Photojournalism 101: Reporting with your camera
January 08, 2017
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Photography 101 — Photojournalism
Three tips for reporting with your camera
By John O’Connell
Everyone has a camera these days, from expensive DSLRs to cell phones with pretty OK lenses. Some of the cameras and all of the smart phones can send pictures on the spot. News is all around us, happening all the time. At any moment, you, too, can be a...
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Photography 101 — Outdoor Portraits
January 08, 2017
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Photography 101 — Outdoor Portraits
Four tips for better people pictures
By John O’Connell
Monuments, scenics, landscapes and skylines are all famously photographed and can be beautiful images. But most of our favorite pictures have life in them: we like pictures of pets, wild animals, flowers, butterflies, birds…. But the subject we most like t...
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Photojournalism 101 — Taking party pictures
January 08, 2017
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Photography 101
Six tips for party pictures
By John O’Connell
Formal occasions like weddings, corporate galas and special family events are best assigned to professional photographers. They have the skills, experience, training, cameras, lenses and lighting equipment — and assistants — to reliably produce high quality images you’ll love for a li...
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Taking better Black & White images
January 04, 2017
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Photography 101
Four tips for better Black & White pictures
By John O’Connell
For decades after the first photographs were taken, all images were in black and white. When color came along, photography changed. Almost all of our pictures now, from family holiday parties to pictures we mount on our home and office walls, from news photography to s...
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Photography 101 - Travel
January 03, 2017
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Photography 101 — Travel
Four tips for taking great travel pictures
By John O’Connell
Whether you’re traveling to Tanzania or Tel Aviv, Barbados or Beijing, Morocco or Manhattan, you’ll want to bring home images of your experiences, perhaps to print and frame for your walls or even just to post to your wall on Facebook.
Folks have been making i...
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