Last Minute Wedding Photography Tips |  |
- Last Minute Wedding Photography Tips
- Paris France Captured in Timelapse Photography
- Expressing Color with High Speed Photos: Commercial Photography
- Street Photography: The Endless Pursuit of a Perfect Moment
| Last Minute Wedding Photography Tips Posted: 15 May 2013 04:18 PM PDT In the eleventh hour, your best friend who’s getting married is in tears. The professional she hired to photograph her wedding bailed. You happen to have a digital SLR and all of a sudden you’re it. Here’s my survival guide for you.  Photo captured by Olesia Kliots (Click Image to Find Photographer) 1. Make a “Shot List”.Think of this as your “storyboard.” A guide to the different scenes you want to see if you were doing a movie. This shot list will break down what you might concentrate on in the 3 phases of any wedding: preparations, ceremony and reception. It’s your cheatsheet on the order of the events, various arrangements for the formal portraits, so go over this with the couple. 2. Shoot lots of candids.Just because you have everyone bossing you around, telling you to take their picture, it doesn’t mean you have to pose all your subjects in every picture.  “Amanda and Taras” captured by Tatiana Garanina (Click Image to Find Photographer) 3. Scout out the location.If the ceremony, reception and preparations are all at one location, then you can thank your lucky stars. Count on starting your day with the bride wherever she plans to get dressed. She may do this at the church or at home, so count on knowing the route. 4. Borrow or rent a second camera body similar to the one you own.Since you’ll be working quickly, having identical camera bodies will allow you change settings faster. Consider renting identical flash units if you don’t have one. Never shoot a wedding with just one camera. Always have a backup. If you have to rent more memory cards and batteries for the cameras, do so.It will be worth your piece of mind. 5. Do as many of the formal group portraits beforehand.If the couple is open to this and don’t mind seeing each other before the ceremony, do as many of the formals portraits beforehand.  Photo captured by Ksenia Ashihmina (Click Image to Find Photographer) 6. Shoot closeups or detailsBe on the lookout for tight shots of the diamond rings, bouquet of flowers, party favors, textures on the bride’s gown et cetera. These will make good backdrops for albums and backgrounds for DVD menus. These detail pictures will also give you variety in your coverage. 7. Enlist the help of Maid-of-honor.Women like this role more often than men. (Must be their maternal instincts) The Maid-of-honor is usually more than happy to help. If you don’t hit it off with her, try the Best Man. 8. Establish a rapport with the DJ & Wedding Coordinator.Get to know the DJ & Wedding Coordinator. Being on the same page with both of them means you will be scrambling and out of position for the toast, the bouquet toss, the garter toss, the first dance and so on.  Photo captured by Tatiana Garanina (Click Image to Find Photographer) 9. Be considerate of the other guests.Even though what you’re doing is important, don’t be obnoxious. If another guest is in your way, ask politely for them to move. 10. Don’t forget to enjoy yourself.You can’t be expected to be everywhere especially if this is your 1st wedding. Generally speaking, once the ceremony and the formal portraits are done, you can catch a breather. The rest of the proceedings will not happen without the DJ & wedding coordinator consulting you if you followed tip #8. Remember if you’re not having fun taking pictures, your images will reflect that. About the Author For Further Training on Wedding Photography:Check out Simple Wedding Photography, it covers everything you need to know to photograph a wedding and the business behind it. From diagrams of where you should stand throughout the ceremony to advice on all the final deliverables to the client. This 200 page ebook will be useful to wedding photographers of any experience level. It also carries a 60 day guarantee, so there is no risk in trying it. It can be found here: Simple Wedding Photography eBook Go to full article: Last Minute Wedding Photography Tips |
| Paris France Captured in Timelapse Photography Posted: 15 May 2013 02:21 PM PDT Update – Part III just released! See below In the following video, which combines both timelapse and stop motion photography techniques, Mayeul Akpovi enchants viewers with images from around the area, showing reason behind the cities appropriate moniker, The City of Light. Compiled from thousands of still images captured throughout Paris, each individual photograph was carefully edited together in post to create the 2-minute long tour. Take a look at Akpovi’s work here (for those of you reading this by email, the timelapses can be seen here): To capture the shots during the day, Akpovi used four different shutter speeds which varied from 1/100th, 1/60th, 1 or 2. For the night exposures, like the following images, he says he increased his exposure time up to 5 seconds. Here is Part II: The changing weather, Akpovi explained, had a sizable influence on the camera settings. And finally, here is Part III: Paris is definitely on my list of places to visit now.
If you are wondering how he managed to stabilize those incredible moving sequences, it appears the magic lies in Adobe After Effects: Thinking about making a timelapse of your own? In addition to the tripod he used to capture some of the moving scenes, here is the equipment list Akpovi used to capture Paris In Motion:
For Further Training on Time-lapse Photography:Check out this new COMPLETE guide (146 pages) to shooting, processing and rendering time-lapses using a dslr camera. It can be found here: Time-lapse Photography Guide Go to full article: Paris France Captured in Timelapse Photography |
| Expressing Color with High Speed Photos: Commercial Photography Posted: 15 May 2013 12:24 PM PDT Imagine having a vivid dream where you’re floating in a sea of vibrant colors. Now imagine the Herculean task of capturing that dream within the frame of a real-world photograph. When Samsung asked photographer Chase Jarvis to put their Series 9 monitors to the ultimate color calibration test, he had just the image in mind (for those of you reading this by email, the video can be seen here): As seen in the video, Chase was very particular about wanting to match the colors in his dream to the exact powder colors to be used for his psychedelic color cloud. Naturally, he would want those colors translated to the final onscreen image.
Judging by the satisfied looks on their faces towards the end of the clip, it looks like they succeeded in turning a dream into reality. Go to full article: Expressing Color with High Speed Photos: Commercial Photography |
| Street Photography: The Endless Pursuit of a Perfect Moment Posted: 15 May 2013 10:06 AM PDT We all have an inner street photographer, whether it be a hidden urge or a full-blown passion. In this Nikon-sponsored video, documentary photographer Nina Berman discusses her approach, on the roads and avenues of New York City, to this style which demands so much instinct, quickness, and versatility (for those of you reading this by email, the video can be seen here): For a long time, Nikon has been gearing their cameras towards this type of photography by focusing their development on high ISO performance, wide dynamic range, and ever more compact bodies. True to the essence of street photography itself, Berman focuses her project on “speed”. In doing so, she seeks out swift motion and energy, but also embeds her theme on her method of shooting – very immediate and intuitive, often not even using the viewfinder, shooting blindly or from the hip. These are tried and true techniques for shooting streets; firing without framing leaves your images wide open to absorb amazing slices of life that often elude the more inquisitive eye. Viewing your images without any idea what you’ve taken allows you to look at your own work with the virgin eye of the viewer, without preconception.
Conventional wisdom says that the act of observing changes that which is being observed. Great street photography is truly unique when it succeeds in capturing a moment before it can be altered – the moment is lost if your subject notices the camera and adjusts their manner accordingly. The tiny, scarcely noticeable size of the Nikon 1 V2 and other similarly-sized cameras gives the freedom of a low profile and the ability to be very incognito. Legendary street photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson used a rangefinder, which was a similar sort of idea, for its day – highly compact but excellent quality and very customizable. His contemporaries reported that nobody knew when he took a photograph; he would raise the camera to his face and back down again, as if deciding not to take the picture after all. Mastery of speed and dexterity, combined with a keen eye, ushered him into the royalty of photographic giants. Next time you go out to shoot streets, remember these few basic tips:
For Further Training on Street Photography:Take a look at this popular 141 page eBook that covers everything about the genre even down to specific post processing techniques that can bring the best out of street scenes: It can be found here: Essentials of Street Photography Guide Go to full article: Street Photography: The Endless Pursuit of a Perfect Moment |
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