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Top 10 Must Know iPhoneography Tips to Shoot Like a Pro. Taking photos with your iPhone is just about as simple as simple gets. Apple makes everything so easy and they have certainly made it easy for the iPhoneographer. However, if you want to take better iPhotos, there are few things you should know. If you are like me, you don’t want to just “take a photo”. You probably want to “capture a moment”. After a few years of neglecting my Canon and using my iPhone as my primary camera, I have found that there are a few things that I consistently do to achieve a great photo. I decided to write this post for several reasons. Find a camera app that you love and shoot with it regularly.

PhotoSource: Camera+ iTunes Store Shoot in Landscape. Shoot in all kinds of light. Position yourself in different angles when shooting. Shoot what you love. Shoot the same image multiple times. Don’t zoom in too far with your iPhone, crop afterwards. The great part about iPhoneography is the ability to edit your image right on your phone. Digital Blending. This subject is featured in Issue #6 of The Luminous Landscape Video Journal. The Problem Being Solved In nature when doing landscape work that includes sky, especially early or late in the day, the contrast range encountered often exceeds that which film or imaging chips can handle. It's therefore necessary to find a way to reduce the contrast range to something that the camera can handle so that the highlights don't burn out and the shadow areas don't turn inky black.

The Traditional Approach The traditional method of dealing with this is to use split neutral density filters (graduated filters, some call them). This works well much of the time, and I have rarely gone out shooting without my full filter kit at the ready. 1 stop, 2 stop and 3 stop grads, and soft and hard edged versions of each. Add filter holders and adaptor rings and the whole kit can cost over a thousand dollars and fills a small shoulder bag.

An additional downside is that using them takes time. Is there a better way? Thomas Hawk Digital Connection » About Thomas Hawk. Sometimes I like to think of myself as a photography factory. I see my photographs mostly as raw material for projects that might be worked on at some point later on in life. We all have but a short time on this earth. As slow as time can be it is also fast, swift, furious and mighty and then it’s over. Jack Kerouac is dead. Andy Warhol is dead. When I’m not taking or processing the pictures I’m mostly thinking about the pictures. I’m trying to publish a library of 1,000,000 hand crafted, lovingly created, individually finished and processed photographs before I die. The absurdity of my obsessive compulsive view on photography is not lost on me. Document, explore, lather, rinse, repeat.

If you want to see good overview portfolio of some of my more popular work you can find that here. “Don’t think about making art. If you would like to purchase prints of my work you can do that here. I like to use Flickr to curate a gallery of photos by other photographers that I enjoy. Flickr tips. Best apps for the Samsung Galaxy Note 2. The best apps for the Samsung Galaxy Note 2 aren't always the ones that run all four cores to max capacity, they're the ones we've found indispensable since we got our mitts on Samsung's over-sized phablet....

Photo Editor HD Lite. Exposing Digital Photography / OpenCourseWare. This is OpenCourseWare. Computer Science E-7 is a course at Harvard Extension School. The course strives to offer students a more thorough understanding of digital photography through an exploration of technical, rather than strictly artistic, details. With a better understanding of the limitations and compromises behind digital photography, students will be better prepared for unexpected and dynamic photographic situations. Even if you are not a student at Harvard, you are welcome to "take" this course via tv.digitalphotography.exposed by following along via the Internet. Available at left are videos of lectures along with PDFs of assignments. If you're a teacher, you are welcome to adopt or adapt these materials for your own course, per the license. Special thanks to Chris Thayer for the course's videos. Dan Copyright © 2009 – 2017, Dan Armendariz of Harvard University you are free:

Photography Tips & Tutorials. Digital Photography Tips: Digital Photography School. 44 essential digital camera tips and tricks. Our collection of top digital camera tips and essential photography advice will have you improving your photos in no time. Culled from experts and photographers who have been taking pictures for quite some time, they all agree that these 44 camera tips are essential knowledge for honing your craft. So feast your eyes below, check out some of our best photography tips on everything from setting up your digital camera to honing your photo composition, and by the end you will learn the secrets and shortcuts to getting high-quality pictures every time. Digital Camera Tips: 01 Always reset camera settings There are few things worse than taking what you think is a stunning picture, only to find your camera’s ISO and saturation were cranked right up from a previous shoot and you’ve missed the moment.

Avoid this by checking – and resetting – all of your settings before moving from one picture-taking opportunity to the next (find out The right way to set up your camera). How to Be a Curious Photographer. How do some people end up more curious than others? Is Curiosity a personality trait or can it be learned? How can I be more curious? How can you add Curiosity to your Photographic toolbox? Here are 10 Ways to be a more Curious Photographer: 1. There are a lot of ‘rules’ going around when it comes to photography. Rules are a great thing to know (and use) – however the curious photographer often takes great shots because they not only know the rules but because they set out to break them. 2.

Curious photographers are always asking questions. Find someone with the same camera as you and ask them how they use it. 3. One of the key questions you should get in the habit of asking is ‘what if’? Many of the solutions will end up being thrown away but if you ask ‘what if’ enough times you’re bound to make progress eventually. What if I held the camera on this angle…. 4. Asking ‘what if…’ (and other questions) is not enough. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Basics of Photography: The Complete Guide. Basic Photography Tips. Photography Q&A. Creative Photography Tutorials.

iPhoneography Apps. Photography Colour Theory. Interview. By Dr. Patricia Donworth Quantum Entrainment, a spiritual enlightenment technology founded by Dr. Frank Kinslow, is a mastery/healing method based on pure awareness or deep rest. The practitioner does “nothing,” yet everything gets done. QE™ can be learned in moments, not years. Shades of Vedanta, Zen, and ‘the power of Now’, Dr. Kinslow describes this remarkable process in an interview with freelance spirituality writer Dr. Dr. Dr. In the late 1980s, I developed a self-exploration system that enabled one person to “give” the experience of deep peace to another, something like an extended shaktipat, a kind of transference of “spiritual energy” from one person to another. PD: So give us a definition of Quantum Entrainment and explain how it works. FK: Quantum Entrainment is a very rapid healing process that anyone can do. PD: “The deeper the rest, the deeper the healing.” FK: I use the word “rest” because we all know how rest makes us feel better.

PD: So, pure awareness is the key. Flypaper Textures.