How to Photograph Anything When we launched Learn My Shot, just over 2 years ago, our mission was to create the most comprehensive resource where photographers could learn how to photograph anything. We are still enthusiastically working towards this goal. With the help of contributing photographers we published over 90 creative step by step howto tutorials that answered the most common question: How to photograph…? How to Photograph a Model How to Photograph a Water Splash How to Create Repetition How to Photograph Street Portraits How Photograph Food with Natural Light How to Photograph a Baby How to Photograph a Flying Cat How to Photograph Flowers How to Photograph Fire How to Photograph Long Exposures with Steel Wool How to Photograph Wine Bottles How to Photograph Jewelry How to Compress Perspective with Telephoto Lens How to Emphasize Texture How to Photograph a Zombi Portrait How to Shape Light for Creative Effect How to Photograph Classic Still Life How to Photograph Using Artificial Sunlight
50 Awesome Opencourseware Links to Effectively Get Your Photography Degree for Free Whether you are a first time digital camera owner, or someone looking to start a professional photography business, knowledge is key. Utilize these 50 courses, guides, and more to bring out the best in your photos. For Beginners These courses are a must for the first time photographer, or those looking to brush up on their camera skills. 1. Photography Course: This site offers free photography lessons ranging from the basics of film, optics, cameras and light to web page layout and digital photography. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. For Advanced Users Now that you know the basics, learn how to truly master everything from setting up a photo, mastering the complex SLR, and more. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. Photojournalism For those looking to go into reporting, learn how take pictures like the professionals do from the stunningly beautiful to the deftly haunting. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. Free Guides and Tips 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. Specialty Courses 40. 41.
88 Brilliant Examples of Forced Perspective Photography | Inspiration 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. There are many ways to attack photography and some are much more expensive than others. Here in this showcase, we presenting a Stunning collection of Forced Perspective Photography and Pictures taken by various artists in which all pictures are linked to the author’s pages. When it comes to inspiration then there is no limitation on resources. You may be interested in the following related articles as well. Feel free to join us and you are always welcome to share your thoughts that our readers may find helpful. Don’t forget to and follow us on Twitter — for recent updates. Brilliant Examples of Forced Perspective Photography
Top 10 Most Viewed Pages on StumbleUpon StumbleUpon is one of the highest traffic generating social networks for websites, and for good reason. When a user gives a page their thumbs up, they open the door to that page getting hundreds upon thousands of visitors in a fury. So what kind of content does well on StumbleUpon? Let’s find out by looking at a sample of the 10 most popular viewed pages in StumbleUpon. 10. Don’t worry animal lovers – no sheep are harmed in this test! This game, originally discovered on March 7, 2005 in Online Games, has been reviewed 1,649 times. StumbleUpon Page | Original Page 9. If you like optical illusions, you’re going to love sidewalk chalk guy. This page, originally discovered on July 16, 2004 in Arts, has been reviewed 2,512 times. StumbleUpon Page | Original Page 8. Want to know the pain that travel agents go through in their careers? This page, originally discovered on May 6, 2004 in Humor, has been reviewed 1,390 times. StumbleUpon Page | Original Page 7. StumbleUpon Page | Original Page 6. 5. 4.
How To Give Your Photos a Dark Processed Lomo Effect This post was originally published in 2010 The tips and techniques explained may be outdated. Follow this step by step post processing guide to give your photos a dark lomo style effect with high contrast, blue tones and vignette burns. The effect is based on the popular lomographic technique and is similar to the processing effect used in many fashion shots and advertisement designs. Overall this effect does a great job of adding impact to a plain photography with cool colour casts and unusual saturation. View full size photo effect Begin by opening your photograph of choice into Adobe Photoshop. Go to Image > Adjustments > Levels and tweak the tones of the image. At the bottom of the Layers palette, click the Adjustment Layer icon and select Curves. Change the drop down menu to Green and tweak the graph for the green channel to further alter the tones of the image. Finally alter the Blue channel, creating an inverted ‘S’ shape to enhance the blues to give a cool colour cast.
55 incredible examples of photo manipulation We present collection of 55 incredible examples of photo manipulation. Some of them... you may know already, but another ones... could be new for you. What I'm sure about... all of them are simply worth of your attention. 21 Sample Poses to Get You Started with Photographing Men 17K+A Guest Post by Kaspars Grinvalds from Posing App. Following the previous article on posing when photographing female subjects (update: see below for a complete set of posing guides for kids, couples and more), let’s look at some starting points with men photography. Men are usually less comfortable in process of being photographed, so it’s important to get him to be at ease with the process in order to get good results. It is always a good idea to prepare before the photo shoot. Just one more peace of advice – involve your subject in the process! He will feel more confident knowing the plan, what he has to “do” and what kind of outcome is expected. So, let’s look at some sample poses for men. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. That should be at least something to use as a starting point. Check out our other Posing Guides: Grab Our Guide to Portrait Posing Kaspars Grinvalds is a photographer working and living in Riga, Latvia.
Eco Friendly Steakers by Hu2 Design Today we’ll show you creative stickers “Eco Reminders” from design studio Hu2 Design. These stickers are eco friendly for two reasons. Firstly, they are made of “pure” materials – vinyl tape without chlorine and adhesives from natural substances. And, secondly, these stickers teach people to care of nature through the energy savings. Indeed, stickers “Eco Reminders” are just to glue them around the sockets. 25 Beautiful Macro Photography Shots - Smashing Magazine 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. In this edition of our Monday Inspiration series we present 25 beautiful examples 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. La force et la passion“She felt her strength and passion back by 1 small drop of water.”. High-Tech Jumper“Jumping spider on a DVD reading my data! Bubble Magic“Close-up of a wet leaf … taken with a Canon Powershot A610 :)” The photo is taken by Sophie. Lasius Vlavius“This yellow meadow ant is trying to find a way to dry ground after the rain”. Flower DetailClose-up of a very colorful flower, shot by MeLissa Stolte. Igor Siwanowicz
How to Craft a Modern Resume [Infographic] Lately I have been going to a weekly networking meeting. These meetings usually have speakers that talk about anything from finding that perfect job or using social media and how it can help you with your career. Recently we had a speaker that talk about the traditional resume being boring and that as a job seeker, we need to define ourselves from the rest of the population. Although the traditional resume is still important, he recommend that we have an online resume site (ex. yourname.com). With a resume site, you can have your resume posted with links to your important sites such as LinkedIn, portfolio, or blog. For a designers, social media consultants, and new media developers, having a resume site could be what gets you that new job or contract. Earlier today, I came across an article on Mashable.com that talks about creating a modern Resume. EvolutionaryDesigns.net runs on the Genesis Framework Genesis empowers you to quickly and easily build incredible websites with WordPress.
The 5 Most Spectacular Landscapes on Earth (That Murder You) Mother Nature is an evil bitch that wants us dead. We know this, we accept it, we try to burn one plant a day as petty revenge against her for it and we move on with our lives. But sometimes her traps are so unsubtle, so obviously, blatantly designed to do nothing but murder human beings in the most awful ways possible that we can't help but stand and applaud her sheer balls. In that spirit, here are five of Mother Nature's more vicious bear traps: #5. Tsingy de Bemaraha National Park -- Madagascar Olivier Lejade The Tsingy de Bemaraha National Park is a protected UNESCO world heritage site, but this park doesn't need any tollbooths, rangers or even a tall, spiked fence. WikipediaSometimes the Earth gives a freebie to the World of Warcraft design team. Biologists call the area a bio-fortress. National GeographicSometimes a forest of daggers just isn't enough. Olivier LejadeSo yeah. Marco ZanferrariSometimes the formations produce Yes album covers just to mess with you. #4. dominica-weekly
Best iPhone Apps Every year brings a new version of iOS and a host of new apps and updates that take advantage of Apple’s latest features. 2015 has been an awesome year for iPhone and iPad owners, with the arrival iOS 9, Force Touch and proper multi-tasking. Apple has also unleashed some of the most exciting hardware we have seen for years. We’ve sorted through the stream of new apps that arrived in 2015 and devised a list of our favourites just for you. Here are ten apps that we think were some of the best from the past year, and five great updates that transformed older apps. One of the new features of the latest iPhones is Live Photos. Here Comes the iPhone 6S: What’s New & Should You Upgrade? Live Photos, however, have no where near the level of support enjoyed by GIFs. Tweetbot 4 ($9.99) Tweetbot has consistently been one of the best iOS Twitter apps you can buy. Lara Croft GO ($4.99) More than any other mobile game released this year, Lara Croft GO has caught our imagination here at MakeUseOf.
8 Lessons Learned from My First Attempt at Portrait Photography One of the things I love about dPS is that we have a variety of photographers of different levels of experience and exploring different types of photography – all learning together. Today Aaron Meyers shares what he learned in his first attempt at portrait photography. Let me start out by saying I’m an amateur photographer. I always loved taking photos but I didn’t buy my first SLR (a D80) until 2007. Since then I’ve mostly done landscape/nature photography and I’ve slowly upgraded my gear (to a D300s) and I’m starting to branch out and try new things. Lately I’ve really enjoyed looking at portrait/model photos on Flickr so I thought I would give it a try. The Things I learned on my first portrait photoshoot: 1. Also, don’t forget that bright spots show up in between tree/shrub leaves and those can be really distracting. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.