Five Best Tablet Drawing Apps. It seems to impress passers buy when you edit video with your fingers in iMovie on the iPad. It still impresses people when I edit photos on an iPad. I'm not so much out to impress people with what I'm doing, but what the end result may be. Though I do agree that it was skewed away from windows tablets. There are plenty of Android options up there, too. These were user submitted and voted choices. next time speak up louder during the initial submissions and you'll see your preference listed here. oh, and the windows tablet digitizers are NOT more accurate then the cintiq, not even close. they are built by wacom but only have: 1024 levels of pressure sensitivity no tilt/rotation detection 2540 lines per inch detection resolution no tip/pen type detection the cintiq has: 2048 levels of pressure sensitivity tilt and rotation detection 5080 lines per inch detection resolution tip/pen type detection the Intuos is even better, but has no display on the digitizer so it is a different beat altogether.
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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 Get the Perfect Exposure Using Your SLR Digital Photography Camera's Histogram. Edit Article Edited by Robert Benson, Teresa, Flickety, Maluniu and 4 others The most important tool in digital photography besides the camera - the histogram! Learning to expose photos properly can be a headache for new photographers. If you are relatively new, you are probably using your camera's automatic functions to shoot most of your images.
Not only is that a poor habit to get into but you are wasting some of the extra $1,000 or so that you paid for a digital SLR vs. a "normal" digital camera. Ad Steps 1Understand what a histogram is. 4Read the next section for the explanation of how to use the histogram to gauge a proper exposure. Tips So, you stack all the black tiles (tone 0) in one pile all the tiles that are one tone lighter than black (tone 1) and so on all the way to white and there are all stacked in order in a straight line, that is a histogram.A Histogram ExampleReading a histogram. Things You'll Need SLR Digital Photography CameraYour Camera's Owner's Manual. Heatwave Photographic Studios | 10 Tips to better outdoor portraits.
1. Capture candid moments: Candid photography is about capturing spontaneous moments, it’s not posed, not forced, and it’s un-obtrusive. The aim here is to show life as it’s happening. The ideal is to get people to either ignore the camera and continue with their activities, or to accept you as a fly on the wall. 2. If you shoot all your subjects from your level, they might appear disproportionate depending on their height. 3. When shooting close ups in portrait (holding your camera on it’s side), fill two thirds of the frame with your subject, leaving just enough space above their head. 4. This is worth exploring if you’re photographing people on their own. 5. When composing a picture, always keep in mind that the background is just as important as the person you’re shooting. 6. The light is softer early morning and late afternoon, much more pleasing than harsh direct sunlight. 7. 8. If the background is in focus and you’re subject’s not, you’ve lost the photo. 9. 10.
10 Street Photography Tips from an Anonymous Street Photographer. I recently got these 10 street photography tips from an anonymous street photographer who wanted to share this information with you. I found these tips to be very insightful, and I hope you will too! Keep reading more to learn about all the goodness. 1. Meter off your hand When there is nice light, hold your hand into the light and meter off that.
Often time when you are shooting in automatic modes (Aperture-priority or program) the camera doesn’t always give you the best metering or exposure. 2. When waiting in a certain area (e.g. an area with great light), keep walking around. 3. Always have our camera in your hand and ready to shoot. 4. Hold the camera behind the wrist so it’s out of view. 5. If right handed and you shoot off camera flash, walk along the right hand side of the street. 6. Try fiddling with your camera, like Winogrand. 7. Try following someone, speeding up, and then walking around them to get close. 8.
Frame the background. 9. 10. 10 Ways to Take Stunning Portraits. How do you take Portraits that have the ‘Wow’ factor? Today and tomorrow I want to talk about taking Portraits that are a little out of the box. You see it’s all very well and good to have a portrait that follows all the rules – but it hit me as I was surfing on Flickr today that often the most striking portraits are those that break all the rules. I want to look at some ways to break out of the mold and take striking portraits by breaking (or at least bending) the rules and adding a little randomness into your portrait photography.
I’ll share ten of these tips today and a further ten tomorrow (update: you can see the 2nd part here). 1. Most portraits are taken with the camera at (or around) the eye level of the subject. Get up high and shoot down on your subject or get as close to the ground as you can and shoot up. 2. It is amazing how much the direction of your subject’s eyes can impact an image.
A. B. 3. 4. Using techniques like slow synch flash can create an impressive wow factor. 5. How Do I Figure Out How Many MegaPixels Are Necessary for Printing a Photo at a Specific Size? Become More Photogenic by Knowing How Genuine Facial Expressions Feel. Can you tell the difference between a real smile and a fake one? There's a neat test you can take to find out. [www.bbc.co.uk] I got 13 out of 20 right, which is apparently a really good score. Based on overall test results, people seem to be notoriously bad at telling real from fake. I concentrated not on the eyes or the mouth, but on how quickly they test subjects returned from smiling to a neutral expression. There's some interesting insight on the post-test page, I'm pasting it for the benefit of anyone who doesn't want to take the test. "Most people are surprisingly bad at spotting fake smiles. Although fake smiles often look very similar to genuine smiles, they are actually slightly different, because they are brought about by different muscles, which are controlled by different parts of the brain.
Genuine smiles, on the other hand, are generated by the unconscious brain, so are automatic. Bottom line, if you want your fake smile to look real, you kinda have to make it real. Create an Instant "Green Screen" with Your Computer's Display for Quick and Dirty Background Removal. Macro Photography Tips for Point and Shoot Digital Cameras.
A Post By: Darren Rowse Much has been written on the topic of Macro photography for those photographers fortunate enough to own a DSLR with macro lenses – but what about if you own a compact point and shoot camera? Can you get great macro shots too? While the results achievable with a point and shoot camera in macro mode probably won’t compare with a DSLR with a purpose built macro lens I’ve still seen some remarkably good shots with compact cameras (all three shots in this post were taken with compact cameras). Here are a few tips to help you get the most out of yours: Get free tips like this each week via our email newsletter Select Macro Mode – this is a fairly obvious first step but I’m always surprised by how many digital camera owners haven’t explored the shooting modes that their camera has.
Use a Tripod – in macro photography a tripod can be particularly useful, even if you’re just shooting with a compact camera. PS: I’ve used the term ‘macro photography fairly loosely here. Our approach to food photos. As much as it flatters me when I get emails asking what my secret to taking pictures is, I rarely have a good response. I don’t think of myself as a real photographer, I never learned accepted techniques and I barely know what half the buttons on the camera do. If you like my photos, you’ll probably agree you can get far without this information (though I suspect you could get further with it). The majority of food photography advice I have read boils down to two main points: don’t use flash and style the food attractively. Honestly, these days I rarely do either. While I of course use available light when it is, uh, available, in the evenings, when most food for this blog is cooked, I’m at a loss.
These days, we’re using the Canon Speedlite 430EX flash, and it is making a world of difference. A little food styling can go a long way. Try as best as you can to identify what you like about what is before you, and find ways to make that the very essence of the picture. Food photography setup | Wrightfood. Just recently I have got a few emails from people asking about the food photography setup that I use. I honestly find those some of the most flattering emails I have ever received, because honestly, I am a big time hack.
BIG TIME. I don’t do photography as a job, and really have very little time to shoot the food I cook, before I eat it. I don’t like eating hot food cold.. even if it means a good photo, and I generally (there are exceptions..) don’t like to piss guests off either by making them wait for theirs.. Because of this, I have my little system which really limits the time it takes to shoot after the food has been cooked and plated. To make all this digestible and manageable I am going to split the topic of food photography into two posts. Cameras, lenses and tripods JPEG vs RAW Shooting Tethered Lighting, Bounces and scrims White Balance Controlling Reflections and highlights My approach to composition and styling My approach to getting a shot fast You have two options here really.
» Still Life With || Lara Ferroni (Food Photographer & Writer, Seattle, Washington) 49 Awesome Photography Hacks, Mods And DIY Projects. Following the great demand, here are 49 Awesome Photography Hacks, Mods And DIY Projects. Something for everyone with Tripod hacks, lighting hacks, light modifiers mods and a few crazy projects that are simply not classifiable. In this section tripod for macro photography, tripods for food photography, tripod for your bicycles. Did I say tripods? Here you’ll find all your light stand needs. If it’s mounting a flash where no flash can be mounted, clamping it, sticking it, of making a new lightstand out of PVC scraps. Got a flash? Good chances that you do, if you are reading this site.
If you’re a Strobist this is the section for you. This one’s for all the pinhole lovers. This is where you can get your lighting fix. The rest of the ends and odds. Here are 43 more Photography Projects. Know of more cool projects? [This is a new and improved edition of an old post, if you've seen it before, simply give it a big hug and move on :)] 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. Don’t be held Captive ‘the Rules’ 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. DIY: Greenscreens and Backdrop or Background Stands | Life is a Prayer.com. This article will explain how to design and assemble bluescreens, greenscreens and backdrops for photos and video, as well as how to easily and inexpensively build a portable frame to support these backdrops (or other things like quilts, etc.) out of PVC pipe or metal conduit. (NOTE: Please be sure to read some of the extra notes at the bottom of this guide for optimal performance).
For amateur or hobbyist photographers and video producers, coming up with the money for a nice, $200 (and up!) Backdrop and the expensive stands and hangers required to help support it isn't very easy. Rather, they need a way to make a nice-looking background that is both good looking and easy to transport. In this article, I will show you how you can make a great portable backdrop frame that allows you to transport your backdrops and hang them at any height and width you would like—all for under $50, using parts from your local fabric and hardware stores. An example of a picture using the greenscreen. Strobist: When you absolutely, posit... Ten Things I’ve Learned About Food Photography. Sometimes I look back at my older food posts on The Pioneer Woman Cooks…and cringe.
I knew nothing about photography in general…let alone food photography. I want to reshoot all those old recipes. But I know I’ll never have the time. So I just keep those old photos in the archives, referring back to them whenever I need proof that my photography has improved through the years. Today, I feel more confident with my food photography than I probably do with photography outside of my kitchen. I’m no expert—not by a long shot. Disclaimer: Don’t listen to me. 1. Step back a bit, Ree. (Photo taken in February 2007.) 2. This is how I posted my Apricot Bars on my site back in (I think) 2008. This is after applying a curve lighten just now. Lightness. 3. Blech. 4. Artificial lighting environments can be created to try to replicate the look of natural light, but I’ve found it to be very difficult. 5.
This is where I shoot most of my final food photos—the shots of the finished dish. 6. Emphasis on not. 10 Ways to Know You Made a Good Picture. Copyright Scott Bourne - 2009 All Rights Reserved How Do I Know if I Shot a Good Photograph? My pal Rick Sammon gave his take on this subject a few days ago here at Now it’s my turn.
Here are 10 things to look for in a good photograph. (NOTE: These are offered in no particular order.) 1. Correct exposure. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. _______________ This post sponsored by the Digital SLR Store Like this: Like Loading... Related 10 Tips for Photographing Wildlife Copyright Scott Bourne 2008 - All Rights Reserved Careful readers of this blog know that I am primarily a wildlife photographer. In "Shooting" Photo Critique Guidelines Photo critiques are a good way of learning more about photography. In "Technique & Tutorials" 25 Photo Composition Tips ADDITIONAL PHOTOS by Nicole Young, Rich Legg & Other iStock Contributors One of the most common problems facing new photographers - and some of us OLD photographers - is finding…
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