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
Photographer Rips and Reshapes Pictures Using Own “Gellage” Technique EmailEmail Czech photographer Michal Macku creates gripping and beautiful pictures using the unique “gellage” technique – his signature modus operandi since 1989. The term is a ligature of “gelatin” and “collage”, and stands for the practice of “the transfer of exposed and fixed photographic emulsion onto paper.” Once applied on a picture, the gelatin makes it possible to reshape it, and Michal finds great ways to combine this technique with what he captures on film. “I use the nude human body (mostly my own) in my pictures. Through the photographic process [of Gellage], this concrete human body is compelled to meet with abstract surroundings and distortions. Website: michal-macku.eu
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.
Stunning Smeared Sky Photography by Matt Molloy EmailEmail Canada-based photographer Matt Molloy presents a gorgeous series titled “Smeared Sky”, where a final picture is composed out of hundreds of separate shots. All the individual photos are taken from the timelapses he shoots himself – and for everyday Matt doesn’t make one, he shoots two the next day. Matt has found that the sunrises work best, but whatever landscape and daytime he chooses, Matt’s photos have a beautiful smeared and dream-like effect. Website: 500px
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
The Passage of Time Captured in Layered Landscape Collages by Fong Qi Wei Time can be a difficult variable to visually convey in still photography, both the length of time an exposure takes or a series of photos meant to depict the passage of time can be somewhat ambiguous without a written explanation. In his latest series, Time is a dimension, Singapore-based photographer Fong Qi Wei (previously) explores just that idea by shooting landscapes from a stationary position over a 2-4 hour period and then digitally slicing the images to create a layered collage. He shoots at sunset or sunrise to obtain a wide variation in light and then carefully cuts each image to reveal incremental timeframes. He explains: The basic structure of a landscape is present in every piece.
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