Photography: Mar 7, 2013

Thursday, March 7, 2013

7 Questions to Help You Find Your Perfect Personal Photography Project – PictureCorrect: "Looking for the perfect photo project can sometimes be as challenging as searching for the perfect shot. Personal photo projects are a good way to motivate yourself to shoot more pictures, stretch your creativity, or even support the causes that are important to you, but how do you find the right ones? What do you do with the photos once you’ve found the perfect project? Here are seven questions to jump start your creative thinking."

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How To Correct Sloping Horizons by Digital Photo Secrets

How To Correct Sloping Horizons by Digital Photo Secrets: "If you haven’t mastered the perfect camera grip quite yet, your photos of ordinary buildings can start to look like the Leaning Tower Of Pisa pretty quickly. With sloping horizons, something always feel just a little bit “off” about your photos. Luckily, there’s a way to change that in short order. With a few simple editing tools like Photoshop, you can quickly straighten out your leaning photos and get back to working on that iron camera grip of yours."

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Don’t move! 5 Tripod Essentials by Digital Photo Secrets

Don’t move! 5 Tripod Essentials by Digital Photo Secrets: "There is no camera companion more important than a tripod. When you get one, it opens up a whole world of possibilities. Suddenly, you can take long exposures at night and setup the perfect macro photo op. You can ready yourself for a self-portrait and reduce your friend’s job as a photographer to that of a button pusher (which is awesome because your friend almost never knows anything about photography anyway)"

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Taking Great Photos at the County Fair by Digital Photo Secrets

Taking Great Photos at the County Fair by Digital Photo Secrets: "Funnel cakes, ferris wheels and fun houses – what could be better than a county fair? With all those sights and lights, carnival photos should almost take themselves. Except that they usually don’t."

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Improve Your Photography with Unusual Photographs by Digital Photo Secrets

Improve Your Photography with Unusual Photographs by Digital Photo Secrets: "If I had to guess, I would say that 99 out of 100 hobby photographers never bend their legs. It’s not so hard to see why – human beings view the world mostly from one or two perspectives:"

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Making Sharper Wildlife Photographs – [Part 1 of 2]

Making Sharper Wildlife Photographs – [Part 1 of 2]: "If there is one area that seems to flummox more aspiring wildlife photographers it is the subject of making sharp images. You’d think that with today’s modern cameras and equipment that there’d be no problem going home with sharp images after each wildlife encounter. Un fortunately, that isn’t the case and I’m going to provide you with some tips and tricks to make sure you’ve got the best possible chance of making sharp images."

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Making Sharper Wildlife Photographs – [Part 2 of 2]

Making Sharper Wildlife Photographs – [Part 2 of 2]: "House Finch perched on a spruce tree branch: Canon 5D Mark II, Canon 500mm F4L IS lens, 1.4x Extender II and 2.0x Extender II @1400mm, 1/400th of a second at F10, ISO 800, Gitzo 3541 Tripod with Jobu Design BWG-Pro gimbal head"

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