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Photography Tips, Techniques and Inside Stories with Marc

Watch Insider Secrets and Tips with Marc for photography tips you can put right to use and insider stories about photography. Marc passes along advice and stories from some of the greats of photogaphy, direct, to the point and easy to use.

Photography Lighting Tips for Portraits - Tutorial by Hunter Freeman


Welcome to a new episode of the Marc's photography tips! Professional photographer Hunter Freeman joins us today to provide some quick photo lighting tips for portraits. Hunter takes us through the process of positioning your subject for a natural-looking portrait, setting up your lighting equipment, and shows us how a good strobe light can provide quality lighting for most pictures. He also recommends that you format your memory card before shooting to reduce the risk of errors, and likes SanDisk cards for their fast buffering speeds.

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Photography Tutorial: Camera Settings - ISO, Shutter Speed and Aperture

Want to learn what an F-Stop is or what ISO settings mean? Professional photographer Kelley L. Cox joins us today on the Marc Silber Show - Advancing Your Photography. Kelley provides a great tutorial on some of your digital camera's basic settings: ISO, shutter speed, and aperture value. Learn when to use a slow shutter speed vs. a high shutter speed, what aperture priority is, and how the ISO setting affects each of them. Once you know how to use your camera's basic settings, you'll be able to take better photos by mastering techniques for shooting fast-moving action, setting depth of field, and working in difficult lighting conditions. Like many other photographers, Kelleys final advice is to get out and take more pictures to improve your photography!

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Sports Photography Tips Best Digital Camera Settings for Action Shots

We’re with professional photographer Kelley L Cox, who's sharing her tips on taking sports photos. Kelley's techniques will be useful to anyone who has tried to capture fast-moving action shots, whether they're of kids, pets, or pro sports. her advice is to start with the basics, such as using the right settings and memory cards for your digital camera, and then learning to work with shutter lag, timing, and zoom. As always, the key to perfecting any technique is to practice and shoot as many photos as you can!

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DSLR Tutorial: A Beginner's Guide to Your New Camera - Settings & Tips

Get a new DSLR recently? Professional photographer Kelley L. Cox joins us to explain a few of the key features and settings you should know about. In this quick DSLR tutorial, she goes over how to get to know your camera and a typical digital camera's buttons, shooting in RAW vs. JPEG, and the best kind of memory card to use in a high-performance camera. Kelley uses ultra-reliable SanDisk CompactFlash cards in her DSLRs.

Last but not least, get out and practice! Take lots of shots and get hands-on experience to get to know your camera and have fun with it. For more tips, be sure to watch our past videos at silberstudios.tv/tips.

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Photography Tips from Chase Jarvis - Get Out and Take Pictures!

Photography tips and techniques. Photography advice from Chase Jarvis: get out and take pictures! You will take better pictures if you use your camera often.

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Nature Photographer Robert Knights Tips on Photos and Camera Equipment

We’re in Carmel-by-the-Sea with professional photographer Robert Knight. He shares his tips on capturing the moment and having enthusiasm for what you do, which has helped him take his remarkable nature and wildlife photos. Like all photographers, Robert Knight depends on his equipment. His advice is that any pro or amateur photographer should use a reliable memory card, so he always shoots with SanDisk.

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How to Record Video with a Point-and-Shoot Digital Camera - Video Tips

We're here with professional photographer Michael Soo, who's joining us to share his tips for recording videos with your digital camera. Now that even the most inexpensive point and shoot cameras can take video, it's a good time to review some basic tips for shooting better videos.

Michael talks about how to keep your camera steady as you pan through shots, configure important settings like the white balance, and deal with noise in your scene. These are simple techniques that anyone can master with ease!

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Tips for Recording Video with Your Digital Camera from Jeff Hosier

Professional photographer Jeff Hosier shares his tips for recording top-notch video with your digital camera. Taking great videos starts with following all the basic rules of photography, since a video is really just a series of still shots. Jeff explains basic techniques for setting up your scene, keeping visual continuity, and defining a purpose for each movie. Lastly, Jeff gives his advice on using the best memory card for shooting video with your camera.

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Tips for Family Photos & Holiday Photos - Take Great Family Pics

Marc interviews commercial and fashion photographer Michael Soo (www.soophotography.com) in this week's tip for taking great family and holiday photos. Michael has taken many family and holiday pics and gives some very good advice for photographers of all levels for do-it-yourself family photos this holiday season.

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Using Your Cameras Flash: Flash Photography Tips & Techniques

Marc hosts an expert discussion on some simple techniques for using your digital camera's flash as a lighting tool for your photography, and explains why and when you would use a flash to add color and brightness to your photos. He also gives great tips on some of the camera accessories available, such as when and why to use a diffuser to eliminate harshness and glare. This simple tutorial will get you started with the basics of lighting with a flash.

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Photo Composition Technique from Chase Jarvis - Photo Composition Tips

World renowned and award-winning professional photographer Chase Jarvis gives a down and dirty tip on how to improve your photo composition technique. Watch as he describes what may be the biggest secret for composing powerful photos and you'll start taking better shots today, because truly amazing photographs start with the right composition.

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Photography Tips on the Ansel Adams Wilderness & John Muir Trail

Join Marc Silber for this photography tip on how to go hiking with your digital camera. He covers great nature photography techniques, equipment to take to the outdoors, and examples of his black & white photography. Marc hikes the John Muir Trail through Yosemite and the Ansel Adams Wilderness, amazing locations for beautiful landscape photography.

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Photo Composition Tips from Charles Cramer

Charles Cramer is a master photographer and printer, his work is shown at the Ansel Adams Gallery, where he has also be teaching workshops for over 20 years. He gives a very practical tip for improving your composition taught to him by Ansel Adams. Learn from a master how to improve your "eye" to see more shots.

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Guy Kawasaki's Marketing Tips for Photographers

Guy Kawasaki is a Marketing Guru, an "Apple Fellow" and has written nine books on marketing. He gives marketing tips telling the two main ways to use twitter, one of which will build a following. He talks about how photographers need to cut through the "noise", and some lessons from his days at Apple—you can go after that percentage of the market that cares about your product and win in the end. Tune into these interesting tips from someone who’s been in the trenches, yet lives on the bleeding edge of today’s marketing.

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Story of 3 Photos from Chris MacAskill Co-Founder SmugMug

Chris MacAskill Co-Founder SmugMug, tells the story behind 3 huge photos hanging at their HQ. Get the inside scoop about how these photographers captured their intriguing images. Moral to the story is chance favors the prepared photographer.

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Marc Silber with Robert Scoble: Tips for Social Media and Photo Blogs

Join Marc as he talks with Robert Scoble about social media tips for photographers. Scoble literally wrote the book on blogging—"Naked Conversations", and continues to be a vanguard in the use of new media such as twitter, FriendFeed, Flickr, etc. Take note of his tips to get your photographs seen and be part of the "conversation."

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The Key to a Photograph from Ansel Adams

Ansel Adams used the term “visualization” often–but what exactly does it mean? How does it fit into your work flow as a photographer? I looked all over for a good explanation–then last year Ansel’s grandson Matthew loaned me rare unreleased footage–and there it was! Listen well to what he has to say. You’ll hear him quote another great photographer Alfred Stieglitz who you’ll want to get to know as he was one of the pioneers who opened the way for photography being accepted as a fine art, not merely a recording device.

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Five Tips From the Marc Silber Show Guests

Marc Silber Covers 5 Tips brought up by his guests on MSPS. These are top tier items for improving your photography, constantly in use by the pros. Spend a few minutes with Marc then go out and capture your own images!

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Tips from Marc’s ebook Taking Memorable Photographs

At a recent talk to photo enthusiasts, Marc gives tips taken from his ebook Taking Memorable photographs, covering two of the most important points to ensure you get great shots. He tells you the first step that Ansel Adams took to train his students so you can go right out and use this.

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How did Ansel Adams shoot Moon and Half Dome

Marc visits Yosemite to interview legendary photographer Ansel Adams’ son Michael who tells the story of Ansel’s iconic shot “Moon and Half Dome” – how Ansel shot it on the way to the Ahwahnee hotel—just like you or I could have!

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Marc’s Mini Video: Getting to know your camera

It may not be sexy, but there is no short cut for making friends with your camera and getting to know it. Marc Silber gives you tips, with advice straight from the man himself, Ansel Adams. Improve your shots with this easy to follow advice.

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Marc’s Mini Video: How To Improve Your Composition

Marc Silber gives you a simple but powerful tool to develop your eye, used by Ansel Adams in his workshops. The most important tool that you have is not your camera or computer, but your ability to see your shots; here's an easy way to improve this skill.

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