Adobe Photoshop Photography
How to Use ND Filters with Studio Strobes
If you find yourself in a situation where you cannot move your lights further from your subject, but they are still too bright, Wallace suggests leaving your strobes how they are and decreasing the light in your lens, via a neutral density filter. It seems kind of obvious once Wallace explains how to use a strobe indoors, but it's still a tool that isn’t called upon too often when shooting indoors with strobes.
Panoramic Photography to the Extremes
In his project alternate perspective, he shoots hundreds of images of one location in order to stitch them all together in one large 360 degree image. Randy finds the actual shooting of the images the easiest part, the most difficult part is finding locations that will work for his unique photographs. Such locations include places as diverse as Downtown Manhattan, the giant redwood trees of the Big Sur in California and the Florida Everglades.
Depth of Field
Depth of field is still something of a mystery to some photographers. In this simple guide Dylan A Bennett unravels it’s complexity by showing in a simple diagrammatic form, the various aspects of this very important photographic effect.
How to Grow a Wedding Photography Business
Being a successful wedding photographer often requires more than just excellent photography skill. Business and networking techniques go a long way in this industry.
Lara and Geoff White (widely published wedding photographers) have been running a thriving photography studio in the Bay Area with the philosophy that their efforts are 80% business and 20% photography.
HDR, Tone-Mapping and Standard Time-lapse Photography in Asylum
Drew Geraci and Drew Breese are photographers to the core. Everyday they take photographs purely for the joy of it. When you spend seven months of your time shooting one project, as they did when making the timelapse video, Asylum, your dedication to photography becomes obvious. The two battled asbestos covered rooms, squatters, and ghostly apparitions to gather the nearly 35,000 individual photographs they needed to complete this stunning project made up of a combination of traditional HDR, tone-mapping, and standard time-lapse techniques.
What is a Candid Photo?
Taking photography of people when they have no idea that you’re doing it is called candid photography. One of the beauties of photography is being able to catch someone in the act. It adds life to your pictures.
Extreme Aerial Fashion Shoot at Terminal Velocity
As smartphone cameras improve, manufacturers are going to great length to prove how effective these little devices are at capturing and uploading images quickly. Far from being a gimmick, the image quality from these smartphones has become good enough to produce professional looking photos and video for next to nothing. This production is a classic example of what can be achieved with a smartphone, a lot of skydiving talent, a big budget, and a little creativity.
Prom Photography
With prom season upon us, consider these tips to take full advantage of all the photo opportunities.
Elements of a Great Photograph
As a photographer, it's incredibly important to know what makes a great picture. Just having a nice camera and fancy tools isn't enough to really make it in this industry anymore. Knowing what to look for and honing in on those specific things can help you capture truly unique, personal, and in the moment images that will hopefully help to set you apart from your peers.
Photography Cliches
Photography has fashion trends, just like any other creative industry. Some enterprising soul will be playing around and come up with a new look that catches on and, before long, the world is awash in copycat photos. Some of these techniques will continue on long after the novelty has worn off and become almost a visual cliche.
Forced Perspective Photography Projects
As the rise in popularity of forced perspective photography continues to grow, we're seeing more and more creative examples of the art form. Pause for a moment and see if you can figure out how this photo was captured WITHOUT PHOTOSHOP (the answer is below):
Lighting Setup for Track and Field Photography
In this short video we follow photographer Zak Hendrik as he shots a group of athletes for an Indiana University poster.
Cityscape Time-lapse Photography Insights
City skylines have long been an interest of photographers and videographers alike. Dominic Boudreault is no exception. The Quebec based photographer compiled a dramatic timelapse using hundreds of thousands of individual photos he captured in cities ranging from Chicago to New York to Quebec.
Top 10 Tips to Become a More Accomplished Photographer
One of my friends was asking me about my photography and asking how I got started, and so I decided to write a top 10 list of things to help you become a more accomplished photographer.
Lighting for Photography
Lighting plays a crucial role in photography. It can bring a photograph to life, it can generate effects, including spectacular shadows or silhouettes, or it may have a distinctly negative influence by creating unwanted glare and reflections.
How to Take Concert Photos
We all love the rush of an amazing concert, whether we're dancing along to the beat or moshing in the pit. But many of us like to capture the moment, quite literally, and record our experience. However, it's hard to get decent photographs with compact digital cameras. Dark lighting, flashing lights, and constantly moving musicians make it difficult to photograph. If you're willing to lug around a DSLR cameras and the right interchangeable lenses, you can take some pretty awesome shots.
Photography tutorial: How to Take Panoramic Pictures
Have you ever wondered how professional photographers are able to take panoramic pictures with ease? Have you ever wished that you had the skills or talents that these photographers have? Have you also wished that you had the extra dough to spend on the next best photography equipment that these photographers are using?
Photography tutorial: How to Take Macro Photos
Macroscopic photography offers photographers a unique view of the world to explore with an unlimited amount of color, texture and physical architecture. Macro photography is a magnified photography, which is used to produce an image which is larger in the film plane (or digital sensor) than in real life.
Night Photography
Night photography offers photographers the chance to create mysterious, beautiful, and exciting images through the use of creative exposure. The following visual aid will give you an introduction to the basics of night photography and how to properly expose images in low light.
Rembrandt Lighting
Rembrandt lighting was named after of the great master, who often used it in his own portraits. The idea is to create a small inverted triangle of light on the subject’s cheek which is opposite the light source. This is very flattering (especially for people with prominent cheekbone structure) and was often used in old Hollywood portraits.