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My Digital SLR Photography Experiences 

Welcome to MyPhotoAxis.com .  I hope you will learn the basics of how to get the most from your SLR or prosumer digital camera. I've written some reviews of lenses I have experience with, and give you advice about photo taking techniques.  The section on camera accessories is often over looked but these can be vital to get the most out of your camera.  Don't forget to read the section on using older Manual focus Nikon, Pentax, and exotic lenses with your Canon EOS body.

Desaturate your background
Photoshop Techniques
One of my favorite techniques to make an object really stand out is to desaturate the background.  In this tutorial I'm going to show you a very easy method to separate an object from it's background just be giving the background a little desaturation in Photoshop.  You can adjust the effect to your taste and the photo. I've done complete black and white backgrounds with this techniques, as well as just muting the colour a little bit.
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Replacing Canon's Eyecup
Essential Accessories
I'm sure most people have this problem with their SLR cameras.  You have to press your eye right up against the camera, and all the grease and oil on your face smudges the LCD on the back of your camera.  It's even worse if you have glasses, or if there is some glare from behind you.  I've even heard of peoples noses hitting buttons and controls.
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Manual Focus Lenses on Canon EOS
Photography Techniques

One of the great things about Canon EOS SLR's is that they have excellent clearance between the mirror and lens mount, which means you can actually mount Leica R, Carl Zeiss, Visoflex, Nikon F (MF and AF), Pentax M42, Contax/Yashica (RTS), and Olympus OM Lenses to a Canon body with a simple relatively cheap adapter. 

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