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What Is Post-Production or Post-Processing in Photography and Videography?
Let's take a look at what happens after you capture your photos.
How to Take Better Photos With Live View on Your Camera
In some situations, using the live view screen on your camera makes more sense than using the viewfinder.
How to Upload the Best Looking Instagram Images
Instagram is probably our favorite social network here at How-To Geek.
How to Shoot a Time-Lapse With Your DSLR or Mirrorless Camera
A time-lapse is the opposite of slow-mo: instead of slowing down fast-moving activities they speed up slow ones.
How to Add Presets to Adobe Lightroom
Presets are one of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom’s most powerful features; with them, you can use the same settings over and over again.
What Camera Settings Should I Use for Sports Photos?
A lot of people buy DSLRs and other cameras because they want to take good sports photographs; it’s one of the areas where your smartphone just can’t cut it.
What is Exposure Bracketing?
Exposure bracketing is a technique where, instead of taking a single photo, you take three (or more) that are all exposed slightly differently; normally one is correctly exposed, one slightly underexposed, and one slightly overexposed.
What Camera Settings Should I Use for Street and Travel Photography
Street photography and travel photography are similar genres: really, street photography is just travel photography in your hometown.
How to Make Sure a Camera or Lens Works Properly Before You Buy
If you’re buying a used camera or lens, it’s a good idea to give it a thorough going over to make sure everything works before handing over your cold, hard cash.
How to Assess and Analyze a Good Photo
After a shoot, it's time to go through all the images you've taken and pull out the good ones.
How to Set a GIF as a Live Wallpaper on Your iPhone
Here at How-To Geek, we think iOS's Live Wallpaper feature is pretty neat, although it's underused.
How to Keep Your Camera Lenses Clean
I’ve stressed time and time again here on How-To Geek: the lens is as important, if not more important, than the camera to which it’s attached.
How to Keep Your Photos Safe While You're Out Shooting
As a photographer, there’s nothing worse than losing your hard shot photos, whether it’s from hard drive failure, theft, or anything else.
What Camera Settings Should I Use for Landscape Photos?
One of the questions I get asked most often about my landscapes is “What settings did you use?” Beginner photographers often feel that there is some magic combination of aperture, shutter speed, and ISO that will make their photos amazing.
How to Use a Balanced Composition for Stronger Photos
There are two kinds of balance in photography: formal and informal.
What Camera Settings Should I Use for Portrait Photos?
To take good portraits, you need to use the right camera settings.
How to Always Take Sharp Photos
A sharp photo is one where the subject is in focus with clear lines, crisp details, and no (unintended) blurring.
Exposure Values Give You a Better Understanding of How Your Camera Works
In photography, we talk a lot about "stops": it's the standard measure of exposure where an increase of one represents a doubling of the amount of light hitting the sensor or film.
How to Make a Good Live Wallpaper for Your iPhone
Live Wallpapers are one of iOS’s neat if underused, features.