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PictureCorrect.com: How to Create Artificial Sunlight Through Trees with an Off-Camera Flash
For many of us who inhabit cloudier climes, getting the look of a sunny day, whilst the weather is stubbornly overcast can be a challenging problem. In this short video, British fashion photographer Damien Lovegrove shows us how to re-create sunny Spain in a decidedly cloudy Manchester. To create the dappled sunlight look Damien uses a dingle, which is basically a small bush or branch with leaves on it:
These are the key points of Damien’s technique:
- Attach the dingle to a lighting stand so that the leaves protrude above the stand.
- Raise the lighting stand to a reasonable height to suggest a low angle of sunlight.
- The sun is recreated using a wireless controlled flash positioned behind the dingle.
- When positioning the flash, make sure that the wireless sensor will be visible from the photographers position.
- The flash gun is set to maximum zoom and the camera is set to the required exposure.
- The closer the flashgun is to the dingle, the softer the dappled effect will be.
Faking Sunlight with a Canon Speedlight
For most people, it would be impossible to tell that the final shot was made in grey industrial Manchester and not the sunny Costa Brava.
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PictureCorrect.com: How to Become a Professional Nature Photographer Course at 50% Off
Do you love nature and photography and wish to make money photographing the great outdoors? Would you like to make outdoor and nature photography a full time business? This video course is meant to jump start your career. You will learn what, how, and where to photograph as well as how to set up your business and market and sell your photography. This week, you can get the entire course for just $39 (regularly $79)! Deal found here: Professional Outdoor & Nature Photography Course at 50% Off
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There is no more fulfilling career than being a full time outdoor and nature photographer and having your work published in calendars, magazines, and more.
Charlie Borland has been published in over 1000 calendars, many of the major outdoor magazines, advertising, company brochures, and he’s founded and co-founded two stock photo agencies.
If you’re interested in photographing the outdoors as a full time or part time business, Borland’s video course can show you how to create images for the markets and license them to clients.
Topics Covered
- How the outdoor and nature photography markets work
- Techniques and approaches for making marketable images of nature and outdoor adventure
- Camera equipment and other gear
- Organizing your stock photos and setting up your business.
- Making even more money with concept photography
- Creating marketable compositions
- Mastering natural light and supplemental lighting
- Mastering the technical sides of photography
- Marketing yourself and your business
- Pricing and negotiating a photo sale
- How to get represented by stock photo agencies
- Presenting your portfolio
- Bidding on photo assignments
- Photographing outdoor products
- Planning and prepping for the big assignment
- Creating a portfolio and presenting it in a meeting
- Finding models
What’s included?
- Over 100 videos (13+ hours)
- A downloadable pricing guide
- The tools needed to create top images
- Photoshop tips
- Strategies for pricing and selling your photography
- Strategies for succeeding in the business
By the end of the course, it’s hoped that you’ll know how to photograph marketable images, set up your business, promote your business, and negotiate a photo sale.
This business of nature photography course is designed for photographers who want to start a full time or part time photography business. No photography or business experience is needed.
Course Requirements
- Passion!
- A love for the outdoors, nature, wildlife, and the environment
- A sense of adventure and love of travel
- A willingness to work hard
- Oh, a camera, tripod, a computer, and software
- A basic understanding of digital photography, cameras, and processing software is needed. Some Photoshop is covered.
How to Get this Training Course for Half Off This Week:
We were able to arrange a 50% discount for PictureCorrect readers, just $39 (original price: $79). The course includes video lectures and assignments for easy understanding.
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PictureCorrect.com: Interesting Photo of the Day: Hummingbird Swarm
They say patience is a virtue and patience really pays off when you have a hummingbird feeder. Photographer Brian Maffitt set up an angled mirror attached to a tripod under his hummingbird feeder and waited patiently. Using a remote shutter release he would take a burst of shots every time a bird came to feed:
“Hummingbird Swarm” by Brian Maffitt (Via Imgur. Click image to see full size.)
Maffitt shot this in New York state using a Canon 5D Mark III and a Canon 100-400mm zoom lens. His settings were
- 1/4000 of a second
- f/5.6
He made a composite using about 70 layers in Photoshop. These are ruby-throated hummingbirds and they usually arrive in New York around May. Using a unique set up and planning out the image beforehand, Maffitt was able to create this beautiful shot. Have you ever tried using a mirror to get just the right angle?
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PictureCorrect.com: How to Make a Personalized Photo Candle
A beautiful candle can set the mood for any event. Be it a wedding, a romantic candle-lit dinner, a birthday, or a solemn remembrance, a candle is quintessential. But what if that same candle is personalized with your favorite images? Canon shared this wonderful video on how to make a personalized photo candle in minutes—DIY style:
The best thing about this project is that you might already have everything you need lying around in your home somewhere.
What You Need
- tissue paper
- wax paper
- cardstock
- scissors
- embossing gun
- white tape
- printer
- a pillar candle (preferably white)
Photo Candle Instructions
- Cut out a 7.5” x 10” piece of tissue paper.
Tape the tissue paper onto cardstock.
- Tape the tissue onto a 8.5” x 11” piece of cardstock.
- Print photos on the tissue paper.
Cut the tissue images from the cardstock.
- Cut the tissue photos out and place them onto the candle.
- Wrap the candle with wax paper.
Heat the tissue paper to melt on to the wax.
- Gently heat the tissue with the embossing gun so that the images melt onto the wax.
- Peel off the wax paper.
- Repeat for the other side.
Voila! Your images are transferred onto the candle!
This is one idea that you should definitely try at home! It makes for a wonderful personalized gift.
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PictureCorrect.com: How to do Exploded View Photography
Have you ever wondered how those fantastic “exploded view” photographs of machinery, that we often see in magazine and books, are made. This brief but revealing video by Adam Voorhes, is basically a time lapse sequence of him setting an exploded view of a Kawasaki motorbike:
All the separate components of the bike are hung from a rig, in the correct position using wires and supported on boxes. Once all is set, the machine is lit and the images made. Some deft work in Photoshop is done to remove the wires and boxes resulting in the final, fascinating image.
Finished Product (Click to See Larger View)
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PictureCorrect.com: Interesting Photo of the Day: Trailing the Canaries
Every year, NASA hosts Tournament: Earth, where voters choose one remarkable image taken from space. This year, the winning image was snapped by the Terra satellite’s unfathomably powerful Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer. It depicts the Canary Islands confusingly looking like they’re swimming north:
A shot of the Canary Islands won the same tournament last year. (Via NASA and PetaPixel. Click for larger image.)
What the image, taken June 15, 2013, actually shows is the way the wind moves the water prominently southwest in the area. The Canary Islands actually block the wind movement, which changes the tint of the otherwise silvery ocean surface. Pretty impressive detail considering its 713-kilometer orbit height.
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PictureCorrect.com: Self Portrait Every Day For 12 Years: Capturing a Journey Through Life
By the time you read this, Jeff Harris will have taken considerably more than 4748 self-portraits. For New Year 1999, rather than resolve, to write a diary for the year, Jeff set himself the task of taking a self-portrait every day. The result is an incredible record of his life through the ups and some very significant downs, not just for a year,but for the last 12 years:
In his own words, at first his shots were somewhat boring and repetitive, but using photography as a tool, he found increasingly interesting and creative ways to portray his life. The initial focus on the project was to attempt to show his life as not being a mundane 9-5 existence but to show him enjoying life to the full. As well as getting friends and family to take a shot, one of the more unique aspects to his visual diary is getting celebrities to take his picture. His creativity particularly shines through in some of these pictures, as he tries to convey the character of the celebrity through the portraits they have taken of him. In one particularly interesting series of shots, he poses as if to avoid being photographed. The photographer is Michael Moore, the renowned documentary filmmaker.
The fluidity of the story is another theme running through Jeff’s pictures. In one shot, he can be seen leaping high in the air on a rock band’s stage. In the next shot we see him the emergency room being treated for a fractured foot sustained during the leap. Further daily images show Jeff’s daily routine barely changing despite being on crutches.
Self Portrait Every Day for 12 Years
“It gives me something to strive for, if there’s a fence I’m going to climb it, if there’s a river I’m going to canoe down it, but I’m still going.” -Jeff Harris
In 2008 Jeff was diagnosed with cancer, yet throughout this incredibly traumatic time in his life, he continued his one a day self-portrait project, using it as a type of therapy, a constant in his life during a time of incredible changes. He even persuaded his doctor to take images during surgery and recorded his entire experience of treatment and recovery. The surgery has left Jeff permanently paralyzed in his left leg and he is now confined to crutches yet he continues his project, trying to convey the image of a fully able-bodied person he pushes himself to do things that many would think beyond his ability. Jeff’s incredible journey and dedication to recording it has become an inspiration to many people around the world.
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PictureCorrect.com: Top 10 Tips to Get Started in Photography
1. Expensive gear is NOT a requirement. Start your photography journey with the equipment you can afford and don’t be tempted to spend huge money! The range of point and shoot cameras now available at very reasonable prices are really all you need to start. If you find that you want to go further with photography – then buy equipment as you can afford to advance.
“A long journey” captured by purushotham (click image to see more from purushotham)
2. Stand firm. Tripods, or monopods are a valuable and often underused accessory, regardless of the type of camera you have. They help you to stay still to take a photograph in tricky light and slow shutter speeds. They can mean the difference between a great day shooting and a mediocre one!
If you do suffer with a shake then definitely try using one. There are other ways to keep a camera still – try a small “bean bag” and rest the camera on it. Hold the camera against a steady door frame or handy pole – assuming there’s one about! With a bit of ingenuity you can usually find something to help keep a steady camera.
3. Keep your camera with you all the time. I’m always saying this (I may not obey my own “rules” sometimes and usually regret it!), picture opportunities are everywhere if you learn to see them. IF you don’t have a camera with you, make a mental note (or a written one is better!) and return to the scene in the hope that the picture is “still there”…
4. Make shooting lists. There are MANY opportunities for pictures. Ok – I’ve said that before, but it’s also a great thing to make a list of shots you would like to get at some time. Maybe make a To Do list of different types of picture you have seen and would like to try to replicate. Better still take your own slant on a topic and set a goal to make the shot.
5. Don’t overlook “the ordinary” for photography. Some of my good pictures have been taken in my garden or very locally to me. Keep your eyes open for odd shapes in things you usually pass by. There is a wealth of material in your own home and garden areas! This is where learning to SEE the pictures is “required”! A different light, a strange shadow….Simple CAN be excellent!
6. Learning is fun. The topic of photography is massive! Inspiration and opportunity is everywhere and it just requires this “Taking Time to See” and you will be surprised what you could discover. Take time to learn the ins and outs of photography as far as you want to go. READ THE INSTRUCTION BOOK to all your gear. You might be surprised how much easier it is to use the equipment once that’s done!
Photo captured by William J. Johnston (Click Image to See More From William J. Johnston)
One basic tip – Just get out there and use the camera!
7. Learn Free! There is so much free information, free software and tools out there on the net. Use them – you do NOT need to spend money to start, apart from the camera and other hardware. You will need a computer but most people / families have them now. Just add free tools and go for it.
8. Test various camera settings. Just read the instruction book and learn what the dials and buttons do. It helps! Many of the point and shoot cameras are pretty sophisticated – much more so than when we started back in the 70s and 80s!! (Oh dear I can hear the violins and mewling starting now! It’s such a shame!) Point and shoot was just that! No (or very few) settings and you got what results you could. Trouble is you also had to pay for the mistakes to be printed! Digital allows a lot more freedom. Play and experiment!
9. Learn the basic rules. Learn what makes a great picture! What the camera sees and records in a picture is really quite different to what we see with our eyes! A few tips from experienced photographers can mean a lot to help your photographic experiences. Online there are innumerable forums and websites that give a wealth of free information. Look for articles on composition and technique; take note of what the “rules” of photography are as suggested by other photographers in the business. Then you can go and break the rules to make your own stamp on your photography….
“It’s Christmas in Kansas City” captured by Deb Buchanan (Click Image to See More From Deb Buchanan)
10. Use the camera. A picture a day. Try it and see how you get on. Make a list of weekly assignments that you set yourself. There are many forums that have Weekly Assignment topics. Try them and keep pushing yourself to do more. Practice, practice works wonders! Keep that camera WITH you!
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PictureCorrect.com: What is ISO
Have you ever been browsing through your cameras’ menu and noticed something called ISO and just ignored it because you didn’t know what it was for? Well, in this article we will explain what ISO is and how to use it to your benefit when taking pictures.
“The jumper” captured by Ornela Pagani (Click Image to See More From Ornela Pagani)
ISO is a rating number that indicates how sensitive your cameras’ image sensor is to the available light. Just in case you didn’t know, the image sensor is the device in your camera that gathers the light from a scene when you are taking a picture. Every digital camera has an image sensor and the image sensor is what has replaced film for producing photographic images.
ISO ratings are expressed in numbers such as ISO 100 or ISO 800. When your camera is set to a higher ISO number like ISO 800, less light will be required to obtain a correctly exposed image than when the camera is set to ISO 100.
In short, changing the ISO setting on your camera increases or decreases the image sensors sensitivity and light gathering ability. (by the way, ISO stands for International Standards Organization
How does the ISO setting affect your everyday photography? The ISO setting is directly related to your cameras shutter speed and aperture setting as far as making properly exposed images. The following is an example of a situation when you might need to change your camera ISO setting to get a correctly exposed picture.
Lets say you are trying to take a picture in a low light situation and your camera is set to ISO 100. Lets also assume that using the camera flash is not allowed or it cannot cover the scene being photographed.
Your pictures are coming out too dark because there is not enough light reaching the image sensor. No problem! Try changing the camera ISO setting to ISO 400 or maybe ISO 800 or higher. This will increase the image sensor sensitivity and there is a good chance that you will be able to get a properly exposed image at the higher ISO setting.
The aforementioned example only used changing the ISO setting to resolve the exposure problem. However, the next example involves changing the ISO setting as well as the shutter speed. (Note: compact cameras without manual settings for the camera lens aperture and shutter speed won’t be able to use the next example. Manual adjustments to the shutter speed and camera lens aperture are generally able to be made with digital single lens reflex cameras).
Photo captured by Keith Willette (Click Image to See More From Keith Willette)
Here is another situation when you might need to change your ISO setting. Once again, lets assume your camera is set at ISO 100. This time your images are properly exposed with a shutter speed of 1/60 second and with your aperture open to its widest setting at f 3.5.
However, the subject you are photographing is moving cars and at the shutter speed of 1/60 second, the images are coming out blurred. (they are blurred because the shutter speed is too slow). The obvious solution might seem to be changing the shutter speed to something faster like 1/250 second. Unfortunately, changing the shutter speed to 1/250 decreases the amount of light reaching the image sensor and makes the image too dark. Also, as previously mentioned, the aperture is at its widest setting and can’t be set to allow any extra light to reach the image sensor.
Once again, the solution is to change the ISO setting. Increasing the ISO setting from ISO 100 to ISO 400 will make the image sensor more sensitive to light. You can then increase the shutter speed to 1/250 which will probably be fast enough to eliminate the blur in the picture while making a correctly exposed picture.
As you can see, the ISO, shutter speed, and aperture setting work together to make correctly exposed pictures. So don’t forget about changing the ISO setting if you are having a difficult time finding the right exposure values.
While increasing the ISO setting can help you get some shots that you might have otherwise missed out on,
there is a down side to using very high ISO number settings. That down side is called digital camera “noise”. This noise is what appears as little discolored specks in the image. Digital camera noise is much more noticeable when higher ISO numbers like ISO 1600 or more are used. The digital camera noise is also more noticeable in darker areas of the image than in the lighter areas.
“panning shot” captured by Steve (Click Image to See More From Steve)
Also, compact digital cameras with smaller image sensors will produce more noise in an image than Digital SLR cameras with larger image sensors.
However, don’t be afraid to increase your ISO to a high number if that is the only way you can get the best exposure. It is always better to get the shot with a little noise in it instead of not taking the shot altogether.
Otherwise try shooting at lower ISO numbers for much crisper and clearer pictures.
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Keith Jones writes for http://ift.tt/LOViL8. A site geared towards beginners through serious amateurs who want to learn a little more about basic digital photography.
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This is a brief explanation on how ISO works on a digital camera and what it does.
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