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Project MCP: Highlights for April Challenge #1 and Capturing a Photo with a Shallow Depth of Field

 If the old adage “April showers bring May flowers” holds true, there will be colorful blooms all over the place in my part of the country very soon! Given the large amount of rain that has blown across the United States, capturing “wet” should have been a cinch (I hope you have been as lucky…

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Project MCP: Highlights for Challenge #4 and April New Challenges

We are excited to wrap up our first month of Project MCP with Challenge #4: Guess What?. The Project MCP Team has thoroughly enjoyed browsing through the photos in the Flickr Group, attempting to decipher what many of them actually are. Many of you have us stumped! This week, we decided that we would showcase…

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Project MCP: Highlights for Challenge #3 and Macro Tips

Week #3 of Project MCP has been another success. Almost 100 photos were entered for Challenge #3. The interpretation of “Transition” ranged from transition of the seasons to body transition and life transition. There were so many beautiful photographs that once again, choosing only a few was quite a chore, but here are the Project…

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Project MCP: Highlights for Challenge #2

Project MCP’s second week has been a great success! Tons of gorgeous challenge photos have been flooding the Flickr gallery everyday, which made it even harder to choose only a few favorites for the Natural Light Challenge (March, Challenge #2). Here are a few of the Project MCP team’s favorites: Submitted by Angela Garrett Submitted…

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Project MCP: Highlights for Challenge #1, Natural Light Tips

Project MCP is well underway! We challenged you and you rose to the occasion. The Project MCP Flickr group has been flooded with beautiful photos taken from high vantage points, using natural light, illustrating transition and depicting mysterious objects. Here are a few of the Project MCP Team’s favorite photos from the Week 1 Challenge…

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Project MCP: March, New Challenges

Welcome to the first month of Project MCP. In case you missed the big announcement, Project 12 is now Project MCP. Learn more about Project MCP and how it works here . Each month the Project MCP Team will reveal four to five challenges, enough for a new challenge to start each Saturday of the month.…

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Love or Leap – February in Review!

Thanks to everyone who took the leap this month and participated in Project 12! The Project 12 Team was impressed at the range of interpretations of the themes.  The images were fabulous, which made it close to impossible to pick only a few favorites. Some of these were favorites from the first time I saw…

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MCP Project 12: {Month Two} Love or Leap

Join MCP Project 12 to grow as a photographer. Photograph images based on a theme and challenge yourself.

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MCP Project 12: {Month One} Resolution

Join MCP Project 12 to grow as a photographer. Photograph images based on a theme and challenge yourself.

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Photography Help! Eradicating stiff, nervous and awkward subjects forever

Learn to get the best possible interactions from your family shoots by following these easy tips!

Photo Blogging Post Ideas – Beyond Posting Photo Sessions

There is so much more photographers can blog about in addition to posting your sessions. Here are some ideas that will jump start your blog.

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ABC Project for Photographers: A Creative Photo Challenge

Learn how “letter” photography can increase your creatively and challenge your artistic side. Try this fun, artist photo project now.

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Finding Your Style as a Photographer

Finding Your Style as a Photographer A straight shot is so predictable, not to mention boring! Do you want your clients to choose you as an artist because your photography is something unique that will last forever? Of course you do! The million-dollar question is, how do you develop your own personal style? For me…

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MCP Project 52 – Week 10 review – Launch Week 11

Welcome to our regular MCP Project 52 blog post where we’ll be looking back over week 10 and giving a little sneak preview of the new week 11 theme. I knew this was going to be a fun and memorable week with the theme “Childhood Toys” .  Really made me walk down memory lane and…

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MCP Project 52 – Features from Week 6 + Theme for Week 7

Welcome to our look back at week 6 of MCP Project 52, and the launch of the theme for the upcoming week! It’s been a great week for MCP Project 52, we’re almost to 3,000 members and we’ve had a ton of beautiful work submitted for the Words theme. We’d love to have more members,…

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Removing the “Dull” From Your Photos Using Photoshop Actions

Removing the “Dull” From Your Photos Using Photoshop Actions Most photographers will find that even when they nail the exposure in camera, there may be a slight dull look to their images. This can easily be fixed with just a few steps in your post processing workflow.  Today’s before and after Photoshop Actions Blueprint, by…

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Photography Help: How to Get Inspired to Shoot Creatively

Photography Help: How to Get Inspired to Shoot Creatively “But it’s all right now, I learned my lesson well. You see, ya can’t please everyone, so ya got to please yourself.” Garden Party –Ricky Nelson My path has taken me to a place where I get to meet a lot of photographers.  Most of the…

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Inspiration for this Prize Winning Photo…

I received many emails about this photo that won grand prize from the Color Inc & MCP Gallery Wrapped Canvas Photo Contest.  The photo was taken by Laureen Carruthers.  I asked her to explain her inspiration for this photo.  She wrote the following: “when I saw Parker lying and relaxing in the shallow water – I…

What is the BEST photography advice you have ever gotten?

MCP Actions Website | MCP Flickr Group | MCP Reviews MCP Actions Quick Purchase I would love to get some reader participation on this one. Please comment on the following: What is the best photography advice you have ever gotten? I am looking for that advice that changed the way you shoot. That “ah” moment.…

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