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Slide.ly Free Photo Slideshow online, awesome slide show maker with photos and music! Shutter Speed Basics Tips | Photography - Shutter Speed for Beginners I’m sure you know that one of the most important key elements to getting beautifully clear photos is not only shutter speed but also knowing and having a sense of the artistic. But the artistic imagination of the photographer is different from other arts; since you have to think in split-second increments. You can’t study a photo you haven’t taken yet like a painting, working on it gradually. Shutter speed is one of the first things in digital photography that you must understand if you want to advance your skills. First, the shutter speed number refers to the speed of the rotation of the shutter inside the lens, measured in rotations per second (RPS). The basic rule is that a fast shutter speed demands a larger aperture to avoid under-exposure, while a slow shutter speed is offset by a very small aperture to avoid over-exposure.

Say you’re snapping a moving car. But sometimes you want blur. Shutter speeds are a built-in invitation to experiment. Amy Renfrey.

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Autopilot Photography Clients Order. “ Thank you guys so much for making our day so special! The pictures are fantastic! “ We couldn’t have imagine trusting anyone else to do the job. “ Thank you Kat so much for shooting our wedding reception. It was so special and the pictures are stunning. Gino G. Photography. Photo editor | PicMonkey: Photo Editing Made of Win. A Simple Guide to Depth of Field. A Simple Explanation of F-Stop. The Essentials of Street Photography, E-Book and Street Photography Conversations. Transform Your Street Photography Do you want to learn street photography - or would you like to improve your existing skills on the street? Explore the streets with The Essentials of Street Photography. This 141 page guide is not only about teaching you how to technically approach the streets, how to edit your work, how to overcome your fears, or how to get sharp, close-up candid shots without getting punched, although it will teach you these things.

It is about teaching you how to conceptually approach your work so that it has something to say. Also included is Street Photography Conversations. Few people know all of the tips, tricks and techniques to be able to consistently take meaningful, beautiful, and technically stunning street shots. These books are not only for beginners. "I used to think that street photography was unteachable.

. - Matt Weber, Street Photographer. Whether you have a Leica, an SLR, a micro 4/3rds, a point-and-shoot, or a Hasselblad, you will be covered. Reviews: Flash Photography with Canon EOS Cameras - Part I. Flash Photography with Canon EOS Cameras - Part I. Copyright © 2001-2014 NK Guy Version 1.8. 12 December, 2010. The invention and subsequent automation and miniaturization of electronic flash revolutionized photography. If you’re a photographer you’re no longer tied to available light.

A reliable and portable light source is immediately at your disposal if you choose. But flash photography has always been a very difficult technique to master on any camera system. It’s easy to take a snapshot of your friends in a restaurant and get that hideously blown-out rabbit-in-the-headlights look from built-in automatic flash. But using electronic flash well - achieving natural-looking images - is quite tricky. Table of Contents Part I - Flash Photography with Canon EOS Cameras. 1 - My camera already has a built-in flash.

Flash metering systems used by Canon EOS. Controlling flash exposure. EOS system compatible flash units. Internal flash. Flash terminology. The 7 Keys to Improving Your Photography This Year. I'm Rob, the editor of Light Stalking. I try to keep this ship on course. By Admin on in Photography Guides A new year means a new chance to achieve those things you always wanted to. If you’re reading this site, then chances are that this also includes getting better at photography. Photo © 2007 mike138 | more info (via: Wylio) 1) Practice – It’s now commonly held (thanks to Malcom Gladwell) that it takes 10,000 hours of practice to be able to call yourself an expert at something. While being called an expert photographer might not be your goal, the fact is that practice is the core of what will make you a better photographer, just like anything else.

Practical steps to take to practice include joining 365 day challenges and joining in the weekly photography challenges here on the photography forums at Light Stalking. 2) Know The Theory – By spending time reading websites like this one, you have already showed that you have the desire to learn. The “how to” is reasonably easy to cover. 10 Ways to Take Stunning Portraits. How do you take Portraits that have the ‘Wow’ factor? Today and tomorrow I want to talk about taking Portraits that are a little out of the box. You see it’s all very well and good to have a portrait that follows all the rules – but it hit me as I was surfing on Flickr today that often the most striking portraits are those that break all the rules.

I want to look at some ways to break out of the mold and take striking portraits by breaking (or at least bending) the rules and adding a little randomness into your portrait photography. I’ll share ten of these tips today and a further ten tomorrow (update: you can see the 2nd part here). 1. Alter Your Perspective Most portraits are taken with the camera at (or around) the eye level of the subject. Get up high and shoot down on your subject or get as close to the ground as you can and shoot up. 2. It is amazing how much the direction of your subject’s eyes can impact an image.

A. B. 3. 4. 5. The shots were amazing, surprising and quite funny. 10 Street Photography Tips from an Anonymous Street Photographer. I recently got these 10 street photography tips from an anonymous street photographer who wanted to share this information with you. I found these tips to be very insightful, and I hope you will too! Keep reading more to learn about all the goodness. 1. Meter off your hand When there is nice light, hold your hand into the light and meter off that. This will result in a great exposure, and works especially well if you are shooting in manual mode.

Often time when you are shooting in automatic modes (Aperture-priority or program) the camera doesn’t always give you the best metering or exposure. 2. When waiting in a certain area (e.g. an area with great light), keep walking around. 3. Always have our camera in your hand and ready to shoot. 4. Hold the camera behind the wrist so it’s out of view. 5. If right handed and you shoot off camera flash, walk along the right hand side of the street. 6. Try fiddling with your camera, like Winogrand. 7. 8.

Frame the background. 9. 10. 10 Things Not To Do As a Street Photographer. (Above image “Untitled” by Christos Kapatos) I just finished reading “The Black Swan” by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, where he discusses many misconceptions and fallacies that we face as humans. He talks from a scientific-philosophical viewpoint, and has many fascinating insights. One of them was about knowledge—and that it isn’t necessarily additive—rather something subtractive. For example, a good stock-broker won’t tell you what to do, but rather what not to do. Therefore for this blog post I will share some of my insights and experiences in street photography in terms of what not to do. 1.Dont shoot standing up One of the things I always advise people against when shooting street photography is shooting standing up.

Of course this depends on the situation. 2.Dont shoot street performers or the homeless Shooting street performers or the homeless are easy targets. Street performers have their photo taken all the time, and aren’t challenging to take photos of. 5.Don’t waste time focusing. Photography.