21 Things You Can Do Today to Change Your Photography Forever Would you pin this on Pinterest? Photographers these days spend so much time on the Internet learning good things about photography that they never make the time to do the things that would be really great for their photography. I’ve compiled a list of 21 things in this article that you can do today that would completely change your photography forever. If you like these tips, I hope you’ll consider learning photography with me in one of my 6 online photography classes. Action #1: Learn every function your camera is capable of performing (2 hours) You know what I mean… not just aperture, shutter speed, and focus. Action #2: Prepare your work for exhibition (Several hours) This is probably the most difficult action suggested on this page. The first time I sold a photo was life-changing for me. Action #3: Enter a photography contest (25 minutes) Photography contests can be a great way to learn digital photography. Photographers are often shocked by the result of this exercise.
Diwali Photo, India Picture June 16, 2010 Photograph by Joe McNally, National Geographic This Month in Photo of the Day: Travel Two women in Jaipur hold candles to celebrate Diwali, the Festival of Lights. Observed over five days throughout India, it marks, among other things, the start of the new business year and the victory of light over dark. Photo Tip: Festivals, parades, and similar events offer an ideal chance to photograph people at their most colorful and at a time when everyone expects to be photographed. Get more photo tips » See more photos of India » Buy the Ultimate Field Guide to Travel Photography »
News Creepy, Crusty, Crumbling: Illegal Tour of Abandoned Six Flags New Orleans [75 Pics] Hurricane Katrina killed this clown. According to the photographer, “An abandoned Six Flags amusement park, someone spray painted ‘Six Flags 2012 coming soon’ on the wall above the downed head. But they were clownin.’ Six Flags will never rebuild here.” Welcome to Zombie Land kids! Chained dreams of fun at Six Flags New Orleans, abandoned Jazzland – that’s what Six Flags opened as “Jazzland” in 2000. Some photographers can see past the lifeless amusement park’s decay and desolation, showing us that there is still a chance the place could be cheery and not cheerless. Like a Bad Dream. Just in case you don’t know the scoop on what Hurricane Katrina did to New Orleans and Six Flags, this photo is of New Orleans, LA, on Sept. 14, 2005. Unlike the bleak amusement-less park above, some photographers can still see and share with us the echo of magic in the abandoned theme park Six Flags – even 6 years later in 2011. No lines for dead rides. Watch out for that tree! No one wants a ride?
29 Excellent iPad Apps for Photographers Photography lovers will not merely get those great shots from their favourite subjects but would also opt to enhance their photos to make it look better. Of course, with the aid of today’s various programs, you can certainly improve your photos. But it would even be more convenient if you have all these stuff in your iPad so that you can do some editing anywhere you want and you can even share your works to others. Amazingly, there are iPad Apps for both amateur and professional photographers which can truly be a helpful tool for you. Adobe Photoshop Express As a companion to Photoshop.com, this app will help you edit and enhance your photos right in your iPad. Download Source PicWall You can now display the photos you have taken in a virtual wall through PicWall. Download Source PhotoPad A premium easy editing app capable of image resizing, rotating, posterize and others. Download Source Mobile Monet Download Source TiltShift Generator for iPad- Fake DSLR ($2.99) Download Source Download Source Ads
12 Most - Savvy smartitude for Busy Professionals, easy to digest list posts that mean business! Mostly Photo Adventures Big Lens Allows You To Blur The Backgrounds In Your iPhone Photos Thought the iPhone 4S’s new camera is impressive, to say the least, it does share one issue with any other camera phone or pocket digicam: the tiny sensor means it simply can’t deep focus, making the background artistically blurry while the subject is kept crystal sharp. If you want shallow depth-of-field like a SLR while using your iPhone, consider giving Big Lens a try. It will allow you to give your iPhone photos a super depth of field, just like those fancy pants pros use. Of course, Big Lens only works by applying smart post-processing effects to an existing photo. The results, as you can see above, are striking: not only does the depth of field stuff work very well, but you can apply your filters to only the subject or background of the image, allowing for some very unique effects. Best of all? Via Gadget LabRelated
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Robert Scoble - Google+ - Eighteen Minutes with the new Lytro camera and its founder … Photoshop Actions Strobist Taming Lightroom Keyword Chaos | Lightroom tutorials, tips and training for Lightroomers! This is a reprint of my March 2011 Under the Loupe column in Photoshop User magazine. A subscription to Photoshop User magazine is benefit of becoming a member of the National Association of Photoshop Professionals. You can join NAPP and get Scott Kelby’s Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 Book for Digital Photographers and a Lightroom Killer Tips Preset CD as a signup bonus. I don’t often get questions about how to apply keywords to photos, but I do hear from people who are struggling to regain a bit of order over an unruly keyword list, so it is to them that I devote this column. Creating a Hierarchy If you have already assigned keywords to photos and you want to retain those assignments and create a more structured list you should first consider creating that structure right in the Keyword List panel. Some people find it helpful to create their keyword list outside of Lightroom in a plain text file (here is a great tutorial on that Re-Assign Keywords