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A Photoshoot For The Star Wars Fans
Posted by Patrick Hall Admin on March 21, 2011 · 0 Comment
When I received an email from Marie-Louise Cadosch saying she had a behind the scenes video featuring "Lord Vader" I may have rolled my eyes. Chances were good though that her photoshoot would be badass because her previous videos on Fstoppers are some of my favorites. I have come to expect the worst when photographers use famous super heroes or villains in their shoots, but what Marie-Louise did [...]
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10 Lighting Setups For Video And Photos
Posted by Patrick Hall Admin on March 13, 2011 · 0 Comment
If you were a film student and your professor gave you an assignment requiring you to show a series of different lighting setups, what would you do? John Note and his fellow classmates created a pretty funny video tutorial that shows 10 different lighting setups that you could use in both your films and your still images. If you are a photographer you might not be completely familiar with the power [...]
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Sekonic L-308DC DigiCineMate Light Meter
Today, Sekonic announced the new compact L-308DC DigiCineMate light meter. The L-308DC DigiCineMate features HD Cine, Cine and Photo modes for metering and exposure readings in f-stops to one-tenth step, light measuring with Lumisphere for incident light readings, Lumidisc for lighting green screens and reflected light, three custom settings, a customizable LCD, film and digital calibration compensations, [...]
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Foreign Lands
Posted by Palyi Adrian on November 23, 2010 · 0 Comment
Just wondering about the mysteries of the Universe.
70 Tutorials For Learning And Mastering Light Effects In Photoshop
Posted by TimothyBlake on August 29, 2010 · 1 Comment
A collection of a range of different tutorials for learning how to master various types of lighting effects using Photoshop. There are a range of tutorials featured within the compilation which the end result can be achieved by a novice to Photoshop or even teach a guru of Photoshop a few new tips. A must bookmark resources for future reference hope you enjoy.1. Create a Glowing Effect Scene in PhotoshopThis [...]
How to Shoot With an Extremely Shallow Depth-of-Field
Posted by cheethyincozy on July 2, 2010 · 0 Comment
So you’ve saved every penny, and your piggy bank is full to bursting. It’s time to cash that in money and buy a new lens. And what better choice than a fast prime lens? These offer plenty of benefits, and we’re going to dive into one of those benefits today: that shallow, professional and silky shallow depth of field.
Getting In-Depth with Depth-Of-Field
I’m about to get all Mr. Wizard on [...]
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DIY Seamless White Background for Product Shots
Posted by Darren Rowse on May 6, 2010 · 0 Comment
Here’s a quick idea that might help those of you looking to take some product shots (think selling stuff on E-Bay) who might not have the budget to buy a light tent or lighting setup (or who don’t have the time to make their own light tent).
It was put together by Daniel Greene.
I think the shots explain themselves but here’s what Daniel wrote in describing the setup:
“I simply used an [...]
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Retro 3D Arcade Text Effect in Illustrator
In this tutorial we’ll make clever use of Illustrators built in 3D capabilities, gradients and opacity masks to design a Retro 3D Type Effect. Quick Nav: Tutorial Download the PSD (Source Files) The final image This is what we will be creating: Step 1 There are actually two ways to begin this illustration. You may draw all the blocky shapes with the pen tool or just download a blocky font like [...]
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High Key Studio – What I Use and Why
Posted by Elizabeth Halford on April 14, 2010 · 0 Comment
If you follow my posts, you’ll know that I have a studio. At the moment, I mostly do high-key sessions with children. High-key is something that many photographers try to imitate and sometimes fail miserably simply because of a lack of understanding about light (and I only know this because I am one of those people!) Out of necessity, my photographic evolution has been a fast one and I laugh [...]
Filed in: Photography Tips, Wedding Photography
Mastering the Zoom Effect
Posted by Darren Rowse on April 14, 2010 · 0 Comment
Photo by GoGoJingo
If you want to have a little fun with your digital camera next time you go out with it have a go at experimenting with the zoom effect.
In essence what the zoom effect is is a picture which look like the subject is either moving towards or away from you with motion lines.
There are a number of ways to get this effect some are done while shooting the image and some afterwards [...]
Mastering the Zoom Effect
Posted by Darren Rowse on April 14, 2010 · 0 Comment
Photo by GoGoJingo
If you want to have a little fun with your digital camera next time you go out with it have a go at experimenting with the zoom effect.
In essence what the zoom effect is is a picture which look like the subject is either moving towards or away from you with motion lines.
There are a number of ways to get this effect some are done while shooting the image and some afterwards [...]
An Interview with Set Designer Raffy Tesoro
Posted by Darren Rowse on April 14, 2010 · 0 Comment
In this post Dustin Carbonera interviews Set Designer Raffy Tesoro. Raffy has answered a number of questions as well as walking us through some of the shots he’s been involved with creating sets for.
Everybody seems to be into photography nowadays. Everyone wants to be the person behind the lens and capture a beautiful frame. Everyone wants to be that person who’ll be praised by people because [...]
Adding Amazing Light To Your Portraits
Posted by Esben Rahbek on March 29, 2010 · 0 Comment
[tweetmeme]A portrait itself can be nice, and good looking. But if you like taking photos of people, I’m sure you have experienced the boring light which sometimes appears. Fortunately, our dear friend Photoshop can help us making almost any portrait look better. You know, like the ones you see in magazines, where they claim L’oreal makes you look all better.
If you have [...]
25 Spectacular Light Painting Images
Light Painting in its many forms has been a growing trend on Flickr and other photo sharing sites in the last couple of years. These images are attention grabbing and full of amazing color, movement and detail. In this post we share 25 examples to inspire you.
Image by brentbat
These great images come from a variety of talented photographers including Brent Pearson (his image is above) who has written [...]
Use of Light in Photography
The use of light in a photograph can be the deciding factor of whether that picture will be spectacular or terrible. When you use your camera to automatically chose aperture and shutter speed, what your camera is actually doing is using the built in light meter and measuring how much light is being reflected to the camera.
But that doesn’t mean that’s all there is to it. You should [...]
Filed in: Photography: The Basics
Phase One unveils Capture One 5 PRO
Posted by Peter Carey on October 28, 2009 · 0 Comment
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Phase One unveils Capture One 5 PRO
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