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Hobstr – Site Review – Toy Camera Photography

I’m REALLY excited about this one!  I love toy camera photography.  Finally, I get to review something other than a wedding photography site to review.  In spite of being female, I could care less about weddings.  I mean, I liked my own well enough, and it’s nice to watch a friend or family member get […]

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Pixel Junk Swagger: Shrinking Photos Without Losing Quality

High-quality photographic images usually take up a considerable amount of hard drive space. It often proves difficult for professional photographers to send these massive files to their clients. They don’t always fit in an email account or on a CD. DVDs can hold any number of photos, but they require computers with DVD drives, and […]

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How to be a Wedding Photojournalist

There has been a large shift over the last few years to what has popularly been known as a reportage, photo documentary or photojournalistic style of wedding photography. Essentially, all that these confusing terms mean the same thing: the photographer will tell the story of the whole day photographing the real moments that happen rather than setting […]

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Basics of Developing Black and White Film

“Developing” is a chemical process which converts the invisible exposed image on film into a visible image on a negative.  When working with film, either black and white or color, the ultimate goal is to produce a beautiful print.  However, in order to make a good print, a good negative has to be developed first. […]

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Chicago in the Shutter Frame

Photography Requires Focus There’s money to be made in every creative endeavor these days, but a photographer has to consistently create decent compositions in photos that are beautiful, stunning, eye-catching, thought provoking or that in some other way beg for people’s attention. The photographer can’t just simply run around with a camera and snap random […]

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