Another inspiring handful of articles I have read recently:

Add some pizzazz to your eBay auction pictures

idigitalphoto shows what you can do to make your eBay pictures more appealing to potential buyers:

• How to make your eBay auction pictures stand out

Make some bokeh

Bokeh is a lens effect used to create out-of-focus backgrounds to reduce background distractions and emphasise the subject. This article by Beyond Megapixels demonstrates ways to create bokeh while photographing and also during post-production:

• How to create Bokeh in your photos

Can I take your photo, please?

Digital Photography School provides some tips on asking permission to take someone’s photo:

• Asking permission to photograph people

Create some horror effects

For a bit of blood and gore Photoshop Roadmap provides a list of ghastly, horror effects you can add to your images:

• 70 Blood and gore photoshop effect and brushes

Is your web content being ripped off?

And lastly, photography bloggers out there might be interested in the ProBlogger article on how to stop your website content from being ripped-off:

• Fighting scrapers with your left jab

Enjoy.

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