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  My pictures tend to look like snapshots
I do mostly studio pictures and they are fine, but I would like to expand into natural light photography. Every time I try my pictures tend to look like snapshots. Is there any suggestions on how...
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August 08, 2007
 
  How do I get RAW out of my camera?
So far I've been getting used to digital photography and shooting only JPEGS. But yesterday I had a go at RAW. I confess I'm a complete novice.How do I get them out of the camera? I use ...
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July 09, 2007
 
  Basic focusing query
I'm using a Canon 350D. I want to take some general photos of my garden where there are flowers from front to back. How can I take a picture where everything is in focus. I have tried using ...
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July 09, 2007
 
  Monitor Calibration
Calibrated my monitor last night with the Spyder. I desparately need to know if I have improved things or made them worse. To me, most of the images I see (contest winners, editor's first pic...
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July 08, 2007
 
  How to fade a picture to print ON it
A friend of mine is getting married, she wants to use a picture of her and her fiance as the invitation so I want to fade it and print on card stock. How???Photography is just a passionate hobby o...
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July 05, 2007
 
  Darkroom Water Problems
Living in the country I am on well water. Recently I am finding after I wash my prints there seems to be a bit of slime or scum on the surface of the prints. I've tried soaking them in distille...
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July 05, 2007
 
  image size at download in photoshop
300 ppi, 8x12, 17.5MB is what's downloaded from my D80 to PSE 5.0. With an image this size I can't print an an image larger than 8x10 without creating pixils (interpolating). Is there a way...
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July 06, 2007
 
  Getting Foreground and Background Sharp
I am doing a shoot for a friend's company and I want to know how best to keep the people and background landscape sharp and in focus....
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July 10, 2007
 
  What did I do wrong?
I’m taking a beginners photography class at a local college and the most recent thing the instructor said we should try is taking a portrait using only window light, no flash. He also said that i...
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July 02, 2007
 
  correction to earlier question, sorry
for correct color reproduction, what's the approx. W/B setting in color temperature (2500-9000 K) for night landscape, clear sky, if the subject has no man made lighting? also midnight cloudy b...
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June 29, 2007
 
  Losing pixels in Photoshop
Hi Everyone, When I slightly tweak some of my images in Elements 5. I end up with not enough pixels to have a decent mailing stamp sized photo. I can have a photo that starts out with let's say...
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June 30, 2007
 
  Colour difference between RAW, tif/jpeg
I have a Nikon D70, with colour set to Adobe RGB. The working colour space in Elements is also set to Adobe RGB. This is my problem: The RAW image shows in Elements with colour profile: untagged RG...
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June 28, 2007
 
  Order of Images in Gallery
First of all, I'm not sure I'm in the right area for this question, so let me know if I have to move...I have one picture in my gallery that I would like to move. For example, right now it...
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June 25, 2007
 
  how to expose correctly for different colors
My friend would like some photos of her dogs together.The problem is one is white and one is black, so I can't seem to expose correctly for both. I tried using a white board to bounce more ligh...
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June 28, 2007
 
  lens hoods & polarizer
I struggle w/ using a lens hood (I actally hate them :) because they make it almost impossible to use a circular polarizer at the same time. I know that when I don't use a lens hood sometimes ...
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June 21, 2007
 
  Converting raw to tiff
When I have a picture that I'm converting from raw to tiff, I get a blurry picture. I'm using the software that I got with my Canon Rebel XT (Digital Photo Professional). What dpi should I...
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June 20, 2007
 
  Simple Novice question about curved edges
Just found this site and although I'm sure I'll get time to discuss this as an hobby my first question relates to taking images of products for an online shop.The products are small and to ...
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June 19, 2007
 
  Can I legally upload a window display image?
I took a photograph of a retail store window display. Can uploat that on BP to include it in my gallery without a having a copyright problem? ...
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June 18, 2007
 
  PICS OS EVERYTHING
hI I AM WONDERING IF THERE IS A SITE FOR DOWNLOADS FOR A VIEWER/STUDIO??...
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June 16, 2007
 
  Printing Pictures
Why are my pictures printing grainy? Nothing has changed, Kodak camera, Dell 720 printer, photo paper. My pictures use to print very clear but now they are printing very grainy. All settings are...
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July 05, 2007