A women shares her home with 11 cats – four cheetahs, five lions and two tigers!

A women shares her home with 11 cats – four cheetahs, five lions and two tigers Riana Van Nieuwenhuizen, shares her home with 11 cats – four cheetahs, five lions and two tigers! Wow, What a lady! The sanctuary worker shares her South African home with not one but FOUR orphaned cheetahs, five lions and two tigers. Forty-six-year-old Riana said: ‘I love them all. But they’re a handful.’ Riana bought her first cheetah, Fiela in 2006, after realising...

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Save Digital Photos as RAW or JPEG

Save Digital Photos as RAW or JPEG Should photographers save their digital photos in RAW format or JPEG in their camera? Many photographers are unsure which digital photo format has the best image quality. However, most digital photos end up as JPEGs for printing or web display. The real choice is where to process the RAW image data from the digital sensor. Should photographers do it in the camera as part of the picture taking process, or save the...

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How to Protect Your Photos With A Watermark

How to Protect Your Photos With A Watermark I’ve always disliked watermarks.  When I am asked to provide a portfolio review and see watermarks on the picture, I’m unable to even concentrate on the photo because I’m so distracted with the watermark. However, about a year ago, I started watermarking my photos because I found a way to do it unobtrusively by using my signature on the photo.  After all, when you walk into an art gallery there are signatures on the photos, so why not recreate that same branding on your digital photo...

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Mother's Love

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Top 10 Overloaded Trucks

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Ten Tips for Taking Great Photographs in the Snow

November is one of the best times of year to take great photographs of polar bears, and Cape Churchill in Manitoba, Canada is known for being one of the best places to photograph these fearless, curious creatures. If you are interested in going to Cape Churchill, the only way there is by helicopter or tundra buggy, but I promise you it is an experience you will never forget. To kick off my trip to Cape Churchill, my fellow photographer friends...

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How to Get that "Photo Studio Look" Without a Photo Studio

I often hear portrait photographers lamenting the fact that they don’t have a studio.  I can understand where they are coming from (which is why I’m in the process of buying a studio right now), but I think that most photographers really don’t need a studio at all.  In fact, you can get that “studio look” in your photography without even leaving your living room. There are several INEXPENSIVE ways to get a studio look in your photography...

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20+ Beautiful Sun & Moon Photographs

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Very Rare Shots....Don't Miss Them

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Jimmy Hickey Teaches How to Photograph a Stranger (Guest Post)

Note from Jim: I saw the video below last week as it was being passed around Pinterest (follow my photography boards here).  I have never written about street photography and photographing strangers before, so I contacted the creator of the video and asked him to share his best tips for photographing strangers here on Improve Photography.                            ...

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Give Yourself an Honest Portfolio Review

Stage One Photographer Beginning photographers can easily be spotted because they don’t know enough about the technical side of photography to do much with the camera, so they really only concern themselves with the person being photographed. How to spot a stage one photographer… They consider a photograph “good” when they captured an interesting expression on someone’s face, or something random or rare that occurred (like a fire or a...

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Daimler Riding Car, 1885. The World’s First Motorbike.

Gottlieb Daimler and his ingenious colleague Wilhelm Maybach moved to Cannstatt near Stuttgart in 1882. Differences between the fifty-year-old Nikolaus August Otto and Daimler, two years his junior, had led to the latter’s departure from the Gasmotorenfabrik Deutz on the outskirts of Cologne. Now a wealthy man Daimler, could afford to make himself independent. For 75,000 Goldmarks he bought a villa in Taubenheimstrasse in Cannstatt and...

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