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Portrait Professional Review

I just downloaded the trial version of Portrait Professional.  I love it! I try a lot of different photography software and most of it ends up uninstalled and not purchased, since I usually find that what I already have is better.  At this point my entire arsenal of photography software includes: Photoshop CS6 Adobe Illustrator […]

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How to Take Appealing Car Photos

So you want to sell a car online or in the classifieds. Well, you’re going to need to take some pictures, then. Of course, you can’t just take any pictures, you’re going to need some that can really sell that car, really let people know what you’re offering. If you want to command top dollar […]

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How to Avoid Common Problems in Underwater Photography

These days anyone who can swim can take photos underwater. In most cases you don’t even need to buy a whole new camera setup- it’s possible to fit a clear plastic underwater housing to many popular digital compacts. A housing will protect your everyday camera from the water while still letting you access the functions […]

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Focusing Your SLR Camera Tips

When I was an absolute beginner at photography, I did not understand how to properly focus my SLR camera.  Prior to falling in love with photography, I was the usual snapshot taker with a compact point and shoot camera.  Auto mode produced “good enough” focusing for the purpose of my family snapshots and 4 x […]

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Stunning Female Fantasy Photo Manipulations

From time to time I like to marvel over some of the beautiful photo manipulations submitted to Flickr and DeviantArt.  These works can be truly inspiring.  I’m also a fan of fantasy imagery, especially when I come across something especially unique. Here are, in my opinion, the ten most stunning female fantasy photo manipulations on […]

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Fall Photos – 20 Favorites From Flickr

Fall happens to be my absolute favorite season.  This is partly because of the cooler weather and the end of my red faced suffering (which was especially bad this year due to pregnancy), but mostly it’s because of the visual changes.  I adore the warm vibrant colors in the foliage! In honor of the best […]

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Topaz Labs Bundle Review

The Topaz Labs bundle of photography software is my absolute favorite image processing tool.  I’ve written a few short reviews on a handful of Topaz plug-ins, but this is my first comprehensive review of the entire bundle. While it makes huge economic sense to purchase the entire bundle of plug-ins, you can purchase each plug-in […]

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Buy a Shutterstock Subscription

As a buyer of stock images, I would automatically buy a Shutterstock subscription if I knew that I would need a lot of stock images to work with. Since I am a photo stock contributor as well as a blogger I use a lot of stock images.  I don’t take each and every photograph used […]

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What is the Best HDR Photography Software?

Until recently if asked the question “What is the best HDR photography software?”, I would have instantly and without hesitation said “Photomatix“.  This answer is still true to a large extent, but Photomatix definitely has a contender now. Oleono HDREngine is HDR software that I just heard about recently from a member of my Facebook […]

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