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How To Take The Best Photos With The OnePlus 8 Pro

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The OnePlus 8 Pro brings the best and most capable camera system OnePlus has ever put in a phone, thanks to a new primary sensor and improved processing. You still get a dedicated telephoto and ultra-wide camera, too, giving you extra shooting options to inject some variety into your photos. There are lots of tools and plenty of options at your disposal with the OnePlus 8 Pro's cameras. Here's how you can make the most of it all for the best photos. Clean the damn camera lenses This isn't specific to the  OnePlus 8 Pro , but an important tip nonetheless: clean your camera lenses! As smartphones get to the point of having three or more lenses, there's a lot back there to accidentally touch and smudge up throughout your daily use of the phone. No matter what you do with your software, framing, and a steady hand, if your camera lens is dirty, it's all a waste of time. Be sure to regularly take a look at your camera lenses and give them a cleaning when possi

How to Get Old Photos Out of Your Closet and Onto Your Computer

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Products featured are independently selected by our editorial team and we may earn a commission from purchases made from our links; the retailer may also receive certain auditable data for accounting purposes. Smartphones have enabled most of the world to carry around a high-resolution camera in their pocket, which we’ve used to take over one trillion pictures per year. Those pictures are then perfectly preserved on our phone and on the cloud, accessible any time we have an internet connection. But what about photos taken in the pre-digital age? The years (or decades) of snapshots taken during holidays, family reunions, or important family events? If they’re piled up in old shoeboxes or dusty photo albums in a hallway closet or basement, it’s time to take them out, and digitize them. Having a digital copy will allow you to upload them to social media, or back them up to an external hard drive, so they can’t get torn, lost, or damaged from accidental exposure to water, mold or fi

8 Free Online Photo Classes: Sharpen Your Camera And Editing Skills

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If you're interested in developing new skills or looking to do something fun during some downtime, photography can be a great hobby — especially for first timers. In addition, there could be health benefits:  Research from Harvard suggests  that learning a new skill can help reduce stress — and can be even more effective than simply relaxing. And when that new skill is photography, you also gain a creative outlet to bust stress for the long-term. Photography is something that you can learn indoors or in your backyard, and if you don't have a more advanced camera to learn with, you can even get started (in some cases) by learning with the camera that you already have: a smartphone. As a professional photographer, I've compiled a list of some of my favorite online learning platforms that I've used personally, as well as other outlets with great student reviews. And, I narrowed the list down to free online photography classes, suitable for any budget. Here are 8 on