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Aurora and foreground? Northern Lights Photography
The Northern lights in Iceland can yield wonderful displays for your camera, but if you can include some of the landscape you…
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Telephoto Landscapes: the importance of lines
When I play back through my shots I see how I am working on a frame getting slightly closer to the correct…
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Video Tutorial: Icelandic Waterfall Skutafoss
This tutorial is a demonstration of the Magic Cloth Technique to add drama to a dull sky at the SKutafoss waterfall in…
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Advantages of a prime lens for composition
Prime lenses are lenses with a fixed focal length. This article looks at the advantages of photographing with a fixed focal length.…
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Landscape composition – the story of the 3 grounds
Considering a photo as a story can be useful if you are careful to show how the elements of a scene relate…
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3 is the magic number
Simple landscape composition. Three is already a Magic Number in photography. How many legs does a tripod have? It wouldn’t work the…
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Compositional consideration
You arrive at a new scene and start shooting with your camera and tripod. then you go home and upload your images…
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Night Photography 2 – overcoming the darkness
Night photography is a challenging hobby. You are taking a picture in conditions where you can barely see your camera. You have…
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Landscape Composition – following and breaking the rules
The rules of composition are guidelines for producing a well designed image. ‘Guidelines’ are probably a better description than ‘rules’ as they…
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Photography as Communication
If you have communication in mind when you take the picture, then your photograph will have a communication value. This article discusses…
