byKevin Landwer-Johan This is How I Take Photographs #6 – Master Your Exposure Every photographer wants to master your exposure. To master your exposure takes an awareness of light. You also must practice with your camera in manual mode to become proficient. Light is the essence of photography. Without light, you simply cannot take a …
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Camera: Nikon D700, Lens: 180mm, Settings: f5.6, 1/400 sec, ISO 400 byKevin Landwer-Johan What are the qualities of a good photograph? Many photographers struggle with this question. A good subject does not make a good photograph. A good camera doesn’t either. Good photographers make good photographs. But what makes a good photographer? A good photographer …
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A Lexicon of Post-Processing Terms in Landscape Photography Today Thursday, October 27th, 2016 Landscape photographers are increasingly turning toward more interpretive modes of presentation in order to express their own ideas about the scenes that they encounter. New techniques in field work and related digital processing have fueled this development, often enabling photographers to produce …
Hyper focal Distance and Depth Of Field Made Simple(er) by Sean Bagshaw November 23rd, 2011 by photocascadia One of the questions that I repeatedly get via email and at field workshops is about how to achieve the best focus in landscape images. This has proven to be one of the most difficult topics to explain …
A Post By: Chris Corradino If your photos aren’t turning out the way you expect them to, new gear is not necessarily the answer. In fact, chances are you are making one of these seven common mistakes. Don’t be discouraged though; just as a musician needs time to refine their skills, so does a photographer. …
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by Michael Frye | Sep 22, 2016 | | I really like curved lines. I was reminded of this last weekend when my friend Mike Osborne showed me some of his junkyard abstracts on his iPad. All the photographs were wonderful and imaginative, but the ones I liked best often had curves. And many of …
by Michael Frye | Aug 2, 2015 | Composition | When doing critiques I often encounter otherwise-wonderful images, with simple, strong compositions, great light, and nice color, but lacking an essential ingredient: a focal point. Viewers need something to latch onto, and if they don’t find it right away they feel lost. You have to …
A Post By: Gavin Hardcastle Having taught in-depth image post-processing workshops for Photoshop users, I’ve found that three of the simplest techniques are the ones that people love the most. These are quick and easy tricks that work for most image processing situations. If you’ve got your exposure, aperture, focus and white balance all correct …
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A Post By: Jeff Guyer In landscape photography, just as in portraits, fashion, products, or any other subject matter, accurate color capture is crucial. What makes it so much more difficult with landscapes, however, is the wider disparity in dynamic range, not only between foreground and background elements, but primarily between the upper and lower …
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Posted by Laurence Norah // Nov 12, 2014 Let’s face it, everyone would like to take better photos. But as a beginner, photography can seem a bit daunting. There are loads of technical terms and a vast choice of equipment — and that’s before you’ve even pressed the button and had to wonder about things …
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