Best-Selling Photography eBook at 50% Off, Ending Soon

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• Best-Selling Photography eBook at 50% Off, Ending Soon
• Easy Photography Hack: Read the Light With a Marble (Video)
• Interesting Photo of the Day: Big Sur 360 Degree Panorama
• How to Make Your Beer Photos Look Awesome with Photoshop (Video)
• 79 Rare Historical Photos That You’ve Probably Never Seen

Best-Selling Photography eBook at 50% Off, Ending Soon Posted: 02 Jun 2014 04:23 PM PDT Due to popular demand, we were able to get a 50% discount for our readers on this best-selling eBook until Next Friday. The 2nd edition includes 100 new e-book pages (300 pages total) and 9 full hours of video tutorials. Comes in PDF format that can be read on computers, phones and most tablets (works great as a mobile reference out in the field). It is one of the most popular training eBooks for photographers. Deal found here: Trick Photography at 50% Off How to do Levitation Photography Extensive Chapters on How to do Non-Traditional Panoramic Photography Extensive tutorials on how to do Light Painting HDR Photography Techniques and Style Strategies Capturing Split Second High Speed Photos High Speed Photography Tutorials How to Achieve Bokeh in Photography Many Chapters on Composite Photography and Combining Photo Elements Various Techniques for Capturing Smooth Water Motion Photography Tricks for Dynamic Floating Subjects Such as Fruit Tutorials on Creative Night Photography Methods Tutorials and Chapters on Infrared Digital Photography Articles on How to Capture Portraits at Long Exposures Steel Wool Light Painting Photography and more with Long Exposures How to Get a Discounted Copy this Week: We were able to get a 50% discount for PictureCorrect readers until Friday, June 13. If you have been wanting to learn any of these techniques, now is a good time to look into it. It also carries a 60 day no-questions-asked guarantee so there is no risk in trying it. Found here: Trick Photography & Special Effects at 50% Off Go to full article: Best-Selling Photography eBook at 50% Off, Ending Soon What are your thoughts on this article? Join the discussion on Facebook or Google+ Article from: PictureCorrect Photography Tips

Easy Photography Hack: Read the Light With a Marble (Video) Posted: 02 Jun 2014 03:30 PM PDT Light is the essence of photography. And being able to capture the light to our benefit is what sets a great photographer apart from the rest. But sometimes finding the precise direction of light can be a little tricky. Professional photographer Frank Donnino shows us how to use a marble to pinpoint the light source: A simple 25 millimeter black marble is all it takes to help locate the direction of light, particularly in wide-open bright space. Like the reflection on an eye, look for the catch light on the marble. By twisting your wrist around and moving the marble side to side the change in light and shadows will help to localize the source.  Donnino continues, "Wherever I see the catch light at 2 o’clock or 10 o'clock …that's the optimum lighting that I want." With the 10 and 2 o'clock theory in mind, Donnino also suggests using your thumb knuckle to mimic the 'nose' of your subject. This will help in positioning your subject in order to obtain the best lighting possible. A marble is an effective and low cost tool that can easily be added to any kit. Just remember to find a source that will sell a single marble, otherwise you'll be left with a full bag of marbles just waiting to be lost. Go to full article: Easy Photography Hack: Read the Light With a Marble (Video) What are your thoughts on this article? Join the discussion on Facebook or Google+ Article from: PictureCorrect Photography Tips

Interesting Photo of the Day: Big Sur 360 Degree Panorama Posted: 02 Jun 2014 02:39 PM PDT Randy Scott Slavin, a New York based photographer and director, has created a series called Alternate Perspectives. Slavin creates otherworldly images by merging multiple shots into a stereographic projection or 360° panorama. This fantastic shot is called “Big Sur”: “Big Sur” captured by Randy Scott Slavin (Via Imgur. Click image to see full size.) Slavin’s work has been shown in galleries and was featured in the December 2012 issue of Digital SLR Photography. According to the 2012 article, he stitches these 360° panoramas together from hundreds of images taken with his Nikon D800 and an ultra wide-angle 10mm or 14mm lens. He states that bracketing images correctly and using a small aperture for greater depth of field are important to his success in creating these amazing works of art. Go to full article: Interesting Photo of the Day: Big Sur 360 Degree Panorama What are your thoughts on this article? Join the discussion on Facebook or Google+ Article from: PictureCorrect Photography Tips

How to Make Your Beer Photos Look Awesome with Photoshop (Video) Posted: 02 Jun 2014 01:24 PM PDT There’s an art to editing photos for product photography, especially when it comes to liquids. In this two-part series, Aaron Nace shows viewers how to transform a simple image of a Guinness into a piece of advertisement-worthy art in post production using Photoshop. Let’s get started. Part 1: Replacing the Background and Creating the Head The brunt of the work is covered in the first video: Here’s a quick rundown of Aaron’s suggested steps for editing a beer photo: Use the pen tool to make a perfect selection of half of the beer glass. By outlining only half of the glass,  you can then duplicate the selection and mirror it to ensure both sides of the glass are perfectly symmetrical. To add glow around the sides of the glass, sample a color to use from the head of the beer and create new selections that are the same shape of the edge of the glass. Nace makes three total selections and changes all their blending modes to Screen. Add a Gaussian Blur to the selections, reduce their opacity, and use a layer mask to fade the selections near the bottom of the glass and eliminate them where the head appears. Enlarge the head by painting in the empty section of the glass and sampling the color of the head as you go to give the head a nice gradient look, then reduce the opacity to take away some of the yellow tinge in the image. At this point, the head will not appear very realistic. To bring the details of the glass back to the area where the head was painted on, duplicate the background layer and change the opacity of the painted head layer while changing the blend mode to Screen. Using a Layer Mask and a white paint brush, brush back in the detail. The before and after shots of Part 1. Part 2: Adding Bubbles, Reflections, and Other Finishing Touches In this video, Nace completes the project by adding all the fine details to the composition to really make it glow: Create condensation by drawing the condensation in a new layer, and create a custom brush from the drawing. With black as the foreground color, use the custom brush to paint the condensation onto the glass where the reflections were added in Part 1. Add bubbles the same way, using a new layer and hand drawn bubbles turned into a custom brush. Brush the bubbles onto the glass of beer. To add a reflection of the glass to the image and make it appear like the glass is sitting on a reflective surface, group all of the edits together and duplicate. Expand the canvas to create more room to work and flip the duplicated layer vertically. Reduce the opacity of the duplicated layer using a layer mask to create a nice flow between the glass and its new reflection. To finish up, create a glow by making a circular gradient and dragging the layer below the glass layer. What we started with in comparison to the finished product. The process is a lengthy one, but also one that gets easier and quicker with practice. To that end, it’s important that you take your time and make sure everything is done as perfectly as possible for the best results. Go to full article: How to Make Your Beer Photos Look Awesome with Photoshop (Video) What are your thoughts on this article? Join the discussion on Facebook or Google+ Article from: PictureCorrect Photography Tips

79 Rare Historical Photos That You’ve Probably Never Seen Posted: 02 Jun 2014 10:48 AM PDT An incredibly important moment in history can be preserved through the magic of photography without the photographer even knowing it at the time. Here are 79 rare photographs dating back to WWI, WWII, the Spanish Civil War, Vietnam, and beyond. The images depict life during the Nazi occupation, a playful Stalin, life as a childhood chess master, the mourning dog of General George S. Patton, and an end of prohibition celebration, to name a few: Which of these photos do you find most compelling? Go to full article: 79 Rare Historical Photos That You’ve Probably Never Seen What are your thoughts on this article? Join the discussion on Facebook or Google+ Article from: PictureCorrect Photography Tips

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