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Learning Lightroom: Fake Depth of Field

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In this week’s Learning Lightroom video I show how you can use Adobe Photoshop Lightroom’s Local Adjustment Brush to “paint” in a blurred effect that is somewhat like a short depth of field look. We …

Posing Basics – The Naked Shoulder & Full Back

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Continuing in our series on posing is The Naked Shoulder. In this pose the subject’s face is turned towards a naked shoulder with the face in either full frontal or 2/3 view. Of course the …

Friday Photo Tip – Understanding ISO

The ISO setting of your camera is used to adjust the sensitivity of your camera’s sensor, allowing you to shoot in darker situations than normal. There is a trade-off as increasing the ISO setting will …

Learning Lightroom – Basic Develop Tools

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Starting this week I am going to be doing another new weekly series called Learning Lightroom. Each week I will be posting a new video to help you learn everything from the basics of Lightroom …

Classic Portrait Lighting Styles Part I

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As we continue our series on portrait lighting we now need to look at the different types of classic portrait lighting and see the effect it has on someone so we can decided when to use each type. By choosing the proper lighting for a particular person, we can help them to look their best by making them appear to be thinner or wider or to accent or minimize certain facial features.

Posing Basics – The Step Up

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Most of the poses we have seen so far in our posing series have been used to show a woman’s curves or can even be used to hide unwanted curves. This pose, which I call …

How to clean your lenses

How to clean your lenses

Keeping your lenses clean is easier than most people think but does require a few things to make sure you do it properly. This week, I show you the best way to clean your lenses. During …

Review: Canon EOS M Mirrorless Camera

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If you haven’t bought a mirrorless camera yet, you will soon. Yes, that is a pretty bold statement, but let’s face reality here, it is more than “just likely” that ALL cameras will be mirrorless …

Posing Basics – Knees in or Out

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In the second installment of our Posing Basics series we will look at another simple technique to add a little style to your subjects with just a little knee action. The result is very similar …

Podcast #132 – Jason Groupp and WPPI

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Jason Groupp has been a photographer in New York for over 20 years and I am a big fan of his work, his style, and his teaching techniques. We have had Jason on the podcast …

Color Correction with Gels

Color Correction with Gels

This week I show you how to match flash color with ambient color using colored gels on your flash. Kerry goes on to show you how to use the same technique to trick a scene into …

Posing Basics – The S Curve

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One day my wife came home to find me sitting in the middle of the living room floor surrounded by torn up fashion magazines. After the appropriate jokes about what I could possibly be doing …

Principles of Photography 101, Working with Light

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With breakthroughs in modern technology, it is becoming easier and easier for people to learn to take nice, quality pictures themselves. DSLR’s (Digital Single Lens Reflex) are available for affordable prices.
These cameras can keep up …

Watermark your images in Lightroom

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Many people want to put a graphic or text watermark on their images when they export them which can help cut down on unauthorized use of your images. With Lightroom 4, watermarking has finally grown up, …

Podcast Flashback – Carlos Baez

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This week we flash back to early 2009 with one of the most popular podcasts in the history of Camera Dojo.
In this show Kerry and David talk with Carlos Baez about the recent controversy over the …

Using a Light Meter

Using a Light Meter

Getting a good exposure can often be tricky even when your camera’s internal meter is showing the exposure should be correct. If you have a light mete, you can ensure a proper exposure every time.
In …

Review: Savage Paper Tech Table

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Not everyone does tethered shooting but most people have a need for an extra table once in a while and the new Tech Table from Savage Paper fills both of those needs quite well. The …