The 5 Golden Rules of Editing Landscape Photos with Matt Kloskowski. The Crucial Skill in How to Select your Best Images. I'm a freelance travel, culture and documentary photographer based in the Philippines. My passion lies in creating images that communicate a strong sense of place and cultural awareness in unique, challenging situations. You can see my work at www.jacobimages.com By Jacob Maentz on in Photography Post Production When most of us hear the phrase “photo editing” we generally think of editing a photo to enhance it in some way using computer software. Although that is usually a big component of post-production, the “photo editing” process should always start with photo selection.
When photo editors edit photos, what they are usually doing is selecting images that they feel will work for a particular use. So how do I select my best images? Below are some examples that explain why a particular photo was selected over others. This is a good series to show how small subtleties can make for a stronger image. In the above series, I selected the bottom left image. The Elusive Milky Way – Capture an Image | Star Circle Academy. I assume you already read part one of this article which describes a bit about what the Milky Way is and what times and seasons are best for photographing the cloud-like expanse of innumerable stars. In this installment we describe the equipment and settings you will need. f/2.8, ISO 3200, 30 seconds, post processed and combined with shots of the bridge that were lit with a spotlight.
Standard Capture To get a passable or better image of the rather dim Milky Way you need: A high performing low light camera (more on that in a moment)A large aperture (f/2.8)A wide angle lens. To get a recognizable Milky Way in a single frame, you’ll want to use somewhere between 2000 and 6400 ISO at f/2.8 or wider setting. Moonlight and Twilight begin to overwhelm the Milky Way in Alabama Hills, California; 30 seconds, ISO 3200, f/2.8, 17mm Some image degradation is to expected.
What will an image look like captured with 3200 ISO? What is a “High Performing” Camera? FujiFilm: FinePix X100 Stacked Capture. How to Work More Efficiently With MiniBridge. Tutorial Details Estimated Completion Time: 13 Minutes Difficulty: Beginner Apps Used: Adobe Photoshop CS6 Final Product What You'll Be Creating This entry is part 36 of 36 in the Shortcuts on Psdtuts Session - Show All « Previous Sooner or later, you are bound to have a lot of design files stored on your computer.
Dear Model: Posing Tips for How to Look Your Best in Photographs. Dear (new’ish) Model, My name is Other Model. I have spent the last couple of years finding out a few things that I wish I’d known from the start. Please don’t think I’m patronising as I mean this only in goodwill, as there is absolutely no gain for me by sharing these cheats. Not all of my points will be valid for you as posing varies in each genre.
Create separation between your limbs from your body. Fat arm to thin arm Body width shrunk by optical illusion Have a basic understanding of light. Be aware of ‘mothing’. No harry, don’t fly into the light!” Recognise when your eyes are over-rotating. Know how far you can turn your head before your nose ‘breaks your cheek’. Elongate your neck to simulate height and poise. Go one step further by popping your jaw towards camera if you want a strong line created by the shadow. If the photographer is at a 12 o’clock angle, then standing angled at 1:30 rather than 3 o’clock will lose inches to your overall width.
Keep your hands loose and fluid. 10 great tutorials for better product photography. Recently a client asked me to take photos of their products. A whole bunch of hand bags and jewelry needed to be shoot for their web shop. Taking photos of shiny silver bracelets and plastic bags etc. is quite different than model photography. As a professional photographer you probably already know what gear to use and how to use it. For all of you who are new to product photography, have a look at these video tutorials and websites. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 7 Product Photography Tips Mark Evans writes about Gear, lights , framing, Product position and post-processing 10. Demonstrat ştiinţific: 7 minute de exerciţii fizice, mult mai eficiente decât ore întregi de alergat! Un nou studiu arată că şapte minute de exerciţii fizice intense pot fi mai eficiente decât ore întregi de alergat sau de ridicat greutăţi.
Cercetarea a fost publicată în Health & Fitness Journal , un jurnal ştiinţific publicat de American College of Sports Medicine , cea mai importantă instituţie de medicină sportivă din lume. Cei doi experţi care au realizat acest studiu afirmă că o combinaţie de 12 exerciţii efectuate de-a lungul a şapte minute pot produce aceleaşi efecte benefice pentru sănătate ca orele petrecute făcând alt tip de efort fizic. Cele 7 minute de efort sunt efectuate la o intensitate înaltă, toate cele 12 exerciţii fiind elaborate pe baza unor dovezi ştiinţifice. Cei ce doresc să efectueze exerciţiile au nevoie de un scaun, un perete şi de greutatea propriului corp. Acest tip de antrenament, interval training , necesită câteva pauze. Iată cele 12 exerciţii recomandate de cercetători: 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 5 . 6 . 7 . 8 . 9 . 10 . 11 . 12 . NEEWER® 77mm ND Fader Neutral Density Adjustable Variable Filter (ND2 to ND400): Camera & Photo. These Lighting Patterns Will Make Your Portrait Photographs Rock.
Tiffany Mueller is a professional music and fine art photographer. She has been published in multiple publications including magazines, art journals, and various photography books. She blogs at Life Is Unabridged. By Tiffany Mueller on in Shooting Familiarizing yourself with different lighting patterns isn’t just to help you diversify your portrait portfolio. Depending on what you are trying accomplish within a photograph, knowing which pattern to call on can help you achieve those results more effectively.
You don’t have to worry too much about having all sorts of special lighting equipment as all of these patterns can be created using a bare lamp bulb or even a sunny window. It should also be noted that the light setup diagrams provided here are not the only way to get the desired results. Broad Lighting vs. These terms are often tossed around when talking about lighting patterns, but think of them more as a style rather than a pattern. Short Light: Just the opposite. Split Lighting. Strobist. Lenticular Imaging Page. Here is the official RSS feed address for my podcast: Please send your comments, or report any web-related problems by selecting the link below.
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The Top 12 Keys to Creativity For Photographers. You can find more information about Alain's work, writings and tutorials as well as subscribe to Alain’s Free Monthly Newsletter on his website at You will receive over 40 essays in PDF format, including chapters from Alain’s books, when you subscribe. You can also email your comments or questions to Alain at alain@beautiful-landscape.com By alainbriot on in Cool Photos, Photo Essays, Shooting Manipulation is the brother of creativity. – Michael Michalko Standing out among the ever-increasing number of photographers is becoming increasingly difficult. In order to stand out we have to do things that other photographers are not doing.
Creativity is the foundation that will enable us to create photographs that are different and unique. To do so we need to become more creative. 1 – Be Interesting – Creativity is necessary to generate the interest of our audience and customers. 3 – Bring in the New – Creativity is an input-output, import-export business. Ten Basic Tips To Help You Grow as a Photographer. In this short conclusion to his instructional DVD, Norwegian photographer Erik Almas gives 10 basic “steps” to becoming a photographer that caught our eye. It’s not that they’re groundbreaking; in fact, you’ve probably heard most of these at least once before. But put all together, and following on the heels of the humorous Onion article on pursuing your dreams, they make for a great set of inspirational steps to follow if you’re trying to go from hobbyist to professional.
Some of our favorite steps include: defining yourself and what you’re drawn to visually, seeking a mentor, making rather than taking pictures, setting goals and pursuing them with tenacity, and never giving up on your dream of becoming a photographer. You can see them all by watching the video above, but as you can tell, they’re not so much a set of rules to follow, or specific business-savvy moves to make, as they are a “back to basics” list of fundamental tips on growing as a photographer.
(via PictureCorrect) Sharpen Your Images With Some Useful Photoshop Techniques. By Jason Row on in Cool Photos Sharpening your images is a bit of a science and there are quite a few aspects that need to be considered. You can sharpen for printing, for web maybe for display on an iPad. On top of that, different resolution images will need different settings. Combine this with the fact that current incarnations of Photoshop have 5 different sharpen filters, you begin to see its not as simple as pressing sharpen.
Before You Get Started In this brief tutorial we will take a look at some of the Photoshop built in filters and also a couple of more advanced sharpening processes. Using Native Photoshop Filters Lets start with Photoshop’s own filters and say the the one not to use is the generic sharpen filter. The most commonly used Photoshop filter is the Unsharp Mask. Photoshops’s Unsharp Mask Filter The other most useful Photoshop sharpen filter is Smart Sharpen, introduced in more recent Photoshop versions. Photoshops’s Smart Sharpen FilterM Lab Color Sharpening. How to Create a Little Planet Panorama in Photoshop. You may have seen the “little planet” pictures that have been circulating the internet in recent years.
If you’ve ever wondered exactly how they’re created, then it’s AdoramaTV to the rescue today. In this video, Gavin Hoey shows us in great detail how to take the pictures you need and mold them together in Photoshop to create the little globe shape you’re after: The basic principle is to create a panorama image by photographing all 360 degrees of a given scene and stitching them together in Photoshop. After getting a perfect panorama (one which has outer edges that would connect, too), it’s just a matter of forcing the image into a square frame, flipping it, and applying the “Distort/Polar Coordinates” filter. For this video, Hoey uses a Canon 60D with a Sigma 10-20mm f/4-5.6 lens set to an aperture of f/8 at 1/100 sec. It’s important, once you get your focus, to turn your camera to manual focus mode. With this cute and easy project, you can create little worlds out of any scene.
98 Awesome Photography Links That You Won’t Want to Miss. Another incredible week in the world of photography has passed us by, and Toad Hollow Photography has been searching the internet high and low for links to the best tutorials, collections, features, photography and blogs to share here with everyone. This week’s compilation is full if terrific images created and posted by some truly gifted artists. We really hope you enjoy checking out these links as much as the Toad did in bringing them all to you. Neutral Density Reference Chart – Alex Wise puts together a great article that discusses exposure times for long exposure photography. Alex discusses a non-scientific approach that would be very useful in the field, and he also shares a detailed chart for easy reference. Should I Use Photoshop Elements 11 for HDR Photography? Food For Digital Thought: Protecting Your Photographs – a great piece of advice wrapped up in an article by Joe Baraban that discusses how to copyright your work.
Antarctica! You Lookin’ at Me! Photo Tips & Techniques. 7 Basic Tips That Will Make Your Stock Photographs Sell Like Hotcakes. The microstock model is a relative newcomer in the world of commercial photography. Previously, only an elite few were able to make a decent living with stock photography since it required a lot of specialized training, expensive equipment and the elusive knowing the right people at the right time. The advent of digital photography turned this traditional stock world upside down and has made it all but obsolete. Anybody with a decent digital camera and a basic knowledge of photography has the potential to earn money with their photos now. However, in order to really make it big and earn a living with microstock, there are some things that are very important to know and do. Know the Basics – You must at the very least be trained in the basics of photography. Look for Imperfections at Full Size – Every single image you hope to submit to a stock site must be inspected by yourself at 100%, which is something that the reviewer will certainly do as well.
Five Easy Tips for Better Indoor Architectural Photography. Tiffany Mueller is a professional music and fine art photographer. She has been published in multiple publications including magazines, art journals, and various photography books. She blogs at Life Is Unabridged. By Tiffany Mueller on in Shooting There is an art to photographing indoor spaces and truly capturing the essence of their architectural design.
Not only does it take a skilled photographer, but also one that has a solid grasp on the elemental aspects of the space they are photographing. The point of architectural photography is, after all, photographing a structure in a way that brings out the highlights of its design. Child’s Eye View - As a general rule of thumb, start with your camera position at about the same level as a child’s eye. Understand the Floor Plan - Study the layout of the room and look at how all the objects within it interact with each other aesthetically.
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