Photoshop Elements, but these steps work exactly the [...]

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