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100 Photography Tips in 100 Days

By Adorama Learning Center Editors

December 29, 2008

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This week's theme: Hit your creative refresh button

Today's tip:
Day 86: The magic of the mundane

Previous tips:
Week 1: Classic darkroom special effects in Photoshop Elements
Day 1: High-Contrast B&W in Photoshop Elements
Day 2: B&W Solarization in Photoshop Elements
Day 3: Bas Relief in Photoshop Elements
Day 4: Color Solarization in Photoshop Elements
Day 5: Selenium Prints in Photoshop Elements
Week 2: Getting the best--and worst--image quality out of your compact digital camera
Day 6: Compact Digital Camera Image Quality Overview
Day 7: Slow down for sharpness
Day 8: The ISO Tipping Point
Day 9: Mud in the fast lane
Day 10: Does "noise reduction" work?
Week 3: Environmental portraiture tips
Day 11: Find an environment that says something about your subject
Day 12: Select the right elements in the environment
Day 13: Set the subject in a characteristic environment
Day 14: Adapt to the environment to get the best portrait
Day 15: Make the environment a key feature of the portrait
Week 4: Metering and exposure tips
Day 16: Metering for the "correct" exposure
Day 17: Metering for Brightness Range
Day 18: Metering for the Darkest Object
Day 19: Metering for the Brightest Object
Day 20: The substitution metering method
Week 5: Creative camera motion techniques.
Day 21: Dancing with your camera
Day 22: Zoom for motion
Day 23: Pantastic panning
Day 24: Camera tossers—only centerfielders need apply
Day 25: Camera still--subject moving
Week 6: Capture fall foliage
Day 26: Capture the mood with diffused light
Day 27: Go with backlight for radiant leaves
Day 28: Come in on a detail for color
Day 29: Use a filter to remove glare from leaves
Day 30: Saturate fall colors
Week 7: Digital exposure and metering techniques
Day 31: Metering modes: Green or Program?
Day 32: Metering modes: Tv, Av, or M?
Day 33: DSLR scene mode secrets!
Day 34: Effect? Scene mode? What's the difference?
Day 35: Six scene modes you may actually want to use
Week 8: Speed week--ISO and action with Bryan Peterson
Day 36: Understanding the Effect of ISO on Exposure
Day 37: The Myth of ISO Exposed
Day 38: Freezing Action at ISO 100, 200, and 400
Day 39: Fine grain with higher ISOs? Humbug!
Day 40: Push Processing ISO 100 in RAW
Week 9: Spotlight on top Adorama photography products
Day 41: Field report: Pro Optic 500mm f/6.3 mirror lens
Day 42: Practical bags
Day 43: Thanks for your (lightweight) support
Day 44: Big light for big spaces
Day 45: User report: $75 Flashpoint 35mm Film and Slide Scanner
Week 10: High-flying picture-taking tips
Day 46: Taking pictures from Airliners
Day 47: Taking pictures from small planes
Day 48: Photography at airshows
Day 49: 100 in 100: Photographing planes on the ground
Day 50: Air-to-air plane photography
Week 11: The 16 most important cameras of the year
Day 51: The most important Pro/Prosumer DSLRs right now
Day 52: The most important Amateur DSLRs right now
Day 53: The most important System Compact Cameras right now
Day 54: The most important compact cameras right now
Day 55: The most important Superzoom Cameras right now
Week 12: Don't overdo Photoshop!
Day 56: Don't be a super soaker saturater
Day 57: Cornering Curves and leveling Levels
Day 58: Should grandma's face be as smooth as a baby's?
Day 59: Sharpen to show--not to kill
Day 60: It's an imperfect world. Accept it
Week 13: Lensfest '08: The best new lenses of the year
Day 61: The Long Rangers
Day 62: Lensfest '08: Superwide zooms and fisheye lenses
Day 63: Lensfest '08: Midrange zooms get features, respect
Day 64: Lensfest '08: Tele zooms go all the way
Day 65: Lensfest '08: Wild and wacky lenses
Week 14: Buying Guide Potpourri
Day 66: Buying Guide: The best mid-range DSLRs right now
Day 67: Buying Guide: The best system compact digital cameras right now
Day 68: Canon PowerShot G10 field/lab test
Day 69: Adobe Photoshop CS4 User Report
Day 70: Incredibly Useful Photo Accessories for under $100
Week 15: Understanding shadows and highlights
Day 71: Understanding Shadows and Highlights in Digital Exposure
Day 72: Understanding contrast in exposure
Day 73: Film vs. Digital exposure, and Histograms
Day 74: Do You Have The Blinkies?
Day 75: How do metering patterns work?
Week 16: Think like the camera
Day 76: Think like the camera
Day 77: Why your camera acts like a teenager
Day 78: Activate the camera-Photoshop partnership
Day 79: Make your camera sing
Day 80: Know your camera’s limits
Week 17: Low light and night photography
Day 81: Low light & night photography
Day 82: Fast lenses for low light
Day 83: High ISO, low light, and noise
Day 84: Tripods: The ultimate image stabilization
Day 85: Best Low Light/High ISO DSLRs

Welcome back to our most popular feature, 100 in 100: 100 photography tips in 100 days. In this, our third round We will serve up a tip a day, five days a week for twenty weeks, through mid-January.

Join the million-plus photographers who've visited the original two seasons of 100 in 100 and have learned and improved their photography. And be sure to catch up on our previous 200 tips in 100 in 100 Part I and 100 in 100 Part II. ATTENTION WEBMASTERS AND BLOGGERS! E-mail me if you've linked to 100 in 100 on your site or blog and I'll add your link to "100 in 100 in the News." Thank you to all bloggers and webmasters who have linked to us!

--Mason Resnick
Editor, AIRC / Adorama Imaging Resource Center
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