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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.

Breathtaking Long Exposure Photography and How to Capture It

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 Image by John A Ryan Light House Exposure: 114 Seconds Image by MumbleyJoe (Tyler) Fireworks Exposure: 10 Seconds Image by Express Monorail Sky ways Exposure: 1 Hour. 4 Steps To Mastering Creative Night Photography. 1.2K Flares1.2K Flares × Introduction If you look at my personal portfolio, you’ll notice that I’ve got a good amount of night photography in there, and that’s because night-time is one of my favourite times to shoot.

4 Steps To Mastering Creative Night Photography

Shooting at night for me, came about from the fact that I didn’t really have too much free time in the day, so I would go out and practice my photography with some friends at night. It’s a slightly harder skill to master because the shots take longer to expose, I liken it to shooting on film; you think a lot more about your settings and composition before you shoot, which helps you to hone in your skill much quicker. Step 1 – Times & Uses Night photography takes place any time between dusk and dawn, and the range of colours in this time can vary greatly.

Night photography is a great equaliser because when it’s dark enough outside, you’re effectively working with a blank canvas where factors such as weather and people aren’t really a problem anymore. Understanding the Factors that Affect Depth of Field. When we're starting out in photography, understanding depth of field is the one of the first things we try to understand.

Understanding the Factors that Affect Depth of Field

What we often don't realize is that depth of field is affected by more things than just aperture. In today's tutorial, you'll get some quick tips about the other factors that cause changes in the depth of the field of your images. What is depth of field (DOF) The simplest definition for depth of field is the area of your image that is in focus. More specifically, the distance between the nearest and the farthest object that are in focus. Aperture or also known as f stop The first thing we are going to talk is the aperture value.

Learn How To Create Better Photos By Reading These Extremely Useful Tutorials. Nowadays is extremely easy to take a photo, either with your phone or with a camera.

Learn How To Create Better Photos By Reading These Extremely Useful Tutorials

I mean it’s enough to set it on Auto and then all you need to do is to zoom and shoot. Depending on the camera, the photo can be awful, decent, great or anything in between, so if you just took a picture of something and you discover later on that it’s not so great, then you can use some tricks in order to enhance it. With these cool tutorials you’ll learn how to apply a focus to an already made photo, how to correct the white balance, how to remove the red-eye problem and more. Also, you have some very useful articles and tutorials that you can apply before making the photo, such as how to use the low-key lighting or how to make great photos in the dark.

8 Effects Every Photographer Should Know About. Photography School. Adorama.com Adorama Photography TV presents the Canon EOS-6D.

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Rich is back from Vegas and eager to share his experience with this great new Digital SLR from Canon. Join Rich as he takes you through a more in-depth review of all the functions of this reliable and cost efficient camera. The Canon EOS-6D falls between the Canon EOS-5D Mark III and the Canon EOS-7D in price and features.

This is perfect for the photographer who likes a high quality, easy-to-use camera that has high ISO performance, fast auto-focus and great image quality. Everything you need to know about buying a camera. 184inShare Jump To Close By David Pierce and Vlad Savov Cameras are everywhere.

Everything you need to know about buying a camera

There’s one in your laptop, two in your phone, and probably a pair in your tablet that you’ve never used. Camera companies don’t exactly make life easy, either. Sticky TOC engaged! Aperture and Depth of Field. Depth of Field Depth of Field (DOF) is the front-to-back zone of a photograph in which the image is razor sharp.

Aperture and Depth of Field

As soon as an object (person, thing) falls out of this range, it begins to lose focus at an accelerating degree the farther out of the zone it falls; e.g. closer to the lens or deeper into the background. With any DOF zone, there is a Point of Optimum focus in which the object is most sharp.