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Canadian Travelogue – Newfoundland – Cape St. Mary’s
Original Author: Digital-Photography-School.com
Cape St. Mary’s Ecological Reserve is about a one hour drive south on Highway 100 from the Marine Atlantic ferry terminus of Argentia. The drive to the reserve itself is fascinating and provides many opportunities for images of the rugged maritime coastline, particularly around Ship Cove and Gooseberry C...
How to create a reflection in Photoshop in 6 easy steps
Original Author: Digital-Photography-School.com
Creating a reflection using Photoshop is one of those things that at first glance looks really hard, but really isn’t, once you break down the steps (just light Light Painting which I covered in another two part series). In this article I’m going to demystify creating a reflection, a technique...
DISCUSS: When you Photograph People in Black and White, you Photograph their Souls
Original Author: Digital-Photography-School.com
Canadian photojournalist – Ted Grant – is quoted as saying:
“When you photograph people in color, you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in Black and white, you photograph their souls!”
This quote often comes to mind when talking about portraiture and I thought it might...
Props Are Evil: How To Use Them For Good
Original Author: Digital-Photography-School.com
A Guest Post by Lynsey Peterson.
Nothing freaks me out like props. Every time I see a picture of flower girls holding an empty frame that is outlining a bride and groom kissing in the distance, I die a little inside.
Whenever I am subjected to a photo that attempts to bring in a letter jacket and a...
6 Winning Ways to Work Wide
Original Author: Digital-Photography-School.com
Today Joe Decker shares some tips on wide angle photography.
One of the first lens purchases aspiring landscape photographers typically made is a wide or super-wide lens, anything (in full-frame 35mm terms) from 24mm on down, and with good reason, wides offer photographers the ability to capture the...
Make your Photos Sparkle with GIMP
Original Author: Digital-Photography-School.com
A Guest Contribution by Anotherphotograpbynoob.com.
What this tutorial will show you
In short: how I made the photo on the right become the photo on the left.
In this tutorial, we will cover basic tools of the free photo editing software GIMP.
Here is a quick rundown of the features covered in this tutorial:
- C ...
How to Create a “Standard Import” Preset in Lightroom 4
Original Author: Digital-Photography-School.com
Introduction
The following is an excerpt from the SLR Lounge Lightroom Workflow System Workshop on DVD, a system designed to increase your post production speed by 5 to 10 times! Click here to learn more.
In this article, we are going to talk about creating a develop preset that you would like to apply to...
My First Concert: Lighting Craziness
Original Author: Digital-Photography-School.com
I had noticed this lighting scheme earlier in the song and missed it, focusing elsewhere. But when guitarist Brendt Allman went into his solo, I waited to see if it would happen again. Sure enough, it did. EOS-1D Mark IV, EF 70-200 f/2.8L IS II. ISO 3200, 1/200 f/2.8.
A few years ago, I managed to start...
Curves: Weekly Photography Challenge
Original Author: Digital-Photography-School.com
This week – as a follow up to our article Composing with Curves – your challenge is to take and share an image on the theme of ‘Curves’.
Read Composing with Curves, choose one of the types of curves mentioned (‘C Curves’, ‘Arches’, ‘S Curves’,...
So You Want to Be a Stock Photographer, Part II
Original Author: Digital-Photography-School.com
Preface: There will be no images included in this entry. The point is to have the reader start reviewing the work of great stock shooters. Stock photography is work and part of that work is research. In this entry I have dropped names and agencies. Now the research begins. Check out Part I of this...