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Bokeh – The Art of Blur

I’m a big fan of shooting with a shallow depth of field, and as a result of this, I’m also a fan of the resulting bokeh. What is Bokeh you may ask … ? Wikipedia defines Bokeh as: Bokeh (derived from Japanese, a noun boke, meaning “blurred or fuzzy”) is a photographic term referring to [...]

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Photo Profile – Tom Hoops

All photos © Tom Hoops Photography Happy accidents seem to be happening to me a lot lately. While cruising Twitter with absolutely no goal in mind, I ran across a mention of Tom Hoops website. After viewing maybe 2 or 3 of his shots from his Heads series, I immediately tracked him down to participate [...]

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10% Photoshop

I love Photoshop, it’s an amazing program with no peer. With it you can make the impossible possible and the unreal real. Photoshop is the uncontested champion in the world of photo. However, with all this power, Photoshop is also rather complicated – intimidating even. In the same vein, Photoshop can also be the slowest [...]

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