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Amazing pics from Red Bull Illume!
Red Bull Illume is the world’s premier international photography competition dedicated to the world of action and adventure sports. Its purpose is to showcase the most exciting and creative action sports photography on the planet as art and bring the public into the world of action sports.
Check out this beautiful macro shot. The colors are amazing.
Check out these vibrant and beautiful, color filled landscapes!
Check out this great article that gives some great tips on how to photograph children. Be sure to check out our kids photography kit to help you capture the best images of your kids!
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Check out this great article on focal length and zoom to help you better understand these basics of photography.
Check out this great series of high speed images:
Indiana-based photographer Jon Smith invites everyone to the fascinating world of high speed photography with his colorful series of exploding light bulbs. Jon fills them with various objects such as feathers, beads, candies, beer caps or layered sand, and the shoots them making everything …
Lifehacker’s Basics of Photography: Composition and Technique
If you’ve been reading this blog, you know how to hold your camera. You know how to point, frame, and shoot. You’ve read about aperture, shutter speed, and ISO, and experimented a bit on CameraSim or perhaps with your own camera.
Now let’s move to the fun stuff, the art part: Composition and Technique. LifeHacker breaks down the basics into the rule of thirds, perspective, using shapes and lines to draw the eye to specific point, framing your subject with objects, and never forgetting to make your choices for a reason.
Read "Basics of Photography: Composition and Technique" here.
Lightning over Casa Grande (Explored #10, thank you!) (by Mike Olbinski Photography)
Here are some great tips for learning control over your new DSLR!
Tips for your family photos
There are many common mistakes people make when taking family photos while they are traveling that just make there images look a little off. Here is one quick and simple tip that will help you improve your family photos instantly.
Composition: Where are your friends and family standing?
It is a common mistake, especially when traveling and excited, to have your family go stand right next to a point of interest and take a photo of them. How many times have you said, "Oh, look at that! Go stand next to that and let me take your photo." Seems like a good idea right?
Wrong.
When we ask our subjects to go stand next to something, especially if that something is large like a statue or sculpture or even a panoramic view, our subjects tend look incredibly miniature in comparison and we can't see any detail like their great smile or their "dad, please stop taking pictures" face.
Instead of asking your family to go stand next to the object or view, try this:
Look at the object you want to photograph them with and compose it in your viewfinder. Get the right distance away so you can see all of the detail you want to see of the object and compose it where you would like to. Then, instead of asking your friends or family to go stand next to it, ask them to stand in front of you, maybe 4-7 ft in front of you depending on the lens and zoom you are using. Position them in the scene so you are capturing them from their waste up, and 1/3, of the photo still has empty space above their head(s), allowing you to see the object your are capturing them with with. Remember, there may be 30, 40, even, 50 or 60 feet between your subjects and the feature you are photographing them with.
Composing your family like this will allow you to see more detail in your subjects and will just give the photo an overall more "natural" feeling. Give this a try and see what a difference it will make in your family photos!
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Check out these amazing monochrome landscape images!
Light Painting in Norway (by Simon Dubreuil)
What a great capture! How perfect for these hot summer days.
A little photo comedy from the phoblographer.
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Check out this amazing interior perspective image! This photo just draws your eyes into it.
Check out this beautiful image from National Geographic. This is a one second exposure of wave trails crashing over small icebergs. This image is a perfect compliment to our recent blog about shutter speed.
Shutter Speed
In photography, shutter speed or exposure time, is the length of time that the camera’s shutter is open and allowing light to hit the film plane or image sensor. Your camera’s shutter speed, the lens’ brightness (f-stop), and the luminance of the overall scene together will determine the amount of light that reaches your film plane (exposure).
There are multiple combinations of shutter speed and f-stop that will give the same exposure to a given scene. Doubling the exposure time will allow twice the amount of light in, as will making the f-stop one stop brighter. Below is a scale that might help you understand this better. In this chart (and all shutter speeds) the values have an assumed “1" over them unless they are followed by an “S". The first value, 250, is actually 1/250th of a second. The value “1S" means one second. This is a photographic standard.
Along with controlling the amount of light entering a camera, the shutter speed also controls motion and movement in your photography. It is recommended that when applying a shutter speed of great than 1/30th of a second, that the camera is placed on a tripod to avoid camera shake. This will allow you to “freeze" the scene that is not in motion but show movement to the subjects that are in motion (like car headlights or a person running). Here is an example of this:
On the contrary, a very high shutter speed will freeze everything in the scene that you are capturing. A high shutter speed will typically be used in sports photography such as racing or in the studio to freeze subjects in motion. Here is an example of a high shutter speed:
Hopefully this help you have a better understanding of what the shutter speed does, and how it works with the aperture and a scene’s luminance. Try adjusting your shutter speed the next time you are out shooting. Bring a tripod and start with your camera’s “Shutter Priority" feature. Try some long exposures, like 15 seconds and up, and see what happens to the light and motion in your images.
