Creating nude portraits has long been an element of art - instead of capturing these portraits with the brush on canvas; today they are captured with the pixel.
Since the invention of photography the naked human body has been a natural subject for photographers and there has always been a large audience there for it.
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Advertisement Photography
Advertisement photography is by far one of the most competitive forms of photography. This is mainly due to the fact that you can earn far more money than in any other aspect of photographic industry.
Every day companies pay millions of dollars on advertisement; with one goal - to sell their product. Companies want to tell [...]
Black and White Photography
With today’s digital technology, transforming colour images into black and white photographic prints is pretty straightforward but don’t throw away your rolls of black and white film.
Black and white photography is still regarded as a favourite with many photographers - dull landscape scenes become more dramatic with black and white photography.
Most subjects that are shot [...]
Travel Photography Starts At Home
Are you a budding travel photographer with all the required skills but not the time to travel to the locations to take those one in a million shots you’ve been dreaming of? You feel you are ready to take the leap and launch your photography career but can’t afford to give up the 9 to [...]
August 13th, 2008 | Barbara House | 1 comment | Continued
HDR - Breathing New Life into Old Photos
High Dynamic Range (HDR) photography has recently captured my fancy. I’ve been looking at some wonderfully talented photographers experimenting with HDR, and I’ve recently completed reading The HDRI Handbook by Christian Bloch. Intrigued, I decided to attempt some HDR images with my photos.
August 12th, 2008 | Barbara House | 6 comments | Continued
Beginning in Photography - Shooting in Low Light
Shooting in low light can produce some stunning results. Colors are richer in the early and late hours of the day, and subjects such as buildings that are dull and uninteresting during daytime take on an entirely new persona lit up at night. This article looks at some techniques for making the most of low [...]
August 11th, 2008 | Barbara House | 2 comments | Continued
Beginning in Photography - Tripod - Friend or Foe?
They’re heavy, expensive, conspicuous, take time to set up and take apart again. In short, tripods are a nuisance. And in this age of digital cameras, we can always increase the ISO sensitivity to accommodate a low light situation. So why bother with one at all? Let’s look at some of the advantages of using [...]
August 6th, 2008 | Barbara House | 1 comment | Continued
Get the Perfect Exposure - Every Time!
Did you ever get back a fresh batch of film, only to be disappointed in finding out that you got back wash-out boring images.
The problem is that you didn’t expose your film properly.
Whether we use a digital or film camera, we need to be able to calculate exposure properly.
Self Promotion - Web 2.0 and Social Linking for Photographers
So you’ve created a photoblog, or a gallery of your photos - and now it’s time to start getting the word out. There are a lot of folks that think making money as a photographer can’t possibly involve Web 2.0 strategies and social networking, but that’s taking a very limited view of self promoting [...]
July 28th, 2008 | Barbara House | 6 comments | Continued
