Incredible Wildlife Photography
Wildlife — By Stephanie on January 11, 2010 at 10:58 am Canada goose protects her young Ever have one of those moments when you think to yourself, “Boy, I wish I had my camera?!” Well, you can enjoy the good fortune of the photographers who were not empty handed when they shot these amazing animal pictures. These high-speed images are treasures that tell stories we rarely get to see – let alone capture – in stunning detail. Incredible wildlife photography like this takes a steady hand and sharp eye.
Homemade Oreos
Fact #1: I made Oreos. I didn’t think it was possible, either. Fact #2: They tasted just like the real ones.. on crack.
Shoot Crazy Filtered Photography Using A Dishwasher [Instructables How-To]
If you’re rocking a smartphone these days, there’s no excuse to have badly-lit or uninteresting photos… we can thank countless photo apps like Instagram and Hipstamatic for that. But if you’re really interested in getting that same artsy glow in a manual way, look no further than this how-to from Dr. Lab aka Hti. Some materials you’ll need are a roll of Kodak Ektachrome E 200 35mm film, a dishwasher and soap for one load, a dark room (like your bathroom), and a hair dryer.
How to Create Breathtaking Architectural Photographs
You don’t have to be a career photographer to create dramatic and breathtaking architectural photographs. With a little practice the weekend photographer can learn to create eye-popping images that look as though they had been captured by a professional. You needn’t have the latest, greatest or most expensive equipment. The most important aspect of photography – what sets the great photographs apart from the good photographs – is how the subject matter is seen and captured onto film or onto the page. I will share with you some some tips and suggestions to get you started. This guide will apply to other aspects of photography as well.
101 Portrait Photography Tips
Hover over this picture to pin this article on Pinterest! 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.
Awesome pictures from around the world
Someone sent me these in a chain email, it was horribly formatted. I also do not know who made the comments, or how accurate they are. I take zero credit in the pictures, I just wanted to compile them nicely for all to see. The world’s highest chained carousel, located in Vienna, the height of 117 meters. Thor’s Well – “the gates of the dungeon.”
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Eating 10 hot dogs in 6 minutes and belching the national anthem may impress your friends, but neither of those feats will do much for your body—at least not much good. Instead, why not train yourself to do something that may actually pay off? We're not talking bench presses and interval training (though those do help). You can teach your body to cure itself from everyday health ailments—side stitches, first-date jitters, even hands that have fallen asleep. Just study this list, and the next time your friends challenge you to an ice cream eating contest, chow down: You know how to thaw a brain freeze—and 17 other tricks that'll make everyone think you're the next David Blaine.
50 Photoshop Tricks for a Fast-Paced Work Environment
Are you a designer on a deadline? If you are, then I’m sure you can recall the last time you thought to yourself, “if I had a little more time, I could…” what? Polish that button? Find a better hero image?
Backlighting Tutorial
by Guest Contributor Lidia Boicu So you’ve seen a lot of backlit pictures and you just fell in love with the beautiful warm tones you see in the pictures but failed many times when you tried to do the same thing in your sessions? Well, I hope this simple tutorial will give you some great tips on how to create beautiful backlit pictures. I think every photographer that does backlit photography has their own way of doing things but here is my way of creating those beautiful backlit images.
Amazing Places
Preachers Rock, Preikestolen, Norway Blue Caves - Zakynthos Island, Greece Skaftafeli - Iceland Plitvice Lakes – Croatia Crystalline Turquoise Lake, Jiuzhaigou National Park, China Four Seasons Hotel - Bora Bora
99 Excellent Examples of Forced Perspective Photography
Forced perspective is a technique that employs optical illusion to make an object appear farther away, closer, larger or smaller than it actually is. It is used primarily in photography, filmmaking and architecture. It manipulates human visual perception through the use of scaled objects and the correlation between them and the vantage point of the spectator or camera.
100 Amazing How-To Sites to Teach Yourself Anything
Posted by Site Administrator in Online Learning May 7th, 2009 Learning new skills and expanding your knowledge doesn’t have to cost you an arm and a leg. There are loads of free resources on the Web that can help you find instructional videos, tutorials and classes to learn a wide variety of skills from fixing basic car problems to speaking another language.
Ad Hoc Photography
Ad Hoc photography is by no means a technical term, and in essence it's probably as far removed from any technical photographic exercises that one could undertake. This article is all about photographic opportunism, ambling freely and photographing whatever you happen to stumble upon. Step 1 - Take your camera! We've all had those days, when for some reason or another, you're lacking inspiration and don't quite know what to do with yourself. When I start feeling like that, I have one solution, go and get some space, a bit of fresh air and I always take my camera. Now I'm not saying that in order to undertake ad hoc photography that you need to be feeling sorry for yourself, merely that there is something exciting and engaging about heading out to somewhere new with your camera, not knowing what you'll find.
