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Lighting Setup for Track and Field Photography

Lighting Setup for Track and Field Photography

In this short video we follow photographer Zak Hendrik as he shots a group of athletes for an Indiana University poster. Some of the key points of Zak’s photo shoot are: Using four lights, two frontal lights including a ring light and lights to either side of the subjects to add some rim lighting. Using a predominately low angle, and underexposing the ambient light to create a dark but well defined [...]
20 Magnificent Happy Birthday Wallpaper Collection

20 Magnificent Happy Birthday Wallpaper Collection

Birthdays are merry making occasions when friends and family members gather around to wish their dear one on his D-day. Fun and frolic are the basic as well as the most prominent
5 Quick Tips for Customizing Your Pinterest Brand Page

5 Quick Tips for Customizing Your Pinterest Brand Page

Pinterest is one of the fastest-growing social media sites on the web. Easy to use, fun and unique, Pinterest has taken the Internet by storm. Along with this new wave of use has come a new purpose in marketing, a field that is quick to jump on creative forms of sharing content and expanding visibility.Since the site is now reaching more than 4 million unique visits per month, it is the perfect time [...]
30 Useful Grunge Background Collection

30 Useful Grunge Background Collection

Widely used for web designs and graphic styles, grunge textures are very popular for the unusual rusty,scratched,dirty and carefree combinations. Highly creative backgrounds with grunge design works great for any website. Surely
Top 10 Tips to Becoming a More Accomplished Photographer

Top 10 Tips to Becoming a More Accomplished Photographer

"Was Born" captured by kalel koven (click image to see more from kalel koven) One of my friends was asking me about my photography and asking how I got started, and so I decided to write a top 10 list of things to help you become a more accomplished photographer. I hope there is something in here that proves useful to you! 1) Love. Love your camera no matter what its spec, age or make. A [...]
Top 10 Tips to Becoming a More Accomplished Photographer

Top 10 Tips to Becoming a More Accomplished Photographer

"Was Born" captured by kalel koven (click image to see more from kalel koven) One of my friends was asking me about my photography and asking how I got started, and so I decided to write a top 10 list of things to help you become a more accomplished photographer. I hope there is something in here that proves useful to you! 1) Love. Love your camera no matter what its spec, age or make. A [...]
Giveaway: 3 Premium WordPress Themes from ThemeFuse

Giveaway: 3 Premium WordPress Themes from ThemeFuse

Our pals from ThemeFuse would like to share 3 premium WordPress themes licenses with us. How about some free stuff to start the day off on a high note? When you’re working with WordPress to run your site then you’re in luck. The fortunate winners of today’s giveaway will be given access to download one WordPress theme of their selection from ThemeFuse … free of charge. ThemeFuse [...]
Portrait Photography Session as Directed by Ellen DeGeneres

Portrait Photography Session as Directed by Ellen DeGeneres

For a photographer, doing the same old routine for portrait sessions all day can become a bit tedious and repetitive. That’s why televsion personality, Ellen DeGeneres, decided to spice things up a little bit and took over a portrait studio located inside of a JC Penneys. Because Ellen is so recognizable, she sent one of her writers to the studio to pose as a photographer. Ellen then directed [...]
30 Howling Pretty Backgrounds

30 Howling Pretty Backgrounds

Imagine a world without shapes and colors. Pretty boring! Everything around us is made up of different shapes and colors. So why leave the background bland? Be it wallpapers or designing of
Landscape Photography Tips

Landscape Photography Tips

"Dead Vlei Namibia" captured by David Hobcote (Click Image to See More From David Hobcote) Best light during dawn or dusk The best light is during dawn and dusk. That’s when the light is warm, the sun is in the frame and the mood is just beautiful. However, depending on what you want to do with your landscape shots you can shoot any time you want. I’ve read time after time again [...]
Advertising Photography Session: Deadliest Catch

Advertising Photography Session: Deadliest Catch

Go behind the scenes of an ad campaign. It is perhaps one of the most compelling fly on the wall documentaries on T.V. today. Discovery Channel’s Deadliest Catch follows the fortunes of deep sea fisherman as they battle the elements and many other dangers to bring back their marine bounty. In this short video we see Arizona advertising photographer, Blair Bunting shooting one of the stars for a Discovery [...]
Create Sci-Fi Style Laser Light Special Effect in Photoshop

Create Sci-Fi Style Laser Light Special Effect in Photoshop

In this tutorial, I will show you the steps I took to Design this Sci-Fi Style Laser Special Effect in Photoshop. A beginner friendly tutorial, this effect can be widely used in a range of designs (not just sci-fi) to add extra effect, have a try :) The process of creating this is really quite simple and can’t be done in just 3 easy steps below. Techniques include some basic layer blending, selection, [...]
Composite Photography Tips and Techniques

Composite Photography Tips and Techniques

The look of composite photography is unmistakable. The HDR images are crisp, detailed, and have expansive color ranges. As more and more photographers begin to move to specialty areas of HDR, in the following video we are introduced to an individual that has already fully embraced the technology. Joel Grimes has established himself as expert in the field of composite photography and is here to show [...]
Printer icon (PSD)

Printer icon (PSD)

Printer icon and symbol in PSD format. A very detailed icon for web and applications. Resolution: 1280x1024px Full size JPG preview: Printer icon File Format: PSD Color theme: black, silver Author: PSD Graphics Similar graphic: Keyboard button Download Photoshop PSD source: File Size: 2.10 MB PSD printer icon
Best Of Web And Design In March 2012

Best Of Web And Design In March 2012

Advertise here with BSAThis months round up features a great collection of Photoshop and illustrator tutorial, some of the best tutorials I’ve seen so far this year. There’s also a great selection of articles and freebies. I hope you enjoy the round up. I would love to hear what your favourite posts are from the round up.  Photoshop TutorialsDesign a photorealistic app icon [...]
Stop Motion Photography Hit: Fresh Guacamole

Stop Motion Photography Hit: Fresh Guacamole

Stop-motion director “PES” gets creative as he takes his viewers on a visual ride through the process of making the tasty green dip one photograph at a time. This production has set a new standard for creative stop-motion photography shorts and many in the industry have taken note (over 4.5 million views in a few weeks time). Have a look for yourself here: Besides the ingenious items he [...]
Event Photography Tips

Event Photography Tips

The million dollar question in among photographers is how they can make money doing what they love to do–taking photographs. In a seminar hosted at B&H, Jeff Cable delivers the ins and outs of the trade and shares with us the key points he uses to turn profit in a competition rich industry. The seminar lasted just over an 1 1/2 hours long and you can watch it in it’s entirety here: Hopefully, [...]
How to Find a Lost Camera

How to Find a Lost Camera

Have you ever experienced losing a most precious gadget such as a digital camera? For those who have, for sure, you sleepless nights wondering where your photographic device got lost or who might have stolen it. Even though it costs just a hundred dollars but if the item has a very sentimental value and bought from your hard earned money, it’s natural to be upset over losing a camera. "Ruin [...]
Tintype Photography

Tintype Photography

It’s fair to say that technology is no stranger when it comes to photography. As new products enter the market, the old are forgotten. Not too along ago we watched the iconic Kodachrome fall to the wayside. Before that, countless other films and chemical process were abandoned. Tintype, a type of photography process that came to be in way back in the 1800′s, may come as an unknown to many [...]
Food Photography Lighting

Food Photography Lighting

One of the challenges in photography is making enough to keep eating. Eating is good and when you’re in the business it’s important to stay current with the trends and be constantly adding new revenue streams to your portfolio. An area growing in popularity is food photography. People are fascinated with food; there are entire web sites devoted to food blogs. The real purists are buying [...]
Move, Eat and Learn

Move, Eat and Learn

Some of you may have seen this amazing project already but it is well worth revisiting for it’s unique creative style. Rick Mereki used the themes of movement, learning and eating to create three compelling short videos that leave you wanting more. As a travel photographer, I was very fascinated and inspired by this even though it is in fact a video project and not photography (but it was created [...]
Unique and Curious Photoshop Tutorial Showcase – March 2012

Unique and Curious Photoshop Tutorial Showcase – March 2012

Hey guys, welcome to the March Edition of “Unique and Curious Photoshop Tutorial Showcase” here on psdvault.com! This is a series I run here and showcase some very interesting and high quality Photoshop Tutorials from around the web, especially some fresh ones that were recently posted. The showcase will run at the end of each month,  and if you have any suggestion of great tutorials, [...]
Night Photo Tips

Night Photo Tips

If your digital camera has Manual mode and manual focus, you can take successful night photographs on your first try. Try various control combinations and check your results on your camera’s LCD screen. Try starting with these settings then alter your shutter speed as needed: "The twilight zone" captured by Giuseppe Maria Galasso (Click Image to See More From Giuseppe Maria Galasso) ISO: [...]
Grunge halftone background

Grunge halftone background

Grunge halftone background made of a light and dark blue dotted pattern, a great design for web sites or hi-res printed materials. Resolution: 5000x3750px Medium size preview (1280x960px): Grunge halftone File format: JPG Color theme: blue Author: PSD Graphics Might be useful (similar graphic): Light blue halftone pattern Download hi-res JPG file: File Size: 1.51 MB Grunge halftone background
Best Premium WordPress Themes of March 2012

Best Premium WordPress Themes of March 2012

Building a website on WordPress has become so easily, thanks to the developers who`re overstepping the bounds each day. After all, is PHP programming, the most popular language for web development. Besides this things, the biggest impact over a website is made by the design, and it must be outstanding to create the right impression. A wordpress theme can have them both: amazing design combined with [...]
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