In many parts of the world the weather changes around this time of the year. It’s the time of snow-filled landscapes, hot chocolate, fresh cookies, cuddling in front of fire, building a snowman and playing defend-the-castle in the fresh powdery snow. The air is filled with Christmas chimes and the sounds of laughter that a hard earned holiday brings. The is the time of togetherness and as the old adage goes, happiness doubles when you share it with people you love and care for. No wonder camera owners, who otherwise wouldn't care, suddenly remember their long-forgotten pals and bring them out in the light of day. If you are one of those (or even if you are not) here are a few tips to help you make some memorable photos this season, especially when you are photographing in the snow.
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Apart from portraiture, product photography is one of those few genres which can provide a steady year round source of income for a professional photographer. Product photography requires a simple setup – much of which can be done DIY. As a matter of fact you need very little equipment to get started. Once you have perfected the setup and lighting, you can shoot on that same setup year round making a handsome amount of money by shooting products for small and medium businesses. Here’s how you can get started.
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Adobe Lightroom has two powerful features - the Clone Stamp and the Healing Brush under the Spot Removal tool umbrella. These two powerful options can help you remove skin blemishes, unwanted features, sensor dust and any other types of spots in your photos at the blink of an eye. In this article we shall be looking at these two features and see how we can work with them to remove simple blemishes and spots from an image.
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Some time back I wrote an article on this website, on how to make better portrait photos in natural light. That article dealt with a single aspect and that was the actual image making part. However, in this tough and competitive commercial photography scenario there is absolutely very little scope of delivering SOOC (Straight Out Of the Camera) shots to clients and expect them to be happy with the results. Thus, I had it at the back of my mind to write a follow up article on post-processing portrait photos shot in natural light.
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Today’s digital SLR cameras are extremely versatile. They are ideally suitable for not only great quality stills, but also extremely useful for capturing family get together, vacations and any other social events that you may be called to shoot at. The fact that they are capable of shooting in full HD and being able to be used with a multitude of lenses means you can use these cameras for shooting professional quality footages for commercial and other uses as well.
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Landscape photographers love shooting during the golden hour of the day. They love the warm mushy light that tend to hug and wrap around everything, changing everything that they touch into gold. It’s the Midas touch of sorts, so far as lighting is concerned. Landscape photographers make it a point to be where they wish to shoot from at this time of the day. Once they have the shots that they need they pack their gear and leave. Read more...
The main shooting mode dial on your camera has the letter(s) A or Av (depending on the camera system that you wield). As you probably know by now, this stands for the Aperture Priority mode. Aperture priority mode gives you the creative control over the aperture you select for your images. Aperture, as you must be aware off, refers to the small opening at the front of the lens through which light gets inside a camera. It is often compared with the pupil of the eye. It is an appropriate comparison. Aperture is expressed in f-stops. It is written like this – f/2, f/2.8, f/4, f/5.6 and so on. The numerator is the focal length of a lens and the denominator is the diameter of the opening of the lens.
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Adobe Lightroom is probably the most preferred of all post processing tools out there. It is the fastest way to make some essential retouching to your photos and requires little to no training in order to get started. Adobe Lightroom happens to be my favorite post-processing tool (No, I don’t get anything for saying this). I prefer it over Photoshop for all my light retouching work. In this article I shall be discussing specifically about one particular feature - noise reduction in Lightroom and how you can effectively reduce a majority of noise in your images using nothing but the sliders in the Development module. Read more...
Often, when traveling through a foreign land we find ourselves in front of an iconic building or structure at the worst possible time of the day – night. Though most travelers do consider night to be the worst possible time for photography, technically it is not a badtime. In fact, it is probably one time of the day when you can try out a number of creative photography tricks.
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Adobe Lightroom got an interesting addition earlier this year. This feature, technically, is not entirely new. It got added as a new global adjustment tool sometime back in the month of June. However, it is certainly new in terms of local adjustment possibilities. Read more...
In many parts of the world the weather changes around this time of the year. It’s the time of snow-filled landscapes, hot chocolate, fresh cookies, cuddling in front of fire, building a snowman and playing defend-the-castle in the fresh powdery snow. The air is filled with Christmas chimes and the sounds of laughter that a hard earned holiday brings. The is the time of togetherness and as the old adage goes, happiness doubles when you share it with people you love and care for. No wonder camera owners, who otherwise wouldn't care, suddenly remember their long-forgotten pals and bring them out in the light of day. If you are one of those (or even if you are not) here are a few tips to help you make some memorable photos this season, especially when you are photographing in the snow.
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