101 Portrait Photography Tips
Hover over this picture to pin this article on Pinterest! This is the largest collection of portrait photography tips ever assembled on a single page of the Internet. To write this portrait photography article, I asked members of the Improve Photography community to submit their favorite portrait photography tips. This article is a combination of my favorite tips, mixed in with the tips from the community. If you’d like to join the Improve Photography community, LIKE our Facebook fan page! 1. 2. 3. Window light 4. 5. I call it a “macro portrait.” 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. Especially where brides are wearing white dresses, the bride’s teeth need to be perfect. 12. 13. 14. 15. Backlighting is great for hard mid-day light. 16. 17. 18. 19. Bubblegum can be a fun prop to help the model get a few casual shots. 20. 21. 22. Have the expert editors at Improve Photography review your photography portfolio in-depth and send you an audio feedback file for just $39 Check it out 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30.
Articles - iStockphoto Photography Standards: Lighting
iStockphoto Photography Standards: Lighting Lighting is probably the single most important aspect of photography, and is a huge topic. Every picture you take depends on good light. Mastering the basics of photographing a well-lit subject will help make your images useful for designers in everyday applications. When you know the basics, you can begin to explore the more dramatic possibilities of light: how the angle, power, and warmth of light effects your subject, stimulates emotions, and expresses your creativity. Understanding light is a lifelong project. Proper exposureUsing and adapting to different light sources (natural and artificial)White balanceUnexpected problems: Lens flares, reflections, and chromatic abberation Let's explore these topics by looking at a few examples that aren't acceptable for our standards: shots that cannot find their warm home at iStock and need more technical improvement before being accepted into collection. Exposure Exposure is controlled by 3 variables:
Articles - Are You Taking Snapshots?
We’re sorry, but we did not find this file suitable as stock. With the rapid growth of the iStock collection, we give valuable consideration to each file but unfortunately cannot accept all submissions. This is called the "Subpar" rejection. Perhaps you're familiar with it? It means there's a certain something lacking from your image that is holding it back from the collection. To clear away the mystery, we sent our Inspectors out with some homework. We don't reject every picture of a dog. Let's start out with a little black and white. Now the kid is into it. Everyone likes to take pictures of their pets. A snap shot may be technically just fine... no noise, no compression, balanced and exposed and all the rest of it. Throw up a nice background that makes the image more than a snapshot. The snapshot is really a snapshot, with poor lighting and poor everything, really. The real shot has been thought through much more.
Stock Photography: Search Royalty Free Images & Photos
4.1 What We're Looking For iStock has millions of images. There are subjects that we always need more variety in, and others that have been picked clean. Search iStock and explore what's been done before in great detail. If you're tackling a common subject, approach it in a different fashion and with your own style. Better yet, look for missing items in the collection and fill them in. Images that iStock does need: Corporate shots: Illustrate the many sides of modern business. Images that iStock does not need: 3D – Simple Renders: Go beyond the easy and obvious presets. 3D – Extruded Text: Simple 3D text is not enough. 3D – Simplistic Modeling: Spend more time with your polygons. Previous | Next
Artwork | Digital Bus Stop - Part 2
Sergey Larenkov’s Ghosts of World War II August 15, 2011 12:22 pmArtwork, featured 40-year old Russian sea pilot Sergey Larenkov has a hobby. When he’s not busy with his full time job, which is guiding ships in the Finnish Gulf, he’s using archived photographs and creating poignant, heart-stirring art with everyday photographs and postcards. Read More » The Paper Sculpture of Jeff Nishinaka August 8, 2011 10:25 amArtwork, featured Jeff Nishinaka, born in Los Angeles, started out wanting to be a painter. 15 Amazing Street Art Photos August 5, 2011 2:59 pmArtwork, featured Some many call it graffiti, others may call it art. Artist Brock Davis July 21, 2011 12:15 pmArtwork, featured Brock Davis is an artist many times over, in a multitude of ways. Matthew Cusick’s Map Art June 22, 2011 2:17 pmArtwork, featured This guy’s art is amazing through and through, but I found myself particularly captivated by his map art. Creative Money June 2, 2011 1:07 pmArtwork, Humor Quentin vs Coen
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Beautiful Underwater photography
Hello everybody today I am going to show you treasures of underwater through my photographs at incrediblesnaps.com. Underwater photography is a photography taken under the water while swimming or snorkeling or scuba diving. It is a very challenging field in photography profession. Taking underwater photography needs a special skill and dare to face all risk while the work is in progress. In this field there are a more possibilities of experiencing adventure and also have a chance to capture exciting and rare variety of underwater creatures portraits which we have never seen before and also some creatures we are not aware of its names too.Animals such as fish and other marine mammals are the most common subjects of this photography. You may like this related posts: Tags: Photography
Splish, splash, bang, bang: Stunning photographs reveal beauty of shooting handgun UNDERWATER
By Emily Anne Epstein Published: 20:02 GMT, 29 September 2012 | Updated: 17:02 GMT, 30 September 2012 Firearm aficionado Andrew Tuohy has filmed himself firing a range of weapons, but never before underwater. The gun expert has posted a series of images, as well as a video, to his blog Vuurwapen to show the different effect each gun has in his swimming pool. After being triggered, a tornado forms at the end of the gun for a few short seconds before the bullet sinks down to the bottom and surrounding bubbles float to the surface. Glock 22: The gun expert has posted a series of images, as well as a video, to his blog Vuurwapen to show the different effect each gun has in his swimming pool Splash: Firearm aficionado Andrew Tuohy has filmed himself firing a range of weapons, but never before underwater. Tornado: After being triggered, a tornado forms at the end of the gun for a few short seconds before the bullet sinks down to the bottom and surrounding bubbles float to the surface.
