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Tips & Tutorials

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Photography is like all art forms where there is always something new to learn.   With this in mind welcome to our Tips and Tutorial resource.

The aim of this section is to provide information and share knowledge in a variety of formats.  Here you will find e-books, videos, articles and blogs all relating to camera and post processing techniques, plus it touches on the creative side. 

If you have a specific question or a particular ' tutorial ' you would like covered please use the contact us option to send it in.  You may wish to contribute your own tutorial to share with the rest of the membership, this will be welcomed.  Above all we hope you, the members, find our Tips and Tutorials a help in your photography development.





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The Basics
Shutter Speed, Aperture, Iso, White Balance

Preparing your Images for Digital Competition
Tristram Reed, our Technical Advisor has kindly prepared these instructions to help you prepare your digital images.

My Approach to Digital Imaging
Notes from Tristram Reeds' presentation held on 20th January.  Some useful, easy to understand instructions on cropping, layers, selecting, feathering, resizing and sharpening images for digital projection.

External Flash
From PhotoExtremist.com

Getting Motivated
Nine motivational essays on photography by Scott Bourne

Wild Flower Photography
By Steve & Vic Berardi

How to Photograph Babies
9 tips from the Digital Photography School

Your Starter Kit for Learning Photoshop Elements
Here you will find download links for free issues of Elements Magazine and a selection of videos and tutorials



Recommended External Websites

Take a look at these sites recommended by other members.  If you have any favourite 'tutorial' web sites you would like to recommend please let us know by getting in touch using the Contact Us form.

www.dougchinnery.com
The internet can be an amazing resource, however, there are times when there are posts that would appeal but there is no awareness that the information / article is there.

There are pro photographers, who are more than happy to share their knowledge.  Once such person is Doug Chinnery , a talented photographer across a different number of genres.  Doug is also a regular contributor to photography magazines.

On Doug’s website there a number of free downloads under his “Download” page:
Long exposure quick calculator chart
Hyperfocal disctance calculator for Full frame sensors
Articles by Doug from Advanced Photographer November 2011 and Fascinating Photography magazine
November 2011.

Under the “Blog” page there are the following articles:
“How do I create panoramas?”
“How do I dodge and burn in Photoshop?”

Click on “Older posts” at the foot of the blog page to find articles on:
“How do I put a simple border round my image?”
“How do I put a watermark on my image”
“High pass sharpening”
“Ten tips for photographing seascapes”

www.digital-photography-school.com
Lots of ever changing content, tips & tutorials, equipment reviews and a very active forum.  Here's an article on Macro Photography Tips for Point and Shoot Digital Cameras

www.northlight-images.co.uk
Keith Cooper takes us through his process for making a black & white print from colour digital image using Photoshop.

www.dofmaster.com/dofjs.html
Depth of field calculator and lots of technical stuff about DOF

www.lacockphotography.com
Provide photographic courses in Wiltshire.  10% off for NHPS members

Photographers Rights
A YouTube film made by the organisers of the London Street Photography Festival, about photographers
rights in the UK

Click here to read the recent news article from Amateur Photographer magazine on Photographers Rights.



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