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6 Sites To Find Location From A Photo Easily

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Everyone you know is using their smartphones to capture amazing, funny, beautiful, and goofy moments in their lives. While there are a lot of ways to store these photos in the cloud, most of us are having trouble remembering where some of them were taken. I used to resort to creating folders where each folder was named something like ‘place-year’. This never cut it until I started geo-tagging my photos. This was way better until I realized I don’t know how to read the EXIF data of my old pics. What’s that? EXIF format is used to store important data such as date and time of the photo, ISO, shutter speed, white balance, and camera model. These are important values for photographers. Most smartphones, cameras, and DSLRs have this feature. Now, we are all sorted. We are storing location data for each photo that we are taking but there is another issue. How do you access this data? Here are 6 sites to help you find the EXIF data of any pic you want. Note that this method will ...

5 Must-Have Apps for Photographers

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From fitness tracking and photo editing, to online banking and meditating. Is there anything our smartphones can’t help us do? No one can deny just how easier this technological advancement has made our lives. Trust us, if you can think of it, then there’s an app for it (or so it seems)! Today we’ll be concentrating on these humble apps, focusing on the 5 must-have apps for photographers in particular. Many of these are premium (and therefore paid) applications, but trust us – they’re what you’d expect from the best of the best. We also recently rounded-up our favorite free apps for photographers , so if that’s more your thing, be sure to check it out. Let’s get to it! ProCamera ($10) Let’s face it, even the latest version of your smart phone still has a camera that is (understandably) quite primitive when compared to your favorite DSLR. Don’t get us wrong – phone cameras have come a very long way (and continue to do so), but as a photographer, you’re probably craving gre...

Sunset Photography Tips

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In today’s photo tip we’ll move back into landscape photography… How to get better sunset photos ! Sooner or later we all give sunset photography a shot. It’s almost a rite of passage! In fact, for a lot of us, seeing stunning sunset photos is what got us interested in photography in the first place. But, for most of us, our first attempts at sunset photography were dismal, at best. This and the next few articles are going to cover ways to move our sunset photography from the reject stack to the wall. Our first sunset photography photo tip is concerning exposure . This photo tip is pretty basic, but we all have to start somewhere. If you haven’t learned how to get the right exposure, then it isn’t basic—it’s a game changer. For the most part as beginners, when we first start shooting sunset photos, we have our camera set on automatic and trust in the in camera’s meter to get the exposure. When we see the final shot, the sun is there (as expected) but the whole rest of the...

Top 13 PhotoScape X Tips and Tricks

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PhotoScape X is a hidden gem. I have been using it for years now and have never bothered to replace it with any other photo-editing software . You may ask why. Well, because it has everything one can ask for in an image editing software. With over 1000 filters and effects, 100+ tools, 200+ shapes, stickers, and figures, the PhotoScape X editor is mind-blowing. And the best part — most of the functions are free. Worth Reading: Everything You Should Know To Effectively Use Photoshop’s Background Eraser Tool Every time you use it, you discover something new. So to save your time, we have compiled top 13 PhotoScape X tips and tricks. We are leaving out the aspects of using the effects, filters, and tools since PhotoScape has a huge library of videos on them. Here we will cover the features that require quite a bit of exploring to discover and experimenting to understand how they work. NOTE : PhotoScape has two versions — PhotoScape 3.7 and PhotoScape X. The former one is for th...