Victory in sports is about practice and performance – the best athletes prepare better than anyone else, training their bodies and minds to perform when winning and losing matter most.

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Before you start editing, make sure that you have a good image work flow. This means saving originals in a separate place to prevent you from damaging or destroying the original image. And get familiar with your program’s UNDO capability – usually the Ctrl-Z key is a shortcut to undo the most recent image change. Don’t forget SaveAs, which allows you to save a copy of the image with another name so you don’t disturb the original.

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Travel photography is quite different from other photographic endeavors especially if you plan to make a living from it. Most successful travel photographers are writers as well. Actually in the print world, you can’t separate words from pictures. They complement each other.

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Animals can be an incredible Photography subject. Of course, we're not talking about household pets. Sure, your dog or cat might be cute, but unless done properly they can only pose for cliché and purely sentimental photos. We're talking about the exotic, such as Lions, Leopards, Giraffes and Rhinos (Anything in the wild with its instinct still intact and manipulating every action). However, due to the wild and dangerous nature of these animals taking a great photo can be quite difficult. You can only come within a safe distance in a car on safari and this limits you to one view, and if you step out to find a different or angle you’ll probably have to walk back in a body bag. So how can you separate your photo from the others? How can you get the best out of a somewhat limiting situation? There are a few things you should look out for.

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If you’ve ever taken time to create an artistic photograph then, regardless of your experience or the quality of your photo, you are a photographic artists. The light is your paint and the world is your canvas, you paint your picture and then capture it. There’s an amazing type of photography called Light Graffiti that takes this concept and twists it a little bit. Photographic artist are swapping their paintbrushes for a torch, switching on a long exposure and then painting their photo with light.

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Capture the sun in a photo and you’ll occasionally find it completely overpowers the image. Your exposure will be off balance and often the subject you’re trying to photograph will be either grayed out or too dark. Using the Starburst effect, you can now make the sun, and any other light source, a fantastic part of your image.

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You’d think we’d all get bored of the suns cycle. It rises and sets every single day at the same times and in the same places. But for some reason, this repetitious event has never been seen as part of the ‘daily routine’. For billions of years the sun has been following its cycle, but today we still see a rise or a set as a special occasion that holds a unique, romantic beauty. Why is this?

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One of the defining properties of a great photo is that is captures the true essence of a scene and puts the viewer right in the shoes of the photographer. When you’re presented with a vast landscape, sometimes it can be difficult to portray the world around you using a single frame. In order to capture this essence you need your photo to be a depiction of everything you see, so we need to stretch beyond the bounds of a single photo and create a photograph that conveys the whole world around you.

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Most people out there love using their camera. It’s great fun to snap away regardless of where you are or what’s in front of you. If you are ‘most people’ though then you probably just leave your camera on auto mode. 90% of the time this is the easiest way to photograph. However, you’re missing out on a huge range of features on your camera, and, even if you don’t think you’ll need or use them, simply understanding them will make taking a photo a much better experience.

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Photography is an amazing way to frame the unique world we see around us. Macro, or ‘close up’ photography offers us with a new perspective and allows us to get right up close and see the smaller world in detailed ways that our eyes cannot.

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