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What are the first few photography books someone should read?
The books that helped me most initially were the Bryan Peterson books and more recently the Joe McNally books.
Both of these working photographers give a lot of honest and helpful examples. These ...
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How does one create the Dave Hill effect for portraits/action shots?
Inspired by the question here by sebastian.b, and the response to the subsequent meta question. I would like to ask how to achieve a specific photo effect.
There may be more photographers that pull ...
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How do I give someone a critique of their photograph?
I often read about giving and getting critiques on a photograph or series of photographs. Specifically how do I go about giving a critique? What do I say, what points do I want to hit, etc.
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What are good resources for a beginning photographer?
What are good resources (tutorials/books/videos/etc) for a beginning photographer?
Keep in mind that this is for a beginning photographer, who has recently moved from a point-and-shoot to an ...
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What are the best resources for Indoor Product Photography?
I would like to know if there any good online resources for indoor product photography ?
Preferably with a Table Top setup.
Im looking for commercial grade product photography tutorials/resources.
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Do paid online photography classes have advantages over free online tutorials for a beginner?
I am looking to getting started with the "SLR-Photography". I just purchased an SLR camera (D5100) but I feel I'm taking pretty poor photographs.
Now I think the fault lies in the fact that I lack ...
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How does one get these HDR effects?
While I'm not a big fan of HDR images that hase been pushed over-the-top, I must admit that most of the images found on this Flickr site strike a good balance between very vivid colors and a "natural" ...
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How to achieve this specific metalic look in Photoshop?
Using photoshop, how do I get an image to have this silvery/metallic look?
I know how the scene was lit--the photographer explains how, so I am aware how to duplicate that part of it, but I believe ...
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Long exposure water shots tutorial for dummies? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I make the water silky in water/beach photography?
I want to start to do some long exposure shots of water like these:
picture from noticeeverything
So I don't ...
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What is a “Slanted S” in a curves layer?
I am trying to do a Photoshop tutorial, seems easy, but I can't understand one phrase: `First, I add a curves layer and create a slanted S. What does slanted S mean? Maybe I should "write" S in curves ...
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What are good online or DVD tutorials for my new DSLR?
I recently purchased Nikon D7000 and would like to learn how to use it properly and want to learn photography using it. Can anyone suggest good online tutorials which I can look at or any DVDs which I ...
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What are good, free online video tutorials for dSLR beginners?
I have just bought a new DSLR, after some years of point-and-shoot photography.
Are there any good free, online video tutorials or courses for the basics?
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What are some good online forums for discussing photographic editing?
What are some good forums for talking about editing photos in Photoshop or GIMP? Where do you talk about such things?
EDIT: Other than here, of course.
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Photos with EXIF data
Many of the blogs / Flickr streams do not publish images their EXIF data with the pictures - all I can see is the histogram.
Can you recommend blogs / samples with EXIF data in them so that I may ...
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Capturing an actual portrait and the philosophy behind portrait photography
I've run across millions of sites, books, tutorial videos etc. "about portraits", but most of them break down to lighting and posing (which is as important I guess).
Those are often lacking the ...
