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If you haven’t started using Adobe Lightroom for your image organization and editing, you are missing out on a big part of the digital photography pie. Just using this program alone will help the quality and consistency of your images. You can learn the basics of this...

So one of the more commonly misunderstood techniques is what to set your aperture when using a telephoto lens. More often then not, I always use a wide-open aperture or simply put, the lowest aperture my lens will go when using a telephoto lens (which is usually my...

I've been getting lots of questions about the new Lensbaby Velvet 85, and many of them have to do with the difference between the Velvet 56 and the new model. Some people want to know which to choose, while others who already own the Velvet 56 want to know if there is...

  Wish your travel photos included beautiful images of your meals? Here are 10 tips to getting great shots, excerpted from Amazing Travel Photos Made Easy taught by Brit Hammer. This course walks you through how to great travel photos of all kinds, ranging from...

The next time you want to take a portrait of a friend, relative, spouse, your kids, or your pet, and you either don’t have the right lighting equipment (the flash on your camera is not the right equipment) or you can’t afford it,  think about the best source of light...

Below is excerpted from Amazing Travel Photos Made Easy taught by Brit Hammer.   MEET YSTER. Yster is a white rhino. "Yster" in Afrikaans means iron, and anyone given this name is a fighter and a survivor. The name suits him perfectly. Orphaned at age 3 1/2 weeks...

If you are new to using Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, you may not be familiar with the use of presets. Once you have learned the basic organization and develop modules in Lightroom in my Lightroom Quick Start Class, you're ready to move on to presets! Presets are a...