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July 2013 Better Pictures Nikon Canon Fuji LEICA All Reviews Better Pictures: The Secret Composition Simplicity FART Shadows Lighting Adjustments It's Not Your Camera Exposure WB Don't Worry: Shoot Introduction top Intro Basics Performance Usage Recommendations This is the most important article on this website. These fundamentals are mandatory knowledge to all artists. The Basics top Eye Path. Backdrops. General Information, Backdrops for Studio and Location Work What are the main types of backdrops?

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Money saving tips for getting the most for your photographic background dollar. Seamless Paper Photographic Backgrounds The most basic photographer backdrop is the seamless paper. Normally found in 53-140” rolls in a variety of colors, this basic easy backdrop costs about $20-30 per roll. Roller systems for hanging backdrops include ones for one roll, or several rolls. 101 Portrait Photography Tips.

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101 Portrait Photography Tips

This is the largest collection of portrait photography tips ever assembled on a single page of the Internet. To write this portrait photography article, I asked members of the Improve Photography community to submit their favorite portrait photography tips. This article is a combination of my favorite tips, mixed in with the tips from the community. If you’d like to join the Improve Photography community, LIKE our Facebook fan page! 54 Portrait Ideas: free downloadable posing guide. Are you stuck for portrait ideas?

54 Portrait Ideas: free downloadable posing guide

Sometimes we’ve found that you can over-think these things. When you put so much thought into backdrops and colour schemes and following others’ portrait photography tips, you can overlook some of the fundamentals of portrait photography, such as your subject’s pose. We believe our posing guide below should help! Composition. Home Donate New Search Gallery Reviews How-To Books Links Workshops About Contact.

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There are subjects that we always need more variety in, and others that have been picked clean. Search iStock and explore what's been done before in great detail. If you're tackling a common subject, approach it in a different fashion and with your own style. Better yet, look for missing items in the collection and fill them in. Images that iStock does need: Corporate shots: Illustrate the many sides of modern business.

Articles - iStockphoto Photography Standards: Lighting. iStockphoto Photography Standards: Lighting Lighting is probably the single most important aspect of photography, and is a huge topic.

Articles - iStockphoto Photography Standards: Lighting

Every picture you take depends on good light. Mastering the basics of photographing a well-lit subject will help make your images useful for designers in everyday applications. Articles - Are You Taking Snapshots? We’re sorry, but we did not find this file suitable as stock.

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With the rapid growth of the iStock collection, we give valuable consideration to each file but unfortunately cannot accept all submissions. Digital Bus Stop - Part 2. Sergey Larenkov’s Ghosts of World War II August 15, 2011 12:22 pmArtwork, featured.

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Index. 10 Ships with Unusual Large Cargo Heavy lift vessels are quite amazing vessels, built to load, carry and discharge large, unusual shaped cargoes (or even smaller vessels) that will simply not fit inside the holds of conventional vessels.

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Unusual cargoes can include power plants, submarines, desalination units,oil platform, generators and yachts. Continue reading Top 10 Weirdest Places Around the World. 85 Photo Montages with Distinctive Surrealism by Ben Goossens  A Guide to Perfect Portrait Posing and More. As an aspiring-to-go-pro photographer or a casual shooter, it's important to understand the basics of portrait photography, whether your posing a spouse, child, friend or a bona fide model. Not only will your images seem more professional and polished, your model will look more attractive.

Introduction By taking care in not only how your model is posed, but also paying attention to the background, you will minimize your postprocessing workflow. For example, it is much easier and faster to take a minute or two to clean up and remove the offending clutter, lint, or errant strand of hair before shooting than spending an hour cloning it out in dozens of individual pictures.

See-Through Animal Photos, Translucent Creatures Wallpapers, Download, Photos. Wild Cats Hd Wallpapers Home Pets Cute Brown Black. Splish, splash, bang, bang: Stunning photographs reveal beauty of shooting handgun UNDERWATER. By Emily Anne Epstein Published: 20:02 GMT, 29 September 2012 | Updated: 17:02 GMT, 30 September 2012 Firearm aficionado Andrew Tuohy has filmed himself firing a range of weapons, but never before underwater.

The gun expert has posted a series of images, as well as a video, to his blog Vuurwapen to show the different effect each gun has in his swimming pool. After being triggered, a tornado forms at the end of the gun for a few short seconds before the bullet sinks down to the bottom and surrounding bubbles float to the surface. 50 Stunning Underwater Photos. Of all the different types of photography showcased on Smashing Magazine, underwater photography is probably one of the most difficult to practice. It requires a very specialized equipment and the knowledge of some advanced techniques to get a perfect picture. You need to get the correct exposure, accurate focus, controlled movement of your subject and a pleasing color balance; you also have to deal with low light.

Underwater photos offen suffer from loss of color and contrast when taken at a significant depth. Such photos are always adjusted with color balance to help offset the blueish tint of the water. 20 Stunning Examples of Underwater Photography. Whether it’s with animals, fish or humans, underwater photography is a skill that few are able to perfect. Not only is it necessary to learn to scuba-dive, snorkel and of course swim in order to battle the elements, in some instances the photographer can face some pretty hair-raising moments with some of the oceans fiercest predators in search of that perfect shot.

Beautiful Underwater photography. Hello everybody today I am going to show you treasures of underwater through my photographs at incrediblesnaps.com. Underwater photography is a photography taken under the water while swimming or snorkeling or scuba diving. It is a very challenging field in photography profession. Taking underwater photography needs a special skill and dare to face all risk while the work is in progress.