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- Towards Better People Pictures!
This article provides a brief tutorial on how to take better people pictures. The topics covered include getting to know your camera, understanding your subject, a bit of posing, and fill flash. - Children in the Studio
Photographing children, as in most people, has a lot less to do with my equipment, lighting and props, than with my rapport with my subjects and the environment I provide or seek out for them. The environment has just as much to do with the subject’s comfort and demeanor as it’s actual presence in the shot. - Quick Photoshop Sepia Tone Effect Tutorial
Sepia, pronounced, "see-pee-uh", is originally a brown pigment obtained from the ink like secretion of various cuttlefish and was originally used as ink for writing. Later, a more concentrated form was produced for use in watercolor paintings. Photographs of the 1800’s where primarily printed on paper that was not acid free and as they aged, the photograph turned brown or "aged". - Photographing Inanimate Objects
Before I became a professional photographer, I never noticed in an average day how often we come across photographs of anything and everything. Photographs make up every magazine, billboard, clip art, product label and the list goes on and on. - Umbrella
I shoot different things for different reasons. Inthe moment, while taking the photograph, it usuallyfeels right. I'm not thinking, at all. But even if Iknow why, at the time, do I really? - Take Better Photographs With Fill In Flash
The first time that I heard a comment about my pictures and my use of fill in flash, I had no idea what my photographer friend was talking about. So I just smiled and acted like I knew what he was talking about. Not being one to be left in the dark, though, I decided to do my homework. What I discovered has been an asset to my photographs and particularly to my wedding photography work. - Water Spouts - Are You Ready?
So I was on my way to begin shooting for my 2008 Dogs of Key West Calendar and off to my right I spotted two water spouts. Like any good photographer (and terrible driver) I pulled my car over to the side of the road jumped out with my Nikon D70, through a 70-200mm VR lense on and started snapping away. - Eye Examination Photograph - Slit Lamp
This is a photograph shot inside an operating room. There was no operation in progress during or after the image was photographed. However, an examination is quite a daunting process for an ophthalmologist, when the patient is an infant. Infants obviously tend to get scared of lights being shined into their eyes by strangers! - Short films: the writing/directing pitfall
Often seen in student films the writing/directing syndrome is the source of many mistakes that could have been prevented by giving more control over your creation to another person. - Photographing Black Dogs
A better title might be, "Can you find the dog in this picture?" You would be amazed at how many times we can wind up with a photo of a black dog where the bushes or shadows behind him cause him to magically disappear just as you try to get that shot of him looking absolutely adorable. - Shaped Postcards – A Novelty That Works
Forme cut postcards are a great way to advertise something as they are far more exciting to look at than a traditional rectangular shape. They are also more eye catching than paying for advertising in someone else’s publication. Only a few extra steps are needed to progress electronic artwork to send to the printers for forme cutting. I designed this forme postcard in Adobe Photoshop CS and Adobe Indesign CS. - Vector Design - Using Adobe Photoshop CS (Tutorial)
When you think of Vector design, one does not need to rely on Adobe Illustrator to trace the image. Using the trusted Adobe Photoshop, you can achieve the similar effect of a Vector Graphic by manipulating the Polygonal/Magnetic Lasso Tool and apply colour via using the Paint Bucket tool. - Logo Design: Melding Sketches With Electronic Artwork
I recently designed a vector logo for a Melbourne based band, The Kultivators, who needed an image of a skeleton on a combine harvester in an Ed Roth style of illustration. - Fashion Design: Combining Aesthetics with the Environment
Whilst brainstorming for ideas for my fashion design project, I wanted to create a collection that both represented my design philosophy as well as being related to the environment that the clothing would be placed in. Henceforth, a dynamic creative explosion of ideas emerged and it marked the start of an exciting design journey ahead. - An intranet is the cousin of the internet
An intranet is the first cousin to the internet and it yields a degree of credit to your business. I was fortunate to be working for a design agency in Edinburgh some years ago. The agency was being reviewed for a prestigious Scottish award and the MD wanted to win the award desperately. I was assigned the mission of designing and content managing the intranet. - Designing Magazine Features for Advertising
Magazine feature pages contain items that are grouped in the same subject and displayed together. This may include an article, ads and photos on "where to travel in Australia", to a group of modular ads for the latest art galleries, touted as an "advertising feature". - Image Formats and Web Design
For web designers JPEGs save space and load time, and offer a good general image format for digital photos and some logos. When using JPEGs you must be careful to avoid image degradation. If a JPEG is edited and then saved again as a JPEG, your image will have deteriorated in quality because it has been compressed twice. Sometimes in only two or three generations this can render the image unusable. - Creating a Flash movie without using Macromedia Flash
After years of using Adobe CS, I attempted to learn Macromedia Flash, but was put off by the user-unfriendly interface and the long tutorials which didn't seem to make sense. So after a bit of research on the internet, I found out how to make a Flash movie in ImageReady. These techniques can also be used to export a Flash movie from Illustrator. - Remake of Vogue Music Video by Madonna
I re-made two previous music videos for fun (In the Navy by Village People and Ice Ice Baby by Vanilla Ice) and entered them in the 2005 National Video Test and was awarded runner-up prizes. This time, the television show called me prior to announcing the 2006 competition and asked if I was interested. Of course I was and I thought I needed to raise the bar. I needed to challenge myself and my team. I chose Vogue. - Nifty Design and Development to NiftyBlythe.Com
NiftyBlythe.Com is the online catelogue website for N:ifty@Work, a Singapore base push cart selling Blythe Dolls' accessories like clothes, eye chips, socks, shoes, anything that a Blythe owner would want to beauty up their Blythe friends. - Product Review: Paint Shop Pro
Many years ago I needed to create some graphics. Nothing fancy, just some images for documentation at work. I had used several graphics programs in the past, none of which really did the job that I needed. I wanted a simple interface, a lot of power, and most important of all, I did not want to spend half the day waiting for the graphics program to catch up to me. - Tips And Tricks For Your First Fashion Photo Shoot
Although fashion shoots look complicated when the photos are finally finished. The actual shoot may be very simple. Sometimes usuing one light and one model can have amazing outcomes. Little usually goes a long way when shooting fashion. - Introduction To Fashion Photography
This photo turned out to be my first cover. The shoot was actually very simply set and easy to do. - Identity: Mode ID - The Fashion Idea
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