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The On-Demand Series of Free Lessons is our way to say thank you and share with our members a variety of technical photography lessons. Please give us your feedback as we hope to answer the many questions you may have. It is a privilege to serve our community of photographers.
"7 Steps to becoming a better Photographer" is a series of short lessons, we created in order to offer our members a clear and simple series of steps they could follow and improve their photography skills. These steps do not get into the Aperture, depth of field and technical information. These steps lay the foundation on which you will grow as a photographer with the proper understanding of how photography works and offer some…
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Introduction to Street Photography
Written by Bruno Debas
An Introduction to Street Photography. Street photography is used every day all over the world. The minute a tourist decides to take his/her camera along for the day to document the location he/she is visiting, the style of photography used is Street Photography.Street photography is a type of documentary photography that features subjects in candid situations within public places such as streets, parks, beaches, malls, political conventions and other settings. Street photography uses the techniques…
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Tips and Guidelines for Abstract Photography Tips and guidelines for Abstract Photography is a short video to explain some of the simple and common steps photographers take to capture really beautiful photographs. This video covers 4 different techniques to be used durong the day of your shoot. These will be extremely beneficial for those who are going to be on their own and do not know where to start on the day of our Photo…
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Intro to Abstract in Photography
Written by Bruno Debas
Intro to Abstract in Photography was designed to offer some guidance and support for our March 5th . 2011 Photo Safari called: Beyond Reality: The Artist Portfolio. This class will introduce you to Abstract in photography through various examples. In this class I describe a personnal project that used some of the techniques that I explain. Abstract may seem simplistic but provides photographers with powerful benefits. It allows photographer to go beyond what we see and…
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Creating a reflective Studio Background is a fairly tricky process, not so much because of the many steps, but because of the few hidden ones, that may drive you out of your mind. A few years ago, I purchased a book from Mr. Kelby: "Photoshop CS Down and Dirty Tricks". I followed every steps and gave my students a demonstration. However a problem came up, and I can tell you, there was a major problem…
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I recently purchased a new lens. A 50mm 1.4 I use Nikon and it’s been awesome so far. I also know the Canon 50 1.4 is also great. However when I purchased it the salesman asked me if I wanted to get a UV filter. I thanked him but did not need one. “well he said you should get one to protect your lens!” . “I am all set, thanks”. On my way from the…
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The technology built in our digital cameras is often taken for granted. These cameras are so well designed that most often they can help us with difficult tasks. Examples would be getting a perfect exposure, focusing, proper white balance etc and even though they do an incredible job they are not perfect and one area of weakness may be the light meter. The reason why they fail to be perfect is the system on which…
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Terms and Concept in Composition
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Hello and welcome to "Terms and Concept in Composition" a free photography lesson introducing our members to the basic of composition. It offers a really awesome foundation on which one will be able to develop strong visual skills and understand how photographs are built but also how they are received by the viewer. Let's start with learning the terms and concepts we will use throughout our demonstrations. View our Free Movie: "Introduction to the Basic…
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Red Shoes (Free)
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In this lesson, Red Shoes, we demonstrate a simple rarely used photography technique. We break down this image and how it was lit. Lighting diagrams show you the step by step process of creating this photograph. The challenge was to get consistency of color throughout the picture and give the client as much latitute and options as possible. This free video lesson will show you how we were able to deliver the image the client…
B&W Nike (Free)
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In this free Photography lesson we will demonstrate how we created this picture. We will show you all the steps we took with various lighting diagrams, and the step by step work that was done to put the final photograph together in Photoshop. This free photography lesson delivers a great example of the best pratices used by professional photographers. This lesson is for everyone however if you were to create a similar picure you would…
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