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Saving a Native File in Aurora HDR 2018 (part 25)

In this course, join Richard Harrington and explore the world of HDR with Aurora HDR from Skylum. You’ll learn how to merge multiple exposures together to show an extended dynamic range of scenes.  This class covers how to use the complete collection of options inside Aurora HDR. [Save $10 on

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Photographer of the Day: Kurt Kramer

Category: Street Photographer: Kurt Kramer “Orange/Yellow (57042)” I’m plenty used to seeing the scenes beneath the Chicago train tracks, but Kurt seems to do a spectacular job at capturing and framing his subject. By framing her in-between the columns, there’s enough contrast to make the woman walking stand out amongst

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Lightroom Secrets: The Power of Snapshots

For ages, I’ve become accustomed to using Lightroom’s Virtual Copy feature. It let me create multiple images and style them based off of the original edit I had made. But it was tedious when dealing with multiple virtual copies. Since then, I’ve discovered the Snapshots tool — a powerful yet

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Photographer of the Day: Mark Fletcher

Category: Sports Photographer: Mark Fletcher “Jamie Vardy – Leicester vs Southampton 19/04/18 (Explored)” Mark captures this soccer player mid-air as the soccer ball reaches his toes, in what is an excellent, well-composed photograph. The blurred background helps to separate the player and make him stand out in what is already

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Get Out of the Shark Pool

Editor’s Note: Fabrizia Costa is a portrait and wedding photographer who also helps photographers raise the level of their work and their business through workshops and personal coaching. Her work is all about deep shifts in perspective, seeing things with new eyes, and thinking outside the box. If you’re a professional

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In Depth Gear Review: Vanguard Alta Sky 51D Backpack For Drones!

Vanguard’s Alta Sky 51D is a spacious backpack for camera gear. It’ll carry a laptop in addition to cameras, including the largest DSLR’s, but its special characteristic is that it can be configured to carry a quad-copter drone, like a DJI Phantom. Even loaded very heavily, it is comfortable to wear and

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A Complete Portrait Workflow

A workflow needs to be creative and efficient. The creative part most photographers do very well, however, it’s the efficient part I see my colleagues struggle with. To help shed light on how to develop a workflow, I created the “Complete Portrait Workflow” as an example. This workflow can be

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Photographer of the Day: Christian Meermann

Category: Wildlife Photographer: Christian Meermann “Northern Carmine Bee-eater #2” An amazing portrait of this bird. The lighting and B&W treatment are just perfect, resulting in the perfect amount of contrast. The catchlight in the bird’s eye brings the subject to life. Just fantastic! Thanks for sharing with our group. Originally shared

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Portrait Tips: Make Special Day Portraits

We are so lucky! We get to be present for the most memorable and special days in people’s lives. In fact, most of the time our pictures end up being the memory people keep from the day, the image in their mind is one of the photos we made. This

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