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  • You Can Do It: Enhance Your Nature Photos In and Out of Camera

    Bring out nature's charm with some careful shooting and editing
    • By Peter Kolonia on April 12, 2012

    In his Flickr stream, Andrew Evans (www.flickr.com/andrewevans) titled this image “Enchanted Forest” for its fairytale-like mood. How did he achieve it? The Kent, England, amateur enumerates four strategies for finding and enhancing nature’s magic: Pick a suitable subject, get the right gear, shoot at an appropriate time, and tweak the image in software.

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  • Tips From a Pro: An Intro the Tiny World of Macro Photography

    Extreme closeups provide a startling view of the tiny world within our world. Thanks to new techniques images that were once impossible are no longer
    • By Dan Richards on April 12, 2012

    If ever there were someone who could be called Macro Man, it’s David Maitland. A zoologist with a Ph.D., the U.K.-based Maitland has photographed creepy crawly creatures of all sorts, using everything from film and digital SLR macro gear, to optical microscopes, to transmission and scanning electron microscopes.

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  • From Shutter Press to Finished Image: Mat Baker

    Three top professionals share their best tips and tricks for retouching
    • By Debbie Grossman on April 11, 2012

    Shooting a champagne commercial near the Milford Sound in New Zealand’s South Island, Mat Baker and his brother and digital collaborator, Carl, had a day off. They asked a boat captain to take them to a great spot to shoot the iconic Mitre peak, but soon realized he had dropped them at the wrong place. After a hike through freezing-cold, waist-deep water with only headlamps for light, they found the location and spent the next 6 hours with shoes full of water and nothing to eat but a “little bag of nuts.” Still, they knew it would be worth it for the picture.

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  • From Shutter Press to Finished Image: Raïssa Venables

    Three top professionals share their best tips and tricks for retouching
    • By Debbie Grossman on April 11, 2012

    In Her series “All That Glitters,” Raïssa Venables takes what she calls “excessively opulent” spaces and uses a combination of photographic technique and imaging software to make them even more so. The rooms become surreal versions of themselves­—the real thing taken to an extreme.

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  • From Shutter Press to Finished Image: Romain Laurent

    Three top professionals share their best tips and tricks for retouching
    • By Debbie Grossman on April 11, 2012

    One morning, Romain Laurent woke up with vertigo. Instead of calling the doctor, he thought, Hey, this is fun! And in that moment the idea for his “Tilt” series came to him. He saw the image in his mind’s eye almost exactly as it appears in his actual photographs.

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