Photoshoot and Beyond
I had a few hours to kill before work this morning. So I decided to head down to a public garden a few miles from my house. In the summer this place is full of colour, with roses growing everywhere, up trellises, along the walls, above your head. It’s an old Fort on the seafront, […]
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Category: Travel Photographer: Irwin Scott “Jama Masjid, Delhi, India“ Photographer of the Day Irwin Scott uses symmetry and sculpted light to capture India in this beautiful architectural photograph from Delhi. The people in the building are dwarfed, giving us a sense of scale, and our eye follows the dead-center walkway through the building to the…
Ron Pepper and Scott Bourne discuss the various types of distortion and how to fix them including barrel and pin cushion distortion along with chromatic aberration and rolling shutter. They also discuss the various lens and software choices that can fix all of these problems. Get the show here or get it on iTunes — Don’t forget to…
I am aiming this week at those of you first getting into photography and looking for a budget friendly way of improving your photos! You see, this week I’m giving some love back to the age old concept of “The best camera is the one you have with you”. By that token, the best reflector […]
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Ever done a shoot, and what you saw with your eye didn’t seem to translate to the camera? It happens a lot! You see a majestic landscape, you take a photo on your camera, but when it pops up on the screen it just doesn’t capture the beauty. The same happens with fire when you use […]
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Ever done a shoot, and what you saw with your eye didn’t seem to translate to the camera? It happens a lot! You see a majestic landscape, you take a photo on your camera, but when it pops up on the screen it just doesn’t capture the beauty. The same happens with fire when you use […]
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We’re back again with another installation of our roundup of reader photos from the Photography Bay Flickr Group. Clicking on the photos will take you to its Flickr page where you can read more about the shot, leave a compliment or connect with the photographer. As always, thanks for being a part of Photography Bay and […]
Category: Street. Photograph: “Hanging in the balance” by Lauri Novak (username “Lauri Novak” on Flickr). Originally shared on the Photofocus Flickr community right here. Why I picked this image: Street photography is a broad genre of photography. And while it is often perceived that a human element has to be present in a street photo, that does not have…
Guest Post by Trey Ratcliff – Republished here with permission You can find the original on Trey’s site here. SWITCHING FROM A MAC TO WINDOWS PC I converted to Apple over 5 years ago when it was clear to me Apple made the best products for creative professionals. I loved Apple and became a hardcore…