Posing Tips for Female Portraits Whether it’s for a special occasion, modeling portfolio, or publicity shot, the way to have a winning photoshoot is make them feel and look beautiful. With 10+ years of professional modeling experience personally, I have enjoyed taking what I’ve learned being on the other side of the lens to help new or experienced models, and even the girl next door, to achieve the looks I want to capture. Pin It Two Important Rules First, always ask if she knows her best profile. Remember the basic photography rule What is closest to the camera will appear larger. Things to remember while shooting female portraits Shoot her favored side. Biggest tip Every woman has her own sensitivities and insecurities. Shooting examples Leaning in, defines the jawline and focuses on face and eyes. Pin It Warming up into a smile. Pin It Slight slimming trick, one shoulder back, leaning over, shooting from above to define jaw. Pin It Showing the “good side” Pin It Shifting weight to the back, front knee bent. Pin It
Camera envy? Tips for using a point and shoot camera from Photo.net Do you feel inadequate because you have a puny Canon SD900 or Fuji F30 in your pocket while your friend is lugging around a digital SLR? Don't. You can get a better picture than he can, for the following reasons: Your camera is light and compact enough that you have it with you at all times. You have about as good a lens as he does; like most first-time SLR owners, he hasn't bothered to upgrade from the cheap low-contrast zoom lens that was included in a kit with his camera body. A professional photographer with a pile of $1500 lenses and a tripod is going to be able to do many things that you aren't. The photo at left shows Bill Clinton handing out a diploma at MIT's 1998 graduation ceremony. Think about Light My personal definition of photography is "the recording of light rays." Just say no Just say "no" to on-camera flash. We're at a theater. Virtually all point and shoot cameras allow you to control the on-camera flash. look for some light. Prefocus Burn Memory Add a comment
35 Magnum Photographers Give Their Advice to Aspiring Photographers Hi (Above image copyrighted by Alex Majoli) Bill Reeves, a passionate photographer who is fortunate enough to have Magnum photographers Eli Reed and Paolo Pellegrin as his mentors, told me about a blog post that Magnum had a while back regarding advice to young photographers. It was put together by Alec Soth, who has done a series of fascinating projects such as his most popular, “Sleeping by the Missisippi” which was done on a 8×10 view camera. An interesting excerpt that Bill put together about Alec is below: Alec writes up lists of things to shoot. I found the advice that these Magnum photographers is golden–and have shared it here to spread the love and knowledge. Abbas What advice would you give young photographers? » Abbas’ Magnum Portfolio Alec Soth What advice would you give young photographers? » Alec Soth’s Magnum Portfolio Alex Majoli What advice would you give young photographers? » Alex Majoli’s Magnum Portfolio Alex Webb What advice would you give young photographers? Bruce Gilden
Behind the lens! Equivalence Let's begin by considering a couple of experiments you can do at home. Take a photo of a scene at, say, 35mm f/5.6 1/200 ISO 3200 and 70mm f/5.6 1/200 ISO 3200. Crop the 35mm photo to the same framing as the 70mm photo, and display both photos at the same size. These photos have the same exposure, and are taken on a camera using the same sensor, thus the same efficiency and pixel size. Here's another experiment. Answers are at the end of this section. Noise. When people refer to noise in an image, what they mean is the density of the noise in an image (NSR -- noise-to-signal ratio) and is often represented as a percent. There are two principle sources of noise in a photo: luminance noise and chroma (color) noise. The chroma noise is the noise is a result of the CFA (Color Filter Array) both blocking light which they are supposed to admit (AE -- Absorption Error), and admitting light they are supposed to block (TE -- Transmission Error). There are, of course, important considerations.
Avoid Potential Disasters with a Back-Up Kit | BH inDepth When diving into the world of Wedding Photography, you must have a plan and be prepared for anything. Like the very wedding you’re going to shoot, you need to know what is going to happen, when and where it is going to happen and how it is expected to happen. But just when you think you’ve got it all figured out, you drop one of your lenses, or you’ve forgotten to charge your camera battery, or you left an entire bag of gear back at the studio, and you don’t have a back-up plan! What are you going to do? You have the gear, you memorized your list of must-have shots, but you didn’t plan on that freak thunderstorm or the toddler who knocked over your light stand—sending glass flying across the dance floor. First, we’ll start with the capturer of the cake-smash, the master of memories—your camera. Remember, when you are hired to shoot a couple’s wedding day, you are being selected based on your skill and style, the proof of which is in your portfolio.
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The Best Digital Cameras This review is intended to help you choose the best compact digital camera for your goals. In coming up with these recommendations for my friends, I looked carefully at Canon digital cameras (often the highest technology), Kodak digital cameras (great balance and simple user interfaces), Sony digital cameras (an alternative to Canon), and Olympus cameras, which can be good values and have some unique features such as weatherproofing. Digital cameras fall into the following categories: [Each of these categories gets a separate section below. Decide if you're buying a camera to carry with you all the time, and therefore it must be compact, or if you're buying a camera that you will take out when you are specifically engaged in a photographic project. In shopping for a good digital camera, the one specification that you can safely ignore is the number of pixels, which has almost nothing to do with image quality. Ultra Compact reasonably late and reasonably great Compact Creative Compact
7 Obnoxious Things People Believe About Photographers I'm Rob, the editor of Light Stalking. I try to keep this ship on course. By Admin on in Random Working in the photography industry is a fantastic gig – there’s no denying it. Friends Will Work for Free – The ridiculousness of asking your accountant friend to do your tax for you for free is readily apparent to most people. Better Equipment Means Better Photographs – When a painter comes up with a fantastic painting, do you say, “Wow, you must have a great brush and paints!” My Brother Can Shoot the Wedding – Well, your brother probably can take photographs at the wedding. They Have No Right to Shoot X – The truth is that if a photographer is in a public space in most western countries then they can shoot just about anything. If It’s a Striking Photograph, It Must be Photoshopped – A talented photographer knows that getting an image right “in camera” is the best way to end up with a great result.
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Photography Tips In this tutorial we share 10 quick portrait photography tips for working with what you’re given, making better compositions and inspiring great reactions from your subject. By changing your camera angle and subject’s position, a simple window becomes a versatile light source. In this window light photography tutorial we show you how to create six strikingly different images using the same subject and window. If you’re looking for photography tips, tricks and techniques, Digital Camera World is a fantastic resource, even if we do say so ourselves. In our latest photography cheat sheet we’ve created a free posing guide for headshots and hands. Be prepared to change your settings when you dip into the tiny world of macro. Take a creative approach to long exposures with this clever technique that takes light painting to a whole new level! It doesn’t matter if it’s overcast, misty, stormy or pouring rain; with these 21 expert landscape photography tips you’ll undoubtedly get great scenics.