Blog - Cliff Mautner Photography For Lighting and Skillset Bootcamp Information click HERE Marissa and Andrew had a terrific New York City Wedding at Tribecca Rooftop in New York City . We had a gorgeous day, and it was a pleasure working with metro floral decorators .Metropolis of Faze 4 for the entertainment , Lisette Bugeja did Marissa's make up, StylesonB did her hair. 32 years. Essential Photography Forms Contract Model Release by Antlerberry Strobist Cult of Mac | Breaking news for Apple fans Jasmine Star Photography Blog Bokeh Photography Tutorial - Create Beautiful Bokeh in 3 Easy Steps 213EmailShare Most of us are entranced by the artistic effect of a photograph’s “unfocused” background. We are intrigued by those “mysterious” colored circles behind a well-focused flower or the lovely “bubbles” in the background of a baby’s picture. Photographers talk about “bokeh”, which is a Japanese word that refers to the aesthetics of areas of a photograph that are deliberately out of focus. The keyword to achieving fantastic bokeh is “aperture“. If your camera has an Aperture Priority setting (either A or Av depending on the model — check your camera’s manual), then you can control the depth of field (DOF) by setting the f/stop (also known as the f/number). For the shallowest DOF and the most bokeh, in Aperture Priority Mode, just dial the f/stop all the way to lowest possible number. For example, if you have either a Canon 650D or Nikon 5100 with an 18-55mm lens, the minimum apertures are f/3.5 at 18mm and f/5.6 at 55mm. Bokeh Photography in 3 Simple Steps Wow — bokehlicious!
Joe McNally’s Blog We celebrated Earth Day this past week. This observance has been around for a while now, and back in the 70′s I was occasionally assigned to cover some of the events. I shot the above for UPI one year, at an Earth Day observance at the UN. I recall it being the usual, uh, cluster….k, in NY press terminology, with all the papers, the wires, and the TV folks angling for angles and exclusives. This past week on the Charles Bridge in Prague, I touched this image, below the statue of St. The folks at Lastolite are pretty cool, especially their chief designer, Gary Astill. Dancer by a window, Havana…… Nikon DF camera, 1/25th sec; f4; ISO 400; 24-120mm lens. Cuban Cowboy, by a farmhouse window….Nikon DF camera; 1/50th sec; f3.5; ISO 100; 28mm f1.4 lens. Heading to St.
(3) Darren Neupert - Google+ - Are your photographs being ripped off? Do you know how to… Are your photographs being ripped off? Do you know how to find out? Do you even care? If so, read on and find out how I discovered my work for sale across the internet. I recently had breakfast with some fellow photographers and one of the topics we discussed was online theft of photos. I’m not talking about someone downloading your work to save as their desktop wallpaper. I have tried sites like tineye.com with moderate success. Enter Google Image Search While destroying a plate of eggs and sausage, a fellow photographer turned me on to Google Image Search. So, how does Google Image Search work? It’s so breathtakingly simple. Now, click on the search button and let the fun or, in my case, the nightmare begin. You may or may not find that your images are being ripped. I hope you find Google’s free image search tool useful. Please re-share this post if you find it useful. Darren Neupert
Thaioffcamera Would You Do Photography Full-Time if Money Were No Object? Here’s a thought-provoking video making the rounds online — one that you might want to watch if you love photography and have been thinking hard about your career path. It’s based on a lecture given decades ago by philosopher Alan Watts, who poses the question, “What would you like to do if money were no object?” What makes you itch? What sort of a situation would you like? [...] It’s so amazing that as a result of our kind of educational system, crowds of students say, “Well, we’d like to be painters, we’d like to be poets, we’d like to be writers, but as everybody knows, you can’t earn any money that way.”[...] if you do really like what you’re doing — it doesn’t matter what it is — you can eventually become a master of it. Just substitute “photographer” to that list and you’ll get the advice that people often tell aspiring photographers.
PBS Arts | Off Book: The Effect of Color Color is one of the... Master the Art of Photographic Composition One of the first composition rules we learn in photography is the rule-of-thirds. But once you've understood this concept, what else can you do to improve the composition of your photos? It will get you started, but there's more to composition than where you place your subject in the frame. Today we'll be exploring a few more aspects of photographic composition, to ensure you're completely clued up on how to take brilliant shots! [republish]February of 2010[/republish] I've never liked the term 'rule-of-thirds'. I placed main subject in this photo, the rock, at the edge of the frame, in the centre, because of its relationship to the reflection of the cloud. 1. In this spirit, here are seven guidelines for improving your composition. 2.Challenge Yourself Here's a challenge for you. 3. Lines guide the viewer's eye from one point to another through the photo. The lines created by the boat ramp in this photo lead the eye from the edge of the frame to the centre. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.Conclusion