10 More Tips for Stunning Portrait Photography. Want to spice up your portrait photography? In this article, we’re going to give you 10 easy-to-follow tips that’ll get your portraits looking beautiful in no time at all. Let’s dive right in, starting with… 1. Frame Your Subject Framing is a technique where you draw attention to one element of an image by framing it with another element of the image. Framing gives an image depth and draws the eye to a point of interest in the image. You could do it by placing your subject in a window or doorway, have them look through a small gap or even use their hands around their face. 2. Shooting with a wide angle lens attached to your camera can help create some memorable shots when you’re doing portrait photography. At very wide focal lengths you can create some wonderful distortion.
It can also give a wide open and dramatic impact when your subject is in an impressive setting. 3. Sometimes you want your background to be as minimalistic as possible. The key is to experiment. 4. 5. 6. 1. 2. 7. 8. 9. 10. Celebration Of Smoke Photography and Smoke Art | Monday Inspiration. Advertisement Photography is constantly reminding us how wondrous and beautiful the world we live in truly is. It often urges us to take another look at the ordinary things around us in a new light, revealing a quiet beauty in even the most mundane of objects.
More specifically, smoke photography, with its alluring images of ghostly wisps of smoke, shows us that we don’t have to look very far to find this beauty. In this edition of our Monday Inspiration series, we present 60 examples of beautiful smoke photography and smoke art: a round-up of some of the best examples of photos and artworks where smoke dominates. At the bottom of this post are some links to tutorials on creating your own smoke photographs, as well as other resources on the subject. 35 × Elegant Smoke Photographs Magicnikon Dry ice was put in the bottle to get this great image. Hughes Léglise-Bataille Selva Morales Ibai Acevedo Larrañaga Alberich Mathews Wonderful fantasy image. italian.meatball Frances Dre icewomanfirst moczkos. 40 Photoshop Tutorials On Rain Showers and Water Drops | Tutorials. Advertisement With fall just around the corner, designers are looking for ways to complement their work with fall imagery like water droplets, rain on leaves and fall rain showers.
Including rain or water drops in a scene can be a nice effect because water is a very compelling element. As you’ll see in the tutorials below, water drops and rain can completely change the dynamic of a design or photo. Adding the illusion of water and rain to photographs using Photoshop can be a bit tricky. Many times the effect feels forced and cheesy, as if you’re looking at a grainy picture instead of an authentic rain shower. Here are other collections of Photoshop tutorials from Smashing Magazine: Water Drop Tutorials Basic water drops5 An excellent tutorial showing how to make artistic, realistic water drops. Designing a war movie poster6 A step-by-step tutorial that teaches how to design a dark movie poster with water drops. Artistic rain effect11 Create a complex composition with rain. Maple Water Drop26. 25 Beautiful Macro Photography Shots | Monday Inspiration. Advertisement Macro photography is the art of taking close-up pictures that reveal details which can’t be seen with the naked eye.
For example, while we can see the fly on the wall, our eyes aren’t equipped to make out the fine details of the hairs on it’s face. This is where macro photography comes in. It gives us a glimpse into the world of the very small, which goes largely unnoticed by us as we hurriedly shuffle through our day. In this edition of our Monday Inspiration series we present 25 beautiful examples of macro photography. A round-up of some truly revealing and inspiring macro photographs which are sure to have you marveling at the world around you.
You may check out the links at the bottom of this post for further resources on the subject of macro photography. You may also be interested in the following related posts: 25 Beautiful Examples Of Macro Photography Eye of a Tokay Gecko“A close-up shot of a Tokay Gecko. High-Tech Jumper“Jumping spider on a DVD reading my data! 40 Really Useful Photoshop Text Effect Tutorials. No matter you want to design a banner or logo, text effect is very important. Why? It is because a beautiful text effect on the banner or logo will attracts the visitor and also delivers a better message. There are tons of Photoshop text tutorials around us, but today we are going to pick the most 40 beautiful Photoshop text effect tutorials for our readers. You may or may not seen them before, but believe me, they are really useful, cool, beautiful and easy to follow tutorials.
You may subscribe to our RSS feed or follow us in Twitter so that you can always receive latest news from us. 1. 2. A very nice wooden text effect tutorial in Photoshop presented by 10steps.sg. 3. 4. This tutorial will show you how to create the 3D text shape and give it a high quality metal look using pure Photoshop. 5. In this tutorial, the author shows you the process involved in creating this golden flame text effect with soft smoke texture in Photoshop. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. How to Take Extraordinary Photographs, Part 1: Exposure. SitePoint’s latest book release, Photography for the Web, contains a wealth of information that will help you take stunning pictures and share them online. It will show you how to save a fortune on stock images by designing and capturing your very own shots. We’re making Chapters 1 and 2 of Photography for the Web available as part of the free sample PDF of the book.
This article is an excerpt from those chapters, focusing on the basic principles of layout, lighting, and composition. Read on to start learning how to use your camera to your advantage. As photographers we’re limited by what light can do and what light we have. The amount of light captured by your camera is called the exposure. The three factors that control the amount of light your camera captures are: The three elements are inextricably linked, as indicated in Figure 1, “The exposure triangle”. Figure 1. Changing any of those settings changes the amount of light your camera captures. Figure 2. Figure 3. Figure 4. How to Take Extraordinary Photographs, Part 2: Composition. Photography for the Web by Paul Duncanson is the latest release from the SitePoint book publishing stable. It contains all you need to know to transform photos taken on your standard camera into gorgeous images that impress.
You may already know that we’ve made Chapters 1 and 2 available as part of the free sample PDF of the book, and a few weeks ago we ran an article on Exposure, taken from the book. This article is an excerpt from chapter 2, addressing the principles of composition. Read on to learn more, or download the free sample to read both chapters offline at your convenience. Composition is the art of placing elements in a scene to make it more aesthetically pleasing. Good composition derives from a number of different design principles, which are in turn based in the psychology and neurology of our responses to visual cues. Effective composition can happen by accident. If your scene contains many elements, remember which object first grabbed your attention. Figure 1. Japanese Scientists Say Tripods Increase Camera Shake | Gadget Lab. Scientists at the Nishi Lab of the University of Electrocommunications have developed a tool which measures camera shake. The surprise is that putting the camera on a tripod can actually make things worse.
The measurements were designed to check the effects of mirror slap and shutter vibration in SLR cameras. Vibration caused by the mirror is well known — as the mirror flips up to let light onto the sensor of film, it shakes the camera and — according to the Nishi Lab — lowers resolution by up to 75%. Higher-end cameras combat this with mirror lock-up modes which get the mirror out of the way and let the camera settle down before shooting. A bigger surprise was the effect of the shutter vibration, which affects the picture even when the mirror is locked up. The measurements, which are taken by examining an LCD display, tell us the amount and direction of the shake, which could actually be compensated for.
Tool Developed to Measure Camera Shake [Tech On] See Also: 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. Alter Your Perspective 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. 5. The shots were amazing, surprising and quite funny. Miniaturize a Scene. How to Take Extraordinary Photographs, Part 1: Exposure. Afgan Girl: A Life Revealed. She remembers the moment. The photographer took her picture. She remembers her anger. The man was a stranger. She had never been photographed before. Until they met again 17 years later, she had not been photographed since. The photographer remembers the moment too. The portrait by Steve McCurry turned out to be one of those images that sears the heart, and in June 1985 it ran on the cover of this magazine. In January a team from National Geographic Television & Film’s EXPLORER brought McCurry to Pakistan to search for the girl with green eyes.
No, said a man who got wind of the search. It took three days for her to arrive. Names have power, so let us speak of hers. Time and hardship have erased her youth. Now, consider this photograph of a young girl with sea green eyes. “There is not one family that has not eaten the bitterness of war,” a young Afghan merchant said in the 1985 National Geographic story that appeared with Sharbat’s photograph on the cover.
Had she ever felt safe? ”No. Photography Tutorials. Learn how to take and edit digital photographs using visual tutorials that emphasize concept over procedure, independent of specific digital camera or lens. This is a complete listing of all tutorials on this site; click the drop-down links in the top menu to see particular topics. Photography is going through an exciting transition period as many film photographers are beginning to explore the new capabilities of digital cameras. While the fundamentals have remained similar, other aspects are markedly different. This is a great time to get involved with digital photography.
These tutorials are rarely influenced by changes in image editing software and camera equipment — due to their unique concept-based approach. View in other languages: Português Русский Deutsch Français Italiano. PhotoTutorials. Photoxels is first and foremost a digital photography site where you will find digital photography tutorials written in easy to understand language. Our One-Pager™ digital photography tutorials will help you select the digital camera that is best for you and make sense of difficult technical concepts. Each digital photography tutorial is short, can be read in one sitting, and is immensely practical -- which means you can put what you have just learned to use immediately.
Enjoy! Below is our original tutorial. What makes a great digital picture? Unlike a silver halide film-based picture where it is of the utmost importance that the picture is properly exposed in the camera, a digital picture is made up of digital pixels that can be manipulated after the fact by an image editing software. Installment 1 - Learn In this first installment, we will review some fundamental aspects of composition and exposure. If this article has been helpful to you, why don't you send it to a friend? 25 Cool Digital Photography Tutorials, Techniques and Effects. The list of cool digital photography tutorials and techniques is endless, you can even find ten completely different methods to achieve the same effect.
Which is the best? It really depends on the photographer and their level of expertise. In this post, we have listed our personal favorites photography techniques with tutorials to help you recreate the same effect. You will find techniques for the currently in vogue HDR, Tilt-Shifting and Lomography to the less common and diverse Sabatier and Escher effects.
Infrared Photography What is the Infrared Spectrum? High Speed Photography High-Speed Photography is used in physics, health research, sports and more. Lomo Photography Tilt Shifting Photography This Photoshop tutorial will teach you about simulating the tilt-shift lens effect that is used mostly in photography. HDR Photography This is a detailed guide about taking photos for an HDR image. Cinematic Portrait Effect Coloring a Black and White Image Diorama Illusion Effect Cross Processing. Ask Lonely Planet: How do you take a photo from a bus window (and much more)? Want to know about travel photography but have been too scared to ask? Look no further as Lonely Planet photography expert Richard I’Anson answers our Facebook members' most pressing questions about taking photos on the road. Q. Do you have any tips for taking photographs through a bus window (eg tour buses)?
I always seem to get a great focus on the window itself - especially if it's raining! - Lesley A. My immediate response it to say don’t bother, not if you’re hoping to get half decent pictures anyway. Q. A. Avoid setting up in a brightly lit place where extraneous light can enter the lens and overexpose the image. Mount the camera on a tripod.Set the shutter speed to 20 or 30 seconds or the B setting.Set the aperture to f16.Switch auto-focus to manual.Set the focus on infinity.Turn off the built-in flash.Frame a part of the sky where you anticipate the lightning will be seen.Release the shutter with a cable release and allow several strikes to trace their paths on the sensor. Q. A. Urban photography: a one-day itinerary for capturing a city. The urban environment of the world’s towns and cities provides photographers easy access to the greatest variety of subject matter.
In the time it takes to walk a block or two, you can photograph panoramic skylines; people up close, at work or at play; abstract architectural details; frenetic street activity; and peaceful park scenes. You can capture elements of the past and the present through the city’s architecture in one carefully composed street scene, focus in on torn wall posters in a dimly lit alleyway and within minutes be framing up the most recognisable landmark in the city. Cities and towns are rich in subject matter and offer round-the-clock photo opportunities. In this itinerary, renowned travel photographer Richard I'Anson lays out a basic framework for getting the most moments from a city in one day no matter where you are in the world: 1. Rise before dawn to get to a predetermined location before the sun rises to capture the classic skyline or city view at first light. 2.
Travel photography: how to photograph people.