In an industry where originality and creativity is the key to one’s success, it can be easy to become disillusioned by the brilliance behind other photographers, their concepts, and just pure convenience. It seems as though professional photographer Mark Stothard is guilty of the disillusionment and expediency… again.
Hands and fingers are the greatest assets of every human born in this world.
Via Ricardo Vilela
Ever feel like you are just not able to capture with your camera the image you see in your mind's eye? Here are 10 great tips to help you improve!
How do you proceed to grow and develop as a fine art photographer? Basically, regular use of your camera with deliberate intent, while paying attention to the following, is what brings it about.
"Do you ever wonder why that perfect candid shot you were seconds away from capturing all of a sudden disappeared as soon as you raised your camera? Maybe it’s because a camera in the face is about as subtle as a flying brick. A better way to shoot those magical moments is from the hip."
Li Wei's arresting and seemingly gravity-defying photographic work.
Northern California filmmaker Jesse Rosten regularly directs imaginative commercials professionally. He uses his talents here to reveal the trend to create unrealistic advertising in the beauty industry.
Visit just about any photography forum and you're bound to come across a debate over the respective merits of RAW and JPEG files.
Via Tiaan Jonker
Photographic portraits are meant to emphasize a person’s face features, to give an overview of how they look like and “freeze” their appearance as the years go by.
Via Tiaan Jonker
This portfolio of work from Shark Pixel shows, without a shadow of doubt, the amazing benefits that can be gained by using professional photo retouchers.
(Fibonacci spiral above a photo by Henri Cartier-Bresson) One of the questions that I have been pondering for quite a while is how much a great street photograph is objective versus subjective.
Via Filipe Nogueira, Pedro Garcia
At this time of year I talk to a lot of photographers who are lacking a little motivation, inspiration and creativity.
Via Me
It was only a matter of time. The design is only at the prototype stage, but it won't be long before this camera revolutionises things like street photography :-) "The camera portion on the thumb recognizes the relative position of the other elongated finger ring, sensing whether it is at rest or in a bent position indicating an intended click – if the latter, it takes a picture and sends it wirelessly to your local mobile device. Alas, yes, still only a prototype."
Via Deloste, ABroaderView.org
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Minimalist photography is very interested and challenging type of photography because photographer have to capture such type of photo focus mainly on a few essential elements...
Via TBD.
This SLR camera simulator shows you visually how ISO speed, aperture, shutter speed, and distance affect the outcome of your digital photos.
"You don’t always have to use Photoshop to create optical illusions in your photographs. With a technique called forced perspective you can create illusions that make an object appear farther away, closer, larger or smaller than it actually is. It just takes a little creativity with the placement of the subjects in the shot and the camera angle. "
2011 has come and gone and we enter 2012 hopefully wiser and more experienced on our digital photography journey. If you haven’t learnt any lessons from 2012 it’s time to sit down and do a quick evaluation.
Heinz Maier recently started photographing last year. His main interest is in macro photography, specifically water drops (featured here) and insects. Maier is based in Leinzell, Germany.
More than 20,000 photographs, from over 130 countries were submitted to the National Geographic Photography contest, with both professional photographers and amateur photo enthusiasts participating.
Via Ricardo Vilela
Here is a little video on how I did the flash photography with Canon Speedlites while dropping items into a tank of water.
Via planetMitch
If everybody needs space, so does the subject in your portraits. This is a rule in photography more commonly known as the rule of space.
Shortly after it announced its new monster of a camera, Nikon published the first sample photos and a video captured with the D4.
Via Tiaan Jonker
This photography tutorial video will show you how to create a realistic backdrop using a photograph or a painting.
Wish you could take gorgeous photos? Now you can!
A discussion of ten attributes of a good photograph including exposure, focus, background, white balance, rule of thirds and others.
Via FrolleinFlow
England-based Alexander Korzer-Robinson is not a traditional artist, rather he enjoys creating narrative scenes by using pre-existing media, such as encyclope…...
Via antonios, ABroaderView.org
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