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LensCulture Exposure Awards 2014. $10,000 in Awards • Exhibition in London • Worldwide Projections • International Exposure sixth annual global call for photography.

LensCulture Exposure Awards 2014

Nikon Photo Contest. Flickr. 7 times when manual mode will fail you. 33 Places In Ireland You Won't Believe Are Real. My camera bag » Sarah Ainsworth Photography. Getty Images Competitions. Getty Images - Contributors. Commercial, Advertising and Industrial Photographer. We were talking about studio lighting last week, and I hope you guys enjoyed it.

Commercial, Advertising and Industrial Photographer

Let me know when I'm boring you! ;) Well, now, not everyone can afford a studio flash. Photography Training: How to Take Long Exposure Shots in Bright Daylight. Smooth Water Tutorial. How to Take Long Exposure Shots in Daylight. Balancing flash and ambient light. Using flash in photography is often a source of great confusion.

Balancing flash and ambient light

Tips for Low Light Photography. Great shots can be achieved in low light conditions, even without spending a lot of money on expensive lenses with big apertures (although that does help).

Tips for Low Light Photography

This issue comes up a lot in my classes and on my recent photography travel tours to Cuba and Nicaragua. I’ll be using images from the Cuba trip here as examples. In this article I will cover some simple things you can start doing right away to get better images in tricky, low light situations. Tips for photography in low light conditions Most of the example images in this article were taken at high ISO settings from 3200 all the way up to 12,800.

How to Take Photos with the Zoom Blur Effect [Includes Printable Cheat Sheet] I was walking around London recently with my camera and I got a bit bored, as I had been wandering by the same part of the city a thousand times, waiting for inspiration.

How to Take Photos with the Zoom Blur Effect [Includes Printable Cheat Sheet]

To make it more fun I thought I would try experimenting with long shutter speeds. All of a sudden things got interesting and before I knew it a few hours had passed by. Here is an article on how to do slow shutter zoom photography. Surreal Photos Powerfully Express Isolation and Vulnerability. IF ONLY FOR A SECOND // Mimi Foundation // EN. Dragging The Shutter: Balancing Fill Flash With Ambient Light. Hypnotic Fusion of Portraits by Antonio Mora. Setting Exposure: Shutter Speed and Aperture. Two of the factors that determine exposure—and thus the brightness of your photographs—are shutter speed and aperture (the other important factor in determining exposure is ISO sensitivity, but in the discussion that follows we will assume that ISO sensitivity is fixed).

Setting Exposure: Shutter Speed and Aperture

Shutter speed is the time the shutter is open. The faster the speed, the shorter the time the shutter is open, and the shorter the time the image sensor is exposed to light. The shorter the time the image sensor is exposed to light, the darker the resulting photograph. On the other hand, the slower the shutter speed, the longer the time the image sensor is exposed to light, and the brighter the resulting photograph.

Aperture (expressed as an f-number) controls the brightness of the image that passes through the lens and falls on the image sensor. Exposure is determined by the combination of shutter speed and aperture (f-number). Shutter speed slowed in proportion to the increase in f-number Low f-number, fast shutter speed. Mirrored Triangles Reflect Complex Layers of Reality. My Modern Metropolis Mirrored Triangles Reflect Complex Layers of Reality.

Mirrored Triangles Reflect Complex Layers of Reality

Digitally Altered Trees Resemble Ghostly Spirits. In her latest series Disturbing the Spirits, photographer Ellen Jantzen shows us beautiful, ghostly visions of trees as they would appear throughout the seasons.

Digitally Altered Trees Resemble Ghostly Spirits

Using digital manipulation, she keeps some parts of the trees intact while she blurs most of their imagery. When asked to describe her process, Jantzen told us this, "The process has several incarnations. First is to photograph a landscape that captures my attention. I am particularly drawn to trees and paths. As I go through my raw files, I set aside those that seem to have the most potential. How to create a great looking HDR image. HDR and Photoshop and Lightroom Welcome to a page about HDR and Photoshop.

How to create a great looking HDR image

I put it together based on many questions I get about how to create an HDR in Photoshop. Aurora HDR 2018 Now for Mac or Windows!

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Nikon D3100 For Dummies Cheat Sheet. Cheat Sheet With the D3100, Nikon proves once again that you don't have to give an arm and a leg — or strain your back and neck — to enjoy dSLR photography.

Nikon D3100 For Dummies Cheat Sheet

This addition to the Nikon family of dSLRs doesn't skimp on power or performance, offering a great set of features to help you take your photography to the next level. Fairytale Portraits Blur Lines Between Reality and Fiction. Inspired by the cinema, French photographer Victoria Audouard takes us on a little adventure in this photo series entitled Mirrors. The portraits are reminiscent of Alice in Wonderland, where every adventure is a confusing whirl of complex ideas. Each fairytale setting features a young girl reflecting the landscape back towards the viewer through a rounded mirror.

16-Year-Old's Wildly Fruity Self-Portraits. With just two and a half years of experience, 16-year-old Spanish photographer Cristina Otero captivates us with these zoomed-in self-portraits. Using fruit as her inspiration in this series entitled Tutti Frutti, Otero disrupts the conventional notions of feminine beauty and interacts with different fruits in a seductive performance for the camera. Urban Explorer and Photographer Dan Marbaix Takes Stunning Photographs of Abandoned Buildings. Photographer Dan Marbaix is what is known as an "urban explorer. " He travels from city to city, exploring abandoned houses, asylums, churches, state buildings and much, much more.

He has been arrested over 20 times for his trespassing - and even held at gunpoint - but he refuses to give up his search for things that exist outside of the mundane. You'll see why. 19-Year-Old Holds Nothing Back with Her Mysteriously Beautiful Portraits. Body Painting by Craig Tracy. Hyperrealistic Turbulent Skies Reveal the Power of Nature. Beautiful Eyes – Close Up Pictures of Eyes. The Infinity Room. Fabian oefner: iridient bursting soap bubbles. Jul 04, 2012. How to Photograph Street Portraits.

How to Photograph Street Portraits Watch this photography tutorial video to learn how to photograph street portraits. 16 Amazing Places to Visit Via Google Street View. Visit Norway - Geiranger 360. 22 Crazy Perspective Photos Taken With a GoPro Camera. 27 Surreal Places To Visit Before You Die.

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IOP. Heartwarming Photos Tell Of A Friendship Between A Girl And A Cat. Pictures of Moments Speak More than Thousand Words...... Picture can speak thousands of words. 36 Perfectly Timed Animal Shots. Great HDR Photography by Ásmundur Þorkelsson. Photo effects, vintage, retro, online and free - Pixlr-o-matic. DIY Picture Tiles - You Will Never Buy a Photo Frame Again. Canon 5D Mark III Double Exposure Tutorial.