Hey everyone!
Don’t miss out on this great event, the Scott Kelby Third Annual Worldwide Photo Walk is set for tomorrow, June 24th. If you happen to be in the Denton, Texas area, you might just get a look at me as I will be on this location walk. Look forward to meeting some new photogs and checking out some new locations!
This is a fantastic DIY guide for photographing live insects at home!
Composition for a photograph is like a screenplay for a movie. If the picture isn’t composed well, it won’t strike a cord with the viewer regardless of the technical expertise or the story being told. Composition skills improve over time with constant practice. Here are some of the basic composition tips with a picture to illustrate each of those tips. The example pictures were all taken in one day while driving through Eastern Washington. These tips will help train your eyes to see the frames, an important point if you want to take great pictures.
via 10 Landscape Composition Tips: Illustrated with Pictures from Eastern Washington.
You can get great lighting for your portraits with on-camera flash. And there’s no need to purchase expensive attachments to modify your light, because everything you need is already there. The thing to understand is that your flash unit is just another light source at your disposal. Fortunately, you can learn to control the light it produces and shape it to your needs. Plus, it has the added benefit of doing some of the thinking for you when you need it to.Since the light your flash unit produces directly can appear rather harsh, you’ll have to do one or both of the following in order to get more pleasing lighting from it: Create a larger, wider area of light relative to your subject. Illuminate your subject from an angle other than directly off the top of the camera.The following tips will help you accomplish these goals:
via 8 On-Camera Flash Tips: How To Get Better Lighting From Your On-Camera Flash.
Subjects who wear eye glasses can offer a unique difficulty for photographers. First, there’s the dilemma of whether they should wear them or not will they not feel & look like themselves without them? Are they hiding fabulous eyes behind those glasses? And then there’s the problem of glare and reflection. An attentive photographer will pay attention to this factor, but it does cause issues and where a photo might be perfectly composed and lit, but a little glare in the glasses can throw the whole thing off.
Auto focus is of unquestionable benefit in a large variety of shooting scenarios, but there are often times when it could actually be wiser to plump for manual focus. In these scenarios, which are outlined below, it is fair to say that autofocus doesn’t perform as well on some cameras, so simply rotate the focus mode selector to M and use the focus ring to sharpen the subject in view. It is also worth remembering that it can be easier in some situations to use the focus lock, in this instance simply focus on another subject at the same distance and then recompose the frame accordingly.
Almost any portrait subject over the age of 25 can use some under-eye cleanup, but many photographers struggle to make this common retouch look natural.
via The Fast Way to Remove Dark Circles Under Eyes in Photoshop.
CHARLES DOBBS PHOTOGRAPHY
No, this isn’t another episode of This Old House, but rather a shot I took of an old house. This house was located at the Dallas Heritage Village just south of downtown Dallas, Texas. I added a little old western effect and then an acid burn type of frame. I think it turned out great!
