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Let's explore our world, savor those smells, taste those delicious foods, meet amazing people, find hidden treasures, explore cultures and smile. The focus of this Blog is Travel Writing and Travel Photography with helpful hints, tips and advice along the way.

Category: Tutorials

Get all that light when taking interior photos
All Things Photography, Photography, Tutorials

Let us step up our shots. Interior Photography: 7 Great Tips

alan / January 14, 2018

We want our skills in photography to enable us to take photographs to convey a message, it could be a feeling, a sense of being or maybe desire.  We need our photos to be clear, have a point and sharp so the viewer understands the message we want to come across.  What we do not want is a sense of…

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Perfectly exposed mountains
All Things Photography, Photography, Tutorials

Photography: This Triangle Thing, AKA Exposure Triangle.

alan / January 12, 2018

This post was inspired by some comments about photography in other articles.  I hope this is helpful and clears up a whole range of things about DSLR cameras. Copious amounts of websites talk about photography and at the same time, bombard people with phrases that do not mean a great deal, and if new to photography, quite pointless because who…

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Framing in Photography
All Things Photography, Photography, Tutorials

Composition 2: Another Rule, Framing

alan / January 8, 2018

This is the second article about composition in photography. The First Article is here. The Third Article is here. I am not very keen on the idea of rules in a creative subject like photography, kind of strangles the idea.  So from here on, I will refer to any such things as guides.  And this guide is about ‘Framing’, framing a…

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Photography composition and the rule of thirds.
All Things Photography, Photography, Tutorials

Photography Composition 1: Rules, Rules and More Rules

alan / January 6, 2018

This is a set of three articles regarding Photography Composition.  This is the first article and will focus on the ‘Rule of Thirds’. The Second Article is here. The Third Article is here. When I first heard the term ‘Rule of Thirds‘, I thought ‘what!!! rules in taking a photo?‘.  Well as it turns out it is a way of…

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Delicate
All Things Photography, Photography, Tutorials

Improve Photos with 5 Photography Ideas

alan1405 / November 24, 2017

We all want to take sharper, more exciting and dramatic colorful photos and continually improve our photography skills as time goes by. I know I do, and I also realize that it is not possible to have every single photo I take to be a wonderful image.  Personally, I expect about 1 in maybe 5 or 10 photos to make me smile,…

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Wakehurst Place
All Things Photography, Photoshop, Tutorials

To Blur or Not to Blur. Bokeh with Photoshop

alan1405 / November 4, 2017

Sometimes a photo could do with a tiny tweak in the right direction to get the focus and atmosphere we want.  It could be brightness, contrast, saturation or we might want that fresh sunny morning bokeh effect.  We may want whoever looks at the photo to see and feel the moment and focus on that part of the photo that…

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Sunset
Photography, Tutorials

What is Behind your Photograph is as Important as in Front

alan1405 / October 4, 2017

It is not a nice feeling when I get home and look at that one photograph that I thought would be amazing only to see that the background was awful.  So what can I do? Quite often I find a brilliant subject for a photo only to be destroyed by an awful background or colours that would affect the final shot.  The background is very…

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