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Easy Infrared with a Point & Shoot Camera

Monday, October 17th, 2011

Infrared photos capture a mix of visible and invisible light creating a unique representation of a scene. The results are often surprising and unexpected. Many infrared images have a dreamy look. In this article I will discuss how to take infrared photos with a point and shoot camera without converting the camera to infrared.


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Using MathMap to Post-Process Images

Tuesday, October 4th, 2011

Mathmap is a plugin for Gimp a free image-editing software. With MathMap you can change an image in any way you want defining a formula to run over the photo. There are several pre-defined formulas to be used. Formulas can be chained into a pipeline to define a series of transformations to be done over the photo.


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Quick Tips for Surreal Fall Photos

Monday, October 3rd, 2011

Here are some quick tips to help you take better photos this fall.


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Using Live-View for Landscape Photography

Monday, September 26th, 2011

Most modern cameras have a feature known as “live-view” that can be used to see the image in the LCD of the camera instead of the viewfinder. Modern LCDs are big and have a lot of resolution so they can be used to get a sharp photo, proper exposure and the right depth of field for landscape photography.


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Five Pieces of Gear You Need for Landscape Photography

Sunday, September 18th, 2011

It’s quite easy to become overwhelmed when choosing the right gear for your photography. Between the endless inventory of online stores and the barrage of gear reviews, how do you know what your buying is actually what you need?


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Tips & Resources For Photographing Satellites

Friday, September 16th, 2011

Some satellites are so bright that they can be the brightest objects in the sky after the moon. The International Space Station can reach the same brightness as Venus and flares from Iridium Satellites are known to even double that brightness. With your camera and almost any lens you can photograph this man-made objects as they cross your skies.


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How to Take Stunning Abstract Pictures With Movement & Zoom

Thursday, September 8th, 2011

Camera movements have been used a lot to create an abstraction from a scene. The recipe is very simple: in a long exposure time move the camera while exposing. The result will look similar to the scene but in a more abstract way, in this small article I will discuss how to do it and what kind of results you can expect.


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How to Create a Panography

Friday, September 2nd, 2011

A panography is a collage made from several photos overlapping the same scene in an unordered manner. The result imitates a collage made on paper cutting several different photos to create a bigger scene. It’s like a panorama for kids!


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How To Do the Harris Shutter Effect

Friday, August 26th, 2011

The Harris Shutter was invented by Robert Harris of Kodak for making color photographs with the different primary color layers exposed in separate time intervals in succession. The term Harris shutter is also applied to the technique or effect.


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Tips for Taking Daytime Long Exposure Photos

Monday, August 22nd, 2011

A long exposure can be used as a tool to improve a composition, it can be used to either simplify elements in a photo making them less important or in the opposite way creating a dynamic shape to enhance the weight of the element in the composition.


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