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Photographer of the Week: February 18-22, 2019

Every weekday, Photofocus curators share a great photograph taken by one of our readers. Every month we highlight photographs in the genres of architecture, portrait, outdoor, street and a flex category that changes each month. In February we started featuring photos highlighting love. In March, we’ll dive into urban exploration.

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Weekly Wrap-Up: February 17-23, 2019

The Weekly Wrap-up compiles interesting articles published this week on Photofocus. This week we learned about the rule of thirds, how to use the whites and blacks sliders in Lightroom, lens choices, shutter speed and attracting clients.

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Photographer of the Day: Giovanni Savino Photography

Category: Love Photographer: Giovanni Savino Photography Photo: “Wild Wedding” With a feel that comes straight out of a rock concert in the 70s, Giovanni captures the raw emotion of love and romance between this couple. The black and white treatment gives it that old school look and feel, and by framing the couple

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How to attract and keep more clients

Being a photographer obviously implies taking pictures. But being a photographer also requires many other skills in order to be successful. Some of those skills are not about photography. They make a huge difference between a struggling business and a thriving one. Here are the ones I use to grow my photographic business.

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Understanding Lightroom catalogs

Remember back in our school days, when we had to look up something in our school’s library? We relied on the Dewey Decimal System, basically a reference that told us where in the library to find a specific book we were looking for. We knew that all our favorite photography

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Photographer of the Day: Gabi Ben Avraham

Category: Street Photographer: Gabi Ben Avraham Photo: “Untitled” I slightly love the fact that this image by Gabi Ben Avraham is “untitled.” I can’t help but feel like it was intentional a little. Maybe based on the fact you can’t see her subject’s face? Either way, I find it intriguing. Originally shared

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Adventure photography contest from Lume Cube

Lume Cube is running a contest on adventure photography. It’s open to all skill levels of photographers. The adventures are those that any experience seeker would make photos of. Someone stepping off a train, a mountain goat in craggy rocks, riding a camel, an ice cave sojourn or even buying

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What is “publication” in terms of copyright?

(Editor’s note: Copyright and all things related are as important to creators of images both moving and still. This guest post by intellectual property attorney, Barry Kaplan gives us all some insights into what copyright law is, where it came from and why it’s important to all of us.) In some

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Understanding exposure: The shutter speed setting

Exposure is the process of choosing the correct settings on your camera to produce a picture that “looks right;” not too bright, not too dark, and sharp where it should be. In this series, you will learn what each setting means, how they affect the way your images look, and

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Photographer of the Day: Jim Denham

Category: Outdoor Photographer: Jim Denham Photo: “Fog in the Trees” What a magical moment captured. I love the warmth through the trees created by the mixture of the sun and fog. If you read Jim’s description on Flickr it’s a reminder to us all to always take one more look before you leave. Thank you

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