Connect: Creative white balance tips for smartphone photographers. White balance can make the difference between a bland image and an engaging photograph. Smartphones are increasingly giving control over this important tool for getting color ‘right’ in your photos – we give some tips about how it’s used.
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www.silberstudios.tv Joseph Holmes, a Berkeley-born landscape photographer who’s been publishing fine art prints since the late 1960’s, joins us today on Advancing Your Photography to share his photo composition tips! Joseph’s goal is to take pictures that change people’s outlook on the world, and composition is the most important tool a photographer has, especially in landscape photography as it is one of the few factors you can control. So how does one take a life-changing photo? Holmes says that you need to work very hard and explore every photography technique so you can recognize “the shot” when you see it. His composition tip is one that many beginners forget don’t ignore the edges of your photos! Watch the full interview for these tips and more on taking landscape photos!
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froknowsphoto.com It is really exciting when you get a new camera whether it is a new Nikon D3100 or D7000 or Canon T2i or 60D. But as soon as you take it out of the box what are the 7 things I suggest you set first in the menu? 1. Set the Camera to RAW and never take it out (or RAW + JPEG if you are new to RAW) 2. Set the card Lock – make sure that the camera will not fire without a memory card in it. 3. Set your date and time – make sure you do not let it write the date and time on the picture. 4. Set your White Balance to Auto – You are shooting RAW and will tweak it if needed later. 5. Turn off AUTO ISO if it is on – You will make better selections than the camera 6. Picture Review Off – This will keep you from looking at every single picture you take 7. Image Rotation On – This will orient the vertical shots properly when you bring the files into LightRoom There are a lot more settings in the camera I could talk about but I find these 7 will help you get off to a great start. To follow the super secret project please go here froknowsphoto.com
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In this video Kai goes back to his photographic roots and the whole team goes out for a nice and early sunrise shoot to give some top tips on how to shoot landscapes. Pricing Reference: Nikon D700 – www.digitalrev.com Nikon PC-E 24mm f/3.5D – www.digitalrev.com
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A Guest Post by Deidra Wilson.
Perhaps you’ve begun to master photographing lightning at night, but you’ve noticed that there are tons of great storms during the day that produce some pretty great lightning strikes, too. How do you transfer your knowledge over and capture some of those images to add to your collection?
This one should go without saying, but if you’re going to be strapping your gear onto a metal tripod and standing outside in stormy weather for an extended period of time, you should be safe while doing so. You can try being further away from the storm, which will actually give you a better view of any strikes, or you can shoot from a sheltered area. You can even photograph from inside your car if needed.
When shooting lightning, you’ll be shooting long exposures and shooting handheld simply isn’t an option that will produce a quality image.
Both of these techniques will allow you to shoot at longer shutter speeds during the day without blowing out your image. You don’t want to close down to the smallest aperture as you may lose some of your image quality. Say your lens goes from f/2.8 – f/22 – try shooting around f/11 or f/14. Depending on your camera, you can probably safely drop your ISO without degrading image quality.
If your aperture and ISO combination still isn’t allowing you to shoot long enough for each frame, you can add a neutral density filter to the front of your lens, effectively removing stops from the exposure, depending on what level filter you’re using.
I usually like to shoot for at least ten seconds when trying to capture lightning strikes. You’ll need to check a sample image to make sure the backgrounds aren’t blown out or underexposed based on your settings.
Capturing lightning strikes can be a challenge, but can be incredibly rewarding. Once you dial your settings in, you can also try using a remote and setting the camera to shoot continuously. Then you can sit back and see what you capture over the course of the storm.
For the image above, I used the bed of my pickup truck as a tripod, and the image metadata is as follows:
Deidra Wilson is a Las Vegas Boudoir Photographer who has a wicked obsession for capturing elusive weather through her lens. You can follow her on Twitter at @deidraphoto
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Autumn is a perfect time for taking pictures. And when it comes to celebrations, it becomes twice as attractive for photographers, because there are so many things worth our attention – the joyful people, the traditions, and the beauty of nature. All this we can find in Halloween celebrations – a cocktail of inspiration for making creative photos! Jack-o’-Lanterns Halloween Continue Reading
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When you install a new version of Photoshop the first thing you’ll need to do is to set things up so that they work properly for you. Here are settings I make in the Preferences panel every time I upgrade.
Choose Edit > Preferences > Performance or Photoshop Preferences > Performance on a Mac and set the number of History States. Having a high setting for History States ensures that you can undo changes that you make to your image. By default it’s set to a paltry 20 so this is the first change to make.
I set my History States to the maximum value 1,000 – but even a quarter of this would be a good setting.
Here too I ensure that Photoshop can use plenty of the available RAM so I’ll crank that up to a large value – what you use will be dependent on the amount of memory you have installed.
Still in the Preferences panel I like to use a Normal Brush Tip for my Painting Cursor and Precise for my Other Cursors. This can be set in the Cursors area.
You may want to use something different but it pays to look at these options and decide how you want your cursors to look as you work with them.
I dislike that Photoshop opens documents as tabs and that they are docked to the toolbar. This behavior really grates on me. If you’re like me and you prefer your documents to float you can set this in the Preferences Panel.
Choose Interface and disable Enable Floating Document Window Docking and disable Open Documents as Tabs.
In this panel you will also find the new Photoshop Color Themes in Photoshop CS6 so if the dark gray look is not to your liking you can return to a more “CS5″ look by selecting the lighter gray color.
Photoshop can be set either to save images back into the original folder when you choose File, Save As or to the folder that was last used for saving files. You can choose which of these behaviors you prefer Photoshop to default to in the File Handling area of the Preferences panel.
To save back to the original folder, enable the Save As to Original Folder option. To default to the last folder you saved to disable this checkbox.
So I can go back and retrace my steps in a large project I like to store a History of all that I do in Photoshop. To do this, click the General tab and enable the History Log checkbox. I save to a Text file (rather than inside the file itself) and I save a Detailed history as that stores the richest data. Choose a filename and place to save it and Photoshop will keep a log file of everything you do to every file.
So, now it is over to you. What preferences do you set up when you first install a new version of Photoshop?
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www.dombowerphoto.blogspot.com In This video Bob gets stuck down his bunny hole and I use some creative flash with coloured gels to make it look like a dangerouse bunnyhole. photos taken with the nikon sb900 tamron 28-75mm lens and the nikon d300 www.dombower.com
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