Stunning Portraits: Manipulating White Balance

Stunning Portraits: Manipulating White Balance: "I am always looking for more interesting and unique ways to take interesting and beautiful portraits. It is a personal challenge for me to push my own creative envelope as much as possible so that I am constantly broadening my own bold and colorful style. There are so many ways to take a portrait the possibilities are almost endless and the range of emotional and psychological expressions that can be achieved are truly spectacular. Portraits can be editorial, lifestyle, fashion, glamour or extremely creative in style and the true wonderment of any portrait is the amazingly, maddening ability of the human face to portray expression in so many captivating ways. So let’s look at a more creative way to take a portrait that I think gives the final photo a simply stunning look."

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Sony Alpha SLT-A99 REVIEW

Sony Alpha SLT-A99 REVIEW: "After a run of compact digicams it sure was a change of scenery to grasp this major one for review.

However, I was surprised at how easily I fell into its working modes. Am I getting more camera-wise or is the Alpha SLT-A99 more user-friendly?

I suspect the latter because, when you run your eyes over the exterior control points everything seems to be where you would expect it, clearly labelled and easy to use."

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Your Camera’s Settings: ISO Speed by Digital Photo Secrets

Your Camera’s Settings: ISO Speed by Digital Photo Secrets: "Shooting in low light situations is difficult. It presents a combination of problems for which there is no single quick fix. You can decrease the shutter speed, but if you don’t have a tripod, your image will be blurry. You can bring a flash with you, but if you’re too close to your subject, you’ll overexpose the shot. And you can always open up the aperture, but when you do that, you lose your depth of field."

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Macro Lenses by Digital Photo Secrets

Macro Lenses by Digital Photo Secrets: "You’d think it would be easy to find a bug or a small flower and zoom right in and photograph it. That is until you try it. Macro photography is trickier than most would think"

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Which is best? Spot, Center Weight, or Matrix metering? by Digital Photo Secrets

Which is best? Spot, Center Weight, or Matrix metering? by Digital Photo Secrets: "Metering is one of those subjects that makes hobby photographers put their hands over their ears and sing “la la la, I can’t hear you.” That’s because metering is a bit of a complicated subject. After all, who wants to talk about the way your camera estimates exposure? Shouldn’t that stuff happen behind the scenes, so the photographer can focus on important stuff, like composition?"

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Winter Landscape Photography – PictureCorrect

Winter Landscape Photography – PictureCorrect: "Do you love being outdoors, or watching the world turn to a white winter wonderland? Are you fascinated with the first snow fall? If any of these ring true, you should consider landscapes with a winter scene as the main focus."

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Creative Corporate Portraits Fit For a Creative Ad Agency – PictureCorrect

Creative Corporate Portraits Fit For a Creative Ad Agency – PictureCorrect: "Wexley School For Girls is an advertising agency, self described as a Fan Factory, that creates engaged fanatics, turning consumers into fans of brands. It certainly doesn’t take much to realize the full humorist creativeness of this team."

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Expert Tips for National Parks Photography - Carry On | Travel + Leisure

Expert Tips for National Parks Photography - Carry On | Travel + Leisure: "Photographer Ian Shive has shot hundreds of our nation’s wildest spaces, many of which appeared in The National Parks, Our American Landscape (Earth Aware). The only trouble: they’re often overrun with visitors. Here, Shive reveals five of his favorite experiences in parks both familiar and unsung."

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Quick Tip: How To Take Great Cat Photos | Popular Photography

Quick Tip: How To Take Great Cat Photos | Popular Photography: " wanted a cat’s-eye view of my neighbor’s pet, so I set my Canon PowerShot G9 on the step of my stoop and waited for her to get accustomed to it,” says San Francisco-based artist and healthcare worker Darwin Bell. “Because the camera was a nonthreatening compact, she wasn’t disturbed by it.”"

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10 Photo projects that will make you a better photographer

10 Photo projects that will make you a better photographer: "One of the best ways to make yourself a better photographer is to do projects that will make you focus on a specific thing and allow you to explore all you can within that specific area to make you learn all you can and get you proficient in that area."

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