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How To Organize Your Digital Photos

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Organize Your Digital Photos

A common question we get asked by readers is what is the best way to organize your digital photographs? There is no easy answer to this question as everyone’s needs are different. Below I”ll explain how I organize my digital photographs.
I Store all My photos within one folder
Perhaps the most common problem I see [...]

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Photo Back Ups – Don’t Play Hard Disk Roulette

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Are You Playing Hard Drive Roulette?

So many people (including myself until recently) fail to back up all of their photos (not to mention other documents) regularly. Every (and I mean EVERY) hard drive will eventually fail. It is only a matter of time before the disk drive your photos are currently residing on will fail. If you do not back [...]

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Digital Photography Composition – 6 Tips To Improve Your Shots

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Digital Photography Composition: 6 Tips To Improve Your Shots

We’ve put together a list of 6 great tips to help your digital photography composition.
The Rule of Thirds
If you haven’t heard of the rule of thirds then you should have. To create more interesting compositions imagine your frame with imaginary lines drawn bot vertically and horizontally 1/3 and 2/3 of the way across. When composition [...]

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Inspiration for Photography – 6 Ways To Get Inspired

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In Need of Photographic Inspiration?

We’ve all had it, a seemingly unending feeling of boredom with our photography. Lack of inspiration (called writers block by authors)  can strike the photographer at any time without warning.
In this article we’ll highlight some ways that can help you rediscover your photographic mojo and enable you to become inspired to get out there and [...]

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How to Make Money Selling Stock Photos

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Make Money From Your Pictures

In recent years the quality of digital cameras has been increasing incredibly quickly. This has meant that it is now possible for many amateur photographers to produce great professional quality photographs. This combined with the spread of the Internet has created way for amateur photographers to become freelance photographers by selling the rights to use [...]

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Lightroom Basic Tools Explained

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A Tutuorial on Lightroom's Basic Tools

Tone Adjustments
If you are a Lightroom user like me you have probably played with the basic tone adjustment sliders and discovered how powerful they are. For quite a while I was using these tools without really understanding exactly how each tool was helping my photographs look better.
In our how to get the perfect exposure article [...]

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Connect Your External Hard Drive to a Wireless Network

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How To Connect External Hard Drive to a Wireless Network

I recently spent $40 on a great little device that has transformed my external hard drive into a wireless network drive. My ever expanding collection of electronic gadgets has meant the tangled mess of wires in my home is growing bigger by the day. Here is how I’ve started to cut the wires from my [...]

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How To Get The Perfect Exposure

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How To Get The Perfect Exposure

Unfortunately there is no easy method to get the perfect exposure in a photograph. As with all pursuits if we were able to expose all of our photographs perfectly then I imagine you would lose interest in the hobby of photography fairly quickly.
Part of the enjoyment we gain from photography is the thrill of trying [...]

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What Makes A Good Portrait?

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What Makes A Good Portrait Photograph?

I love portraits. When I look back through my best photographs a large proportion of them are portraits. I blame this entirely on my 50mm f1.8 lens which in my opinion is the best bang for the buck portrait lens available (i still can’t believe you can pick it up for less than $100).
Anyway recently [...]

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How To Take Better Holiday Photographs

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Taking Better Holiday Photographs

Everybody want to learn how to take better holiday snaps. Below we’ve put together some easy tips to help you improve the quality of your holiday photographs.
1. Make Landscape Photos More Interesting
Instead of just pointing your camera at the horizon and shooting always try and make a point of putting something of interest in the [...]

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