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Create It!
Get your
creative project rolling. Tips for getting started with great
photography and techniques to improve. Turning your inspiration into
tangible results is the first step in any creative project.
Understanding Digital Exposure
This article covers one of the most basic, yet most
important, concepts in photography...exposure. How to expose your
pictures, handle different lighting situations, and use exposure to
create artistic effects.
Using
Exposure and Contrast to Artistic Effect
A follow-up to "Understanding Digital Exposure", this
article examines techniques aimed at utilizing our exposure settings to
embrace scenes that are otherwise difficult to exposure properly. We'll
cover High Key Photography, Low Key Photography, and Silhouetting.
Using
Shutter Speed to Artistic Effect
A follow-up to "Understanding Digital Exposure", this
article examines techniques aimed at utilizing our shutter speed
settings to capture, or create, a sense of motion in our photographs.
We'll discuss Fireworks, Traffic Trails, Panning, Zoom Bursting, and
more in this article.
When Exposure Gets Tricky: Difficult Light
Situations in Photography
A follow-up to "Understanding Digital Exposure", this
article examines some common circumstances in photography that create
difficulties for properly exposing scenes. We'll discuss techniques for
handling high contrast scenes such as Sunsets, Night Time shots, Night
Time Portraits, and Over-exposed Background Portraits.
Understanding
Digital White Balance In Photography
This article examines one of the fundamental concepts in
digital photography: White Balancing. We'll discuss the purpose,
history, and application of White Balancing for our digital photography.
We'll gain an understanding of Color Temperature; how it is measured and
how it is relevant to the color of our images. We'll discuss methods for
setting technically accurate white balance to achieve realist color and
means by which we can use white balancing to impact our images
artistically.
Studio Photograpy: The How's, What's, and
Why's
Many circumstances leave the photographer
at the mercy of nature, constantly adjusting and compensating for
changing conditions. Studio photography affords the photographer the
opportunity to take things into their own hands! This article
examines some basic principals, equipment, techniques, and lighting
setups.
Cultivate It!
Now
you've planted the seeds of your creativity, its time to cultivate the
results. Learn techniques, processes, and software that can help you
refine your creative capital into refined, intentional projects.
Disseminate It!
Now
you've done it! You've planted the seeds of your inspiration, cultivated
your creativity into an intentional, targeted project and now its time to
disseminate it to the world! Here you'll find interesting techniques on
presenting your project to the world, with a focus on artistically
interactive flash/swish design for digital presentation and creative
bookbinding and card making for a more tactile presentation.
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