Today I announce the five “Power of 5″ winners. Many subscribers will remember that last month I held a “Great Tip Search”, and with that a competition. The five authors of the best 5 tips submitted would each win a Canon Powershot A630 digital camera. I had a huge number of entries – over 2,500! [...]

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Al Willen is our final “Power of 5″ winner. Al’s tip about batteries is very useful – even if you only have two batteries that you swap. When I emailled Al to say that he’d won the camera, he said he’s had a run of bad luck, so this was great news. Congratulations Al. – [...]

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Justine Stevens has won a digital camera with this great tip that works very well alongside the use negative space tip by Neil Speers. Congrats Julie! – David. When taking photos most people remember to consider the background. However a really important thing to remember is that we see three dimensionally, and to create amazing [...]

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The third camera winner is Neil Speers, who has a great tip on composition. Congratulations Neil! – David. Learn to use negative space. Positive space is your subject – a person, an animal, a building, an egg, etc. Negative space is everything else that shows up in the picture. Take five pictures of five different [...]

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Our second “Power of 5″ winner is Vanessa Lister. Vanessa’s tip was something I hadn’t heard of before – and is a very quick and easy way of making sure your subjects aren’t squinting into the light. Congratulations Vanessa, you’re also the proud recipient of a Canon A630 camera. – David Great photos need the [...]

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Our first winner of the “Power of 5″ competition is Robyn Januszewski. Robyn entered a tip that was a common theme (keeping your camera with you always), but she had the best description of why! Congratulations Robyn – I’m sending you a Powershot A630 for your winning entry! – David. The one thing I have [...]

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