If there were one most exciting but stressful kinds of photo shoots there is–that would be child photography. Started out as a hobby of parents who are into photos and photography, the craft has evolved into something more commercialized and a viable source of income through the years.

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It doesn’t matter how good your photos are, if your images aren’t displayed to their best advantage they will lose impact.

It is often the simple things that spoil an image. Using simple techniques and a little care, you can easily give your images the attention that will do them justice. The materials used in printing your images play an important factor in the quality of the finished print.

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What is the best focal length for portrait photography? In other words, if you are using a zoom lens, what is the best zoom position for taking a picture of one or more persons? What’s different between a close-up and a full-length portrait? Answers to these questions will let us make more refined images of the people we love to photograph. In order to answer these questions we first must focus on what we want to do...

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Digital noise in photos taken with digital cameras is random pixels scattered all over the photo. It is a similar effect as “grain” in film photography and it degrades the photo quality.

Digital noise usually occurs when you take low light photos (such as night photos or indoor dark scenes) or you use very slow shutter speeds or very high sensitivity modes.

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Many photographers assume that once the sun goes down, so do the opportunities to take spectacular landscape images. Some of the most beautiful photographs were taken under extremely low light or nearly pitch-black conditions.

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Red-eye is the biggest problem flash photographers face with both digital and film cameras.

The good news is that there are a few easy tricks that can significantly and sometimes even completely reduce the effects of red-eye. Here’s a few of the simple tricks that we’ve discovered that make my pictures worth mounting on the wall.

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This is the second part of My Photos Aren’t Sharp. You may have thought there was only one page of possibilities for unsharp photos, but there are more.

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This article is intended for the DSLR camera user, who has some notion of what DOF and apertures are, in relation to imagers. However, we welcome you to read the following regardless of your photographic experience or level, because it will eventually make sense to you.

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Lighting is the single most critical factor in determining the quality of any photograph. Although with digital cameras you can edit after the fact, such features are limited and it is more effective to assure that you get the best exposure when taking the shot. The amount of light on the image sensor, or exposure, is determined by the opening/closing of the aperture, the length of time that the shutter is open, and the amount of light present. For the purposes of this article, the discussion will be limited to working with and enhancing the light present for the shot.

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When it comes to simple basic Still-Life Tabletop Photography, as far as the novice ‘wanna-be-photographer’ is concerned there is often a mental block, when really it’s quite simple, so much so that if you start to do it professionally, after a few years the trick is to stay awake.

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