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Your Photo Tips Most Popular Posts
Today we continue to look back on 2009 and it was a very successful year for the Your Photo Tips website. Many thanks go out to all of you loyal readers and fans. We couldn’t do this without you. Speaking of you…
Here are your favorite and most popular posts of 2009.
If you’re new to the [...]
Top 10 Tips for Dynamite Digital Photography
By Tom Grimm and Michele Grimm,
Authors of The Basic Book of Digital Photography: How to Shoot, Enhance, and Share Your Digital Pictures
Here are 10 easy ways to greatly improve your digital photographs and avoid the pitfalls that are common with today’s automatic cameras. Professional photographers Michele and Tom Grimm offer these and many more tips [...]
The 10 Commandments of a Strobist Photographer
1. You shall not use big lights when a small strobe can get the job done.
2. You shall not break your back with heavy equipment as long as you can get the job done with lighter equipment.
3. You shall not tether your camera to your strobe when you can use a radio slave.
4. Always find [...]
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The BetterPhoto Guide to Exposure [Book Review]
Special thanks to Amphoto Books and Watson-Guptill Publications for providing this month’s Photography Book Club selection.
The BetterPhoto Guide to Exposure (BetterPhoto Series) by Sean Arbabi
By most photographer’s standards, the quest for consistently great exposure control is the holy grail of technical expertise. This book aims at helping you reach that goal.
About the Author
Sean Arbabi [...]
Turn Off Your Flash
Here at Your Photo Tips we often talk about using flash to enhance the overall beauty of your image by allowing you, as a photographer, to control and manipulate light. I don’t think, however, that I’ve explained that if you are using a point and shoot with on-camera flash you are probably, in fact, [...]
Minimalist Lighting [Book Review]
Minimalist Lighting: Professional Techniques for Location Photography
Admittedly I was pretty excited when I got this book in the mail. My initial background was in portrait and wedding photography so I do have a special love for lighting techniques. In the studio we used professional strobes with large softboxes and at weddings it was natural light,on [...]
Using A Flash Outdoors
Want to know one of the biggest secrets that professional photographers use to get better pictures in outdoor photography? They use a flash!
I know, it sounds simple and truthfully it is… sort of.
We discussed using a flash outdoors before in Easy Lighting Tips For Outdoor Photography but I thought we could get a little [...]
Red Eye
Not to be confused with pink eye, red eye can be just as bad for photographers. Okay, that might be a stretch. I have a two year old and she gave me pink eye a couple months back and that wasn’t fun at all. Truthfully, red eye is a complex problem with [...]
Nikon D300 & SB-800 Speedlight Flash Diffusion Test
In this article Raymond K. Dauphinais discusses his personal test with a Nikon and a speedlight.
On camera flash photography has always challenged me. I learned photography, in West Germany during the early ‘70s, using natural light only, black and white film and developed my own prints. My first experience, in the early ‘80s, with a [...]
Lighting Techniques: Guide To Buying Lights
Last week we looked at The 3 Light Set Up and before that we talked general information on Lighting Equipment. Today we’ll look a little more specifically into lighting equipment purchasing, and using what you have to get your professional studio portrait lighting off the ground.
As I’ve been writing this series on [...]
Easy Lighting Tips for Outdoor Photography
Here at Your Photo Tips we strive to make your photography experiences easier and better. While this isn’t a comprehensive and detailed list of all outdoor lighting possibilities with photography, it will certainly help you get started thinking about outdoor light in your photographs.
Make the sun your best friend, not your enemy.
When photographing outdoors [...]
