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- Seeing the Light & Post-Processing Guide Bundle: 60% Off This Week
- LightSpin: A Unique Art Photography Experiment
- How to Photograph a Volcano
| Seeing the Light & Post-Processing Guide Bundle: 60% Off This Week Posted: 10 May 2013 04:49 PM PDT 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. Just ask travel photographer and author Mitchell Kanashkevich who has made a successful career traveling the world and documenting places seen by few. We were able to arrange a nearly 60% discount for PictureCorrect readers on his two best-selling eBooks which expires next Sunday. Simply remember to use the discount code PICTURECORRECT10, found here: Seeing the Light & Understanding Post-Processing  Seeing the Light & Understanding Post-Processing (Click to Learn More) Seeing the Light is made up of three sections which cover the use of a flash, a reflector and natural light. After a short introduction to each type of light, you are presented with photographic examples, diagrams and descriptions, explaining the aim of particular setups and how the lighting effects in the example photos were achieved. The aim of the eBook is to give you a general understanding of the main types of light, but its main purpose is to be a practical guide, to get you out there, shooting, experimenting and using light creatively in the field.  Pages from Seeing the Light Understanding Post-Processing is a practical guide to post-processing of photographs in Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop. The eBook briefly looks at the philosophy behind post-processing and aims to help you gain an understanding of those tools which are most relevant to making your images striking and powerful. Five of Kanashkevich’s photographs are analyzed in-depth through a step-by step breakdown of the actions required to achieve the final look of each image – from opening up the .RAW files to applying the finishing touches in Photoshop.  Pages from Understanding Post-Processing Mitchell Kanashkevich is a tirelessly curious world wanderer and a travel/documentary photographer. His main passion lies in capturing disappearing ancient cultures and the human condition in unique, challenging situations. Much of his travel/documentary photography is represented by Getty and Corbis Images, while his cultural portraits, both colour and black and white are in the private collections of photo lovers and collectors worldwide. How to Get These Guides for a Discount:He has agreed to give our readers both these guides together for only $10 (nearly 60% off) until Sunday, May 19 - simply use the discount code picturecorrect10 at checkout. They come in PDF format so they are perfect references for tablet devices out in the field or on any computer. They can be found here: Seeing the Light & Understanding Post-Processing Go to full article: Seeing the Light & Post-Processing Guide Bundle: 60% Off This Week |
| LightSpin: A Unique Art Photography Experiment Posted: 10 May 2013 02:32 PM PDT Looking for something fresh and new in photography? Well look no further than Timecode Lab’s latest art photography experiment, LightSpin. This project combines the bullet time photography technique with light painting and contemporary dance. The project was launched in honor of International Dance Day and is getting a large amount of views for the unique concept and the question that it forms in everyone’s mind, “How did they do that?” (for those of you reading this by email, the video can be seen here): Timecode Lab has produced a number of experimental projects that has sparked conversation over innovation, technology, and creativity. LightSpin is no different, leaving viewers in awe, yet puzzled at the same time. The big question that’s on everyone’s minds is how they managed to create the LightSpin video. Timecode Lab has admitted that they used a bullet time camera setup, like that used in the Matrix, to achieve the stop-motion and freeze-motion perspectives. But they haven’t yet revealed how they managed to create the unique light ring over each subject.  How was this image captured? That’s Timecode Lab’s secret. Timecode Lab says that they will be releasing a behind-the-scenes video on May 29th. Until then, their technique is left up to speculation. The first question is whether the images are a single exposure or double exposures. And with the mix of blur in the light source and the crisp frozen movements of the dancers, one would think this was the case (Via SLR Lounge). However, my own theory is that each image is a single exposure as the light ring appears to be the the light source responsible for lighting each subject. Just as the light ring changes slightly in shape and pattern, so does the spread of the light on the subject. The real question is how the light source, which, due to the spaces in the light ring, I presume is blinking, is blurred while the subject isn’t. It looks as though there may be a second person moving a light in an arc shape around the subject as he/she dances. But there is no way that a person could move a light that fast. A mechanical device of some sort perhaps? Who knows. The answers will be revealed May 29th. Until then, it’s a mystery. Go to full article: LightSpin: A Unique Art Photography Experiment |
| Posted: 10 May 2013 11:15 AM PDT There aren’t many things that Nature can cook up that will deter the determination and daring of human beings, but volcanoes certainly come close. Not often do we see close-ups of liquid red rock bubbling through the planet’s fractured surface, but that is exactly what landscape photographer Miles Morgan has created. Working in some of the natural world’s most violent conditions, he captures flowing Earth in its tumultuous explosion to the surface, just off the coast of Hawaii (for those of you reading this by email, the video can be seen here): Safety is paramount in shoots such as these on the Big Island. The behaviour of lava is unpredictable, subject to unexpected bursts and blasts of molten magma, hot enough to boil the sea around it. If not properly trained and prepared, any photographer who attempts this type of feat is liable to be burned, broken, or possibly carried away by the fast-moving flows of steaming ocean water and lava. In short: you probably shouldn’t try this at home (or elsewhere). That said, the risk Morgan and his shooting partners, Bruce Omori and Tom Kuali’i of Extreme Exposure, take in this endeavour is a testament to the adventurous spirit of photography. Their fearless challenging of these conditions brings to us, the audience, images of a thing rarely seen and truly awesome. The gorgeous bursts of brilliant oranges, yellows, and reds against the deep, cool blues and purples of the darkened sky and the wild trails of flying brimstone make for incredible images not only from an artistic viewpoint, but from a scientific stance as well.
It’s long been understood that the most arresting photographs are the ones that no one else has the courage or the opportunity to take. This ambitious project takes that notion to its full and logical extreme as it captures the beautiful horror of Nature’s great wrath. Go to full article: How to Photograph a Volcano |
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