Here’s a short article that’s full of tips to help you take better portrait pictures with your standard or ‘kit‘ lenses. Most often DSLR cameras with APS-C size sensors, also called 1.5x or 1.6x crop sensors, are supplied with an 18-55mm or 18-70mm lens. Like all elements of photography understanding how to make the most …
Some of us – me included – might need the odd bit of Photoshop to improve our looks, and there are many ways to improve skin texture, tone, remove blemishes etc. Often the techniques are quite hard and in a lot of cases reduce the subjects skin to something akin to the average plastic barbie …
Firstly thanks to all the members who entered, it was a great evening of pictures and indeed a testament to the value of th club’s studio workshop sessions that many of the entries came from those sessions. Thanks to the judge Terry Coffey for his commentary on the pictures. Terry delivered scores on each image …
With the studio workshops running I thought I’d share a few links to some interesting websites that show not only great pictures, but also explain a little about how the effects are achieved. Light an outdoor scene with classical lighting – Joey L / popphoto.com Beers with the Old Masters – Rembrandt & Vermeer – …