Tips, Tricks & Techniques to Improve Your Photography

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PhotographyTips.com is for everyone with an interest in photography. It is intended to help beginners get started in photography, and become so good at it that they turn into advanced amateurs. But, accomplished photographers will also find useful tips and hints here. Our primary objective is to help people like you to take better photographs.

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THE POSING GUIDE EVERYONE WANTS

Our highly-popular and unique "Guide to Posing the Female Model" book has been getting super reviews from photographers and models around the world. This practical posing book has been purchased not only by photographers and models, but also by artists, colleges and schools. There's really nothing else like it. It contains an amazing 1,104 unique poses that any model can quickly copy. Buy it as a gift for a photographer or the model who really wants to excel in her career. You can't go wrong. Click here to find out all about this indispensable, "how-to" book - a PhotographyTips.com exclusive that everyone appreciates receiving.

Check out our handy Posing Guides CD, too. It contains a huge variety of suggestions for posing the female model, the male model, the dancer and for posing couples, including the bride and groom.

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EXPLORING OUR SITE:

• A good starting point where you can discover many tips about good composition, learn the basics of light and pick up several useful techniques to improve your photography is our Technique section.
• Or, you might want to take the bull by the horns, and go straight to our Subjects category, where you can find tips on just about everything you might wish to photograph, from babies to wild animals.
• Here you'll come across our handy Posing guides and practical tips on Choosing a wedding photographer.
• If your interests lean more towards the tools photographers use and how they work, then check out our Equipment section. Find out how to buy a used camera or the basics of digital photography.
• Want to learn about pinhole photography? Look here for tons of information.
• Looking for fun? Try our Humor in photography pages or our What in the world? section.
• Learn from the mistakes of others by visiting What's wrong with this picture?
• Curious about the darkroom? Don't stay in the light. Check it out here.
• Click here to purchase our exclusive, new book - Guide to Posing the Female Model - or here to buy our Posing Guides CD.

OUR GALLERIES FEATURE EXCEPTIONAL GUEST PHOTOGRAPHERS

• Baja California, Mexico - A Bird's Eye View
  Our newest gallery featuring Charles Chandler's excellent aerial photographs from a motorized paraglider.
• Photo Tramp
  Maciej Tomczak travels the world. His gallery will make you want to pack up and travel with your camera.
• Life through a lens
  Images that show the unique, graphical perspective that photographer, Ann Elizabeth McMeekin, applies to her craft.
• Tropical wildlife
  by Italian photographer, Renzo Segato.
• Cats by Don Lewis
  features Don's beautifully-composed, moody images of domestic cats.
• Astrophotography
  This special gallery exhibit by Matt BenDaniel features outstanding images from space.
• Images of Australia
  A superb exhibit by photographer, Mark Boyle, of beautiful Australian landscapes and seascapes.
• African Wildlife
  This gallery exhibit by amateur photographer, Dr. Franco Piemontesi, is anything but amateurish.
• The Northern Lights
  Sigurdur Stefnisson's gallery contains unusual and beautiful images from Iceland.
• Lost America
  Features the striking work of photographer, Troy Paiva.
• Track and Time and Track and Time 2
  Two galleries featuring a selection of dramatic images by renowned railroad photographer, Len Kratz.
• Urs-P. Twellmann
  You don't want to miss these truly amazing pictures.
• Creatures of the Sonoran Desert
  Stunning photos by Rhonda Spencer of the flora and fauna of the Arizona-Sonoran Desert.

OUR GLOSSARY - WANT TO KNOW WHAT A PARTICULAR TERM MEANS?
Visit the PhotographyTips.com Glossary when you come across a photography term with which you aren't familiar. You'll probably find its definition here.

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• Click on a Category heading in the left-hand column - Scroll up or click here for Equipment, Subjects or Technique.
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There's more to this site than meets the eye. Some topics are found as many as eight layers deep. "Caring for your handheld light meter" is an example. The trail to it begins with Equipment, then Equipment & accessories, Camera, The camera's controls, Exposure, Exposure meter, Ambient light meter and finally Caring for your handheld light meter. Using the search engine can bring you quickly to many topics that may not be "visible" on the surface. If you are interested in learning about photography, you'll probably find what you want here.

LEARN FROM EXPERIENCE
Drop into our Online Discussion Forums. Share your comments, questions, experience and knowledge with other viewers. Bring up a subject, ask a question that has been troubling you, and you will be sure to draw out people who have been there, done that, and who have something valuable to say about it. You can even pick a cartoon character to reflect your personality from our "author's icon" selection. Never used a forum? It's easy. Just log in here, and you're on your way. We're all students, and this is the place for us to talk to each other.

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