20 Very Useful Photography Tips And Tricks. The summer is here so now is the perfect time to make a lot of photos.
If you want to look like a professional photographer, then you must enhance your pictures. Take a look at this article because here you will find 20 very cool tutorials which will help you transform an average photo into a work of art. How To Make Digital Photos Look Like Lomo Photography In this article, the author will teach you how to create lomo photos in a very easy way. DIY – Create Your Own Bokeh Bokeh is an adaptation from a a Japanese word meaning blur. Make Pop Art from Your Photos If you are a fan of pop art and the work of Andy Warhol, then this is the Adobe Photoshop tutorial for you. How to Turn Humdrum Photos into Cinematic Portraits In this photography and Photoshop tutorial you will learn how to add drama or a cinematic quality to a regular, humdrum and boring portrait using a little bit of fake HDR. Convert to Black and White the Right Way Photographing Car Light Trails Coloring a black and white image. 101 Portrait Photography Tips.
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Canon EOS-5D captures amazing photos of Milky Way’s center. Do you know that Canon EOS-5D can take amazing photos of the center of the galaxy?
Amazing video included. Canon EOS-5D is an amazing piece of $hit. It’s just an old DSLR camera but its 12.8 megapixel CMOS sensor can still produce amazing photos. Take a look at what William Castleman has done last few weeks. He took time-lapse photos of the center of the Milky Way while partying the night away at the 2009 Texas Star Party in Fort Davis, Texas. If you are wondering how he did that, his techniques and equipments used for the photo shoot are shown down below: …I put the Canon EOS-5D (AA screen modified to record hydrogen alpha at 656 nm) with an EF 15mm f/2.8 lens on a weighted tripod. Fixed Tripod Astrophotography - Star Trails. Simple star trail photography is another easy kind of astrophotography.
Place the camera somewhere solid, open the shutter and do a series of test exposures. Try starting at ISO 400 at f/2.8 or f/4. The correct exposure is when the peak of the mountain of the histogram on the back of the camera reaches about 1/3 to 1/2 of the way from the left hand side to the right. Depending on how much light pollution you have at your observing site, it may be as short as 30 seconds. At dark sites, you may be able to expose as long as 5 to 10 minutes. Use this exposure time for all of your exposures, and just keep shooting a lot of frames.
Later, you can put all of these short exposures together in Photoshop with Chris Schur's Star Trail Action, or with Achim Schaller's freeware StarTrails program to create the equivalent of a single long exposure. 4 Steps To Creating Star Trails Photos Using Stacking Software. A Post By: Peter West Carey If you’ve ever seen images like the one at right and wondered how they are created, this post from Peter Carey helps explain the steps needed to produce your own star trail images.
Creating star trail images is a fun technique that can deliver a wide range of results depending on location, foreground objects and number of visible stars. While the technique can be relatively simple, proper setup and then proper post-processing are essential. To get started, let’s look at the equipment and tools needed for a normal star trail image: Digital Camera, with or without Bulb modeTripodRemote shutter release with timer (optional, but it helps)Open view of the skyA lack of city lightsImage stacking softwarePatience and warm clothes if you don’t live in the Tropics Any camera will work for creating images while it should be noted cameras with exposure length control (shutter priority, manual or bulb modes) work best. 1. 2. 3. 4.
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. So after many weeks, here’s a super tutorial for learning Long Exposure Photography. As the name suggests, long exposure photo is when the camera’s image sensor was exposed to light for a longer period of time than usual.
Examples Niagara Falls Exposure: 30 Seconds.