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Nice collection of free photography video tutorials. Online Colleges have made a nice collection of 50 videos that will teach you everything about photography . It's a nice collection and an excellent place to start increasing your photography skills.

Exposure Bracketing can be your best friend in tricky lighting conditions. Bracket your shots to photographer is what hedge your bets is to a gambler. Exposure Bracketing (also referred to as auto-bracket on some cameras) is an automatic feature that many of today's DSLR cameras have, with the purpose of capturing multiple photos of the same subject featuring different exposure settings. This is not to be confused with multiple exposure feature, where 2 or more exposures will be made on the SAME photo. Exposure bracketing is commonly used when there are tricky lighting conditions, which can fool your DSLR camera's sensor into under or over-exposing. Assuming that you do not have too much time to experiment with various settings for producing a perfect shot (like in travel photography) photo bracketing can help to ensure you still get the shot without enraging the rest of your travel group. Simply enable photo bracketing, define 3 (or more) photos spaced up by (+/- 1.0 EV or ...

Macro photography is one of the most abstract photography categories. It's so easy to make creative macro photos. Bryan Peterson, the author of Understanding Exposure shows just how easy creative macro photography can be. In this fantastic video tutorial, Bryan Peterson ( ppsop2009 ) shows how easy it is to come up with creative macro photography ideas, even in most unlikely surroundings using nothing but scraps. A truly an inspirational video. Definitely a must see

Hi and welcome to the Digital Photography Student Photomizer Contest awards. We have gotten many interesting photo submissions and selecting the winners was not easy. The subject for the contest was "Green" . The photos have been evaluated in terms of originality, technical execution, impact, message and being on subject. And the contest winners are: 1. Maple Leaf by Muratodentro - Simply put, amazing photo. This backlit leaf really draws attention. Three main veins divide the leaf, revealing almost fractal structure of the veins in the middle. The use of the shallow DOF further accentuates the effect. It does not take more than one look at the photo for the "Green" to come up. A job well done. 2. Vintage Bus Show by Phil Bird - These almost cartoonish busses must have been quite a sight. While almost all of our submissions involved some sort of flower or a plant, the idea of using non-nature objects for emphasizing "Green" scored a few orig...

Sigma has announced the release of 120-400mm f/4.5-5.6 DG OS HSM lens for Sony and Pentax mounts. Both Sony and Pentax versions come with optical image stabilization, and it is expected that the Pentax version will start shipping May 21, 2010, while the Sony version will ship from May 28th 2010 with the suggested retail price of £766.30. Read more about it at dpreview .

Birds are usually very tricky subjects to photograph. They are rarely completely still, and when they finally settle at one place, they do not stay there for long. They are in a constant state of motion, and a good photo should reflect this. If you examine the photo on this fellow to the right I have shot while on a trip in Madrid in 2005. I have just caught him in the moment when he decided to stretch his wings. Addmitently, it was a lucky shot. When examining it closer, I have noticed that although the bird was perfectly still, its wings showed a nice sense of blur, thus conveying motion. In my mind, this motion blur made the shot. The key in shooting such a photo is selecting the right Shutter speed for the task. Switch your digital camera to Shutter Priority mode (marked as S or Tv depending on your camera manufacturer), and select the shutter speed at about 1/200. It should be enough to keep the bird still, while still retaining some movement in the wings. So the tip of the wee...

Pentax finally previews the new 645D medium format camera.