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Photography Club Basics: Why You Should Join a Camera Club

If you want to become a better photographer, learn more, get and stay inspired, meet others who share your passion, and make new friends, well, nothing beats a camera club (also known as a photography club). Joining a club might even help lead you to a new career. I know it did for me and many other photographers. The idea of photographers getting together to share tips, techniques…
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Drone Camera Captures Devastating Tornado From the Air

A drone managed to stay aloft while it recorded the colossal damage caused by a tornado that devastated a Kansas neighborhood last Friday. The twister struck Andover, Kansas, a suburb of Wichita, in the evening on April 29th. Sirens alerted citizens of the danger that…
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Dell's reveals its new XPS 13 Plus notebook with 12th-gen Intel chips, 4K+ resolution and more

Dell first announced the XPS 13 Plus notebook back at CES in January. Dell’s new notebook is now available to order, starting at a palatable price of $1,299. The XPS 13 Plus is a sleek, powerful notebook that promises to combine style and performance. The redesigned notebook is the first XPS 13 notebook to use Intel’s 12th Gen Intel Core, using a 28W processor, up from 15W in the prior…
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Prime vs Zoom Lenses: A Beginner’s Guide

In your photography adventure, you will most likely buy both a prime lens and a zoom lens at some point. If you are a beginning photographer looking to upgrade to a new lens, you are probably facing the decision of whether to choose a prime or a zoom. Which type should you…
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How the Rule of Thirds Kills Creativity and Leads to Boring Photos

The most common method to teach photographic composition to novices is the “rule of thirds” — in short, divide the screen into equal thirds vertically and horizontally, and then place your point of interest on any of the cross points for a maximally pleasing image. I grant you, if you take a look at many many photos that are very good, they will indeed have some aspect of the key…
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James Webb Telescope is Fully Aligned and Delivering Sharp Photos

The James Webb Space Telescope’s alignment is now complete and is confirmed to be able to capture sharp, perfectly crisp images with all four of its instruments. Webb completed its seventh and final stage of telescope alignment, after which the team behind the observatory met and unanimously agreed that it is now ready to move toward its next and final series of preparations, called…
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