If you think you need digital trickery to create awesome levitation photos, think again.
Programs like Photoshop have given rise to a new wave of amazing, unbelievable pictures that amateurs and professionals alike can design with just a few button presses. But while digitally manipulating photography may have opened up a whole new world in terms of what photographers can do after taking the shot, there are plenty of good old-fashioned real-world tricks out there that professionals have been using for decades to make us see what they want us to see in their photographs.
Want to know how you can use some of these low-tech magic in your own photos? Read on for seven tips that will make your photography soar (get it? – it’s a levitation joke) without you needing to shell out for expensive software.
Programs like Photoshop have given rise to a new wave of amazing, unbelievable pictures that amateurs and professionals alike can design with just a few button presses. But while digitally manipulating photography may have opened up a whole new world in terms of what photographers can do after taking the shot, there are plenty of good old-fashioned real-world tricks out there that professionals have been using for decades to make us see what they want us to see in their photographs.
credits to lookbook.nu
Want to know how you can use some of these low-tech magic in your own photos? Read on for seven tips that will make your photography soar (get it? – it’s a levitation joke) without you needing to shell out for expensive software.
Are you a food traveler? Do you feature your food excursions on a blog or in a diary? If so, taking photos of your meals and sharing them with your blog readers, friends or family is a great way to show them the foods you have enjoyed during your travels. There are a few things to keep in mind when taking pictures of food. Done the wrong way, the dish can look unappetizing and misleading. Done the right way, the dish can look so good you can taste it! Listed below are a few tips for taking great photos of food:
1. Focus: It is very important to keep every part of the food in focus and to shoot your photo at close range. You want the dish to look as realistic as possible, so if any part of the meal is out of focus, adjust the lighting and camera range until you get a good shot. If you have a digital SLR camera, and you really want to impress; turn off the automatic exposure setting on your camera and use a faster shutter speed (1/60th or 1/200th) coupled with a larger aperture (f/2 or f/2.8). Using these settings will keep the food in sharp focus while blurring the background; creating a very professional looking photograph. However, it will require you to take several test shots until you get the settings just right.
2. Angles: Because lighting often can’t be controlled in a restaurant environment, your camera angle really is the key to getting a great shot of your meal. Take several shots at different angles to test which angle gets the best photo of the dish. Often, the best angle from which to shoot a plate of food is from up above. Lift your camera about a foot directly over the dish (lens pointing at the dish), move the camera back towards your face about 4-5 inches (lens still pointing at the dish) and shoot. This may require you stand up. Make sure that you have also positioned the dish in the direction it was placed in front of you. There is a specific way the dish is to be placed on the table and a specific way it is to be viewed; this is the same position you want to use when photographing the plate.However, the one rule to remember when choosing an angle is to choose the angel that looks best to your eye (just make sure the lighting is good for a photo). If that means using an unusual angle to get the shot, do
1. Focus: It is very important to keep every part of the food in focus and to shoot your photo at close range. You want the dish to look as realistic as possible, so if any part of the meal is out of focus, adjust the lighting and camera range until you get a good shot. If you have a digital SLR camera, and you really want to impress; turn off the automatic exposure setting on your camera and use a faster shutter speed (1/60th or 1/200th) coupled with a larger aperture (f/2 or f/2.8). Using these settings will keep the food in sharp focus while blurring the background; creating a very professional looking photograph. However, it will require you to take several test shots until you get the settings just right.
2. Angles: Because lighting often can’t be controlled in a restaurant environment, your camera angle really is the key to getting a great shot of your meal. Take several shots at different angles to test which angle gets the best photo of the dish. Often, the best angle from which to shoot a plate of food is from up above. Lift your camera about a foot directly over the dish (lens pointing at the dish), move the camera back towards your face about 4-5 inches (lens still pointing at the dish) and shoot. This may require you stand up. Make sure that you have also positioned the dish in the direction it was placed in front of you. There is a specific way the dish is to be placed on the table and a specific way it is to be viewed; this is the same position you want to use when photographing the plate.However, the one rule to remember when choosing an angle is to choose the angel that looks best to your eye (just make sure the lighting is good for a photo). If that means using an unusual angle to get the shot, do
We were so excited to share our baby news here in our blog. I am 5 months pregnant and we are having a boy! In My Womb has a promo for Fetal Biometry with 3D for only P1800, inclusive of fetal biometry report, 5 B/W pics and 5 colored pics of your baby in 3D. We availed this promo last Friday and it was reassuring to see our baby moving and hearing his heartbeat. I love to stay in the room for the whole day and
just watch what he's doing inside me.
just watch what he's doing inside me.
Robert Pattinson as Edward Cullen and Kristen Stewart as Bella Swan
Watch the Breaking Dawn movie trailer...
WVIL stands for Wireless Viewfinder Interchangeable Lens. The WVIL enacts Artefact's fascination for creativity and strategic vision in the camera world.
Here's the video of this Concept Camera envisioned by Artefact's award-winning design team. It answers the question: “what’s next for camera design?”
Concept Camera: The WVIL from Artefact on Vimeo.
Palm branches blessed in church mark the start of the Holy Week. Me and Joemel attended the 7pm mass at Quiapo church to bless the palm branches we bought.
After the mass I attended our high school reunion at Shunji's Resort.
Our organizer and host, Rachelle
Angelo, Apple, Kathrina, and Judy
Team B (My team!)
Jeanne Harn & Me
Our first plan was to go to Republiq, Resorts World but the plan was messed up when our friend's contact, who's our only hope to be on the guestlist was suddenly in Boracay. So yeah to not ruin our day our group still met at Resorts World.
While waiting for the people who organized this meetup, we did a photoshoot outside the Resorts World.
When we got tired we went inside the Resorts World. At the entrance, the promo girls of the casino gave us a form to avail their casino membership card with P100 that we can use to play inside. Other perks are 20%
While waiting for the people who organized this meetup, we did a photoshoot outside the Resorts World.
Apple "Emotera"
Second day in Hong Kong
All of us decided to go shopping first on the second day of our stay in Hong Kong. What's shopping without Hong Kong dollars? Together with Jazz, from Sai Kung we went to Frankie Money Changer in Worlwide Plaza located at Central. It is better to exchange US dollars than Peso to Hong Kong dollars when you go to Hong Kong. The exchange rate we got was HK$7.7 for US$1.
All of us decided to go shopping first on the second day of our stay in Hong Kong. What's shopping without Hong Kong dollars? Together with Jazz, from Sai Kung we went to Frankie Money Changer in Worlwide Plaza located at Central. It is better to exchange US dollars than Peso to Hong Kong dollars when you go to Hong Kong. The exchange rate we got was HK$7.7 for US$1.
7-Eleven Sai Kung
1A Bus Terminal Sai Kung
We went to Sham Shui Po after to check gadgets in Golden Computer Arcade. If you are looking for gaming consoles, computer peripherals and accessories for laptop, iPod touch, iPhone and iPad, then this is the best place. We tried to canvass for iPad 2 which has just been released in US only.