Photographing the Sky. “Our eyes reveal an ever-shifting pageant of arriving light.
Within these pages are but a few captured moments when the sky overhead briefly flowered, flashed, and flaunted its celestial artistry. Yet every day the ever-enchanting light show beckons for deeper understanding and appreciation. I invite you to join me—to observe, study, and enjoy the visual feats and temporal treasures of our changing kaleidoscope sky.” — Meteorologist and Naturalist Tim Herd A magical illustrated tour of nature’s almost supernatural skyscapes, Kaleidoscope Sky by Tim Herd is a book filled with glorious colors and glimpses of nature’s splendors. The sky provides the most spectacular show on Earth, and Herd reveals the beauty and the science behind these rare and fleeting celestial spectacles—phenomena such as rainbows, moonbows, coronas, glories, halos, arcs, mirages, green flashes, red sprites, blue jets, airglows, auroras, and other atmospheric marvels.
10 Tips to Make Your Phone Photos Amazing;Plus, Our New Phoneography Blog! Phoneography is the best.
No matter where you go, you’ve got a camera. Not just any camera, but a camera that lets you share your photos in that same instant with all your friends. We love sharing tips, project ideas, apps & inspiration so much, we decided to start a whole new blog about how much We Love Phoneography! To celebrate, we gathered our all-time fave phone photo tricks for phoneography amazingness that’ll wow your friends and your Instagram art critics. 10 Tips to Improve Your Phoneography p.s. . #1: Control Your Exposure You can do some major change to the mood of a photo by forcing your phone to over or under-expose the scene you’re shooting. One easy-peasy way to do this with your built-in camera app is to tap the screen in the lightest or darkest area and watch the changes that occur.
Try making three photos: One normally, one by tapping a dark area of your scene, and one by tapping the brightest area. (Our friend Joey showed us this tip on his Instagram stream! Pin It. It's Lens Cleaning Time. It's Lens Cleaning Time Having taken a look at sensor cleaning last week, it would be remiss of me not to also address the topic of lens cleaning.
CCD and CMOS sensor cleaning is an important topic for digital shooters, but clean lenses are necessary equipment for all photographers, whether their preferred medium be digital or film. The best way to clean your lenses is to prevent them from getting dirty in the first place. It may sound like I'm ignoring the issue, but I'm not. With proper care, your lenses will need cleaning much less often. DSLR Camera Sensor Cleaning.