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Photography DIY – How to Make a Panoramic Tripod Head for $10!

I, too, have been guilty of taking a lot of panoramic digital photos but none of them really came out “perfect” but here’s a great DIY that shows you how to make a panoramic tripod for about $10.

Next time you take that panoramic shot, it won’t be wasted and you will get a professional-looking panoramic photos.

Building your own panoramic head for an SLR isn’t too hard or expensive. The parts for the design shown here cost abo

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Loooaded.com Image Search Engine!

Check out this new image search engine called Loooaded.  What I like most about this new site is the logo, it drives my head dazed and confused. 🙂

Basically, you can search Flickr, Yahoo Image Search, and GettyImages photos.  I think it’s a good alternative when you first search on Google Image Search and can’t find anything.

Get Loooaded!

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Photography DIY – How to Make a C-Stand!

Are you a photography-nut?  Well, here’s a cool DIY photography C-Stand you can make using PVC pipes from Home Depot.

Here is my version of a simple and durable PVC backdrop or Lighting Stand. All the pieces are cheap and readily available and assembly is easy. I bought all the pieces at my local Lowe’s for about $11.00, so you can do 2 for about 20 bucks not counting the uprights. You might save even more if you buy a multi-pack of the PVC fittings.

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Digital Photo Frame Hack – How to Pick the Right File Format!

Although this might come as common sense, some people might not realize that big file formats are actually bad for displaying on your digital photo frames.

Andrew, one of our blog search engin network bloggers, has a detailed explanation of which file formats are best for your digital photo frame:

If you do use an SLR, make sure to check out the file size of the photos, as SLRs often shoot rather large multiple-MB files that will take up most of you digital memory card if you don’t resize t

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Photo Frame DIY – How to Make Most Out of your Digital Photo Frame!

(GiiNii 7″ Wedge Digital Photo Frame Pictured Above)

Here’s some ways that you can make most out of your digital frame:

One of the other uses is as a display for goods or services, for a small business owner a digital photo frame loaded with sample photos, text and even a sound track that explains what the v

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Photography DIY – How to Use the Light Meter!

The light meter has been one of the most overlooked user features on a digital or SLR camera.  One of our network bloggers Andrew Nealon has some great tips on how to make the best use of your light meter:

As you get ready to take a picture, take a reading on your light meter. Most meters run from -2 to +2, with each mark on the meter representing a “stop” or aperture increment. (Don’t worry about what the aperture is right now, we’ll learn about that later.) By adjusting the camera’s aperture and shutter speed — the thumb wheel on SLR

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Consumer DIY – How to Choose a Digital Photo Frame!

Whether you are buying a keychain digital photo frame or an 8″ digital frame, you really need to know how to choose a digital photo frame.  Our GiiNii blogger David Allen (He’s also blogged on Zedomax before) has a great tips on how to choose your very first digital photo frame:

There is also what the frames purpose will be, is it going to be used to display single images or would you be more creative and run a slideshow with a music track playing in the background, this is the potential of

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Photography DIY – How to Compose and Crop Photos!

Are you an avid photographer that lacks professional photographer skills?  Well, one of our bloggers Andrew Nealon at our GiiNii blog has create a simple “How to Compose and Crop Photos” blog post so you can learn the basics of digital photography.

When composing a photo, the photographer has two opportunities: the first while taking a picture and the second, while using a computer to touch up the photos.

When you line up a shot, try to use the most basic photography technique out there, the rule of thirds. A basic rule of thumb

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Digital Frame DIY – How to Share Photos using Free Online Services!

Do you have WiFi digital photo frames that are sitting on your table without your knowledge that you can use free online services to share and automatically update pictures on your frame?

Well, here’s a cool DIY showing you how you can use free online services to share your photos.

There are a few sites out there which will help you, but today we will be looking at yougotphoto.com a site where photo sharing is as easy as using a cell phone.

You would expect that a s

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DIY – How to Make a Cheap Light Tent with a Box!

There’s a slew of light tent DIYs out there but this one looks pretty good as it uses a single box and some white paper to make a cheap Light Tent you can use for taking photos for your new online store products.

If you’re like me, you don’t want to spend money if you can do it yourself and yield the same results. One day I was at my local photography store I saw one of these “Pop-Up” light tents. It consisted of a collapsible white fabric box with a hole in the front and 3 lights – used for photographing small objects in photog

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