49 awesome photography tips and time savers Fitting your photography around the demands of family life (check out our ever-popular free family portrait photography cheat sheet) and the working week is often more difficult than figuring out the technical complexities of your camera. To help you get the absolute most from your photography time, we have come up with 49 of the best photography tips and time savers that are guaranteed to get you better results, help you edit your shots with ease and simply enjoy your picture taking more. From checking your kit before you leave the house to setting up your camera on location and tips for improving your photo composition, you’ll find plenty of suggestions for saving yourself time and getting organized – thereby reducing the chance of missing out on shots – long before you even press the shutter release.
Free lensing: dismount your lens for the ultimate creative effect It’s a little-known fact, but if you remove the lens from your SLR and hold it a few centimetres away from your camera you can still take a picture. The technique, known as freelensing, allows you to twist and alter the angle of the lens, which shifts and skews the plane of focus. This can create wonderful painterly effects. While the process itself is relatively straightforward, it also involves a lot of trial and error. There’s an element of chance to capturing a good shot, and you’ll need to experiment with the twist and angle of the lens – bend the lens towards your light source to avoid light leak. It’s nearly impossible to get the lens into the same position twice, so it’s equally tricky to replicate a successful shot.
Introduction to Astrophotography By Landscape Photographer Stan Moniz Introduction to Astrophotography Have you ever wanted to take photographs of the night sky but not knowing how to get started? Stan Moniz offers a beginners’ guide to get you up and running with astrophotography sponsored by... Hoya
BleronPhotography: How to use Lightroom to edit a Milky Way Photography? Do you like shooting milky way? Everyone wants to shoot milky way, but most of the time we end up having just a sample photography of milky way and the sky don't look like we really have photographed the milky way photography. In these days we have a very powerful software like Adobe Lightroom and after shooting just a little visibility of milky way than later we can go in Adobe Lightroom and try to make it more visible and at the end we will have a very beautiful milky way photography. Shooting milky way is the hardest type of photography at night. If we want to shoot milky way we need to plan our shoots starting with seeing when the milky way will be visible and then we need to find the perfect place for shooting milky way.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali Explains How To Combat Political Islam What happens when we let fear, muddled thinking, ignorance, and political correctness guide us in confronting a threat to our constitutional freedoms? We lose everything. In the United States, our ability to enjoy our rights to liberty and the pursuit of happiness rests largely on the protection the First Amendment accords to freedom of speech and its corollary, the freedom to exercise the religion of our choice – or, of course, to profess no religion at all. It follows, then, that we should both vigorously defend the First Amendment and subject to withering criticism any challenges to it.