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Landscape Photography Tips Landscape Photography Tips for the Beginner 1.) Scout – Visit your chosen location and give yourself time to walk the surrounding area. When you find a suitable location, work each shot by taking various images until you find the strongest composition, you may find this easier when you get home to view all images on your larger monitor. Having found a strong composition, revisit the same location in different lighting, such as sunrise, sunset, etc. 2.) 3.) 4.) Neutral Density Graduated Filters – often when shooting landscapes, you will find the contrast range of a given scene to be too high for your camera. Neutral Density Filters – Not to be confused with the graduated filter, these filters are used to lengthen the exposure time of an image. Polarizer – These filters are helpful for controlling reflections, darkening blue skies and help control reflections in a scene which also gives a more saturated appearance. 5.) Simplify – Often less is more. 6.) 7.) 8.) 9.) 10.)

Pictures No Sleep | The Most Amazing Pictures Ever Taken part 2/2 Photographer Rips and Reshapes Pictures Using Own “Gellage” Technique EmailEmail Czech photographer Michal Macku creates gripping and beautiful pictures using the unique “gellage” technique – his signature modus operandi since 1989. The term is a ligature of “gelatin” and “collage”, and stands for the practice of “the transfer of exposed and fixed photographic emulsion onto paper.” Once applied on a picture, the gelatin makes it possible to reshape it, and Michal finds great ways to combine this technique with what he captures on film. “I use the nude human body (mostly my own) in my pictures. Through the photographic process [of Gellage], this concrete human body is compelled to meet with abstract surroundings and distortions. Website: michal-macku.eu

Photographer's Girlfriend Leads Him Around the World My Modern Metropolis Photographer's Girlfriend Leads Him Around the World Photographer Murad Osmann creatively documents his travels around the world with his girlfriend leading the way in his ongoing series known as Follow Me To. Chronicling his adventures on Instagram, the Russian photographer composes each shot in a similar fashion. With her back turned, never revealing her face to the camera, Osmann's girlfriend guides us all on a journey across the globe to some of the most beautiful, exotic, and radiant environments. Murad Osmann on Instagram via [Big Picture] You might like: More Revealing Portraits of Everyday Foods Sliced in Half Sweet and Sexually Charged Photography Sexy Ballpoint Pen Art (13 pieces) 19-Year-Old Holds Nothing Back with Her Mysteriously Beautiful Portraits Recommended by Views: 977315 Tags: Follow Me To, Murad Osmann, photo Share Twitter Facebook Facebook Add a Comment You need to be a member of My Modern Metropolis to add comments! Join My Modern Metropolis cool

Your beautiful eyes Behance Served Sites Served is a collection of sites that showcase category specific content from Behance, the world's leading platform for creative professionals across all industries. View All Served Sites → photography Served Join Behance Hire a Designer Behance Project Shuffle Showcase & Discover Creative Work Sign up for free View Next Project → Shuffle <img class="featured-ribbon-2x featured-ribbon featured-ribbon-net" src=" title="Photography Served"></img> Project Featured On: Photography Served — 6/6/10 Your beautiful eyes Info Statistics Created: 2/20/10 Last Edited: 7/26/15 Description Extreme close of eyes, with all their relief. Project Info Owners Suren Manvelyan Tags Copyright Info Attribution Non-commercialNo Derivatives Read More Share inShare Short link: by Yerevan, Armenia Follow on Bēhance Eye with coloboma.Visit my facebook page to find more photos: Save Project

Underwater Dog Photographer Helping Shelter Pets Pet photographer Seth Casteel enjoys the unexpected. And that’s a good thing, since his photos of dogs—taken as he plays underwater with them—have become a viral overnight success. Casteel’s underwater photos reveal surprising emotions: a Labrador Retriever menacingly bares his teeth, a Bulldog looks wide-eyed in astonishment, and a Border Collie appears slightly goofy as she dives after a tennis ball. “My whole thing is that I do what the pets like to do. Casteel first dove into a pool with a dog when he was taking photos of Buster, a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel. Casteel started shooting more underwater photos of dogs and eventually splurged to buy an underwater housing for his camera. Fast forward to this past February when his underwater dog photos suddenly exploded online. Since then, Casteel has been running with the big dogs. He’s had to turn down private clients through his pet photography company, Little Friends Photo.

Stunning Smeared Sky Photography by Matt Molloy EmailEmail Canada-based photographer Matt Molloy presents a gorgeous series titled “Smeared Sky”, where a final picture is composed out of hundreds of separate shots. All the individual photos are taken from the timelapses he shoots himself – and for everyday Matt doesn’t make one, he shoots two the next day. Matt has found that the sunrises work best, but whatever landscape and daytime he chooses, Matt’s photos have a beautiful smeared and dream-like effect. Website: 500px

23 of the world’s most insane caves that you can explore [PICs] For some of the caves listed below, you’ll need some pretty gnarly climbing / spelunking equipment and a support crew. For others, all you’ll need is a pair of sneakers and a few dollars. In any case, after checking out these pics you may want to read up on how to become a good caver. Crystal Cave - Mexico Giant Crystal Cave, in Naica, Chihuahua, Mexico, contains some of the largest crystals ever discovered. The crystals - the largest one being 39' long and weighing 55 tons - were formed over 500,000 years when a magma chamber under the cave heated and filled the ground water with minerals. Stephen's Gap - Alabama This vertical cave in Alabama can be entered either by repelling the 143' drop through a keyhole, or scrambling down some rocks through a second entrance. Blue Grotto - Capri Callao Cave - Philippines Calloa Cave, in the Cagayan Valley, consists of seven chambers, each with natural crevices that provide light. Majlis al Jinn - Oman Minnehaha Falls - Minnesota Sea Lion Cave - Oregon

Happy New Year Happy New Year / 30 December, 2009 [click for previous image: let it snow #3] Happy New Year / 30 December, 2009 [click for next image: ringing in the new year] Title • Happy New Year I've spent the last couple of days wondering what to post to close out the year and then came across this entry on momentaryawe.com (run by my good friend Catalin Marin): his twelve favourite shots from 2009, one from each month. As always, let me know what you think. On a different matter: don't forget that there are just a few days left in which to snap up a 15% discount on our Photoshop tutorials. And finally: Happy New Year for 2010 :)

Top Photographers Photos From 2013 Tweet Now 2013 is coming to a close we have put together a collection of some of the best photographers photos from year. Take a look and tell us which one you like the most. Photograph by serhei @ Panoramio Photograph by NinjaViking on reddit Photograph by SCOTT HOTALING Photograph via Sick_Nerd_Baller on reddit Photograph by jareyjareyjareyjarey on reddit Photograph by Megan Whiteley Photographer Unknown via Triplen01 on Reddit Photograph by LIN TUN/Leopard Photography Photograph by Roeselien Raimond Photograph by Jeff Schultz Photographer Unknown via Reddit Photograph by HALEY LUNA Photograph by Adam Klukowski Photograph by JENNY DEAN Photograph by Alexander Van Driessche Photograph by RADO GADOCZI Photograph by Randy Kokesch Photograph by SPRENG BEN Photograph of KAWIKA SINGSON Photograph by PEDRO SZEKELY Artwork by Nuxuno Xän | Photograph by Rosali Rodrigues Photograph by The Cambrian Hotel Photograph by Trey Ratcliff Photograph by naturen-ar-fantastisk.blogspot.com Photograph by KEENPRESS Photography

The Passage of Time Captured in Layered Landscape Collages by Fong Qi Wei Time can be a difficult variable to visually convey in still photography, both the length of time an exposure takes or a series of photos meant to depict the passage of time can be somewhat ambiguous without a written explanation. In his latest series, Time is a dimension, Singapore-based photographer Fong Qi Wei (previously) explores just that idea by shooting landscapes from a stationary position over a 2-4 hour period and then digitally slicing the images to create a layered collage. He shoots at sunset or sunrise to obtain a wide variation in light and then carefully cuts each image to reveal incremental timeframes. He explains: The basic structure of a landscape is present in every piece.

Winter in the Carpathian Mountains [20 Pics Winter in the Carpathian Mountains [20 Pics] Jan 9 2014 The Carpathian range spans 1,500km and holds one third of all the plant species in Europe. It's a home to many animal species such as brown bears, wolves, chamois and lynxes. Photos by Alexander Kotenko. The Carpathian chain consists of mountain ranges that stretch in an arc from the Czech Republic (3%) in the northwest through Slovakia (17%), Poland (10%), Hungary (4%) and Ukraine (11%) to Romania (53%) in the east and on to the Iron Gates on the River Danube between Romania and Serbia (2%) in the south. The Carpathians and their piedmont also concentrate many thermal and mineral waters, with Romania having over one-third of the European total. See more photo posts Like our Facebook page & receive daily updates on your wall: The Beauty of Carpathian Mountains, Ukraine [16 Pics] Oct 21 2012 Ever since my brother and I were young, our parents would always take us to Carpathian Mountains for short vacations. View Post

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