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This week Dustin and I are encouraging the entire Improve Photography Community to keep your cameras with you at all times.  Lately we’ve been feeling like we only go out and shoot photos when we have a full-on model shoot or major landscape photography trip planned, and we miss everyday unplanned opportunities to shoot. This [...]

This week Dustin and I (Jim) were in the studio writing photo tips for you guys.  It had been a slow day and we were catching a bit of studio fever (it’s just like cabin fever–but in a studio). I went outside to find something to shoot.  It was the middle of the day and [...]

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This is a mashup episode of the Improve Photography Podcast, the Digital Photo Experience, and The Digital Story Podcasts.  In this episode, the joint group talk about some of the most common questions photographers ask and give answers for these questions. If you are reading this post via email or RSS, be sure to click [...]

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This is a mashup episode of the Improve Photography Podcast, the Digital Photo Experience, and The Digital Story Podcasts.  In this episode, the joint group discusses micro four-thirds and other compact cameras and whether or not they are a viable alternative for photographers. If you are reading this post via email or RSS, be sure [...]

This week’s theme is panning.  Dustin and Jim each had only 1 hour to head out and come back with a panning shot. The reason that this duel is focusing on panning is because it is one of the projects that the students in Jim and Dustin’s Online Beginning Photography Class do. Panning means using [...]

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In Episode 21 of the Improve Photography Podcast, Jim Harmer, Dustin Olsen, Juan Pons (from http://dpexperience.com/), and Derrick Story (from http://www.thedigitalstory.com/) talk about mistakes to avoid and answer listener questions about lenses and time-lapse photography. If you are reading this post via email or RSS, be sure to click the blue title of this post so that [...]

For the weekly duel this week, Dustin and Jim each had only 30 minutes to photograph the same model, who they had never before shot with or seen. New to the weekly Improve Photography Duel?  Check out this page, where we explain how it works. Settling the Score The overall score from past weeks of [...]

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In Episode 20 of the Improve Photography Podcast, Jim and Dustin answer listener questions about battery grips, safety on photography shoots, what computer to get for editing photos in Photoshop, and advice for spontaneous photography. If you are reading this post via email or RSS, be sure to click the blue title of this post [...]

This week’s theme is night photography. New to the weekly Improve Photography Duel?  Check out this page, where we explain how it works.  A new camera duel will be released each Monday, and we’re asking YOU to vote on the photos below. Night Photography Duel Jim Here:  I’m gonna confess: I’m not too excited with [...]

This week’s theme is compositing, a Photoshop technique where you take multiple pictures and combine them together to make a single composition. We decided to do a composite duel this week our NEW Photoshop 1, Photoshop 2, and Photoshop Elements online classes are starting on Wednesday!  We’ve been working night and day on those classes for [...]