HDR, or High Dynamic Range photography becomes more and more popular among modern photographers. New tools and techniques are appearing and even some new camera models contain built-in HDR functionality. Indeed, with this technique it’s possible to create a quite unconventional, surreal and impressive image. However, as any other photographic genre, it takes some serious effort and experience to create really remarkable HDR images.

In this post we’ve selected some useful and interesting tutorials and how-to’s covering various aspects of HDR photography. Beginners can use this collection as their starter kit and experienced photographers can find some new gimmicks and inspiration to master their pictures.

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Who doesn’t love action? Sometimes we all need a dose of extreme to better feel the taste of life. However, the dose may differ for every person: some people take up extreme sports to shake up, while for others it’s enough to be passive watchers and feel the emotions of action from an outsider’s viewpoint. Good action photography can inspire some rapid heartbeat too.

Today we’d like to suggest you over 10 useful tutorials dedicated to action photography. Whether you are going to shoot your children at the school stadium or feel that professional sports photography is your calling, the following list might come you in handy.

So enjoy the tutorial selection, learn new techniques and then come back to ReadyPhotoSite for awesome flash photo websites to showcase your photography.

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GIMP is free and compatible with Windows, Mac and Linux, which makes this image editor very popular among photographers, designers and graphic artists. It has a wide range of features and tools and its latest versions show that it’s actually a decent alternative to Photoshop. However, this open-source software may be rather difficult to get through for those get used to Adobe Photoshop.

In this post we would like to put more light on this editor and list some interesting and effective GIMP tutorials. Most of them cover nifty photo manipulation techniques and effects you might use to give a spice to your photography portfolio or online photo gallery.

Become a Real Na’Vi Using GIMP

This is a fun guide taking you through creating a Na’Vi character from a portrait photograph.

Make your photo look like a Hollywood movie

This tutorial takes you through the process of making a photo look more dramatic, like in a movie. A cool effect to learn, indeed.

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Using achievements of modern technology photographers can literally create wonders of art. Up-to-date photographic gear enables to make pure realistic pictures, while Photoshop is a powerful tool for creating images that are out-of-the-world. Besides, it often happens that a photo itself, both digital and film, can’t fully convey the photographer’s impression of the moment he captured. This is where Photoshop can do a geat job too.

In this post we showcase 15 amazing photo manipulation tutorials for Photoshop, which you will surely appreciate if you have a certain amount of skills around this image editor. The photography effects and manipulations explained in these tutorials will, undoubtedly, become an adornment of your photography website or online photo album.

Water Effect Photo Montage

Create dynamic distortion effects

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They say, age has nothing to do with talent. This statement is well illustrated in our today’s collection. Below you can see the works of 15 teenage photographers. The photo screenshots are clickable and lead to photographers’ personal websites. If you look closer at the pictures of these young people, you’ll notice that each teen photographer has a unique style, which combines the creativity of a young aspiring soul and amazingly mature technique. Perhaps, it’s this wonderful mix that brought some of these young artists to awards and success on the Web, or maybe it’s just everything about talent…

One thing we noticed while preparing this post is that many teenage photographers, even those awarded by various organizations, such as The Digital Camera Young Photographer of the Year or RSPCA Young Photographer Awards, don’t have a personal photo portfolio, or even a public photo gallery on Flickr. This is definitely a loss, as photographers with no decent spot in the Internet considerably narrow their viewer audience. however, we are sure that once they come across ReadyPhotoSite , they’ll not be website-less anymore.

Mike Bailey Gates

Eleanor Hardwick

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Setting up a personal photo studio may be a challenging task today: professional gear is rather expensive and the selection of available devices and gadgets is so large and diverse that can confuse even an experienced photographer, not to mention a beginner. As a matter of fact, the entire history of mankind shows that material things have never been an ultimate barrier against human artistic aspiration. Quite the contrary - an artist that couldn’t afford canvas, brushes or colors, got nothing but to find another way to express his vision and this is how we believe new art directions and genres appeared.

In this post, however, we don’t suggest you to initiate a new artistic style just because you don’t have enough money to by a studio lighting kit (go on if you dare, though!). Instead, we offer you ten super accessible  photography Do-It-Yourself projects you might find useful. Of course, there are tons of websites entirely dedicated to DIY experience, but below you can see a selection of tips and techniques that are, in our opinion, the most interesting, effective and cheap in implementation.

If you have experience in constructing photography related things with your own hands, or know some life-hacks for photographers, don’t forget to share them in comments! Enjoy the round-up and join in the discussion!

Fast photo sensor

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We are glad to inform our ReadyPhotoSite photographers community that we have launched a new Ready Photo Site theme - Clear Vision- that you can preview and buy here.

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Using the resources of the modern Web you can easily learn any aspect of photography and grow from a budding amateur into a full-fledged professional. However, the amount of information floating in the Internet is enormous and one may easily get lost in numerous tutorials, guides and reviews. Besides, the technology evolves by leaps and bounds and several photographic gear products are being launched every month, not to mention an ever growing army of photo gadgets.

The cheat sheet format is really helpful when you need to get to know some specific photography issue or just need to refresh your memory on some question. Whether you are a beginner photographer or a seasoned pro, there will be moments when you need to quickly fill the gap in your knowledge - here is when a compact cheat sheet in your camera  bag will come in handy.

This post is a collection of 15 useful photography cheat sheets covering various industry related aspects including the usage of gear and photographic software.
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The importance of attractive and usable online portfolio has been repeatedly highlighted in our blog posts. The aspects of creating such a website are actually the guideline of our resource. Moreover, our goal is to give you some tips and advice on how to successfully maintain a professional photo website and make the most of it in terms of tough competition on the ever growing Web. With this to be said, today we present a handy round-up of online portfolio tutorials you can use while creating your own photography website or artistic gallery. The list consists of various kinds of articles, including exhaustive Photoshop tutorials and general tips on how to build an effective portfolio website.
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As technology evolves, thousands of various gadgets and devices are appearing at the global market every day. The progress doesn’t pass by the photography industry and today there are lots of smart photography related tools and gizmos available at the online and offline stores. Some of them are really useful and become indispensible in professional photographer’s arsenal, while others are created to amuse and entertain people who enjoy snapping. In this post you can find a round-up of lovely photography gadgets and devices that are going to make your photography experience even more exciting.

Lowepro Photo Gloves

These warm gloves made of Lycra and special anti-moisture material will provide you a comfortable shoot in cold or rainy weather.

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