10 Simple Yet Effective Photography Tips |  |
- 10 Simple Yet Effective Photography Tips
- Interesting Photo of the Day: Bald Eagle In Pursuit of a Great Blue Heron
- Google Plus Announces New Photography Features
- A Rare Look at How Apple Likely Does Product Photography
| 10 Simple Yet Effective Photography Tips Posted: 16 May 2013 04:25 PM PDT Final Reminder: Only 2 Days Left! in the deal on: Lighting & Editing Photography Guides 1. Move closer to your subject. Nothing kills a photo quicker than a distracting background. If you have a great background try bringing the subject closer to the camera so they don’t get lost. Remember this tip if nothing else.  “chit-chat” captured by Raluca Mateescu (Click Image to See More From Raluca Mateescu) 2. Take lots of pictures. Digital photography is cheap and it is good! It is okay to shoot multiple photos with only slight variations…keep and share your best photos. Also you don’t need an expensive camera; I have photos from all over the world hanging on my walls that were taken with a $300 point and shoot. 3. Get creative. It doesn’t take much to enhance a photo. Pictures taken from 5 ½’ above the ground can look repetitious. Think about changing the perspective – get down on one knee or on your stomach if possible. Stand on a chair. Experiment with different lenses if you have them. Experiment with composition. 4. Rent equipment. Professional camera stores are not just for professionals. They have rental departments where anyone can pick up an exotic lens for a day or more. Many that can be used on non-professional cameras. These rental departments are manned by people with lots of photo knowledge and people are generally more than happy to “talk photography” if not too busy at the moment. Don’t be shy.  “The Catcher in the Rye” captured by Arman Zhenikeyev (Click Image to See More From Arman Zhenikeyev) 5. Use the camera’s flash. Especially outside. Your eyes can look at a person in front of a sunset and see their smile but your camera can’t. It is either going to record the colors of the sunset and your subject will be a silhouette or your subject will be visible and the background will be overexposed. Be conscious of shadows on people’s faces – again utilize your flash. If your subject is looking into the sun they are squinting – turn them away from the sun and fill shadows with flash. 6. Think of your camera like a painter’s canvas. Be the artist. Is there a garbage can or other unwanted item in the frame that can be eliminated by simply moving a foot or so to the left or right? Look at the entire frame you are about to capture, not just the one main element you are focusing on. Sure you can fix it in Photoshop but it is better to capture it the way you want to see it. 7. Study Pictures. Pictures you like. Cut them out of your favorite magazines or newspapers. Keep a file on your desk and just take a moment to look at them and tell yourself what you like about them. Bookmark web sites that have photos you like. Go to them often. Develop your eye. Oh, and move closer to your subject ;) 8. Learn to take a little criticism. All photographers love their own photos. You put your heart and soul into them. You want to show them off. They are pictures of your kids, taken with the camera you always wanted and just bought. How can people not love them? Remember art is subjective. Not everybody is your mom. 9. Get your pictures published. Local newspapers have photography contests, generally centered on a theme: children, pets, travel. If you are in the right place at the right time, CNN might be interested. Don’t forget about the internet. There are always photo contests you can enter online. Publish your own website. There are plenty of free sites that will allow you to build a web site using your photos. They are a great way to share our art and these days you don’t need a degree from MIT to do it. 10. Learn from your mistakes. But don’t be afraid to break rules. Photography is fun and creative. Nobody is going to die if your snapshots are a little off or weird. What might not work one day may be a stroke of genius the next. And one last time, move closer to your subject.  “Kelso Dunes” captured by David Urban (Click Image to See More From David Urban) For the amateur photographer, these are ten easy, non-technical tips to help you improve the quality of your photos. While there are many technical aspects of photography, great pictures usually begin with a confident photographer who has learned to master composition before worrying about F-Stops. About the Author For Further Training, Ending Soon:Learning how to harness natural light in your photography and then bring out the best of it in post-processing are key skills for creating incredible imagery. We were able to arrange a deal for our readers on a photography guide bundle which ends in 2 days. The deal can be found here: Seeing the Light & Post-Processing Guide Bundle Go to full article: 10 Simple Yet Effective Photography Tips |
| Interesting Photo of the Day: Bald Eagle In Pursuit of a Great Blue Heron Posted: 16 May 2013 03:39 PM PDT All photographers hope to capture a once in a lifetime moment whether it be photographing people or nature. In the photo below, Owen Deutsch, was clearly in the right place at the right time. He was able to capture an incredibly rare moment as a Bald Eagle chased off a Great Blue Heron in effort to protect the eggs that were resting in the eagle’s nest. The photo was taken in Fox Lake, Illinois:  Bald Eagle Gives Chase to Great Blue Heron In an interview with National Geographic, where this same photo made it’s Top 25 Wild Bird Photographs of The Week, Deutsch says,
Deutsch got his start in professional photography working as a fashion photographer, which he did for twenty years. After a hiatus from photography to pursue other goals, he made his return to photography, this time working as a bird and wildlife photographer. Go to full article: Interesting Photo of the Day: Bald Eagle In Pursuit of a Great Blue Heron |
| Google Plus Announces New Photography Features Posted: 16 May 2013 02:18 PM PDT Social media site Google+ is releasing a roundup of intriguing new photo tools intended to make taking, sorting, and editing pictures on your smartphone simpler and easier. For a quick overview of the new features, check out the video below (for those of you reading this by email, the video can be seen here): Here’s a rundown of the new photo tools:
 Auto Enhance in action You can also follow our new Brand page with updated features here: Photography Tips on Google+ Go to full article: Google Plus Announces New Photography Features |
| A Rare Look at How Apple Likely Does Product Photography Posted: 16 May 2013 10:09 AM PDT Here’s a rare look at the making of a cover for the Macworld Magazine done by Peter Belanger – a photographer who has worked with Apple for years. In order to fit in a lot of information into a short amount of time, Belanger set up his 5D to collect timelapse footage of the project. While the video does leave out a lot of the early development stages of the cover design, such as meetings, the video is still fascinating as it take viewers on a tour of an otherwise relatively unseen side of the work that goes behind photographing Apple products (for those of you reading this by email, the video can be seen here): To capture the cover that you see below, Belanger started arranged the iPhones in different ways until finally settling on this placement. As you saw in the video, he also experimented a bit with different light setups. Using large, white diffusers he was able to light the iPhones using soft light, which also helped to eliminate any shadows. As far as equipment goes, he used a Phase One P65+ digital back that he attached to a 4×5 Sinar X camera. A 65mm prime lens was used to capture the image.
Regarding his time working with Apple on product photography he has said this to The Verge,
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