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Concrete Jungle Symmetry – Photographic Series by Jared Lim. Article by Hyathiz I love my dogs, reading books, and taking great pictures with my battered but still functional digital camera.

Concrete Jungle Symmetry – Photographic Series by Jared Lim

Taking great pictures with a high end camera is almost too easy, producing fantastic images with an outdated one is an accomplishment by itself. 7 Simple Photography Hacks. How they did it: The Bubble Girl in Paris, 1963. Cómo leer una fotografía sin morir en el intento « Oscar en Fotos. El clásico proverbio “Una imagen dice más que mil palabras” no es necesariamente cierto, y en el caso de la fotografía, puede llevarnos a muchas malas interpretaciones.

Cómo leer una fotografía sin morir en el intento « Oscar en Fotos

Por Óscar Colorado Nates* El primer engaño de la fotografía está en su aparente inmediatez. Es fácil creer que cualquier persona puede entender una fotografía. En cierto modo es verdad, sin embargo desentrañar el significado, implicaciones y connotaciones de una imagen es una tarea mucho más compleja de lo que podría suponerse. Por supuesto que existen algunos códigos culturales generalizados, de otro modo sería absurda la proliferación de anuncios con fotografías en muchas ciudades del mundo. Infografía: aprende a aplicar las licencias Creative Commons en fotos. La velocidad con la que viaja el material que publicamos en Internet y el alcance que puede llegar a tener, hace que sea importante replantearnos la importancia del derecho de autor.

Infografía: aprende a aplicar las licencias Creative Commons en fotos

Varios casos de hurto de imágenes y la poca preocupación que existe por el citado, prueban que es necesario que se conozca cuáles son los mecanismos que existen para proteger y respetar el derecho de autor. Una buena forma de utilizar imágenes de la forma adecuada es conocer un poco más sobre las licencias Creative Commons. Painterly Underwater Photos Challenge Perceptions of Space. Duplicity is a series of dramatic underwater portraits filled with an emotional energy that emanates from the canvas.

Painterly Underwater Photos Challenge Perceptions of Space

In each scene, artist Barbara Cole captures hazy, mirrored figures that blur the lines between reality and fiction. Although the complex arrangements have many painterly qualities, the compositions are actually photographs that draw upon a variety of creative techniques. Cole uses plastic sheets, cloth, clouds, and reflections combined with artificial lighting and deliberately adjusted camera settings to produce the beautifully dynamic scenes that are filled with a sense of mystery. Her faceless female forms seem trapped in a world of emotionally-charged chaos. The artist creates a tension between her subjects and the surrounding space, challenging her viewers to reconsider how we perceive the relationship between our own bodies and the space around us. What Does it Take to Get a Great Headshot? - Peter Hurley Photography News (Photographer in New York & Los Angeles)

Always Be Squinching And Other Tricks From A Portrait Photographer For Taking Flattering Pictures. People pose for more pictures than ever these days, at their own and others' hands.

Always Be Squinching And Other Tricks From A Portrait Photographer For Taking Flattering Pictures

Creator / Home - Online Lighting Diagram Creator - Tools for photographers. Photography lighting diagrams made easy with this online tool: use the drop down menus, select objects, drag them, rotate them, change their layers then export your diagram to JPEG or save its URL.

Creator / Home - Online Lighting Diagram Creator - Tools for photographers

Beautiful Water Effect in Photoshop CC. Don't Zoom, Move: Treating Your Zoom Lens as a Series of Primes. We’ve shared some funny pictures in the past that illustrate how distance, not focal length, changes perspective — but nothing beats a video walk through.

Don't Zoom, Move: Treating Your Zoom Lens as a Series of Primes

So, in this short video, photographer Mike Browne explains why you should treat your zoom lens as a series of prime lenses, and not the equivalent of getting physically closer to your subject. Here are the final shots, one focal length at a time: Each shot is framed identically using the lens’ focal length, but because the photographer had to move away to properly frame the shot at any given focal length, the perspective still changed. Photography Tips & Tutorials. MCP Photoshop Actions and Tutorials Blog for Photographers. You are here: Blog Home » Guest Bloggers » How to Use Panning to Make Your Photography Come Alive How to Use Panning to Make Your Photography Come Alive As photographers, we are always looks for new techniques to improve our work and make our images stand out.

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As I was starting out in photography this often lead me to additional purchases of lenses, software and accessories. MCP Photoshop Actions and Tutorials Blog for Photographers. September 01, 2009 | 6 Comments |Add a comment As photographers there are times where we want blurred background and beautiful background separation.

MCP Photoshop Actions and Tutorials Blog for Photographers

Digital Photography Tips: Digital Photography School. Digital Learning Center. Cambridge in Colour - Photography Tutorials & Learning Community. Aperture and Depth of Field. Depth of Field Depth of Field (DOF) is the front-to-back zone of a photograph in which the image is razor sharp.

Aperture and Depth of Field

As soon as an object (person, thing) falls out of this range, it begins to lose focus at an accelerating degree the farther out of the zone it falls; e.g. closer to the lens or deeper into the background. With any DOF zone, there is a Point of Optimum focus in which the object is most sharp. There are two ways to describe the qualities of depth of field - shallow DOF or deep DOF. Shallow is when the included focus range is very narrow, a few inches to several feet. Aperture The aperture is the opening at the rear of the lens that determines how much light travels through the lens and falls on the image sensor.

Achieving a Vintage Look Through Color Tones in Photoshop CS. By Guest Contributor Anna Gay Photographers are often striving for a “vintage” look in their photos, and even though there are endless ways of achieving a vintage look, there are a couple of characteristics to keep in mind. Creating A Text Montage. May 8th, 2006 by ART-D Posted in Adobe Photoshop, Special Effects This is a technique that you have probably seen before. A face, or picture, is made up of a huge body of text, but the text is different colors or shades to make it look like the picture? Yea, it’s a really cool technique, and now you can easily re-create it. This effect looks like it would take a lot of time and effort, but in all reality it is pretty easy (just took me forever to figure out :P) and simple to do.

Even the newest user should be able to re-create this effect for themselves. Top 50 Stunning Text Effect Photoshop Tutorials. Under Articles Sometimes, you may find it difficult to look for some of the highest quality photoshop tutorials using search engines. Breathtaking Long Exposure Photography and How to Capture It.

As you know, our first free e-Book was launched and so we were all, including me, busy making Photoshop resources. Thanks to you, the e-Book has met with a landmark success. Now I am free to focus on the other subjects as well. For today, I chose a form of trick photography. 8 Photoshop Tricks I Wish I Knew when I was a Student. Graphics Photoshop is one of the (if not THE) most well known software used in the design industry when it comes to manipulating images and pixels. Achieving Better Focus and Sharpness in Your Images. Twice a month we revisit some of our reader favorite posts from throughout the history of Phototuts+.

This tutorial was first published in October, 2009. MCP Photoshop Actions and Tutorials Blog for Photographers.