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Feel, Touch, Love
Have you ever taken a picture and then looked at it on your device and thought - “that is not what it felt like when I looked at it”? The reason you were likely drawn to wanting to take the picture, was because the scene emoted something for you. It called you, caught your eye and stirred something in you that said - “I want to preserve this slice in time, forever”. Then you look at it and you’re disappointed. There is some dissonance between what you recall of that moment and what you’re looking at on your screen. This is one of the reasons I love to edit my photos shortly after taking them. This way I can make sure to stay true to what I remember of that moment.
By Rosalynn Guillen6 years ago in Photography
Squares and Superimposing
Taking photos has always been one of my favorite hobbies, so the chance to share my creative process behind some of my favorite photos I’ve ever taken was an opportunity I had to take. Photography can come in many ways but for me I just slip my phone out of my back pocket and began becoming inspired by nature, creativity, and my imagination. Usually I have a particular aesthetic that I personally follow but to put it in a word for others to understand the word would be: “dreamy”. I like for my photos to look as if they’ve just been specially plucked from my imagination, but there would be no way for me to succeed in bringing my vision to life by without these apps and their features:
By Summer Baldwin6 years ago in Photography
The Amateur Photographer
What is Photography? Photography is the art of taking something simple and mundane and turning it into something everyone wants to see. It’s seeing the extraordinary in the ordinary or seeing beauty in the regular things; that’s what makes it an art. Not everyone has a keen eye to spots photo worthy moments or spot what could be a million-dollar picture. When taking photos, you should always remember that the camera is an extension of yourself. You shouldn’t think of the lense as just an inanimate object, but more like a contact lense added to your original eye to enhance the original vision you got about the person, place or thing you want to take a picture of.
By Hidden Creativity6 years ago in Photography
Mountain Glass Reflections and the Milky Way. Second Place in Before and After Challenge.
How I Captured this Photo Last summer, I invited one of my good friends Connor on a road trip across Colorado. One of my strongest passions is adventure filmmaking, and so we set out for a 4 day trip in July, with the plan to depart from Boulder, CO, across the state, down to Carson, CO, then over to Durango, and up to Silverton, and back North from there.. We had a lot of miles to cover in a short window. You’d think we’d have a solid plan of attack with some activities planned out and campsites lined up. But we didn’t. And this created some unusual challenges and very late nights for us, but it also allowed us more latitude to change our plans last minute, and that's what allowed this photo to happen.
By Davis Yates6 years ago in Photography
The Secret to Creating Your Own Signature Photo Look in Lightroom
Have you ever scrolled through a professional photographer's Instagram account? If you're reading this article, I'm gonna guess that you're interested in photography, and I'm gonna take that guess one step further and assume that, yes, you have scrolled through the Instagram accounts of a number of professional photographers. And when you did, you probably noticed something: all of there photos have a uniform look to them. I used to scroll through these Instagram accounts and wonder how they achieved this. Each photo was different, yet there was something that gave them all a similar feel.
By Reese Marie6 years ago in Photography
the final edit
I wasn’t like the other girls. I never edited my photos. I knew my friends and all their friends would spend hours before posting—filling out their top lips, blurring pimples, and photoshopping out the cigarettes they were holding—but not me. And not because I was confident, but because I was so painfully insecure that I did not want to even make an attempt to alter pictures in any way in fear of someone noticing…because if someone notices…then not only do they know you’re insecure about posting, but also terrible at doing so. This was not a risk worth taking for me. Photography was improving at a pace I couldn’t keep up with, and it was my freshman year of college, so my high school siblings were already at risk of being cooler than me. I was still primarily using Facebook, and my sister had given up trying to get me to understand Instagram. She once told me that I’m embarrassing myself by getting under thirty likes and that I should probably delete anything that doesn’t hit the mark. I rarely hit thirty, and when I did, it was usually thanks to my little sister telling all her friends that I had posted and they should go like it. Usually, any given post would have a like or two from people my age, and the comments would be flooded with heart eye emojis from thirteen year olds.
By king virginia6 years ago in Photography
Architecture, Real Estate, and Landscape Photo Editing Tips and Tricks
When I was about halfway through high school, I found myself in need of a job above and beyond the carwashing and lawn mowing I'd been offering for years. As it so happened, I found a gig that paid ok, could be done from home, and worked to some of my strengths - I became a photo editor for a photographer specializing in real estate and architecture. Back when I was spending hours a week straightening horizons, editing lens dust out of the sky, and trying to hide personal belongings that had snuck into the carefully staged shots, I wish I'd had an article like this one to help me out. Whether you're just handling the editing, are trying to kickstart your own photography business, or even just want to take pictures of funky buildings for fun, I've teamed up with that very same photographer, the talented Sheila Say, to bring you the insights and hacks she uses every day to satisfy realtors and magazines alike.
By Rio Breakell6 years ago in Photography
Simple Edits on Lightroom
Photo editing is an art medium itself, where images can be rendered and turned into something completely different from the original shot. I admire the creativity and skill put into photo processing, and everyone has their own editing style.
By Joanna6 years ago in Photography
Eye of the Beholder
I’ve never owned a "nice camera." The priciest one was a Nikon Coolpix for around 100 bucks in 2009. For a long time, I felt like the kind of camera you were using determined if you were a photographer or not; and, yes, in the time before smartphones, this was considerably true. However, I have always loved taking photos. And, thanks to the shifting times and technologies, more people like myself have the opportunity to become a skillful photographer and a master editor.
By Brandye Kemp6 years ago in Photography
Sadness through the pandemic
As an amateur photographer I’m still learning a lot about my Nikon camera, lighting, and editing. Quite frankly, I feel more comfortable capturing moments in my phone than in my professional camera. Originally, I was going to breakdown the process of a fashion photo I took of a good friend of mine. I used my Nikon D600, had a rustic background and quite frankly my friend looked like a Calvin Klein ad. However, as I was selecting the pictures, I scrolled to one I took a few weeks ago that really made an impact on me. Just like any artist, a photographer needs inspiration to capture moments in time and make them beautiful. Although I try to do this with my camera, sometimes my phone traps moments that are breathtaking.
By Mario Garnica jr6 years ago in Photography
Witch Doctor!
This is a plague doctor/Witch doctor, photoshoot I did back in september of 2020. The purpose was to create a horror fantasy cosplay look for the "plague doctor skull mask" I made for my on line store. (The wardrobe was also designed by myself.) I've worked with this model on a few other photoshoots. So I knew she would be excited to come on board. First we did a set with her wearing the plague doctor mask. Then did another set to highlight her face as well as the wardrobe and props. The camera that was used was a Sony a7s with 24, 35 and 100mm rokinon lenses. We shot inside Cineview studios in st. petersburg, florida. Chris Jackson, (The owner of the studio) set up the lighting for us.
By Karl Huber6 years ago in Photography
