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How does one develop good photographic vision and style?
I am a relatively new photographer. I've only owned my Canon Rebel XSi for a year, however I was researching SLR/DSLR camera gear and photographic theory for over a year before I purchased a DSLR. I ...
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Is it acceptable in photography to never use flash?
I was hanging out with a friend of mine who is a professional photographer (for 15+ years), and has a solid portfolio, web-presence, and regional and national exposure.
He never uses a flash. ...
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Why would one shoot a fully blurred picture?
Focus and blur have a reason in a picture when they come together. Blur alone is just a loss of an important element in the photography art, unless it has a reason, like obscuring nudity or creating ...
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How can I get a 'touristy' photo of myself when travelling alone?
I'll shortly be travelling to new york and staying with a friend (but mostly touring on my own). As much as I enjoy regular photography my only regret from my last holiday is that I didn't have any ...
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Is the use of coloured lighting in industrial photography a bit… Passée?
I have been asked to do some photography around an aerospace engineering company, they make parts for planes basically.
Having looked at their previous imagery stash, taken i think 2003 ish, the ...
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Are there written guides or rules of thumb for setting color saturation, clarity, vibrance, etc. in post-processing (or in general)?
This isn't another "how do I get a picture to look like such-and-such-link-inserted-here in LR" question. There's a saturation (no pun intended) of these questions here. Interesting, but not general ...
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How can I create a photo with vintage look, focused on the lips?
I would really like to be able to take a photo like the one found here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/33008672@N06/5750321813/sizes/z/in/photostream/
Can somebody please help me how I should shoot ...
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How can I tell when to stop adding an effect?
When I shoot a photo and load it into my image editing software and start playing with curves and sliders, sometimes I go so far. For example I increase the saturation and I keep increasing it till it ...
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What do I need to make a photo in French Noir?
What do I need to make a photo in French Noir style?
Maybe I am not naming the style correctly, but the examples should give an idea of what I mean.
Can somebody explain what technique and ...
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Resource for guidance on achieving specific styles and 'looks' independent of software
Lately I've found that I can usually capture the image the way I envision it as far as exposure and composition but I begin to flail around in getting it from RAW file or negative/transparency to ...
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What are the different categories of photography?
After reading some questions, I am getting lost with stage photography, curtain photography? etc.. I only know portrait, landscape, street, sports etc..is there a standard lingo somewhere?
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How can I take portraits in the style of Shannon Lee Miller?
I'm dying to know how to take photos like this http://www.shannonleemiller.com/. I'm not talking composition. I'm talking exposure, color, style.
I know she has a 5D Mark II, and typically uses ...
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Are overly large frames a style?
I helped my mother hang some photos today and was curious about one of them. She had placed a photo (in this case 5"x7") in a frame that was much larger (8"x10"). In my opinion it looks strange and ...
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What style of composition for food photography triggers people's appetite?
What kind of style and position triggers more the appetite of people?
What are the best ways to position food and combine with other objects?
What kind of objects are better combined with food?
Does ...
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When is it more suitable to have a full sensor-camera instead of a crop sensor-one?
I've been reading about this a bit, and I get the sense that full sensor-cameras are best suited for shooting landscapes, whilst crop sensor-cameras are preferable for portraits and close-ups. Please ...
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How to reproduce Renaissance painting styles in photography?
Rembrandt lighting is a well-known technique to produce Chiaroscuro, presentation of depth using light and shadow areas.
But in addition to Chiaroscuro, there were three other painting modes in the ...
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What do I need to make a photo in Silver Age Poetry style?
What do I need to make a photo in Silver Age poetry style?
Maybe I am not naming the style correctly, but the examples should give an idea of what I mean.
Can somebody explain what technique and ...
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What's the exact meaning of picture style / profile, i.e. what does it do?
There's a Set Picture Control menu item on my Nikon that lets me choose between standard, neutral, vivid, etc. and I can also tweek each one.
I got interested in this because of videography: I've ...
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Does the Canon 50D have a picture style for Lomography?
Is there a Lomography picture style software for Canon 50D, are there custom camera settings I could use to achieve a similar effect?
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What settings do I have to use to take pictures like this one by S Dot B?
I am impressed by this photograph of hip hop artist Kid Ink by S Dot B photography:
http://www.killerhiphop.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Kid-Ink.jpg
Can anybody tell me the settings for my Nikon ...
