Education
It’s always a good time to learn more about your craft, the tools you use to capture images, and how to process those captures once you get them home. You must be a member to view this section.
Tips & Tricks
Circular Polarizers: the filter you can’t do without
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Through The Lens
Here Come The Birds!
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Social Media Exchange
Finding People To Follow On Instagram
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Post Processing
Creating a Horizontal Image from a Vertical Image for the Internet
Sometimes you will have a vertical image but it needs to be converted to a 1080 pixel wide horizontal image with a 4:3 aspect ratio for posting on Meetup and the GNPA website. I’ll walk through the process. This video from Matt Kloskowski helps to walk through the...
Gear
Top 20: Essential Camera Accessories [Updated 2019]
Why Are These Essential Camera Accessories? I have personal experience with every item on this camera accessories list and would recommend them all. I’ve spent a fair bit of money in the past on equipment I didn’t...
Recommended Pros
Recommended Professionals
GNPA blogs regularly about photography and craft tips and techniques. Take the time to explore articles and posts by some of these professional photographers recommended by GNPA members:
We also recommend following the blog, social media or YouTube channel of professionals you know and whose work you respect, to better understand how they approach and compose their images. Many share fantastic tips and techniques that will help the next time you capture.
We’ve listed a few of our top recommendations. Enjoy exploring!
David Akoubian





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