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How to Choose and Prepare for a Photography Tour

November 21, 2015 By Elizabeth 32 Comments

Galapagos Sunset

If you’re like me, you’ve planned a trip, had visions of coming home with an SD card full of National Geographic images, but ended up with a hard drive full of vacation snapshots. What can you do to better prepare for a trip when you really want to spend some...

JPEG Compression Levels in Photoshop and Lightroom

November 19, 2015 By Nasim Mansurov 29 Comments

Photoshop Save for Web

Determining the ideal JPEG quality setting in both Photoshop and Lightroom can be challenging, because we often see two different values to choose from. Photoshop gives us compression levels from 0 to 12 when saving JPEG images through the "Save" or "Save As" dialog, while Lightroom only allows us to...

How to Significantly Reduce Your Backup Needs

November 18, 2015 By Nasim Mansurov 40 Comments

FastRawViewer Full Zoom View

One of the biggest issues many of us photographers face is the gigantic size of our photo libraries, which creates a lot of issues for backing up and restoring images. While we have written a number of articles on properly backing up images, with a recent article on a backup...

How to Avoid and Reduce Noise

November 16, 2015 By John Sherman 54 Comments

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Noise is the sleet storm Satan drenches our photos in when we stupidly leave our tripod in the trunk thinking VR will save our lazy butt, but instead we end up shooting at quadruple digit ISOs. In this article, we will take a look at a couple of techniques on...

Introduction to Video Shooting Gear

November 15, 2015 By Thomas Stirr 6 Comments

Camera jib with DSLR mounted

Nowadays, it is not unusual to hear about photographers being asked by their clients to do video work for them. For many photographers adding video to their list of services can be a bit intimidating, especially when it could entail making some investments in video-related gear. While it is certainly...

Adobe’s Poor Handling of RAW Files

November 14, 2015 By Nasim Mansurov 169 Comments

Canon 5DS R Crop Lightroom

With Adobe Lightroom being the most popular post-processing tool on the market, one might wonder how good the software really is in processing RAW images. After-all, that's what we use Lightroom primarily for - to post-process our images and get the best out of them. Having been using Lightroom since...

Leading The Eye

November 9, 2015 By Alpha Whiskey 22 Comments

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Less philosophy and more actual photography this time, leading the eye into a scene is one of the tenets of composition (at least for me) and there is a multitude of ways in which this can happen. An image of something or somewhere can be a more rewarding experience for...

Fall Highlights in Niagara

November 8, 2015 By Thomas Stirr 24 Comments

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Autumn is the favourite season for many photographers. The colours in the forest can be spectacular. Wildlife, especially birds, can often be found in abundance as they migrate. And, the weather can bring interesting effects like fog into more prominence. When most people think of the Niagara, Canada area their...

Best Outdoor Camera Bag

November 7, 2015 By Guest Poster 29 Comments

Bag Review-7

I set out with a goal to find the best outdoor camera bag. For the most part all of these bags turned out to be pretty great bags with different strengths. To try out the bag it needed to hold at least one pro body, a wide angle zoom, normal...

Which Nikon DSLR is The Best and Why

November 5, 2015 By Nasim Mansurov 150 Comments

Wadi Rum (7)

One of the most frequently asked questions I often get asked is "Which Nikon DSLR is the best?" Having been using Nikon gear for over a decade, I have been fortunate to use almost every Nikon camera produced since I started - from low-budget entry-level cameras to high-end professional DSLRs....

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