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#1 : Nick Lovell - Beauty Lighting

Beauty photography is one of my favorite kinds of photography, both to view and to shoot. Now, the term "beauty photography" can mean a lot of different things to different people, especially to different photographers! So I'll lay out what I think of when I say beauty photography. [...]

#2 : William Innes - Creating Great Hotel Room Portraits

Presented by harbordigitaldesign.com The wedding day is here and as a professional photographer - we are ready. All our gear is packed, preparations completed and our mind is full of all the great images we plan on creating during the day. A Typical Start to the Wedding Day We start the [...]

#3 : Nick Lovell - Fill Flash In Full Sun

I'm a huge fan of studio lighting. So much so, that I even light like I'm in a studio when I'm outside! Call me a control freak, but I love being able to shape the light to my whim and not be dependent on the sun to light [...]

#4 : Lynette Kent - Selective Colorizing in Lightroom? Yes, Lightroom!

If you thought colorizing a black and white photograph or even selectively changing the color of one area in a color photo was a job reserved for Photoshop, think again. You can do it in Lightroom! See Photo 01 We will start with a black and white image - actually a [...]

#5 : Suzette Allen - NEW CS5 Crop Tips and Tricks

Presented by Bay Photo. Adobe's newest release of Photoshop CS5 is a big plus for photographers, AND for those who hate change. One thing I love is that it looks so much like CS4 and nothing major has been relocated. PLUS, there are [...]

#6 : Jon Yoshinaga - Sending Big Files For Free

Last month, I wrote about accessing your computer while you are on the road. It was easy to send off a JPEG file, but [...]

#7 : Will Crockett - Are RadioPoppers Ready for PrimeTime?

presented by Quantum Qflash. Wireless TTL flash triggering of the Canon, Nikon and Quantum shoe flashes can be a major headache as you know, but there has been a triggering system that has a strong following that we have avoided on ShootSmarter until now. RadioPopper is a system for wirelessly [...]

#8 : Bonnie Berlin - Take Me Out to the Ballgame

Combining a senior portrait session and America’s favorite pastime can yield some home run hits! Luke, a talented scholar athlete with collegiate sports in his future, recently showed me around his home away from home at his high school’s baseball field. See photo 01. Batter-Up Luke brought his uniform, [...]

#9 : Rob Provencher - The Art of Manipulating Light

presented by the noBSphotosuccess.com photography forum. When you get right down to it, we're all manipulating light. We do this for our own advantage and ultimately to create pleasing photographs that tell stories. The viewer doesn't really care how and why you did what you did. All they [...]

#10 : Peter Friedman - Posing Families

Posing is of course more an art than a science. The most important thing I have found is to trust my eye, fix what does not look right and look again before I shoot. There are however some things I have found that seem to make posing [...]