Like to learn how to photograph food like a pro? Then check out this short video tutorial from David Loftus for some great introductory tips about styling and composition:
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Every iPhoneographer needs this…
Whether you’re a professional photographer, an enthusiastic amateur, or simply a curious person with an iPhone and the desire to experiment with photography, this book is for you.
Amazing cloudscapes made from hundreds of stacked photographs
Is photography dead?
Photography experienced something of a renaissance when smartphones came along. Far from being dead, apps such as Instagram rejuvenated the art form.
Some interesting facts include:
- Facebook has 10,000 times more photos than the world’s largest library, the USA’s Library of Congress
- photos make up 42% of posts on Tumblr
- 741 million mobile phones worldwide have “some type of photo capability”
The infographic below by Overgram, an app that adds text to Instagram photos, details the evolution of photography from its birth in 1826 to modern-day usage on social networks… fascinating!
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FREE photography eBooks!
Craft & Vision has just released their new FREE photography eBook, Craft & Vision 2: More Great Ways to Make Stronger Photographs!
This 45-page PDF eBook was put together by six excellent Craft & Vision authors as a gift to the photography community they so passionately serve. Inside you’ll find articles highlighting unique ways to improve your photography:
More free textures to add interest to your images
Texture by Texture Time
Texture photography can be a standalone genre of photography for those who like to capture detail and abstract images. Textures are also used by many photographers and digital artists to enhance their work.
Today here’s another collection of the finest fresh new free textures to use in your own work.
Please note these files are under the creative commons license, so please visit the texture’s page by clicking on the corresponding image and read the owner’s requirements for using their work first. Let’s all be one big happy family =)
10 simple lessons to take your photography to the next level (lessons 6-10)
6) CONTROL THE LIGHT
Your Brain
Your camera or smartphone is not as clever as you are…it can only see 4 stops of light (let’s not worry about what stops are for now) but your eye can see 12 stops. So, for example, you line up your friends against a bright background and all looks amazing…you take a picture and your friends are quite dark and the background is not great either…wot the?
The camera or smartphone is trying it’s best to work out the exposure (how much light to capture) so guesses somewhere in the middle, it doesn’t know your friends are more important than the background.
Your job is to help it and prioritise what’s important.
The great news is that most cameras, phones and apps have something brilliant called exposure compensation that nobody much ever uses. It basically allows you to add or subtract light after the camera has made its guess. It often has the symbol +/-
Check out your device and start using it today!
Indoors tricks
What we want is quality of light and not quantity. Often in a room there is way too much light bouncing everywhere to make an interesting picture, so take control! Turn off the overhead lights, close the door, half close the curtains and suddenly thing get interesting.
Taking control may mean moving your subject to a better position….look around, are there any pools of light from windows? Maybe turn on a lamp and if not…why not create your own with inexpensive LED video lights? (More on that soon.)
Cheats:
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