Gallery: This Month's Best Reader Photos, Plus Submit Your Best Shot!

Gallery: This Month's Best Reader Photos, Plus Submit Your Best Shot!	View this email online

	July 7, 2011 Breaking news from America's top photo magazines From the Forums: What focal length macro is right for you? Our readers share their thoughts. Join and Contribute!

	Gallery: This Month's Best Reader-submitted Photos See all of the winners from our Your Best Shot photo contest How To: Customize Photoshop for a Better Workflow Sometimes all you need is a little interface renovation Round Up: The Best Rugged Off-trail Camera Backpacks Here are six of the all around toughest packs out there Tips From a Pro: Shooting Swimming from Underwater Photographer Marcus Swanson shares his tricks for photographing Olympic swimmers Photo of the Day See the whole gallery here.   Be the first to hear about new stuff on PopPhoto.com by subscribing to our revamped RSS feed! TECH SUPPORT Tips From Our Readers White Balancing: For a quick and dirty white-balance setting under indoor stadium lights, switch your lens to manual focus, cover its front element with a sheet of waxed paper, and aim the lens up at the ceiling lights. Now take a custom white balance reading. It’s not as accurate as using something like the X-Rite ColorChecker, but it will do in a pinch. Straight Horizon: To level the horizon in old versions of Adobe Photoshop (such as Photoshop 7, which I use), you can use the Ruler tool. Just draw a line across that part of the image you feel should be horizontal. Then click on Image > Rotate > Arbitrary. The program will show the exact number of degrees that it will rotate, either clockwise or counterclockwise—no guessing needed. Do you have Tech Support Question? Post it on our Facebook Page.

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Gallery: The Dog Portrait Photographer

I, Photographer: The Dog Portraitists	View this email online

	June 30, 2011 Breaking news from America's top photo magazines From the Forums: Share your DIY tips for cleaning and rejuvenating an old film camera. Our readers share their thoughts. Join and Contribute!

	I, Photographer: The Dog Portraitists Capturing canines for a living can be tough work, but to Illona Haus, its all part of the job How To: Photograph Patterns in Nature Take the time to look around and study the intimate details, and you’ll see nature’s infinite variety of patterns How Do You Photograph Strangers on the Street? A GoPro mounted on top of a Leica M9 gives you a shooter's-eye-view into an interesting street photography process Stereoscopic Images of the Civil War Can Now be Seen in 3D, No Glasses Needed The Smithsonian Institute figured out a way to view these images as they were originally intended Photo of the Day See the whole gallery here.   Be the first to hear about new stuff on PopPhoto.com by subscribing to our revamped RSS feed! TECH SUPPORT Up Close and Personal Q. What Should I Buy? A. Reader and Canon EOS 5D user Gura Nieves asks us what lens he should get “to take pictures of very, very small creatures.” The best choice is a dedicated macro lens. What focal length? The longer the macro, the more working space it gives you (important for skittish butterflies and the like), but the more expensive it gets. We’d opt for a short tele such as the 100mm f/2.8 Macro Canon EF ($600, street); if he intends to handhold the lens a lot, the image-stabilized 100mm f/2.8L Macro Canon IS ($1,000, street) would be a better choice. Do you have Tech Support Question? Post it on our Facebook Page.

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