Digital photography basics, photography ideas and photo editing tutorials
Telling a story using only photographs isn’t as simple as it seems. One cannot simply snap a photo every few seconds, put them in a gallery and expect the job to be done. Photographic storytelling requires quite a bit of planning, luck, adapting and presence. Most importantly, the story that you are trying to tell must be visually and contextually …
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With the holiday seasons soon approaching, there are endless chances for taking festive pictures and capturing those all important moments of friends and family. There are however those times when you must deal with kids running wild, bad lighting and other things that may slow the entire process down. So let’s touch on some of the ways in which the …
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Professional photographers go through a phase when all they think about is how to take great photographs for their clients. Professionally speaking this is not worrisome; in fact, it is a sign of true professionalism. However, this signals warning signs for any photographer to at least take some time off and go out of their stressful professional world and indulge …
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Portrait photography is a very popular photography style and is one of the easiest styles to do well or badly. It not only involves a lot of time and skill but also a great collaboration between the photographer and model and this relationship in pictures can be picked up on by the viewers. The mood of the picture can be …
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Street photography is fun to do. Quite often the purpose of it is to deliver a certain message to the viewers. Usually, that message is from a social character, emphasizing emotion, certain aspects of human life, discrimination and a whole variety of social situations or taboos. It is not all about people, or snapshots of them. You need to be …
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Recently, I have come across a unique photography experience by the Portland-based photographer Sara K. Byrne. In her experiment, she explores the in-camera double exposure Canon 5D Mark III. The technology simulates the old double exposure trick that allows you to take multiple exposures in the same frame to create a merged scene. The new, digital version of the double …
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The RAW file format (file extension differs between camera brands – usually .cr2 for Canon, .nef for Nikon) is the uncompressed file that contains every bit of information that the sensor received and all the metadata the camera writes down. All DSLR, MFT and mirrorless cameras that have interchangeable lens can shoot in RAW file format. Many of the manufacturers …
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There is no doubt that photographing kittens is so much amusing and full of fun. However, there are some tips and ideas that you need to consider in taking cute kittens photos. Firstly make sure the photos are taken spontaneously and in a funny environment. Try to get down to the kitten level when taking the shot. Take some close …
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At first glance, it would never be imagined that these pictures had been taken over half a century ago. Jane long is an Australian artist, who has found a new and inventive way of breathing new life and meaning into these black and white pictures, that had been forgotten and has created new colourful and surreal works of art that …
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Recently we explored the high key photography and tips and techniques used to this high key photos (High Key Photography: Tips and Examples). In today’s article, we will continue to talk about the low key photography. So, what is low key photography? Both high key and low key photos share the concept of eliminating the composition details to focus on …
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During the day landscape photography is an easy task for many photographers, but turn the lights off and venture out at night, and it’s an entirely different challenge. Night time photography may be a harder task, but the potential for creating intense and beautiful pictures is endless. Taking pictures at night will require patience and practice but once you find …
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Tatsuya Tanaka is an Art Director and miniature photographer from Kagoshima, Japan, and the work that he has created is detailed and contemporary in its format and concept totally. In 2011, Tanaka started an interesting process of creating scenes of everyday life, but in miniature format. This was done on a daily basis, and Tanaka has called this his “Miniature …
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Street photography is simple in concept, but when put into practice, can be very hard to do well. This style of photography has so many fantastic opportunities that are on offer to anyone that wants them. Here are a few tips and guides that may help in improving the creativity of your street photography. Firstly, a great suggestion is to …
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When you visit a city it is very easy to pickup on the hustle and bustle, how energetic it can all be, the way in which the city flows and how dynamic it all is, but sometimes for a photographer who is a first time visitor, it can be a daunting prospect and easy to get lost in the power …
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Christmas is without a doubt one of the most beautiful and photogenic times of year. It is a time where any photographer can find a wealth of subject matter, beautiful scenes, a multitude of models to capture and that reflect the season and little need to travel far to find subject matter, be it people carolling, Christmas lights or other …
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Maciek Jasik is a polish born photographer who currently resides in New York. Maciek graduated in 2000, from John Hopkins University with a Bachelor of Arts degree. Since then, Maciek has exhibited extensively in New York, including a solo exhibition in 2012 called “ Bypassing the Rational”, as well as being featured in publications that include The New York Times, …
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Many people know and use Instgram on a regular basis. They post pictures of where they travel, what they eat and what they are doing. But a Singaporean photographer called Ng Weijiang has taken Instagram and its possibilities to new limits. Ng Weijiang uses Instagram layout to create inspired and creative photography collages that leave the onlooker gazing and amazed. …
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Aerial photography gives us the ability to see life around us from a totally different perspective and provides unique visual experience for the objects seen from top view. Previously, aerial photography was very challenging and requires expensive equipment to fly with the camera above the location and start taking photographs. Currently, this type of photography becomes accessible for many photographers, …
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Mikko Lagerstedt is a Finnish-based self-taught photographer with an interesting portfolio of photography projects that can be viewed in his Behance webpage and his own website. His “Dream” fine art photography project takes you into journey of lonely dreams and memories of fog and light. The dramatic usage of light and shadows in his work is remarking his work and …
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In this third part of the How to Take Portrait Photos Like a Pro series article, we will continue to explore what we started in part one and part two. In the previous parts we covered the equipment required to take professional shot and the lenses you need to consider for the best results. Also, we explored how to setup …
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Taking professional portrait photos is a challenging yet interesting topic for both professional and amateur photographers who like to take shot for their beloved. In the first part of this article, we explored the basic equipment required to take professional portrait photos such as the tripod and the lensed that can produce the best results. We also explored the portrait …
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Oh how we all amateurs envy the professional portrait photographers. Lugging expensive DSLR bodies and telephoto lenses they compress the foreground and the background into oblivion on the pretext of creating ‘stunning’ portrait photos. Oh how we love to prove that we amateurs are not to be taken lightly either and that we are just as capable. Professional quality portrait …
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One of the intelligent features in Adobe Photoshop is that you can always load it extras to improve your work such as the Photoshop brushes, color swatches, actions and gradient presets. You can easily search for free Photoshop brushes to download and install into your application and start using it. As mentioned earlier while talking about Lightroom tutorials, Adobe Photoshop …
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Many photographers are now depending on Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom to post-process their photographs especially when the project includes large number of photos. Although the free Lightroom tutorials and resources are still few on the Internet, it is undeniable that Adobe Lightroom can help photographers not only in the image editing process, but also in processing their images and organize …
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