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Photographer Michael Clark (www.michaelclarkphoto.com) is an internationally published outdoor photographer specializing in adventure sports, travel, and landscape photography. His editorial and corporate clients include National Geographic, Sports Illustrated, Outside, Men’s Journal, Outdoor Photographer, Digital Photo Pro, Climbing, Nike, Nikon, Adobe, Patagonia, Pfizer and DuPont to name just a few. He has r

Traveling around the islands of Hawaii is a photograph waiting to happen at any point.  All the islands, are of course, fantastic for their blues of the skies and oceans and for their greens in the lush foliage covering the towering peaks.  Rich black lava can add an extra element of contrast to many areas, as it does on Oahu’s Makapu’u Beach on the island’s east coast. MAKAPU’U BEACH –

Dawn Kish (www.dawnkishphotography.com) is an Arizona-based photojournalist and outdoor photographer.  She is represented by National Geographic Images and contributes as well to Aurora Photos and Getty Images.  Her photographs seem to match her personality: interesting, exciting, and full of life.  Her work has appeared on the covers of many magazines and she currently holds a position at the prestigious Arizona Hig

Tony Sweet (tonysweet.com) is a professional photographer, author, lecturer, and workshop instructor living in Eldersburg, Maryland. He and Susan Milestone own and operate Visual Artistry Photography Workshops, teaching throughout the US and Canada. Tony’s photography is published worldwide in every medium and is represented by Getty Images.  His iPhone photography is represented by Aurora Photos.  Tony has aut

Marc Muench has been a professional landscape and sports photographer for over 20 years. After completing his studies at Pasadena Art Center College of Design in the spring of 1989, Marc immediately began photographing for book publishers such as Graphic Arts Center, Browntrout Publishing and Time Inc.  Soon after, Marc represented Canon Camera in several ad campaigns, as well as appearing on “Canon Photo Safari” whi

Canon is graciously giving many free workshops in America’s favorite playgrounds this summer for the sixth year running.  ”Canon Photography in the Parks” is way to get some Canon gear into your hands and then get you into the great outdoors to add some photographs to your portfolio.  Canon has chosen some of the most picturesque national parks for the festivites:  Grand Canyon, Zion, Yosemite, Yell

Lara Ferroni (www.laraferroni.com) describes herself as a “goner” when it came to taking her first photograph of a batch of raspberry scones.  “My family quickly learned to ask first before digging in with their forks as I became completely snap-happy around any kind of food,” she says. She keeps a very small, light-filled shop in Portland, Oregon. “I mostly do my own food and prop styli

As we focus on some of the best photographers in the industry and in their particular genres, it is with some difficulty that we focus on a photographer who has done so much to add to collection of images and shape the way we think about images from around the world as Steve McCurry (www.stevemccurry.com).  I was given his book Portraits (1999) as a Christmas gift one year, and I have thumbed through this book innume

A dirty sensor can cause havoc in post-processing.  Largest spots are evident in a digital file, and can be removed fairly easily in digital software, but when five, ten, or even fifty spots start to show up in post, the task of removing them can be extraordinarily time consuming.  It’s best to take precautions to avoid dust and debris on the sensor, and when it’s dirty, to clean it properly.  Photographe

Starting today and finishing at the end of August, pictureline will be running a weekly photo contest on our facebook page! Now is your chance to show off your work and win up to $1250 and the title of “pictureline’s Top Photographer of 2012″. Contest Details Every Monday through the end of August we will post a new photo contest genre. You will have one week to submit your best photo followed by on