Taking Better Sport Photos
HP has some tips for taking better sport photos using your point-and-shoot digital camera.
Landscape Photography Video Tips
Some tips for capturing better landscape photos using your point-and-shoot digital camera
Open Flash – Painting with light
This is an old timers technique used by poor mans photography to create shadow less studio works before strobe lights were available. A film camera would be set on a tripod and the photographer would use a single tungsten light. Lights were turned off in the studio, camera shutter opened and the light pointed at the subject would be waved in an ark resulting in a very subdue soft shadow. In the early days exposures were a bit of trial and error.
I revisited this technique in the late 80s using a flash strobe with a bit of a twist. In almost any environment where studio lights where difficult to place or required too many lights a single flash can exceed your expectations. The only real limitation is a need for a dark space without light.
Having Fun With Macro Photography
If you can’t have fun while doing what you like best. Give it up and find something you do like.
Shot with Sony Cyber-shot DSC-H1 Enhanced on Adobe Photoshop using auto color adjustment and auto contrast features. Resized to bring out more details in stamins and the bee.
A lot of photographers have been thinking of getting into the fine art of macro photography.
There is a whole world in macro that hasn’t been explored yet and today’s new and modern digitalized equiptment is much more flexible and much easier to use in tandem with computer programs.
Erase People From Photo in Photoshop
Learn how you can easily remove unwanted objects like people that ruining your holiday photo.
Travel Photography Tips: Creating Your Own Luck
Ok. So you’ve read up on the technical side of taking great photos. You know your aperture from your exif and you’ve experimented with shutter speeds. But there is something missing from the photos you’ve been taking. They’re ok, but that’s it. Just ok. Why? You wonder. Well, here’s a little secret: it’s all about luck. Well not really. More to the point, great travel photography is about creating your own luck.
Six on a motorbike…. Phnom Penh, Cambodia by shadowplay
Preparation
The Process of Realizing A Photographic Inspiration
For the artist who is a painter the brush, oil paints and canvas are extentions of what goes on in the painter’s brain. The motivating factor is the inspiration that drives the artist to create what is considered an original work of art. The painter is limited by how long they can hold onto the image within their minds that has inspired them, providing they aren’t working from a photograph. Its much more difficult for a surrealist painter since most of the content that inspires their work is the product of dreams or a too lively imagination.
Great Portraits in the Great Outdoors
If you have ever photographed your weekend outing, family reunion, or a special vacation getaway with your friends or family, you know that outdoor photography can present some very special challenges. This is true even for the most seasoned photographer. Direct sunlight can be harsh. Unwanted objects can interfere with your composition. Proper color rendering can be problematic. And many times, good old Mother Nature is just not feeling cooperative. Perhaps, there’s not much that can be done about Mother Nature, but with some practice and patience you can overcome many of the other challenges you face as an outdoor portrait photographer.
Along my journey as a photographer I’ve learned some outdoor techniques that may benefit those who choose to follow:
Shooting Autumn Leaves
Leaves are a very popular subject when it comes to autumnal photography due to their great variation in colour at this time of year. If you are creative these subjects can offer great photographic potential. Here are 5 quick tips to make sure you make the most of the autumn weather
When the leaves come falling down, originally uploaded by Garry’.
1. Get low, go wide – To really emphasise the coloured carpets so abundant in Autumn, fit a wide angle lens and get low down, focusing on a close leaf and fill the frame with the leaves going away into the distance, open spaces such as parks are great for this.
Simplified Studio Lighting for Elegant Portraits
When you are new to studio portrait photography, studio lighting can seem difficult, mysterious, and perhaps even ominous at times. You may read ten different books on lighting by the “experts”, and quite likely you will get ten totally different opinions about what constitutes proper lighting. Maybe this is because “proper” lighting for studio portraits is just that; a matter of opinion. Yes, there are classic styles of lighting such as: open loop, closed loop, butterfly or Paramount, broad lighting, short lighting, and so forth.
