Saturday, September 17, 2011

How to Photograph Museums and Galleries

How to Photograph Museums and Galleries
Behind the often stolid walls of our galleries and museums lies objects of often indescribable beauty. Art, archaeology, artifacts taken out of their context and displayed for us to admire, comprehend, understand and where we often feel the inadequacy of our own capacity to duplicate, replicate, imitate or emulate.

Digital Photo - High-Contrast Light | DPmag.com

Digital Photo - High-Contrast Light
When we first learn to compose portraits, we discover how well soft light works on faces. Big, soft sources—windows, softboxes, umbrellas—deliver beautiful, diffused light that hides skin flaws like wrinkles and blemishes. The next thing we know, we're using soft light for all of our portraits, and why wouldn't we? Our subjects are happy and our portraits look great in that beautiful soft light. So what's the problem?

Properties of Light and How to Apply Them in Photography – PictureCorrect

Properties of Light and How to Apply Them in Photography
In each and every art form there is always a medium or a number of specific mediums related to that particular art. For sculpture it can be stone, glass or wood, whereas for painting it can be colour, metal or paint applied to a hard medium.

7 Deadly Mistakes You Might Be Making On Your Photography Website

7 Deadly Mistakes You Might Be Making On Your Photography Website: "Google tells us that there are almost one million photography websites on the web right now. This is bad news for you.

The good news is that most of these websites suck."

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