How many times have you taken the perfect shot of that famous building or monument that you couldn’t wait to show to your family or friends, or submit to a stock agency, only to slowly realize that it is only one of thousands of similar perfect shots of that particular icon? If I was asked […]
Before doing any portrait photography there are some very important questions that any photographer should ask himself. What kind of light source it’s going to be used? From what angle the light will fall on the subject? What film, camera and lens are best to use?
If you manage to answer all this questions before taking […]
Digital infrared photography requires some homework to lead you to the perfect camera equipped for this purpose.
It is quite feasible to use digital imaging to simulate the look of an image shot on infrared-sensitive film. However, this is no match for real digital infrared photography, since you’ll be working with an image that was taken […]
Last week we discussed light as being the first secret to successful digital photography. This week we are going to examine the second secret to digital photography, and that my friend, is composition.
Composition in your digital photography, if you like, is really your shapes, lines and forms all working together in your digital photo. Its […]
In digital photography there is one thing that, for crisp images, you simply must know about. And that’s the proper use of your aperture. When you use your aperture the right way in your digital photography you can really influence a lot of creative factors. What I am about to tell you will help your […]
Fashion photography is devoted to displaying clothing and other fashion items. The first fashion photographer is considered to be Baron Adolphe de Meyer who was hired by publishing house Conde Nast in 1913 to take experimental pictures for Vogue magazine. Over time, fashion photography has developed its own aesthetic in which the clothes and fashions […]
Aerial Photography is becoming one of the most popular forms of photography today due to its daring capabilities and cause for sudden excitement as well as having the ability to create great affects in photos. What most people didn’t know however is that aerial photography has been around for quite some time now. It started […]
Flower photography is one of the most popular forms of photography.You can photograph flowers growing in the wild, flowers that are cultivated in greenhouses and gardens, or photograph cut flowers and arrangements indoors,in a studio setting.
Both film and digital cameras work well for flower photography.
Any lens can be used in flower photography, from the ultra-wide […]
According to me photography is certainly one of the most artistic things that are invented by humans. I think most of you agree with me on this point. Any body who has a bit of artistic taste will appreciate good photographic arts anywhere in the world. There are people who see these arts as an […]
Is still-life photography one of the least exciting areas of photography? This is up to each individual and each individual’s own personal interest, but still-life photography demands a great deal of care and imagination. The rewards for a good still-life photographer can be enormous.
A large percentage of the advertisement market uses still life photography images. […]