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Beautiful Candid Photography – An expression of what it is to be human

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We are social beings, but often find ourselves isolated. While it’s in our nature to gather together, getting close to anyone takes effort and skill. No where is this more true than in the world of photography. A candid picture that really captures what an honest moment is like can be shockingly hard to take. All the same, we have found 30 images that do exactly that. They take a…

Inspiring & Powerful Documentary Photography

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Images can be powerful. They can communicate a story straight to your heart before it can beat. They can tell it in terms you can understand, even if those depicted speak another language. When images are used to capture the realities of the world we live in, you have photojournalism. You have documentary photography. You might also like… 20 Inspirational and Free Downloadable Photography Magazines → Tutorials for Creating Beautiful…

25 Examples of Monochromatic Photos and Art

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Colors help our eyes determine detail. Sometimes, however, multiple colors can disguise details that we do not naturally see. Using shades of one color to wash out a photo or art piece can add to the overall impact and bring out details we might have missed. This process of either eliminating all color or reducing the color palette to hues within a single shade is generally referred to as monochromatism….

40 Examples Of Tilt-Shift Photography

40 Examples Of Tilt-Shift Photography

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Here is another round up for all you photography lovers out there. Today, we are showcasing some of the best examples of tilt-shift photography. You’ll love it. In a nutshell, tilt-shift photography is an inspired and mesmorizing photography technique that requires manipulating the camera or image so that a life-sized location or subject looks like a miniature-scale model. If you would like to learn how to achieve this marvelous effect,…

50 Time Saving Photoshop Actions to Boost Your Images

50 Time Saving Photoshop Actions to Boost Your Images

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You’re a creative talent. The last thing you probably want is to be stuck performing the same task a hundred times on different images. Adobe programmers understand this. It’s why they created Photoshop Actions. With Photoshop Actions, a set of otherwise repetitive tasks can be applied automatically, freeing you up for the real work: being creative. In this article, Jameel Khan shares 60 time saving actions you can use to…

20 HDR Photographers Worth Watching

20 HDR Photographers Worth Watching

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Do you need a twist on your photographic inspiration? Check out the following HDR photographers. The techniques they use to create surrealistic images combine multiple exposures to capture a wider range of value and color. Since most HDR photography is used to achieve difficult exposures with wider dynamic ranges, the subject matter of the art tends to be architectural or landscape in nature; however, there are many different forms of…

Breathtaking NASA Photos

Breathtaking NASA Photos

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Unless you can afford a ticket to space ($200,000 with Virgin Galactic), the only way we will ever be able to clearly view our planet in its entirety or any distant galaxies is through the photographs released by NASA (The National Aeronautics and Space Agency). So, here are a few of my favorite pictures taken by NASA from its various space programs. You will find them breathtaking. (All photographs are…

50 Wonderful Black & White Photos with Partial Color Effects

50 Wonderful Black & White Photos with Partial Color Effects

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Taking a black and white photograph and adding partial color to certain key points of the shot is one of the most popular techniques amongst professional photographers. You can understand its popularity when you look at the examples we have for you below. This technique can take an otherwise dull image and make it vibrant by highlighting critical areas of beauty. And, as you will also notice, they can at…

PSD Coloring Resources for Photographers

PSD Coloring Resources for Photographers

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Want a simple way to add some flavor to your photos? You could mess around with filters in Photoshop, or you can use a coloring PSD to quickly drop an effect on your photograph. This article is a collection of PSD coloring resources for photographers. Basically, these are Photoshop files with coloring layers that let photographers to quickly give any photograph coloring effects. Not sure how to use coloring PSD…

20 Inspirational and Free Downloadable Photography Magazines

20 Inspirational and Free Downloadable Photography Magazines

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Inspiration is important for web and visual designers. It’s what gives you new ideas, shapes and influences your style, and energizes and increases your passion for visual art. And visual art that’s of a different medium from yours can be an even greater inspiration—like photography—since you’re getting a fresh outside perspective. This article features 20 inspirational free downloadable photography magazines. You might also like… 19 Tutorials for Creating Beautiful HDR…

30 Inspiring Niche Photography Websites to Explore

30 Inspiring Niche Photography Websites to Explore

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We are not suggesting for a moment, with this post, that your Android mobile device would be a good alternative as a development platform to your desktop or laptop. All it shows with the current apps available, that it could be and the potential for more is certainly there. Maybe not so much with a mobile, but if you have one of the many iPad-a-like Android tablets that are currently available it certainly could be a reality.

How to Boost Your Creativity in 3 (or 7) Days

How to Boost Your Creativity in 3 (or 7) Days

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All creative professionals face creative blocks. Many times these blocks are caused by being overworked and burned out on creativity. Sometimes routine helps, but it can frequently hinder the brain juices. After all, variety is the spice of life. As a creative professional there are definitely some related fields to your profession. Being a graphic designer with a degree, I could swear that college burned out my creativity. Then I…

Three Unique Methods for Photographing Beautiful Portraits

Three Unique Methods for Photographing Beautiful Portraits

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Sufyan bin Uzayr explores some awesome yet simple techniques that can be used to shoot lively portrait photographs. Most (if not all) of us relate a person’s identity by his or her face. The unique features and expressions on one’s face tell a lot about the personality. Quite naturally, capturing perfect profile/portraits is a task that is generally accomplished by keeping the subject’s entire face in focus. However, as with…