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It is summer time and it is time for fun with family and friends out on the beach, but everyone needs some photography tips to capture this fun on the camera. These photography tips are essential in taking pictures without any squint, grimace or shadows.
The photography tips include working only in the morning or the evening when there is no direct sunlight and the intensity is also low. When the sun is high, it may create shadows under the eyes and nose, so it could be a better idea to use a flash to fill those shadows. The photography tips also include using passing clouds as a cover for providing only diffused sunlight.
Using sunscreen and reflectors also factors in majorly in the photography tips since the using of sunscreen will give a definite look for the photos and the reflectors like natural sand help in capturing images with great light.
Take great care of the camera when out on the beach as the salt and sand might ruin it if it gets exposed. Make sure that the camera is not taken directly from an AC room to the warm beach since the lens might fog up.

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Photographer Joey Wright, who is known for his photos of surfside weddings, kiteboarders and models, offers photography tips to capture images at the seaside without your subjects grimacing, squinting or being harshly lit by the sun.
Photography Tips Series I, Tip 1 – Work during dawn or dusk times to get a softer light. Follow the general rule which says that the best time to shoot is when the shadow is twice the height of the subject.
Photography Tips Series I, Tip 2 – Use clouds to act as a cover from the harsh sun. They provide diffused light which is perfect for photography.
Photography Tips Series I, Tip 3 – Use the camera flash to fill in the shadows that the sun casts on your subjects.
Photography Tips Series I, Tip 4 – The camera flash gives a 'flat flash-lit look. Use a reflector to give a natural looking light. Or else, you can use sand that is a natural reflector of light. The color of the light reflected by sand is warm and looks great on your subject's skin. Make your subject sit or lay in the sand.
Photography Tips Series I, Tip 5 – Get your subjects to pose in shades offered by rocks, piers or even artificially created shades to escape the harsh sunlight.
Also take extra care of your equipment on the sand, and if you move from an air-conditioned place to the beach, watch out for fogging of the lenses.

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The famous portrait made by Vincent Van Gogh which is supposed to be a self portrait of him is not his portrait in the first place. It is apparently a portrait of his brother's, it has been revealed.
People actually thought that there was no portrait of Theo, Van Gogh's brother, a person who he was very close to. But the self portrait of Van Gogh was found out to be Theo's portrait. This painting is displayed in Amsterdam's Van Gogh Museum and is thought to be the only known portrait of Theo.
The museum's head researcher Louis van Tilborgh made the discovery after he compared it to another Van Gogh self-portrait. There are a few dissimilar features that could be found in the two paintings; Theo and Van Gogh have differently shaped ears and different colored beards.