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Intentional Blur- How to Create it and Why it’s Awesome. Open up any photography magazine or website, and I promise there will be at least one article, and a half dozen ads, discussing image sharpness and how to get it through technique or gear. Don’t get me wrong, sharpness is great. When I’m shooting a classic landscape or portrait, if the image is a hair out of focus, it goes in the trash. But, at times, blur is exactly what you want, and occasionally, it’s exactly what your sharpness-obsessed brain needs. All you need, is a camera that allows you to manually control shutter speed. Abstract Panning Blur Creating abstract blurs is a chance to explore color, and pattern, and forget about the nit-picky details of composition.

I made the above image in the small wetland below my home in Alaska. The process is simple, but can feel strange. Below are a couple of examples using a patch of autumn foliage. Linear patterns, like the fireweed stems I noted above, or trunks of trees, make great subjects for this kind of image. Zoom Blurs Subject Blur. 50 Stunning Examples of Motion Blur Photography.

Motion is something you deal with every day. This makes motion blur the perfect subject for surreal, thoughtful, and educational images. Here are 50 examples of what you can achieve with the help of a slow shutter speed, a tripod, and patience. 50. Use Storytelling Techniques to Draw Attention Motion blur is very fun to photograph. If you want to give yourself a challenge, try to use motion to tell a story or emphasize a contrast. The photo above is a great example of that. 49. Motion blur makes city life look vibrant and interesting. You can re-create the effect above by standing still in a safe location and taking photos using a slow shutter speed. 48. There’s no better way to capture motion than through a car window. 47. If you’re a fan of surreal images, you can take faceless photos like this. Once you press the shutter, tell your model to move one part of their body. 46. Using a very slow shutter speed and a tripod, take photos of people in museums, art galleries, or your own home. 9.

Matting and Framing Tutorial. How to Shrink Wrap Your Images | Skinny Artist. In the companion article to this tutorial on How Artists can Protect their Images Online I talked about a few different ways you can protect your online images from being stolen. Using methods such as Shrink-Wrapping your Images , Watermarking Your Images, and Slice and Dicing your Images. In this tutorial, I’m going to show you how you can shrink wrap your images in order to help protect them from online thieves.

Shrink Wrapping an image is a process that involves putting a clear transparant image (like shrink wrap) on top of another image so that a person attempting to copy your image will actually download the clear image only. The beauty of this system is that similar to slice and dicing your images, your regular visitors will have no idea that anything is different. The following image has been shrink wrapped (for your protection) If you did this, you should now have an image called “Image-1987653” downloaded to your computer.

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Basics. Index | 3photoshop.com. Lighting. Gear. Outdoor photography. Portrait Photography Tips. How to Use Panning to Make Your Photography Come Alive | 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. As I was starting out in photography this often lead me to additional purchases of lenses, software and accessories. But there is something you can do to add the WOW factor to your photos without a trip to the camera shop – panning.

It allows you to isolate and focus a moving object while blurring the background. Have a look at this cyclist I shot at 1/350 of a second as he raced by me at 20mph. Now let’s look at another cyclist in the same location that I captured while panning him as he raced by. Many people are intimidated by panning but it is a relatively easy technique to master. How to do panning… Give panning a try and you will find an excellent new tool for your camera bag. About Dave: ExposureGuide - Photography Tips, Techniques and News.

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Inspiration. Wedding. Photo Cascadia Blog. November 11th, 2014 by Sean Bagshaw It would be ideal if every image we took could be displayed as a fine art print on somebody’s wall. These days, however, most photographs will be viewed on a screen via a website, so it is important to prepare our images for optimal viewing on the web. Unfortunately many websites, such as Facebook, further process the images we upload, compressing them and causing loss of detail and sharpness and introducing glitchy artifacts.

Dedicated photography sharing websites, like 500px.com and WhyTake.net, handle our images with much more care, but the bottom line is that once we upload an image to any website other than our own, how it is processed and displayed is beyond our control. For this reason it is even more important that we do as much as we can to optimize our images before posting. One of the most frequent questions I receive is how I get my images on the internet to look as good as they do. Apps I reference in the Video: S Free Texture Library. Light Painting Part One - the Photography.

Food Photography Tips: How to Take Mouth-Watering Pictures of Food. Some photographers don’t enjoy shooting food because it doesn’t seem glamorous at first glance. They couldn’t be more wrong! Shooting food is fun and can be very sexy. And the best part about food photography? It doesn’t complain about it’s uneven eyes or its non-existent double chin! Food photography is an art form of its own and a good food photographer can make an excellent living. **Learn how to ditch auto and start shooting in manual with this online class. Here are some simple tips to try out when shooting food: 1. The more you practice, the better you get. 2. Chances are you don’t eat at the exact same spot in the exact same light every day. 3. Try different angles – perhaps a low side-view, an off-center bird’s eye view, an extreme close up, etc. 4.

Keep your subject in the foreground and make everything in the background out-of-focus. 5. Bokeh simply means blurry lights. 6. No one wants to see that shriveled corner of a lettuce leaf you didn’t notice when shooting. 7. Beginners guide to photoshop elements part 2 - Bing Vidéos. Beginners guide to photoshop elements - Bing Vidéos.