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Photography tips

A journey in Photography and sharing of how I go about taking various types of photos. Discussions include software and camera equipment and how to make the most of your equipment in a given situation.

Let the pictures tell a story

Using a series of photos to tell a story sounds like something that is pretty easy to do. As the theme for Assignment #1 at fourthirdsphoto was to do just this I decided to put together a story in images.

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Motion

Taking a photograph that implies something is moving can be a bit of a challenge. There are few ways of actually doing it and from some photos I took a few days ago of the Adelaide Classic bkie race - a pre-cursor of the Tour down under, I will demonstrate 2 different techniques that imply motion.

The Bike race was a great opportunity not only to see some of the best cyclists in the world go head to head in 25 laps on the street circuit but to grab a camera and take some photos of the event as well!

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Post Processing - beyond the RAW

I recently got a copy of Photoshop Elements 5 and have been looking at how I can use it to add to the quality of my photos. Firstly, I have been very happy with just using a RAW processor on nearly all of my photos and rarely see the need to go beyond that.

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New Camera

About a week ago I got a new Camera - I moved up to the Olympus E3 DSLR. The Olympus E3 is the new Flagship pro DSLR and has a whole lot of advanced features compared to my ageing E300 Camera.

I won't go into an in-depth review on it as there are plenty of reviews to be found on the net. What I will say is just a simple statement:

The E3 is a wonderful tool that doesn't get in the way of taking photos.

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