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RTP, Rehabilitation Through Photography announces the “final month” in their 2010 Summer Camera Drive. Only 75 more cameras are needed by September 1, 2010 to help equip the current RTP programs. RTP has been transforming lives of people with special needs through photography for almost 70 years. Now is the time for you to become part of the “Regenerate & Reinvigorate” program with donations of cameras. This is your opportunity to donate a “new” or “used” camera which can be a “digital” or “film” camera to help change the lives of hundreds of people with special needs through the magic photography.

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One of the hurdles of becoming a good street photographer is gaining enough confidence to photograph people you don’t know. In this interesting video, you’ll pick up some tips by watching three photographers offering free portraits to total strangers.

Documentaries about great photographers are rare but Don’t Blink—Robert Frank is slated to open in select theaters on July 13, 2016 and you won’t want to miss it. Hollywood Reporter calls the film, “A provocative portrait of its equally provocative subject,” and says it, “vividly conveys his artistic spirit, defiant iconoclasm and lifelong aversion to compromise.”

There are numerous reasons for buying a new camera. Maybe yours is an old clunker and a replacement is long overdue. Or perhaps you’re chasing more megapixels or want better video capabilities.

We’re really not trying to be mean here, but seriously folks, if you’re still making the five beginner mistakes in the video below it’s time to clean up your act. Fortunately, travel photographer Joe Allam not only illustrates the photo errors that bug him most, but he demonstrates how to do things right.

Lightroom is loaded with tools and special features, some of which change or are added every time there’s an update. So you’ll be excused for not taking advantage of everything this software has to offer.