Archive for the ‘Photography’ Category

Common mistake that screw up your pictures

Thursday, October 18th, 2007

It seems that this mistake will happen to anybody. Sometimes you thing that you are about to take a good pic. And bang!, any of this typical error might appear.

Reflection of the Flash on the background of the picture
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Red eyes
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The stuffed flash is too high
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Some lines might be verticals or horizontals, but they aren’t.
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Twisted lines in buildings
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Darkened corner, because of the incorrect use of some filters.
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Abnormally blue skies, causing by the use of some filters.
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Images with too much or too little depth of field
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Source: dZoom

15 tips for picture illumination

Thursday, October 11th, 2007

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dzoom.com is presenting 15 top quality tips for you to improve the illumination on your pictures, whether it’s day or night, you’re picture should always be perfect.

Interior illumination:

  • The more natural light, the better.
  • Don’t use flash
  • Remember to use the white balance

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13 steps for improving your images

Thursday, September 27th, 2007

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Many of us have had a great picture with a beautiful landscape, but it has a couple things that definitely take that spark of perfection out of it. PhotoAxe.com is providing its visitors a very well designed tutorial with 13 steps for improving our images.


Step 1: Cutting and rotating
This is a great help in composition, because thanks to this, we can concentrate more in the subject of the picture.

Step 2: Eliminating objects:
When a few objects are showing up in our picture that we don’t want like people, animals, plants, etc. According to the place we found ourselves taking pictures and we just can’t get rid of them at that time. For this type of situations it’s a great time to use the Clone tool in photoshop.

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The icy effect in Photoshop

Tuesday, September 25th, 2007

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CristalLab.com is demonstrating a very easy way on how to give the icy effect in Photoshop. A very interesting tutorial that show us step by step all the way how to create the image you see above.

3 simple steps on taking pictures without good light

Wednesday, September 19th, 2007

I know many of us have had this problems before. The most common thing that happens is that the subject will appear on the picture with too little or too much light and sometimes when we have the perfect background, the subject is almost visible.

1st solution:
Using the flash, even if the day is sunny. In other to make this solution work, you have to be nearby the subject.

2nd solution:
If you find yourself distant from the object, and you can’t or you don’t wish to change the angle, there is a function called D-Light given only by new cameras.

3rd solution:
As we already know, Photoshop is a great tool when it comes to image editing. The only thing you’re going to need are two identical pictures. With the single difference that the first image will have a F 3.2 and a time of exposition of 0.1 secs. On the second picture, the opening will be the same, but the exposition time will be now of 0.4 secs. It’s good to use a tripod to avoid the movement within the picture, so they both are in the exact same place. With the help of Photoshop you’ll be blending the images so they become one.

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Source: PhotoAxe