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Thursday, December 20th, 2012
PhotoTube.info is a website dedicated to photography videos containing tips for producing HDR, infrared, landscape, portrait, flash, macro, night, and product photographs. It is a relatively new website but already contains hundreds of instructional videos. Here is a list of some of the most viewed videos:
DSLR Tips: Night Photography- Strobist Preliminaries
- DSLR Tips: How to blur backgrounds on portraits
- DSLR Tips: How to blur water for a dreamy effect
- Merge to HDR in Photoshop
- Long Exposure Turorial
- DSLR Tips: Using polarizing filters
- Secrets of Amazing HDR Photography
- Night Photography: Finding Your Way in the Dark
- HDR Photography
- Strobist Softbox Technique Tutorial
- In-Camera HDR Using Multiple Exposure
- Photoshop Tutorial: Creating an HDR Image from a Single RAW File
- Canon T2i 550D HDR Tutorial
- Shooting the Moon
- Landscape Photography Tips: Creative Composition
- 20 Essential Things for Landscape Photography
It is easy to see which videos have been Recently Added, Most Viewed, and Top Rated as well as many categories. PhotoTube is definitely worth checking out! Oh, by the way, it is completely free!
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Monday, April 30th, 2012
The Top Three Things to Do When Photographing Children
- Spend a lot of time with your subject
- Get down on their level
- Use a wide open aperture for limited depth of field
The photograph on the right was taken by Maria Henderson, one of my students. This a wonderful example of the top three things you should do when photographing children. The depth of field is shallow with the eyes in sharp focus and her angle of view is nearly level with her subject. The composition enhances the immediacy of the shot and emphasizes the child’s enthusiasm. Click to continue »
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Tags: children, photographing children, photography tips and tricks, portrait photography, tips and tricks for photography
Friday, March 9th, 2012
Summary: The Digital Photography Book, Part 4 by Scott Kelby is a worthy addition to his series of digital photography books. It picks up where volume 3 left off and, like the other books in the series, contains many useful tips written in a non-technical, conversational style.
Scott Kelby, author of The Digital Photography Book(the best-selling digital photography book of all time), is back with another follow-up to his smash best-seller, with an entirely new book that picks up right where volume 3 left off. It’s even more of that “Ah ha, so that’ s how they do it,” straight-to-the-point, skip-the-techno-jargon stuff people can really use today, and that made volume 1 the world’s best-selling book on digital photography.
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Tags: digital photography, eguipment, landscape photographers, learning about photography, learning photography, night photography, photography, photography ideas, photography learning, photography tips and tricks, photography tutorials, Scott Kelby, The Digital Photography Book, tips and tricks for photography, tricks, tricks photography
Friday, July 15th, 2011
My Take: This post does a great job of explaining how to put a client at ease but you also have to take into consideration your equipment. Many photographers have switched to flash or fluorescent lights so that their client will not bake under traditional tungsten lights. Sweat usually isn’t attractive in a portrait. If you use fluorescents, make sure they are bright enough. You don’t want the lights to be too close to the subject. You also need the correct lens — a lens in the 85mm to 100mm range works well because you won’t have to be right on top of your client to get proper framing. Being too close makes a client feel claustrophobic and will invade their personal space.
Yet another beautiful young lady strides confidently through the plaza with her cotton summer dress dancing in all the right ways. Her auburn hair streams out behind in perfect step with the undulations of her dress and sparkles in the midday sun. As a photographer, you can’t help but marvel at her poise and sense of purpose.
She takes a long glance at herself in the shop window without ever missing a step. She strokes her long thin fingers through her hair and takes another look. We know what she’s thinking, and we think she’s beautiful too.
But this confident young lass has a secret. A deep dark secret. Click to continue »
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Wednesday, June 15th, 2011
My Take: Here are some good basic tips for taking portraits.
Are you looking for portrait photography tips so that you can improve your picture taking skills?
At first thought, portrait photography would seem easy, yet the results are often disappointing.
Many of our pictures often include people, and whether you are photographing a model, taking a family photo, or capturing some candid shots while on vacation, you have probably discovered that great photography is a little more than just pointing a camera and pushing a button. Click to continue »
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Tags: digital photography, photography tips and tricks, photography trick, portrait photography, tips and tricks for photography, trick pictures, tricks, tricks photography
