How To Take Beautiful Flower Photos With Your Smartphone: Here Is 12 Tips

Do you love flowers and enjoy taking pictures with your smartphone? Then smartphone flower photography is the perfect combination for your camera roll. Here are 12 tips to help you take stunning pictures of flowers on your smartphone. Try Shooting In Portrait Mode Portrait mode is now available on most smartphones. It can give you more high-end, professional looking results in some shooting situations. This feature is great for taking pictures of people. But it can also give you refined, professional results with still life subjects because it works so well for close-ups. Portrait mode will help you get shallow

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10 Tips For Using Vibrant Colors For Colorful Photography

Vibrant colors are easy to find, especially during the warmer months. This is a great excuse to deepen your knowledge of colors, photography, and how they work together. For The Best Results, Adjust Your Camera Settings Pay attention to your white balance when you photograph vibrant colors. The wrong adjustment will make your photos look unflattering. Or it can turn a simple color into a completely different one. There’s no perfect formula for white balance. It all depends on where you shoot. If you’re working with warm artificial light, you’ll have to make your photos look colder. Most cameras come

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What Is A RAW File Format In Photography And 8 Reasons To Shoot RAW Photos

Somewhere on your photography journey, you have heard the advice: shoot in raw. You may be wondering, will shooting raw make your photos better? In this article, we will explore what raw photography is. We will also give you eight reasons why you should be shooting in it. What Is A RAW File? Raw is a generic term that refers to an uncompressed unprocessed file format. This is the file created by your camera that includes the most information it is capable of collecting from a scene. This information includes the range of light, the light’s temperature, and the variety

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How To Capture True Character Of A Subject In Portraits

Broadly speaking there are two types of portraits. The first is where you try to make the model look as beautiful as possible. You may need a make-up artist or stylist to do it properly. Most commercial photographers are paid to make their models look beautiful, and there are many links with the world of fashion photography. The other is where you try and capture somebody’s essence, create character portraits. One interesting thing about this style of portraiture is that it opens up your range of models beyond people that are considered conventionally beautiful. It’s less complex because you don’t

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8 Rules For A Happy And Productive Creative Life: Specifically For Photographer

The biggest stumbling block for many photographers is not knowing how to be creative. You have some natural talent but never seem to break out and become a satisfied creative person. Thankfully, some rules govern a happy and productive creative life. These rules help you to get control and live out your creativity – even with a busy work schedule, and without sacrificing valuable time with your family. Here are eight of those rules that will help you thrive as a creative photographer. Don’t Rely On Your Natural Talent Don’t rely on natural talent. Understand how photography works, and exercise

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Composition Techniques To Enhance Your Images

I am a huge fan of the Canadian rock band Barenaked Ladies. They were very popular in the 2000s and their songs were creative, fun and edgy. They also came up with a children’s album called Snacktime and it was a blockbuster hit. Now you must be wondering what a music band has to do with photography but just bear (pun intended!) with me and keep reading on. One of the songs on the kid’s album is called “Crazy ABC’s” and it was not the traditional alphabet song. In fact, the whole song used unique and different words that begin

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Peter Lindbergh – The Supermodel Photographer

Peter Lindbergh was the only German in the select group of photographers who have found international acclaim in the worlds of fashion and advertising. His black and white photographs are highly distinctive. His snapshot of models in white shirts was  named the best photograph of the 1990s by Vogue magazine. But few people know who Peter Lindbergh actually was. Peter Lindbergh was inspired by expressionist German films of the 1920s and the free dance of that era. He combined avant-garde aesthetics and a down-to-earth stance to create something new and distinctive – what he called a “verité approach.” Peter Brobeck,

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How to Take Amazing Photos Using Dappled Light

Natural light is notoriously difficult to control. And if you’re shooting somewhere outdoorsy like a park or a forest, you’ll most likely encounter dappled light. But you can use this type of lighting to your advantage! Here’s how to photograph in dappled light for amazing images. What Is Dappled Light? Dappled light happens you have small pockets of light coming through onto your subject. Think of sunlight coming through trees. This leads to a combination of light and shade. Another example of dappled lighting would be light coming in through window shades. Or through an open breezeway in an urban

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10 Essential Elements Of Portrait Photography For A Great Portrait

Portrait photography isn’t easy, and in fact, there are many elements that go into a great portrait. You have to think about the technical stuff like exposure and focus, as well as the non-technical stuff like composition and working with a live subject. If you’re just starting out with portrait shooting, all this can be pretty daunting. That’s why I’ve broken it down, piece by piece, into the 10 crucial elements you need to think about when doing portraits. Lighting Pattern The lighting pattern refers to how the light falls on your subject’s face. Note that your lighting pattern will

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Tips To Enhancing Your Portrait Photography

Flattering portraits rarely happen as a default. Some people are photogenic, yes, and look good at every angle. But often, we work hard to get flattering photos that the sitter loves. There is no one-trick as every person’s face, form, and shape are different. We have to tailor our angles to each portrait sitter. However, there are basic fundamental tools we can use that help us achieve flattering portraits. Use The Right LensHaving photographed people for a decade now, I have learned that there is no great all-around lens that can do the best job for everything. Sure there are

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Mastering The Headshot Session By Mark Cleghorn

In this film Mark Cleghorn talks Headshots and Session Flow. Join us as we take you through a session in real time with todays model/actor/voiceover artist Dan Broderick. Mark highlights that for most a headshot shoot will consist of a one style/one look, however in some cases, whether you be working with an actor, dancer or a creative, a more of a three sided setup is more suited so that you can achieve a variety for the client and their agents. This shoot begins on a single setup in part one, Mark will take you through everything from posing the

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Location Portraits Photography Tips For Beginner

In photography, portraits are an art form to themselves. There are many ways to make portraits, but one of the main divisions is between portraits made in a studio and on-location portraits. The end results look very different, so it’s good to choose between them depending on what you’re going for. Do you have a preference between them, either as a photographer and/or as a viewer? Studio photography is a lot of fun, but when I’m working on a portrait job I usually prefer to photograph on location. Why? Portraits taken in a favorite location – outdoors or at home

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