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This Photo = Mind Exploding
by: Tara Jamieson
Try to think which is which……
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Keeping Your Camera Functioning in Arctic and Sub-Zero Temperatures
by Quintin Lake
Most SLRs cope remarkably well with freezing temperatures. I’ve had no problem using Canon EOS SLR cameras below zero for weeks on end, often down to -20°C and in extreme down to -30°C. This article is for those trying to keep such a camera going under expedition conditions, such as an icecap crossing or mountaineering expedition in the arctic: ie no power sockets, adverse weather, [...]
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4 Easy Photoshop Techniques to Make Your Pictures Pop!
by Darren Rowse
#1: blur/overlay
Duplicate your picture layer by dragging the layer to the ‘new’ icon in the layers palette (ctrl+j).
Apply a gaussian blur (Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur…). Blur it enough that the detail disappears but the shapes mostly keep their form.
In the layers palette, change the blending mode from ‘Normal’ to ‘Overlay.’
If you look at the before and after, [...]
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How To Make Digital Photos Look Like Lomo Photography
by Darren Rowse
From the first time I saw a photo that looked like this, I wanted to shoot one of my own. But, for the longest time I couldn’t figure it out how people took photos look like this. Then one day searching the web, I realized I needed a Lomo LC-A camera. This is a Russian made camera that was a knock off of another camera. It is poorly made and by Japanese camera standards, a bad picture [...]
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5 Surprising Places to Sell your Photos
by alex
Photography: edwinsail
You know all the old standards. You know that you can walk into a bookstore and see calendars filled with photos of fluffy kittens and baby Dobermans. You know that you can browse a gallery and – assuming you don’t die of envy first – see beautiful photographs, framed, matted and available for sale at eyewatering sums. And you know that you can browse a stock site [...]
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Beginning in Photography – Understanding the Light
by Mark Eden
Understanding how different lighting affects an image is half the work of creating better photos. This article aims to give a brief overview of the different types of light you might encounter as a photographer and how to use them to your advantage.
Direct light
Looking through the family photo album the other day, I noticed a recurring theme; photo after photo of us squinting into the [...]
Photography in Extreme Cold
by Sherry Osborne
Sometimes some of the most striking pictures are those taken in the dead of winter. There’s something beautiful and serene about a blanket of snow lying over everything. I live in a part of Canada that is known for extreme amounts of snow and temperatures that are accompanied by the terms “Arctic cold snap” on a regular basis so I get to practice taking photos under these conditions [...]
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Price vs. Value
by Elizabeth Halford
Do you feel comfortable with the prices you’re charging for your services and products? Do you have a nagging thought in your head that you’re not charging enough or wonder why people can’t bring themselves to pay your high prices? There are many factors involved in knowing what to charge for your services and I’m not about to break it down in such a way as to come up [...]
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12 Things to Photograph Before You Die
by: Laurie
You’ll photograph lots of subjects and reel off tens or even hundreds of thousands of images before you lay down your camera for the last time. Some of those pictures will be memorable; a few will serve as milestones in your life. One or two might even change it.
Here are twelve subjects we think you should photograph before you die.
1. A Perfect Portrait
Photography: [...]
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10 Reasons to Turn off Your Autofocus
by Alistair Scott.
When I started using a camera autofocus was something out of science fiction. I mean … it would never work in real life, would it? Apart from anything else, how could it know what you wanted to focus on?
Now fiction has become fact, and pretty well every camera has AF as standard. It works, and works well. But it doesn’t always work perfectly. It can pick up the wrong thing [...]
Get Silly for Serious Lifestyle Images
by Matthew Dutile
If you’re interested in diving into the world of lifestyle and portrait photography, or a veteran stuck in a rut of bland photos, and want to bring out some great emotions from your subjects – it’s time to get silly for serious images.
Chances are, unless you’re a natural born comedian or were from a large family where you had to ensure your meals by gaining mom and dad’s [...]
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Burn Face
In this tutorial you will learn how to make a realistic Burn Face in Photoshop.
It also covers the basics of texturizing an image.
I have three pictures.
Step 1
Open the picture of girl in Photoshop.
Also open the texture in Photoshop. Cut the texture and paste it into the picture of girl. Place it on top of her face asshown on figure below.
Help
You can cut and paste by doing the following:
Activate [...]
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Add Fantastic Color to 3D
by: Wojciech Pijecki
First of all, to create the 3D text, you need to download the demo version of Xara 3D6. You may use Adobe Illustrator as well, but I strongly recommend you get Xara for this piece. Also download thestained metal texture image we’ll be using from cgtextures.com.
Step 1 – How to Begin?
Let’s start with opening a new document of around 1350 pixels by 1600 pixels [...]
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Creative Photography – Rules are made to be Broken
by: Andrew Goodall
Creative photography is a mix of many ingredients; art and technology, skill and patience, cold mechanical know-how and individual flair.
As a beginner, wouldn’t it be nice if the whole thing could be explained with a simple set of rules that were easy to understand. Surely someone could just tell you what aperture to use in a given situation, or how to structure a composition [...]
Create a Powerful Mental Wave Explosion Effect
Apr 15th in Effects by Fabio
Step 1
Open a new document. I used 800x600px. Look for a road photo on the Internet. The one I used can be downloaded here. After downloading, place the photo in your document.
Step 2
Now we need a photo of a person. The one I used can be found here. Once you have your photo, it’s time to extract the guy from the background. Using the Pen Tool(P) create a path like [...]
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Change Hair Color Photoshop Tutotial
by: Jason Cameron
In this tutorial, I’ll teach you how to change hair color using Photoshop CS4. This is an easy and fun tutorial and result should give you something similar to this:
Open the image that you want to use. For best results you should try to get high resolution picture. This tutorial depends greatly on the selection you make, so be careful and accurate.
I opened the image I’m [...]
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Stylish Swirly Effect Photoshop
Design Inspiration: Alberto Sevenso
This tutorial focuses on using a simple photo, but with a little extra effort you can achieve some amazing results using very complex photographs. This tutorial will teach you how to easily create swirly works of art, and give the appearance that it is entirely composed of vector shapes, following an increasingly popular design technique.
This is the image we’ll [...]
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Better Sunset Photography
by: Patrick Ryall
Basked in golden light as the sun shimmers over the water; the sunset can truly be a magnificent sight. When you are traveling or even exploring your local area, try to be a little more creative with your sunset photography, too often we see the standard sunset shot with little to remind you of where it was taken.
Although it can be tempting to have a clear sunset shot, you are really [...]
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Ethereal Ghost
Posted by Kirin Knapp in Miscellaneous
We’ll be altering a photo of a beautiful woman walking in a wind, into an ethereal ghost haunting the grounds.
This is a very easy tutorial, that once you learn how to do it, it will only take you a few minutes to make anyone into a ghost.
Starting with our lady:
Desaturate the whole picture CTRL+SHIFT+U.
Duplicate the woman/background image in the layers [...]
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Proven Ways to Reduce Shake in Photography
Learn how to get those steady shots, both with the help of tripods, monopods, and additionally with your bear hands. These tips are guaranteed to improve your stability while taking photographs!
To get good photographs you usually have to hold the camera steady. Sometimes a blurry photograph or one in motion can be desired, but most of the time it’s unwanted. The most common equipment to help counter [...]
No More Bad Photos
By Fredrik Silverglimth
Blurry Images Caused by Poor Focus
Photos that aren’t sharp are almost always caused by focus problems — either you, or the auto focus didn’t do their job correctly. If you are using auto focus and still get blurred photos it might be because the camera used another focusing point rather than the one thought you intended to use. Another reason might be the setting of [...]
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Mastering the Zoom Effect
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 through zoom blur post [...]
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Preparing for an African Photo Safari
Posted by Guest Contributor on November 12, 2009 · 0 Comment
For many, going to Africa is a once in a lifetime occurrence—a chance to see wild animals in their natural habitat, to experience new cultures and unique environments—and your opportunity to capture it in all its grandeur—so you want to make absolutely certain that you are well prepared to make the most of it.
I recently returned from a safari to the Kruger National Park, South Africa, one of [...]
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Beautiful Black and White Photography
Article From: Smashing Magazine Compared to colorful designs where catchy colors help the design to stand out, in black-and-white designs the ability to stand out depends only on its ability to communicate rather than on its appealing visual presentation. Indeed, beautiful black and white photography doesn’t attract with its play of colors. Here close attention to composition, lighting, perspective [...]
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