Help your model look their best (or help yourself look better in photos): If your model is balding, shoot from a lower angle to show less of their hair and don’t use a hair light at all. If your model has a larger nose then have them look straight at the camera and shoot from …
How to Make a Dashing DIY Hand Strap
As soon as you get this hand strap onto your camera, your life will be one sweet song. Attractive strangers will ask for your number. Dollar bills will rain from the sky. And Queen Elizabeth will call you personally to sing you to sleep at night. Well not quite … but at least your camera …
Avoid adding color problems and color shifts in photoshop
I came across this great tip from MCP that I have found very useful and wanted to share. The easiest way to mess up color in a photo is when using levels and curves improperly. Levels to an extent, and curves to an even greater extent, affect both luminosity (brightness) and color when you adjust them. Many …
Macro Photography Without The Lens
Ever wanted to play with macro photography but didn’t have the budget to buy a dedicated macro lens? Jim from ProPhotolife shows us a trick in the video below using two lenses that you might have in your camera bag already to achieve 1:1 magnification. quick video 4, extreme macro photography trick from Jim Talkington …
Pro Photo Shoot 1.0 for Shutterbugs
Microsoft has brought to users a new free add-in, Pro Photo Shoot, for its Microsoft Outlook (Version 2003 and 2007). Pro Photo Shoot is a unique management tool to allow shutterbugs to add a list of photographic equipment to any outlook appointment and organize their events more efficiently. Users especially photographers can keep their digital …
Print Resolution From Your Digital Camera Images
Problem: You imported an image from your digital camera and although the physical dimensions of the image are rather large, the resolution shows up as only 72 ppi. How can you get enough resolution to print this image? Solution: checkout this helpful tip that I found.
Studio Setup for Photographing Children in High Key
I love photographing and being creative with high key and I came across this advice which you might find helpful also. But first I hear you asking “what is high key“? High Key is generally a picture that consists almost entirely of light tones with relatively few mid-tones or shadows. There are varying definitions for …
Calculate Correct Exposure
I came across this site and thought many of you may find this helpful if not interesting … A light intensity chart to help calculate the correct exposure for different lighting conditions and lots of other handy information & charts at http://fredparker.com/ultexp1.htm#Light%20Intensity%20Chart Enjoy & learn!
