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ByNancy Jones August 12, 2016August 12, 2024

Choosing the Best Image Format: RAW, JPEG, and TIFF Made Simple

The images my camera captures are pretty big—around 21 MB. But the ones I post online? Closer to 2 MB. Why such a difference? It’s in the image format, but the image format affects more than just size. We’re going to look at JPEG, TIFF, and RAW image formats. We’ll examine what they mean, what…

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Exposure Practice

I learned how to use the light meter, and out on a sunny day in downtown Mobile, Alabama, I didn’t get a whole lot of use out of it, but there were some differences I saw. Take a look at these, and I’ll tell you what they were made up of. These were all taken…

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Photo and Photo News

I was so excited to take my camera to our Youth Conference, which took place last weekend on the beautiful campus of Troy University in Troy, Alabama. And while it is a lovely campus, I didn’t find a lot of compelling shots. I did see things I wanted to photograph so I could remember them,…

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Check Your Gear! My checklist for excursions

Gear is what makes photography both more fun and more difficult. Lenses and tripods, flash apparatus and hoods can give us a level of creativity beyond just exposing a sensor to light and hoping for something to happen. I only use my iPhone’s camera for quick shots, just to document something, capture a moment to…

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New Eyes on Old Places: The Power of Revisiting Photo Locations

We love exploring new places. There’s something exciting about discovering what we’ve never seen before. But there are places my family loves to visit time and again. We build memories of the people we were with, the things we did there, and the places themselves. We shouldn’t overlook the things we’ve already seen. Revisiting old…

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Lessons From Caves

I love caverns, and if there’s one within 70 miles of where we’re vacationing, we’ll find our way to it before we leave. Most of the caverns we’ve visited as a family have a similar story as to their formation, but with human habitation, each has its own unique history. Due to the capriciousness of…

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