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October 26, 2010 by Craig

Reduce, Simplify, Deepen

Tweet Chris Orwig, author of the excellent photography book, Visual Poetry: A Creative Guide for Making Engaging Digital Photographs is an inspiration to many photographers. Traveling the world to bring home creative images in addition to his teaching work at Brooks Institute, he brings an engaging poetic style to photography that captivates viewers. Chris subscribes [...]

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October 25, 2010 by Craig

Simulated Shallow Depth of Field in Photoshop

Tweet Nothing takes the viewers attention away from the subject like a messy background. This is particularly noticeable in portrait photography, especially when done outside somewhere. The best way to avoid these distracting backgrounds is to shoot with a shallow depth of field but there are a number of reasons why that may not always [...]

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October 24, 2010 by Craig

Free Photoediting Software

Tweet Not everybody wants or needs to fork a few hundred dollars for Photoshop, Lightroom, Aperture or any of the other alternatives available for editing photographs. A lot of the time, the only thing people actually use these pieces of software for is to apply some auto edits and maybe a crop. Why go to [...]
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