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Monetizing personal projects: The restaurant, part one

Monetizing personal projects is important to me and I have found it to be a profitable way to build my business. You can too! First connection I made a twilight photo of my favorite local restaurant while experimenting with showing the lighted interior and a sunset. It was where I

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Using AirMagic to process your drone photos

Using AirMagic to process your drone photos

In this article and video, I’m going to show you Skylum’s new drone specific software, AirMagic, for taking your drone photos, both JPG and DNG RAW, and quickly producing beautiful results with them. How does it work? Here’s how Skylum describes it: There’s no doubt drone photos look breathtaking. You

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Photographer of the Day: RyuFilms

Category: Street Photographer: RyuFilms Photo: “Nishiki Market in Kyoto” I love street photography. It has the power to make you feel like you are right there in the scene. I saw this image and immediately become claustrophobic. I wouldn’t have even tried to walk down that alley. I also really love that

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First Look: Alter Rapid Filter System

Update: The Alter Rapid Filter System is now on Kickstarter! As someone who really enjoys photographing landscapes, I often use Neutral Density (ND) filters. And as much as I love using those filters, it’s a pain to have to screw them on and off, over and over again. Enter the

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Quickly rename a single photo in Lightroom Classic CC

Many photographers are aware of the ability to use a template-driven approach to renaming multiple images in Adobe Lightroom Classic CC. But there is also a quick and easy way to rename a single photo, as demonstrated in this quick video. Want more tips like this? Check out my “Lightroom

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Photographer of the Day: iLOVEnature Photography

Category: Outdoor Photographer: iLOVEnature Photography Photo: “Winter Sunset Silhouettes Nature’s Inspiration” Such beautiful details in this foxtail at sunset. It’s really amazing to see the shapes within the stalk. I also love the gradation of warm to cool from corner to corner in this. A wonderful reminder to pay attention to the smaller

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Call for new writers for Photofocus

Hi! My name is Kevin Ames. I am a managing editor here at Photofocus and we are looking for new writers to add to our team. We want writers who love photography, love to share and want to help their fellow photographers. We welcome new voices. Are you one of

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Toy photography: Dealing with dust

One of the main issues with photographing toys is that everything gets magnified in scale. The smaller the toy, the bigger the world around the toy look. Small things become huge, and microscopic things become large. As you can imagine this makes small things like dust a big problem. A

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