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Edwin on January 22nd, 2012

You are an amateur photographer who love backpacking. Do you travel with your digital compact camera or the professional dSLR camera?
Amateur photographers love taking pictures of beautiful portrait and natural landscape as one travel on a shoestring.
It’s a common sight to see traveling photographers carrying a 80-Litre backpack, and another bulky pack of dSLR camera, expensive [...]

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Edwin on May 3rd, 2010

Portrait art is primarily consists of painting, drawing and photography. Photography is more of a combination of technical know-how on the equipments and one’s creativity in composition.
Drawing is the often describe as the most fundamental, and portrait painting is much more difficult to acquire.
In a concise explanation, I feel that portrait art attribute to a [...]

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I started off to learn photography with a prosumer digital SLR camera. My initial thought was to learn basic portrait photography, without spending much on equipment. Back then, this equipment was new to me, and I don’t have a good background of which portrait lens is best for me. Neither do I know about the [...]

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Well, who will believe me if I tell someone that I have drawn the portrait of famous pop star, Madonna. That was 25 years ago, and I did it using just a small passport-size photo cut out from an old magazine. Spending 3 days to transfer the portrait onto 14” x 14” paper, with graphite, [...]

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