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UPDATE: Thank you to all those who volunteered.  We’re working through some long-term technical issues that are keeping this forum from happening right now, but hopefully we’ll be past this soon. To start off, I just want to sincerely thank all of you for the support you’ve given me at ImprovePhotography.com. The site is only [...]

NOTE: I certainly didn’t intend for this article to be negative in ANY way, but it looks like one commenter felt that it is.  The purpose of this article is to see how far you’ve come in learning photography, and to get an idea what “bad habits” we all have that may be keeping us [...]

We are all good at taking photos… and when we catch the bug, we take A LOT of photos! But how do we keep them organized?? My workflow is done using Adobe Bridge, but the same concept of organization can be applied to pretty much any photo management software you choose. As a little bit [...]

Are we looking through the right lens? Many of the online students are asking that question as we become more comfortable with our cameras and the photos that we are taking! It’s an exciting feeling when we realize that we need better equipment to accommodate our growing talent of making photos! Seriously! Who needs a [...]

As with learning any topic, students usually learn a tremendous amount of information about a topic for the first while, then they reach a certain level of competency and halt all learning.  The same is true with photographers when we get a new camera.  When we first get our hands on a camera, we spend [...]

One of the most frequent questions I have received in the last month has been about back button focus and how to use it on Canon and Nikon DSLR cameras.  In this article you’ll learn what back button focusing is, and how to back button focus for Canon and Nikon cameras. What is back button [...]

Computer monitors do their best to reproduce colors and brightnesses correctly, but each one is slightly different.  In fact, a screen even reproduces photos differently when it starts up compared to the way colors and brightnesses look after the monitor has been running for a while. This is a serious problem for photographers.  We are [...]

by Dustin Olsen Photoshop is overwhelming!! There is no way around it! There is just so much to constantly learn that undoubtedly, at some point, we have all needed someone to show us around and give us a few pointers. Photoshop is the digital photographer’s greatest tool if you know how to use it. Here [...]

by Dustin Olsen   Printing? Does anyone do that anymore in this digital age? More of our photos are finding their way online with our ever growing digital presence. We tweet it, we pin it, we share it. But, some of us have lost the “Print It” button. Offering high quality prints is a GREAT [...]

Today we have some big news around ImprovePhotography.com.  Actually… several of them. Celebrate Pinterest! THANK YOU to those who have shared these articles on Pinterest.  On Monday, we were on the front page of Pinterest (front when not signed in), and it brought more than 33 THOUSAND people to the website.  I am very grateful [...]