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How To Transform Your Bedroom to A Photography Studio

May 17, 2010

Last week I did an experiment with Candice to try and do a strobist test shoot in my bedroom using my red wooden sliding door as the backdrop.
This is the result. Beside the stunningly beautiful model, and anyone can take good picture of her, I’m still proud of my lighting, haha.
This is my setup:
The bottom [...]

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9 Zoo Photography Tips & Tutorial

May 14, 2010

Monash Photography Club recently asked me to teach a workshop about ‘Zoo photography’ because they are organising a zoo trip next week to the Melbourne Zoo. If anybody wants to come, feel free to contact them:
Monash Photography Club Zoo Trip
here goes:
1. Use Long Zoom Lenses
There are just some animal you can’t afford to get close, [...]

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Tutorial: How-To Photograph Fireworks Without Tripod!

May 13, 2009

Sometimes you are presented with a good photographic opportunity, out of the blue. You are just having fun walking around the river bank with some pals, while suddenly you hear loud bang and beautiful lights filling up the night sky. You take out your camera and prepare to take the next one (you always bring [...]

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Tutorial: How To Use Rule of Thirds in Digital Photography

May 9, 2009

The rule of thirds is a very useful tool for composing images in photography. And to top it off, it’s free! Doesn’t require any add on equipment to your camera, any shoe mounts, anything like that! This article will attempt to demystify the mysterious Rule of Thirds. This post is a follow up from my [...]

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Photography Tips for Beginners With Point and Shoot Camera

May 7, 2009

So you just bought your first digital camera. You started taking photos of friends and family. Full of excitement, you printed out the photos and showed them to your loved ones. Great. Everybody likes the photos, but you wonder, can you get better picture with your simple point and shoot cameras?
When taking pictures with a [...]

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15 Ways to Make Money with Digital Photography

May 7, 2009

Ideas Presented by Your Guide to Digital Photography
You might be wondering how do you start making money with photography. You own a camera, you studied photography, and you have been shooting photos for long time. It’s easier than you may think to start making money as a digital photographer. There are many different ways to [...]

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Tutorial: Learn How to do Panorama Photography part 1 (The Photo Shooting)

May 6, 2009

Today we will talk about the art of panorama photography. Panoramic photos in definition is just several photos stitched together with a post processing programs. Normally people use this technique to combine photos of beautiful landscapes that is too beautiful to be captured with one single frame.
This tutorial will be divided into two section. Section [...]

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Wedding Photography: How to Become a Successful Wedding Photographer

May 4, 2009

Once in while I receive e-mails or phone calls from aspiring or beginner wedding photographers asking me for advise on how to become successful in the wedding field. My first question is always what their motivation is to become a wedding photographer. Some will reply that they heard from somebody that it is easy money, [...]

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Tutorial: How to Add Border with Copyright Watermark in Lightroom

May 2, 2009

So I posted a tutorial on how to create copyright signature with Lightroom sometime ago. I got some question from readers on how to put the copyright watermark into the border to not obstruct the photo itself. Now the answer is using Mogrify plugin to add border around the photo along with the watermark. Now [...]

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How To: Capture Magnificent Night Photographs

March 31, 2009

Night photography is very interesting and unique. A building could appear normal and boring at day, yet look majestic during the night. Cityscape usually look best captured at night with all the lights from the building subtly brighten the sky above. Funnily, the first time i tried night photography was with MPC last year as [...]

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