Craft & Vision is the brainchild of David DuChemin, and in recent times Craft & Vision has grown to publish way more than David’s great work. In what they call a random act of kindness the latest Craft & Vision II – More great ways to make stronger photographs a 45 page electronic book (PDF) is …
Food photography It’s the summer season and most likely you will be out and about and drawn to the fast food restaurants at some point or another. It’s interesting to compare the pretty product pictures and the real thing you get to eat. Fair play to McDonalds in Canada for showing what goes in to …
If you have access to a studio, an unlimited amount of playtime and more lights than you can count on one hand don’t worry too much about checking out this site… http://www.zvork.fr/vls/ For the rest of us this might just be a good way to practice positioning lights, in a consistent manner, just to see what …
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 …
Photoshop – good, bad or ugly? The amount of photoshopping happening to some photos is incredible, with the right skills it’s possible to make the taken pictures (the camera never lies of course) in to something that never happened in front of the lens. Over the years there have been many cases of images questioned …
Photographers are an odd bunch, they spend loads of time reading about making great pictures, they spend time researching their purchases and then they forget the reading altogether since their new lens is just ace and everything is good when the use it. Know your lenses Many of us have a standard zoom that goes …
Colour management comes from a complex science and complicated mathematics, but actually it’s not hard. Key steps to consistent colour Set-up your monitor correctly Use a hardware device to measure the colour and build a profile for your monitor Make sure your software is set-up correctly Use the profiles that come with your printer / …