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5 Tips On How To Take Killer Macro Shots
Macro Photography is a whole new world to photographers. Macro shots portray life in such imaginative and beautiful ways that you’re left spell bound and speechless. Taking killer macro shots is not easy. It’s an art. And you can also master this amazing art by following tips and tricks. Here’s how you can induce that killer instinct and X-factor to ...
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How-to: Photographing the Perseid Meteor Shower
Head for the country and point your camera toward the sky.
Image credit: Sam Wolfe
Every August, the night sky gets bombarded by the Perseid meteors, which are perfect for photographing (here’s a NASA video explaining the phenomenon). But, before you point your camera upward, here are a few simple tips to make sure you get the most out of your night of shooting.
Find the darkest spot available
If [...]
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Whiten Teeth In A Few Easy Steps
You can whiten teeth on almost any subject in your photos and it will be an improvement (unless they just completed a 14-day regimen with whitening strips). I think the trick is to not go too far or it looks unnatural.
Photoshop Elements makes it easy to do and you can control exactly how much whitening to apply as you get feedback on your monitor..
Carl has good dental hygiene habits and as you can [...]
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Sunset Photography – How to Take Amazing Sunsets
by Autumn Lockwood
It seems like everybody loves looking at beautiful sunsets, which is probably why sunset photography is such a competitive niche. Let’s look at some simple techniques that will help you to photograph truly stunning sunset images, the kind that stand out from the crowd.
Sunset Photography Rule #1: Protect your Eyes and Camera
It is dangerous to your eyes and to your camera’s image [...]
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9 Architectural Photography Tips
by Natalie Johnson
Classical or contemporary; architectural photography can be as challenging as it is rewarding. Here are some pointers to help you get started…
1. Be sensitive to the direction of light as this can increase contrast, shadows, textures and reflections. High levels of contrast can fool cameras into exposing the scene incorrectly, but shooters can easily overcome this by applying [...]
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Diptychs & Triptychs – 5 Prime Examples
by Elizabeth Halford
Main Entry: dip·tych
Pronunciation: \?dip-(?)tik\
Etymology: Late Latin diptycha, plural, from Greek, from neuter plural of diptychos folded in two, from di- + ptych? fold
Date: 1622
1 : a 2-leaved hinged tablet folding together to protect writing on its waxed surfaces
2 : a picture or series of pictures (as an altarpiece) painted or carved on two hinged tablets
3 : a work [...]
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How to Become a Fashion Photographer
by Robert Voltaire
So you wanna be a fashion photographer? Sounds very exciting? Sailing around on yachts with models. Shooting in the Caribbean or Tahiti or maybe even Paris with your favorite model is a perk of the job right? How fun it must be to shoot models for Victoria’s Secret and Sports Illustrated! Who would not want to travel to exotic locales and make a fortune and work with and befriend [...]
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Bright Ideas for Lighting Portraits
Mark Goldstein
When it gets to this time of year, with the onset of the PMA and Focus on Imaging shows, I always feel it’s time for an equipment evaluation.
What works, what is still useful, what do I actually use on a regular basis, what current trends do I need to keep up with? Obviously the computer / camera update can no longer be avoided and a regular turnover of this equipment is inevitable, [...]
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Nature Photography – Going an Extra Mile For a Great Photo
by Andrew Goodall
Nature photography classes have taught me a lot as a teacher. They have helped me to evaluate how much emphasis in nature photography should be on technology, and how much on creativity.
Half my time spent teaching is concentrated on the essential mechanics of good photography; aperture, shutter speed, ISO, lenses and so on. The rest of the time is focused on understanding natural [...]
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Journalistic Wedding Photographer – What Are the Prerequisites?
by Tan Vivien
Out of all the people that work as a team to make a wedding possible, the professional journalistic wedding photographer rises above all the rest. All brides want each element of their wedding to come together without a hitch to create the moment of a lifetime. The cake will be eaten, the dresses will fade, and the flowers will wilt over time, but an artistic wedding photography is what [...]
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Portrait Lighting Tips – How to Shoot Pro Portraits
by Gerry Aeschlimann
Extraordinary portraits do not require extraordinary gear. In fact, just one off camera flash can work wonders. A properly executed portrait, with an interesting expression, good composition and lighting has more power, more magic, and more allure to more people than any other type of photo.
With few tricks and a modicum of knowledge you can achieve professional results in your [...]
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4 Ways to Formatting Images for the Internet
by Elizabeth Halford
I don’t really think it’s unreasonable that a lot of photographers out there aren’t entirely savvy about all aspects of technology. Take me for instance: I can barely figure out all that @soandso and #britneyspears. If you use Twitter, you’ll know what I mean. If not, then you’re lost with me.
So here I am writing a painfully simple introduction to preparing your images [...]
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30 Photographic Goals for 2010
by Christina N Dickson
1. Don’t leave your camera
You never know what opportunities will present themselves to you if your camera is always at your side. It may be a bit of extra hassle, but you will develop a greater sense of observation by being aware of your camera constantly.
2. Shoot a Photo a Day
No greater photographic progress can be seen than by a personal photo a day challenge. Watch [...]
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De-Mystifying Resolution
by Linda Pizzitola
Low resolution photos may look great on your monitor at ’screen resolution’ (72 ppi or pixels per inch). The small file size downloads fast and is easy to share online. Plus you can get a lot of these images on a memory card.
But photos taken on a camera’s ‘basic’ or ‘low’ quality settings don’t cut it when you want professional quality images for print publication. [...]
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TiltShift Makes Your Photos Look Like Miniatures
By Adam Pash
Web site and Adobe AIR application TiltShift gives your photos a tilt-shift photography effect that normally requires expensive special lenses or Photoshop chops.
We’ve actually featured asimilar service once before, but TiltShift is a much better tool, offering more advanced features and more control. As Jason pointed out last time we talked abouttilt-shift photography: “Tilt-shift [...]
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DIY Tilt-Shift Photography Lens
By Adam Pash
Tilt-shift lenses create a great miniature effect on photographs of everyday things. The problem? These specialized lenses are insanely expensive (think $1,000 range). This video from Make demonstrates how to make a DIY tilt-shift lens on the cheap.
Tilt-shift lenses work by slightly rotating the camera’s lens, creating a very shallow depth of field that makes pictures of normal [...]
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Teorex Releases Inpaint
Zoltan Arva-Toth
Teorex has just released Inpaint, a smart tool which allows users to seamlessly remove objects from a background. This applies to scratches, noise and all kinds of objects that do not belong to the photo or spoil the composition. Just select the object to remove, define the area to be used for generating the texture and click the Inpaint — Run command. Besides photo restoration, [...]
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Photographing in Dark Indoor Settings
by John Huegel
Here are several tips to help you capture the best images in dark indoor settings.
1. Camera Stability. You will be taking long exposures, and any camera motion could impact the quality of the image. Try to utilize a monopod or stabilize the camera on the back of a theater seat. Do not hold the camera in front of you without support.
Some cameras and lenses have stabilization features [...]
4 Practice Techniques to Develop Photographic Observation
by Christina N Dickson
The greatest skill of a talented photographer is not how accurate he or she can be with exposure; it’s not being spot on with all of the tech details, or putting out thousands of images a week.
The greatest skill any photographer can hope to possess is that of observation.
Observation will define your work. It will give life and breath to the stories you capture and the beauty [...]
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How To Build a Bomb-Proof Blast Shield for your Camera
By Vin Marshall
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Many of the things we film for TE videos aren’t the kind of thing you’d want to put an expensive camera anywhere near. Some of them aren’t even the kind of thing you’d want to put a cheap camera near. To expand our recording options, I built a protective housing for a lipstick camera. Here’s the how-to and video of us trying [...]
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Cheap Tricks: Use a Vintage Lens To Get More From Your Digital SLR
By Russ Juskalian
Mix and Match Inexpensive adapter rings from China allow you to attach compatible off-brand manual-focus lenses to a new digital camera. Luis Bruno
One of the key features of digital SLR cameras is the ability to change lenses to get a wide range of shots, from ultra-zooms to super-close-ups. And now DSLR owners no longer need to spend a bundle on high-end lenses to take advantage [...]
Gray Matter: DIY X-Ray Photos
With some film and a saltshaker, you can take radioactive pictures
By Theodore Gray
X-Ray Camera A radium button sends radiation down through an earring onto tinfoil-wrapped instant film. Mike Walker
Everyone knows light exposes film, but other forms of radiation do as well—a fact you can use to take pictures in some pretty unusual ways.
It’s also how radioactivity was first discovered. In [...]
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Tips on Early Morning Photography
by Barrie Smith
A Guest Post by Simon Davidson.
As all photographers know, there are two times of day when the light is most ideal for capturing breathtaking images, sunrise and sunset. The reason being is because at these times the angle between the sun and the earth’s surface is small which allows for the sunlight to flow over the landscape in a way that intensifies the colours of nature and also [...]
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Learn Digital Photography – 7 Keys to Great Character Portraits
by Wayne Turner
Capturing character through portraits has always been a real and true representation of people photography. The magazines always show us perfection by misrepresenting the imperfections of models and actors and other celebrities. Character portraits capture reality and the essence of the subject.
So how do we go about capturing a true character photo that is genuinely representative [...]
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