3/25/2017
The Decisive Moment"Even though he seeks only pure, unmanipulated instants. he is consciously part of his own images" -Henri Cartier-Bresson. To get that perfect shot set your exposure early so you have time to hold your shutter button half way down, while keeping the object focus, and then press the shutter button as far as it takes to get the picture. "Keep in mind if you're playing with the settings you could miss that perfect shot, and it takes a lot of juice to keep that LCD lit" If you wait for the peak of anticipation, then you probably will capture the shot quicker. It may take longer, It pays to pay attention to what you are doing behind the camera. Try to use less settings, it will make the photograph look more professional, life-like so-to-speak.
3/25/2017
Today's TipToday's note on photography is photography, a personal professional or just a hobby in your life...
Photography is more than just a hobby, to most people, its a personal, once you reach out and catch the photographer's sight, it will become a normal everyday matter, you won't have to think about grabbing your camera on the way out, or capturing that passing that picture everyday as you go to work. That's not at all what makes it personal, you know the feeling you get when something makes you happy or sad, those feelings can make you see things differently. They might not be instant, it might even happen when you don't want it too. It will happen at some point in your life, when your passion for photography clicks. It wont hurt to try a little of everything, photography is never ending story there's always more to be said. There always coming out with new ways to take a photograph, to capture a story, to relieve in the moment. It's your choice to keep going from here on out. I say keep on it, and surely you can make it worthwhile. ~Jordan
3/25/2017
Portrait PhotographyWith portraiture your choice of lens has a big impact on your portraits. For portraits with visual impact a wide-angle lens is a must have! Though when using a medium telephoto such as prime lens, the model is still the main subject in the scene, though the background will an important role in the image! Though when using a telephoto which might as well be one of the most important tools for creating stunning portraits, which allows you to zoom closer to focus more on the subject, then you can then reduce the amount of background and foreground in the portrait. However there will always be some limitations to the lens that you choose to use for portraits.
When shooting portraits, it's more important to set a wide aperture around f/2.8-f/5.6 to allow for a shallow depth of field, so the background behind your subject is continusly blurred, making your subject stand out. Rather than having everything in focus, add some depth to your portraits, it will entice the viewer to take a longer look, and rather than centering your subjects, for every shot, take those few extra clicks with some new exciting angles. When setting shutter speed, factor in your lens's focal length otherwise camera-shake will become an impossible issue. Make sure your shutter speed is higher than your effective focal length. Most of the time causing what might have been a great shot that is now trash, and impossible to fix. Remember to hold your camera properly, it could easily better your portraits, and help reduce camera shake to a minimum. Try to avoid all these problems, and to prevent motion blur, you'll need to use a high or fast shutter speed. This will also help ensure sharp shots, avoiding accidental camera-shake, more often than not you'll be shooting portraits handheld. People move around a lot as they're photographed, not to mention blinking and constantly change facial expressions. Try and capture a range of expressions so you can pick which you prefer. Make sure the model is comfortable, take breaks, and just talk to them, if anythings wrong, don't continue to take pictures, wait and ask if they would like to make a different appointment, if everything is fine, still ask them before shooting again if they want to continue. Too often then not photographers usually just stand back and try to get all or just the top half of their subject, make your own creative and inspirational portraiture. You will be amazed that when you take your first step in portraiture photography, what you will be able to learn. Photography isn't supposed to be hard it is about having fun, so please be creative and remember to have fun taking portraits. ~Jordan Shaw Credites to www.techradar.com, and www.techradar.com/author/digital-camera-magazine
3/25/2017
Landscaping PhotographyYou should never head out on landscapes in new locations without using a good map, you should at least research some of the trails that you will be on so you know your way back. You should already have wokr out elevations and know exactly where the mountain peaks, lakes and scenic places are, which road you should take and how to reach them, you will need to the best positions to photograph the landscapes from. This also means that all you need to think about is taking brilliant shots, as soon as you get where you need to be.
Think about your scenes and how to find where you are and where you should shoot from to make the most of your surroundings. The sun's position in relation to the landscape around you, will ensure you're in the right place at the perfect time. Before you start ever click that shutter and start taking landscapes, stop to survey the lie of the landmass. Make sure you're in the best shot posible in alliance to the position of the sun. Also look for a focal point that leads the eye into the photograph, maybe it's a farmhouse, a line of trees or foreground interest. Whatever it is be sure of what is in the image, and that you want it to be there. Some common mistakes when taking landscapes, is that we get out of the car, take a few hand-held snaps of the scene, and drive off again. To improve your photographs, use your feet for the zoom. Walk around, get down to the lakeside, base of the mountain, or even walk up to a higher viewpoint, just so you're involved in the scene rather than just a passing viewer. This will incredibly help to improve your compositions. Golden hours of a sunrise are an hour or so after, and with a sunset and an hour or so just before, which are the best times of day for capturing a scenic landscape shot. and just to add to it, added with spectacularly colourful skies will make a gorgeous landspace image. Clear skies with just a small smattering of clouds will usually create some of the most colorful skylines. It is always best to shoot landscapes using your camera's RAW quality setting, the resulting images will contain much much more information, then the common JPEG. Which also allows you to scope more contrast, increase or decrease the exposure, or just enhance the tones, colours in Adobe Camera Raw, without ever compromising quality. You'll can often find yourself shooting landscapes in low light conditions, so its up to your shutter speeds to fight it, if your shooting to slow of shutter speeds it begins to keep the camera steady enough to shoot hand-held without risking camera shake. When shooting scenic landscapes, also best if you use your camera's manual autofocusing point selection. If you leave your camera on auto point selection, chances are it will only focus on objects closest to your lens, which is not an ideal problem when shooting landscapes. If in doubt, select the central AF point, then focus 'one third up' the scene to ensure your photos are sharp from front to back. Use a wider aperture such as f/2.8 for a more shallow depth of field and a narrower aperture such as f/22 to create a deeper depth of field view. As you'll be shooting with a tripod you won't be needing to obtain fast enough shutter speeds to shoot out of hand, so keep your ISO locked to its lowest setting of ISO 100. You'll be able to capture reasonable landscape shots with your standard 18-55mm, 24-70mm lens at its widest focal length. To take really expansive, dramatic landscape shots you'll be better off with a decent wide-angle zoom lens. Try to have a lens with a focal length range of around 10-20mm for dSLRs with a crop factor of 1.5x/1.6x. ~Jordan Shaw Credits to www.techradar.com & www.techradar.com/author/jeff-meyer |
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