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Which Brand Of Film Has The Best Quality?
In choosing a film, you have to decide what type, speed, and roll length you want. But you also have to make one more decision: which brand to buy. Film manufacturers compete aggressively, and the results have been very, very good for photography - to the extent that truly bad films are few and far between.
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What Speed Do You Need To Take Your Pictures?
Your choice of film speed can have both practical and visual consequences for your picture-taking. In order to know the right speed that you will need, you need to know its definition as well as some reassurances.
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What Is Focusing & Does My "Point-and-Shoot" Camera Focus For Me?
Focusing was the last great hurdle of camera automation. Automatic film advance, automatic flash, automatic exposure - these amenities have long been a fact of point-and-shoot life. Automatic focusing - autofocus, for short - is a more recent innovation. But autofocus was worth the wait, relieving one of the great anxieties of snapshot photography. Autofocus has saved lots of pictures that otherwise would have been lost to the vexing back-and-forth of old-fashioned manual focusing.
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Vacation Time: Make Sure Your Camera Is Working Perfectly For Your Trip
Just about any working camera is capable of great travel shots, if you use it smartly. If the point-and-shoot that you already own has served you reliably, it should work fine for your trip. It is always best to take along the camera you know and trust rather than a shiny new model you've never run film through.
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Tips On How To Take Beautiful Portraits
The definition of a portrait is a formally posed picture. Outdoor portraits are often posed against relevant or beautiful backgrounds, and are known as "location portraits." Fine indoor portraits can easily be made by window light. Flash can be added to fill dark shadows in portraits, but if flash is used as the main light source, it should be off-camera and diffused by a bounce card for best results.
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Sunlight Photography: Filming From Various "Sunny" Angles
Light is what makes all photography possible. To "see" light well, and understand how it records on film, is one of the greatest skills a photographer can have. This is an important section of the book, and I'll start at the beginning.
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Photo Finishers: Were Should You Get Your Prints Done?
Three kinds of businesses do color-print photofinishing: mass-market labs, mini-labs, and custom labs. Amateur photographers use mass-market or mini-lab processing (or a combination of the two) almost exclusively.
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How To Take Pictures With Different Lighting
Lighting is as important to your image as the composition, and can add mood, create depth, and emphasize form. Using available light, such as sunlight, is often the easiest way to take a photograph. The light is believable and natural.
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How To Take Family Pictures "Professionally"
Everyone makes snapshots of family members and close friends, but the problem is making "real" photographs of them. Sometimes it's easy to make the transition to serious photography using your friends and family as models; sometimes it's not. Advantages are that they are close and frequently available, so you can photograph them over and over, and at least sometimes get them to reveal their personalities to the camera.
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A Crash Course On Different Film Types
Film comes in color or black-and-white negative type (for prints) or reversal type (for positive images, called slides, transparencies, or chromes).
