Landscape Photography Tips Landscape Photography Tips for the Beginner 1.) Scout – Visit your chosen location and give yourself time to walk the surrounding area. When you find a suitable location, work each shot by taking various images until you find the strongest composition, you may find this easier when you get home to view all images on your larger monitor. Having found a strong composition, revisit the same location in different lighting, such as sunrise, sunset, etc. 2.) 3.) 4.) Neutral Density Graduated Filters – often when shooting landscapes, you will find the contrast range of a given scene to be too high for your camera. Neutral Density Filters – Not to be confused with the graduated filter, these filters are used to lengthen the exposure time of an image. Polarizer – These filters are helpful for controlling reflections, darkening blue skies and help control reflections in a scene which also gives a more saturated appearance. 5.) Simplify – Often less is more. 6.) 7.) 8.) 9.) 10.)
Create a Realistic Panoramic Matte Painting in Photoshop Matte paintings are images commonly used in the film industry to create the illusion of an environment that would otherwise be too expensive or impossible to build. In this tutorial I will show you how to turn a single stock photo into a realistic panoramic scene. Click to enlarge the image. Resources The following images were used during the production of this image. Step 1 Download the following stock image in order to follow this step-by-step tutorial: if you choose to work on a different plate, try to find a photo with a mostly clear sky so it will be easier to enlarge the photo in the following steps. Now open your stock of choice in Photoshop and increase the canvas size in all directions except for the ground. Step 2 Now we will start to fill the new transparent area with life. Next we have to get rid of the sharp edges in the upper layer. Step 3 The left area now obviously looks duplicated, so we will use the Clone Stamp Tool (S) to fix that. Step 4 Step 5 Step 6 Step 7 Step 8 Step 9
The Top 75 ‘Pictures of the Day' for 2012 *Update: The Top 100 ‘Pictures of the Day’ for 2012 have just been published. Click here to check out the most up-to-date post! After the positive reception from last year’s “Top 50 ‘Pictures of the Day’ for 2011“, the Sifter promised to highlight the top 25 ‘Pictures of the Day‘ at the end of every quarter, eventually culminating in an epic Top 100 for 2012. It’s hard to believe we’re already into the final quarter of 2012. With that, here are the Sifter’s Top 75 ‘Pictures of the Day‘ for this year. *Please note the photographs themselves were not necessarily taken in 2012, they just happened to be featured as a ‘Picture of the Day’ this year. Enjoy!
Photographer's Girlfriend Leads Him Around the World My Modern Metropolis Photographer's Girlfriend Leads Him Around the World Photographer Murad Osmann creatively documents his travels around the world with his girlfriend leading the way in his ongoing series known as Follow Me To. Chronicling his adventures on Instagram, the Russian photographer composes each shot in a similar fashion. With her back turned, never revealing her face to the camera, Osmann's girlfriend guides us all on a journey across the globe to some of the most beautiful, exotic, and radiant environments. Murad Osmann on Instagram via [Big Picture] You might like: More Revealing Portraits of Everyday Foods Sliced in Half Sweet and Sexually Charged Photography Sexy Ballpoint Pen Art (13 pieces) 19-Year-Old Holds Nothing Back with Her Mysteriously Beautiful Portraits Recommended by Views: 977315 Tags: Follow Me To, Murad Osmann, photo Share Twitter Facebook Facebook Add a Comment You need to be a member of My Modern Metropolis to add comments! Join My Modern Metropolis cool
Your beautiful eyes Behance Served Sites Served is a collection of sites that showcase category specific content from Behance, the world's leading platform for creative professionals across all industries. View All Served Sites → photography Served Join Behance Hire a Designer Behance Project Shuffle Showcase & Discover Creative Work Sign up for free View Next Project → Shuffle <img class="featured-ribbon-2x featured-ribbon featured-ribbon-net" src=" title="Photography Served"></img> Project Featured On: Photography Served — 6/6/10 Your beautiful eyes Info Statistics Created: 2/20/10 Last Edited: 7/26/15 Description Extreme close of eyes, with all their relief. Project Info Owners Suren Manvelyan Tags Copyright Info Attribution Non-commercialNo Derivatives Read More Share inShare Short link: by Yerevan, Armenia Follow on Bēhance Eye with coloboma.Visit my facebook page to find more photos: Save Project
10 Portrait Photography Tips And The Fun You Can Have With It Portrait Photography isn’t meant to be boring. It’s supposed to be fun, creative, and exciting. While you can take portraits the traditional way, you may want to experiment a little and try taking some portraits that bend the traditional rules a little bit. Here are some portrait photography tips for you. 1. Many photographers take portraits with the camera at or close to the subject’s eye level if you change the shooting angle it can give the photo a whole different perspective. 2. If your subject has something to look at in the image, such as a child reaching out for a puppy, a loving mother gazing at her newborn baby, a large man hungrily staring at a large pizza, etc. you can create another point of interest as well as a relationship between your subject and it. The second point of interest can also create more of a story in the photo and this is the most amazing part of these portrait photography tips. 3. The rules of composition can sometimes be broken with amazing effects. 4. 5. 6.
Echoes of War - StumbleUpon Sergei Larenkov His photographs of the siege of Leningrad and St. Petersburg really got lots of name on internet and are famous too. so we present some really nice photographs by sergei, where past and present meet in Moscow, Berlin, Vienna, Prague.. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 23 of the world’s most insane caves that you can explore [PICs] For some of the caves listed below, you’ll need some pretty gnarly climbing / spelunking equipment and a support crew. For others, all you’ll need is a pair of sneakers and a few dollars. In any case, after checking out these pics you may want to read up on how to become a good caver. Crystal Cave - Mexico Giant Crystal Cave, in Naica, Chihuahua, Mexico, contains some of the largest crystals ever discovered. The crystals - the largest one being 39' long and weighing 55 tons - were formed over 500,000 years when a magma chamber under the cave heated and filled the ground water with minerals. Stephen's Gap - Alabama This vertical cave in Alabama can be entered either by repelling the 143' drop through a keyhole, or scrambling down some rocks through a second entrance. Blue Grotto - Capri Callao Cave - Philippines Calloa Cave, in the Cagayan Valley, consists of seven chambers, each with natural crevices that provide light. Majlis al Jinn - Oman Minnehaha Falls - Minnesota Sea Lion Cave - Oregon
Happy New Year Happy New Year / 30 December, 2009 [click for previous image: let it snow #3] Happy New Year / 30 December, 2009 [click for next image: ringing in the new year] Title • Happy New Year I've spent the last couple of days wondering what to post to close out the year and then came across this entry on momentaryawe.com (run by my good friend Catalin Marin): his twelve favourite shots from 2009, one from each month. As always, let me know what you think. On a different matter: don't forget that there are just a few days left in which to snap up a 15% discount on our Photoshop tutorials. And finally: Happy New Year for 2010 :)
5 Stunning Photography Tips - Portrait StumbleUpon 6EmailShare Why portrait photography? It’s simple. One, because photography is a powerful medium and two, because taking photos of people means immortalizing a part of them, which time will eventually take. Tip No. 1: Find a subject that best conveys your message The basic among the many portrait photography tips is to get someone as a subject who is both interesting and suitable to the message that one is trying to convey in the photograph to be taken. Tip No. 2: Frame the Latter When one has already chosen the perfect subject, make sure that when taking the picture, he should frame the latter. Tip No. 3: Take Close-up Shots In taking portrait photos, mostly the subjects are shot in close-up. Tip No. 4: Take Candid Shots Although not considered one of the technical portrait photography tips, it is still encouraged to take candid shots when trying to achieve portrait photographs. Tip No. 5: Keep it Simple
Winter in the Carpathian Mountains [20 Pics Winter in the Carpathian Mountains [20 Pics] Jan 9 2014 The Carpathian range spans 1,500km and holds one third of all the plant species in Europe. It's a home to many animal species such as brown bears, wolves, chamois and lynxes. Photos by Alexander Kotenko. The Carpathian chain consists of mountain ranges that stretch in an arc from the Czech Republic (3%) in the northwest through Slovakia (17%), Poland (10%), Hungary (4%) and Ukraine (11%) to Romania (53%) in the east and on to the Iron Gates on the River Danube between Romania and Serbia (2%) in the south. The Carpathians and their piedmont also concentrate many thermal and mineral waters, with Romania having over one-third of the European total. See more photo posts Like our Facebook page & receive daily updates on your wall: The Beauty of Carpathian Mountains, Ukraine [16 Pics] Oct 21 2012 Ever since my brother and I were young, our parents would always take us to Carpathian Mountains for short vacations. View Post
Billows of Colored Smoke Pervade the Air in Photo Series, ‘Pop!' Texas-based photographer Irby Pace stakes his vision of the predictable and typical. He does this in open fields, long and bending roads, bodies of still waters, shrub overgrown alleyways, and an assortment of landscapes devoid of activity. Pace’s jolt to these benign imagery is a ubiquitous colored cloud, reminiscent of a magician’s smoke cover as he conceals a trick or sleight of hand. Pace elaborates on his simple concept of tinted smoke appearing in ordinary places, “With Pop! Pace was born in Odessa, Texas, where in 2005, he moved to the city of Lubbock to attend Texas Tech University where he earned his BFA in Photography in 2008. Speaking on his Pop! View Pop!