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Black Friday Car Sales – How to Get Approved With Bad Credit on the Most Popular Day to Buy Cars!
Black Friday is reported by news organizations all around the U.S. as one of the best days to get a great price on a car. Dealers all across the country slash prices on new and used vehicles as the excitement builds in the retail market for the big market boom leading up to Christmas. Frequently,…
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Darts (Gesture Listener & Flick Gesture)
Darts is an addictive and slick game that provides a great reason to demonstrate support for the flick gesture (a single-finger, rapid swipe). To make detecting flicks easy, this app leverages a feature in the Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit called the gesture listener. In this one-player game, you throw a dart by flicking the…
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Nikon D7000, Tips for Shooting Action
Give them somewhere to go Framing your image is as important as how well you expose the image. A poorly composed shot can ruin a great moment by not holding the viewer’s attention. One common mistake in action photography is not using the frame properly. If you are dealing with a subject moving horizontally across…
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Nikon D7000, A Sense of Motion
Shooting action isn’t always about freezing the action. There are times when you want to convey a sense of motion so that the viewer can get a feel for the movement and flow of an event. Two techniques you can use to achieve this effect are panning and motion blur. Panning Panning has been used…
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Nikon D7000, Keeping Up with the Continuous Shooting Modes
Getting great focus is one thing, but capturing the best moment on the sensor can be difficult if you are shooting just one frame at a time. In the world of sports, and in life in general, things move pretty fast. If you blink, you might miss it. The same can be said for shooting…
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Nikon D7000, Manual Focus for Anticipated Action
While I use the automatic focus modes for the majority of my shooting, there are times when I like to fall back on manual focus. This is usually when I know when and where the action will occur and I want to capture the subject as it crosses a certain plane of focus. This is…
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Nikon D7000, Stop and Go with 3D-Tracking Af
If you are going to be changing between a moving target and one that is still, you should consider using the 3D-tracking AF mode. This mode mixes both the AF-S and dynamic modes for shooting a subject that goes from stationary to moving without having to adjust your focus mode. When you have a stationary…
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Nikon D7000, Keep them In Focus with Continuous-Servo Focus and Af Focus Point Selection
With the exposure issue handled for the moment, let’s move on to something equally important: focusing. If you have browsed your manual, you know that there are several focus modes to choose from in the D7000. To get the greatest benefit from each of them, it is important to understand how they work and the…
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Nikon D7000, The ISO Sensitivity Auto Control Trick
There is a very cool trick that can get you the best of both worlds and that won’t sacrifice your shutter speed or aperture. With the ISO Sensitivity auto control feature, you can set the camera to automatically select an ISO that keeps you at your preferred shutter speed, while using the largest aperture and…