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Artemis Fauna (video)

"Nudes Deconstructed" - a short YouTube video discussion of an image.

What can you shoot in 5 minutes?

At a recent workshop I was being a bit mean and had a deliberately difficult setup - because let's face it, you don't learn from the easy stuff right?

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Special Effects with Layering and Montage

The intent behind these first two images is to layer the cloth or clothes over the nude image, to give a controlled sense of translucency to the materials.

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Can I use 'Burst' mode for portraits? (video)

A short YouTube photography tip

10 Post Processing Tips to Improve Your Portraits

1) Set your picture style to neutral in your camera Doesn't matter whether you shoot RAW or JPEG. Set the style to neutral so you are in control of the post processing adjustments for sharpness, saturation, etc.

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Artemis Fauna - making low contrast and gentle colours work (video)

"Nudes Deconstructed" - a short YouTube video discussion of an image.

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Recommended Photoshop Plugins for Portraits (video)

A short YouTube photography tip

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Acting The Photographer (video)

A short YouTube photography tip

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6 Common Hand Posing Errors

Posing hands is one of the toughest parts of posing and we have found a nice collection of "bad hands" - if you've got these in your shots you need to fix them.

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4 Photo Managers Reviewed: Lightroom, ThumbsPlus, ACDSee, IdImage - Digital Asset Management

OK, so I've been a user of ThumbsPlus for years. Like all of the DAM's listed, it catalogues your images, lets you add keywords, do general editing and file management.

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