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How to Capture Rim Light Around your Subjects

Capturing rim light around my subjects fascinated me when I first started photography.

I’m constantly being asked how I do it.

It is actually quite simple, but you have to be in the right environment and at the right time of day.

Here is how to capture rim light around your subjects. 

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How to take great portraits

One of my most favorite kinds of photos to take is portraits. You get to really capture every detail of that person. Here is how I take great portraits and some other things to keep in mind.

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What Camera and Lens Should I Get

What camera and lens should I get? I am asked this question almost daily. My short and simple answer for the camera (if you're on a budget, and who isn't?) is a camera that has an interchangeable lens and is in your price range.For the lens, this depends on the type of photography you plan on doing, we'll talk about that later. Again, if you're on a budget, go for vintage manual focus lenses. You can find them dirt cheap and they're great for lea

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How I Prepare to Edit Photos

One of the secrets to my photos is how I prepare to edit them. If you just start editing your photos without any idea of your end result, your photos won't be as powerful. In this article, I will explain my pre-editing process so you can apply this 'prepare to edit' process to your workflow and have a more powerful end...

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How to Optimize Photos for Facebook in Lightroom and Photoshop

Have you over hared that you may need to optimize photos for Facebook? What does that even mean? And do you need to do it?After spending hours, or even days working on a photo, making sure it is absolutely perfect before sharing it with the world. You upload it to Facebook knowing all of your friends will be paralyzed with astonishment by the amazing work of art you are about to bestow on them. You hit post, and... Your photo shows up pixellated and maybe even has a puckish green tent to it. Terrible, it looks TERRIBLE! Sound familiar?

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