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No fireworks to photograph this Fourth of July?

Around this time of year, we always see so many articles about how to photograph fireworks. What if you don’t like fireworks or they’re rained out, or possibly canceled? What else can you do to celebrate the Fourth of July holiday photographically? Flowers always work Next grocery store run, pick

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Three adjustments I make to every photo

Over the years, I’ve gotten into a rhythm, specifically with photo editing. When I start editing a photograph, there are three adjustments I make to each one of them. It helps to amplify the look I’m going for, and has ultimately led to a better quality image to send to

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Quick Tip: Cool Your Winter Photos with the Kelvin Scale

When shooting winter landscapes, I often want to show the cold temperatures I’m fighting through in my photographs, by having a cooler white balance. Using the Kelvin color temperature scale, the normal temperature is 5500, known as “Natural Daylight.” But if I want to show just how cold it was

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Photographer of the Day: Ian Lewry

Category: Sports Photograph: Ian Lewry “The Red Arrows” Seeing planes soar through the sky can be a special experience — the red, white and blue trails coming off the planes give a certain pride in the photograph. But coupled with the rainbow behind, and you get something truly unique. The

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HSL Panel – The Secret for Local Color Adjustments in Lightroom

There are two kinds of tools in Lightroom – global adjustment tools and local adjustment tools. Global adjustments refer to sliders that adjust the overall image. Things like Exposure, Contrast, Whites, Blacks, Clarity, Saturation, Sharpening, etc. Sometimes you just can’t push an image far enough with global changes and you

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Cheating Blue Skies in Lightroom

We all know that there’s a right way to do things and a “cheating” way, but it doesn’t matter which one you use as long as the end result is the same, right? A few months ago, I was on Zuma Beach in Malibu for sunset. Even though the dynamic

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