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7 Simple Tips to Get Better Photos of Your KidsPhotographing your kids can reward you with photos that can serve as everlasting memories for you to cherish. But photographing kids can often be tough. It can, however, be a fun experience that can produce wonderful results if you can put to use some time-tested tips. Do check out 7 Simple Tips to Get Better Photos of Your Kids to know more.These Photography Genres Will Force You to Get Off AutoDo you always use your camera’s Auto mode when photographing? You must be aware that you can truly expand your photographic horizons by moving to Manual mode. If you would like to make the jump with specific and easy-to-learn ways, you should check out the post by Karlo de Leon These Photography Genres Will Force You to Get Off Auto to get started.
Photographing at the Beach: 10 Tips for Better Beach PhotosDon’t we all love beaches! The waves, the sand, the marine life, the expansive horizon – there is so much beauty to appreciate, and photograph. If you would like some tips on taking better photos at a beach, do check out the post by Jason Little Photographing at the Beach: 10 Tips for Better Beach Photos to start surfing.
Our forums are a great place to post your photos, get feedback, and make new friends who are as passionate about photography as you are. You can also post your photos in The Shark Tank, to receive constructive criticism. Don’t worry they won’t bite! But if you are not ready for that yet, you can join our weekly challenges where you get to submit your photographs on a different theme each week. Our latest weekend photography challenge is “Transportation”.
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Photography Tutorials & Resources
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– 5 Tips for Capturing the Magical Beauty of Waterfalls Tweet
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Lightroom Presets by Presetify
PresetifyDo you often use Adobe Lightroom to post-process your photographs? You can reduce a lot of your work by using presets, or automated actions, to apply a set of edits to an image in a single click, saving you quite a lot of time.
Presetify brings you amazing Lightroom presets that can give your images a stunning look with just one click. With many collections to choose from, you can pick the ones that best suit your needs.
Some of the popular preset collections inlcude:
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Do check them out!The Light Stalking Community
How Do You Get ThereThe new forums now have over 30,588 members! Join us to participate in the discussions, submit your photographs, or get a genuine constructive criticism on your photographs. Check out the forums. There are forums for each of the many genres of photography. And then there is The Shark Tank, a forum where you can get constructive feedback on your photographs. Click here to join now!Weekend Photography Challenge
Every week on Light Stalking, there’s a challenge waiting for you. Photographing on a particular theme each week, you get to put your thinking hats on and produce photographs to share with others. It’s a great place to get inspired and grow as a photographer. Get those cameras out and join us with this week’s challenge – “Transportation”.
Missed last week’s photos of “Pets”? Check out the submissions by our members here!
Popular Photos and Discussions
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Photographer Spotlight:
Karen Amendola
Karen AmendolaKaren has been a long-time member at the Light Stalking forums, and a very active one at that. She enjoys nature photography as much as she enjoys capturing family portraits.
Always eager to learn and take her photography to the next level, she has recently started offering her photographic services for real estate listings and family photo sessions. She lives in New England, USA.
Image by Karen Amendola
You can see more of Karen’s work on her website and connect with her on Facebook and Flickr.
Light Stalkers Around the Web
Light Stalking’s writers and contributors are active online with their photography in other places too!
Ritesh Saini has been photographing for four years now and his photographic interests have varied from landscape and nature photography to street photography. Catch him on Flickr.
Toad Hollow Photography a fine arts photographer that specializes in HDR techniques. Check out his limited edition prints, online gallery and his photoblog.
Kent DuFault is a professional photographer and author. You can check out his blogsite.
Jason D. Little is a photographer and a part time writer. Check out his photo collection on Flickr!
Jason Row is a British born travel photographer now living in Ukraine. You can follow him on The Odessa Files.
Sheen Watkins is a bird, nature and wildlife photographer. A long time birder and nature enthusiast, you can follow her photography on Facebook and her website. She also has a travel and photography blog.
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@karamen, I get emails from Light Stalking, and they have a “Spotlight” post each week…you are the photographer! I’ll try to share with you (since you didn’t get it).
Beautiful shot!
BTW, congrats to you on being in the Light Stalking “Spotlight”!!
then but now by L on Light Stalking@karamen, đŸ˜‰
@karamen, who am I to argue with the umpire? lol!!
@isabel-dg, thank you, I personally love the colors. I got lucky in this one.
@jbent, I used my 50mm 1.4 Canon lens, Thank you đŸ™‚
@tersha, glad you think so…me too.
Thank you @karamen,
@karamen, da nada!
@Robdingwall, pity
Sweat Bee by L on Light StalkingNot sure what I didn’t do here, sorry the pic didn’t post :/
brown bird by L on Light StalkingI really like the motion in this shot, the water spray is fabulous! I really have nothing to criticize about this shot, just wanted to add my comment.
@falx, …no knives! Tongues can cut worse..
lol!
