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How to focus in the dark with infinity focus

With the Fourth of July coming up, now’s the perfect time to get ready for photography in the dark. Focusing in the dark is often made out to be tricky because it’s not easy to have your camera lock a focus on something. This is due to the lack of

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How could I forget the first rule of making a time-lapse?

Making time-lapse videos is fun. They exaggerate the passing of time and reveal a whole different view of the world. I carry my Platypod Ultra everywhere so I’m always ready to set my camera to time-lapse mode and record traffic or clouds or airport work or a wildfire. And making

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Seven secrets for nailing sharp focus each time

Ever taken some photos that appear sharp on your camera’s LCD screen, but see some blurring once you look at them on your computer screen or monitor? Or, maybe you’ve noticed that you’re getting more out of focus shots. Whichever the case, street photographer Pierre Lambert shares some of his

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Portrait Tips: Event portraits need more tries

Sometimes I think that if I could spend every day making creative portraits that I’d be a happy and content photographer. Never having to shoot events, never having to photograph boring products, never shooting cookie-cutter headshots — it’d be Nirvana on Earth. But then I realize that photographing things like

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DIY bokeh shape photography

The holidays are upon us and it’s time to take out your camera and make some fun images. I thought I would share how I take pictures of out of focus highlights and change them into different shapes using cardboard, scissors, tape and a pencil. Creating the cap First, we

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How to Manually Focus a Lens

In this video, Photofocus Publisher Rich Harrington and Author Levi Sim show you multiple strategies for manually focussing a camera.  They’ll walk you through options like zooming on live view, focus peaking, and more. Plus you’ll learn how to get proper exposure when shooting in manual mode. Want to win

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How to Use Manual Focus Lenses

My first digital camera was a Nikon D90, and, as with the other 23 changeable lens cameras I’ve owned since, it was intended for autofocus. You’re just supposed to put the focus point where you want to focus and let the lens and the camera do the work. This usually

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