With over 500,000 apps for the iPhone and a growing amount for Android and Windows mobile devices and smart phones, the ability to capture a picture anytime, anywhere is reaching a tipping point. It is moving from fanciful gadget to quality image producer. The latest cameras on these phones are moving into the realm of useful optics and image quality.
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Getting all your family in the same place at the same time can be hard enough. Add to that trying to organize them into a coherent group for their photograph to be taken, and it can be a nightmare. But in my experience, it’s always worth the effort.
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Just because you didn’t get to go to that awesome photography conference doesn’t mean that you can’t learn something from the pros! Occasionally, we’ll be featuring a recommended photography lecture or interview on Phototuts+.
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Noise is something that drives many photographes wild. In the pursuit of technical excellence, many shooters attempt to eliminate the presence of what I refer to as the digital era’s equivalent of grain. Photographers chase many different solutions to eliminate grain, but my experience editing has shown that many photographers are missing the big secret.
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Friday Photo Critique is our weekly community project, where we publish a photograph submitted by one of our wonderful readers, then ask you all to offer constructive feedback on the image. It’s a great way to learn more about photography, express your viewpoint, and have your own image critiqued!
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As a photographer, it’s essential that you understand how the light is working within your shots. Contrary to popular belief, lighting a portrait shot doesn’t have to be tricky or complicated. You don’t need a wealth of expensive equipment and it doesn’t take an expert to understand which lighting scenarios work and which don’t.
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Patterns surround us in both natural and manmade forms, offering photographers great opportunities for dramatic and eye catching shots. But how do we best utilise pattern in our work? Today we’ll be taking a look at several different examples to better understand pattern in photographic composition.
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As one of the most practiced forms of photography, landscapes attract many to pick up a camera and start shooting. Photographers enticed to capture unique scenes are constantly striving to make great photographs of the areas that surround them. Because of this, many photographers are looking for ways to improve their craft of making fine landscape photos, and today we’ll take a look at how to get started in landscape photography.
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The first thing people say when they see my Birds of Prey Portrait Sessions is “nice Photoshop cutout work”. In fact, it’s not a cutout, the birds are photographed against a white background. Let me show you how.
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For many, the concept of abstract art breeds images of what appear to the uneducated eye as random swathes of color and shape tossed into a scene to create something the artists deems representation of a specific entity such as an emotion or situation.
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