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Building A Free Photography Website
To Make More Money WP Pix is one of the FREE WordPress Themes for photography sites discussed in this article. Save your money for new lenses and more pocket wizards – building a good photography...
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Canon SLRs for Video : 5D Mark II vs 7D vs T2i/550D
[For non-video related comparisons of these cameras, please see my previous articles : 5D Mark II vs. the 7D and the 7D vs the T2i.] Currently, the Canon EOS 5D Mark II is unrivaled in the world of...
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Choosing The Best Photo Editing Computer
How to Build an Amazing Photography Computer Is the new 12-Core Mac Pro worth its $5000 price tag? This article is not meant to be the beginning of another Mac vs PC debate. When it comes to...
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Understanding Your Histogram : Part 1
An Explanation of the Histogram : Histogram Basics Histograms are almost always confusing for the beginner in digital photography, which is unfortunate, since they are so incredibly important. Being...
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Windows Users: View RAW Files Directly From Explorer
New: Microsoft Camera Codec Pack [I]f you have a high quality digital camera and use Windows, you now have one fewer reason to not shoot in RAW format. In the past, shooting in RAW usually meant that...
View Article(Video) Photography Notes #1: Phase Detection Autofocus, Cross Points, and...
Over the past few years, there have been several technical issues that have come up repeatedly in questions and comments here on Light & Matter, and even though graphical explanations would have...
View ArticleBest Rechargeable AA NiMH Batteries For Your Flash (Don’t Buy Eneloops…)
Rechargeables Are Better Fact: using rechargeable NiMH batteries in your flash will give you dramatically better performance than shooting with alkaline batteries. This might seem counter-intuitive at...
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Amazon Cloud Storage: Unlimited Photo Backup, Free with Prime
Last week when I heard that Amazon Cloud Drive had started offering unlimited photo storage to those of us who have Prime accounts, I was traveling in Florida. While on the road, I generally store my...
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How to Build a Motorized, DIY Time-Lapse Photography Dolly
OK, this is something a little different than usual. I was looking through my collection of unpublished post drafts today and ran across this one; it’s an article that I started over two years ago....
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How To Calculate A Lens’ Focal Length : Slightly Simplified
I’ve been involved in an interesting exchange of ideas over the past couple of days with Tony Northrup about the effective focal length of Canon’s 70-200mm f/2.8L IS II lens when it is focused at...
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