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Panorama Primer: How to Make Panorama Pictures

November 29, 2011
Panorama Primer: How to Make Panorama Pictures

©Russ Burden By Russ Burden Many image editing programs have stitching programs built in and if not, those solely dedicated to making panoramas are inexpensive and easy to use. We’ll get you started with our Panorama Photo Tips…   Are you tired of being limited by the constraints of the standard aspect ratio your camera…

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Seeing Your Community in a Whole New Way through Your Camera Lens

November 26, 2011
Seeing Your Community in a Whole New Way through Your Camera Lens

  By Melissa Itzkowitz – TakeGreatPictures.com Digital Photo Academy offers dozens of classes each month in over 20 cities throughout the country taught by over 60 professional photographers and photojournalists.  Digital Photo Academy (DPA) was founded in 2007 by Richard Rabinowitz out of his New York City apartment and became an instant success. DPA offers…

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Fall Foliage Photography Tips: Getting the Most Intense Color in your Fall Photos

November 7, 2011
Fall Foliage Photography Tips: Getting the Most Intense Color in your Fall Photos

By Tracy Greene – TakeGreatPictures.com These Fall Foliage Photography Tips will help you get the most intense color in your fall photos.  Choose the Right Day On an overcast day when the sky is grey you can make the best fall foliage photos. Think about including less sky in your photos and focus on the…

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How To Take the Best Halloween Pictures

October 15, 2011
How To Take the Best Halloween Pictures

By Tracy Greene – TakeGreatPictures.com October means Halloween, and that means taking a lot of Halloween pictures. Here are some tips to taking the best Halloween pictures that will help you capture your ghosts and goblins in all their glory.    Take pictures of just about everything. This time of year there are so many…

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Photoshop Tip Of The Month: How To Create Your Own Mist and Fog

October 11, 2011
Photoshop Tip Of The Month: How To Create Your Own Mist and Fog

©Russ Burden By Russ Burden – TakeGreatPictures.com Learn to add fog and mist to your photographs to enhance the mood even if it wasn’t there when you took the picture Fog and mist add mood to an image. Both occur in calm weather conditions so it provides a tranquil and peaceful feeling. It’s more of…

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Fall Into Photography Contest: Win a Sony a55 DSLR and Lens

October 7, 2011
Fall Into Photography Contest: Win a Sony a55 DSLR and Lens

From TakeGreatPictures.com ENTER TODAY for your chance to WIN a Sony a55 camera and lens kit. Discover the speed, precision, and ability to capture the decisive moment with this amazing camera.  Capture the decisive moment with the Sony a55 DSLR  This convenient, fascinating, fun, high-performance camera will satisfy advanced enthusiasts as well as beginners, and…

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Photoshop Tip Of The Month: Digital Noise? Nik Dfine To the Rescue

October 4, 2011
Photoshop Tip Of The Month: Digital Noise? Nik Dfine To the Rescue

   By Russ Burden – TakeGreatPictures.com   All digital cameras introduce noise into a capture. Factors that contribute to the amount are ISO, length of exposure, underexposure, size of the sensor, and how much cropping is done to the file.  The higher the ISO, the more noise. Exposures of two seconds and longer introduce noise.…

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Fun Fall Photography Tips: Capture the cool, crisp fun of fall with these photo tips

October 3, 2011
Fun Fall Photography Tips: Capture the cool, crisp fun of fall with these photo tips

By Tracy Greene – TakeGreatPictures.com Fall into a lot of photos When the leaves are piled up high and the kids are ready to take that first dive, set your camera to sports mode, or manually set your shutter speed to a 250th of a second or faster to be sure you capture the moment. …

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Photo Apps and Plug-ins for Great Photo Effects

September 12, 2011
Photo Apps and Plug-ins for Great Photo Effects

By Brandon Remler – TakeGreatPictures.com See how you can take your photos from ok to wow using photo apps and plug-ins.  There are so many ways to capture and share images nowadays but after the capture there are also thousands of possibilities of what to do with the image in the myriad software choices to…

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Fish-Eye Lens Photography of NYC

August 15, 2011
Fish-Eye Lens Photography of NYC

Fish-eye Image of Skyline – Canon 5DII – 15mm lens – ISO 400 F/5.0 @ 4.0 seconds By Brandon Remler – TakeGreatPictures.com A great week for scenic NYC photos! We finally saw the rain pass and blue skies returned so I was out and about shooting. I thought I’d send out a few images of…

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