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You’ve got the new beaut camera or maybe you dusted off an old one that you’ve had for a couple of years and instead of using your smartphone, you thought you would use this for your marketing images. After all you have enough of searching for stock photos that just aren’t what you need.…
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Buying any sort of technology whether it be a phone, a TV or in this case, a camera, can be mystifying in a lot of cases and more importantly, time consuming. But it doesn’t have to be. Ask these questions and you have a fair chance of coming away with a decent camera from a…
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When taking any photo, it’s the done thing to have rules. Now I don’t go along with rules all the time after all, aren’t they made to be broken? But this one is an essential rule for anyone starting out or even still learning (not that you ever finish learning but you get my drift)…
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We often spend too much time searching for things that we have under our noses. Let’s take Stock photos for your marketing as an example. We’ll either jump on the net and spend hours searching for images that will fit the bill or set up our own temporary photo studio and take something ourselves that…
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In 10 Vital Facts about Camera Aperture I wrote that “The aperture of a camera is the centre of the photographic universe – well maybe – the other centre, as some would argue, is the shutter.” Let’s go to the other centre of the photographic universe, the Shutter and specifically Shutter Speed. In all honesty,…
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Once upon a time I had zero interest in photography but as we were going on the trip of a lifetime I figured I should get a ‘decent’ camera. I went to a local camera store and spoke to the guy there who had been to some of the places we were intending to visit.…
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To bring you the content that you enjoy on this blog, I read extensively, some it from physical and digital books (I have 100’s) and some from different places from around the net. After all I may be a photographer that’s been in sales and marketing for many years (too many some would say) but…
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In a recent post, Looking for stock photos? Here’s how to take your own, I listed the Four Basic Elements of Stock photography: 1 Background 2 People (Model/S) 3 Subject 4 Involvement I covered Background in How to create the right stock photo background, People in How to put People in your Stock Photos and…
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In a recent post, Looking for stock photos? Here’s how to take your own, I listed the Four Basic Elements of Stock photography: 1 Background 2 People (Model/S) 3 Subject 4 Involvement I covered Background in How to create the right stock photo background I also covered people in How to put People in your…
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A few weeks ago, I posted Looking for stock photos? Here’s how to take your own. In this post, I listed Four Basic Elements of Stock photography and gave a brief description of each one. Well in the next few weeks I’m gonna expand on each one. Then you, as a business owner can…
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So, you think that you’ve taken some great photos of your product. Who wouldn’t want to buy your products with them looking like that. You’ve looked at your competitor’s best photos. Worked out how you can improve on those with some great composition and processing. The lighting was perfect, the colour is great…
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As great as online creators such as Canva and Piktochart are, there are times that you need or want to create something without being Online. Plus, if you are only using the free versions then you can be limited in what templates and other images you can use. So, here’s an off the radar alternative…
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How many times have you looked at those beautiful images only to realise on closer inspection there’s a slight blurriness about it. It’s just not as crisp and clear as it should be. That’s called softness and is usually caused by Camera shake. In my last post How to hold a camera correctly…
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So, you think you can hold a camera or smartphone correctly? Well how do you know? Take a good look at your photos. No, not on the camera or phone screen but on your PC, Mac or Laptop. Even a tablet is better than a smartphone or camera screen but the bigger the better. Now…
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So, what is the exposure triangle? Well the exposure triangle is the relationship between aperture, shutter speed and ISO.Each one affects the other. OHM’s Law Remember Ohm’s law? Well if you don’t (I’m not even sure they teach it at school these days). It’s basically an electrical equation V Volts (power) = R Ohms (resistance)…
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