tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39264104688216174172024-03-05T13:14:28.916-08:00Before the FrameI have challenged to myself to find 1 new photo project each week. After I have completed the project or technique I will write a blog post on how exactly I did it. I will include instructions and the final outcome pictures.. Please feel free to comment and suggest new topics for each week's blog.heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08706463348556238357noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3926410468821617417.post-90378903198278133012013-10-30T07:02:00.001-07:002013-10-30T07:02:20.831-07:00How to Crop Photos<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">One of my first photography teachers used to tell me "Just fit what you want in the frame when you take the picture, don't take a picture with an intention to crop to fit the photo in the frame." When I first started and what a lot of people who started photography in the age of Photoshop probably did when they first started. I would take an "okay" picture with quite a bit of dead space and think, "well that's okay I can just crop out the dead space later". The thing about cropping is, if used incorrectly it can ruin your picture and can make it impossible to print. If you are ever working in a setting where you have to send your photos to a graphic design team, believe me when I tell you, you will get a stern talking to from the Artistic Director on the project and have none of your photos used from that first photo assignment you got because all of your photos were cropped to hell.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Now if you still feel like you must crop, there are ways to do it that will not absolutely ruin the photo just follow these few steps.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Here's an example from back in 2006 of a picture I just should have taken differently:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Back when I was 15 and first took these photos I am almost positive I thought it was great to get rid of all the extra "dead space" because what I wanted was a tight shot of the bird. Although great in theory, I should I have just taken a tight shot of the bird rather than cropped it like crazy. In this case my cropping made an already bad photo worse. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Now there are going to be times that due to lens restrictions you are not going to be able to get as close as you need to to the subject of the photo. In that case get as close as you can so you do not have to crop so much you ruin the picture or save up for that telephoto lens you want and try to take the pictures at a later date.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>2. Follow the original ratio of the photo.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Here's what happens when you do it incorrectly:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This is a photo I took back in 2009, it was my first sporting event. Now please ignore the fact that his stomach is in focus and not his face, because that is not the topic for today. At this point I knew very little about the technical side to photography, but had somehow landed myself a pretty sweet internship. I thought deleting all the dead space in this picture was a good thing. However this photo in fact this was the one that got me the aforementioned speech from the Artistic Director and a new lesson on photo cropping. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Although some may look at this and think it's a good use of cropping because it shows the action of the photo, the truth is it just distorted the photo and made it unusable.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In this photo there is an extra amount of dead space and the spacing in unintentionally uneven on each side. So I deleted some dead space from the left and top of the photo. If I had just deleted the space from the left side of the photo, it would have changed the ratio of the photo. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Notice, that I kept with the correct ratio of the photo and did not just crop around the girl.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The finished product is slightly more balanced, but not cropped to the point of distortion.</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Always save any cropped photos as a duplicate, keep an original copy of the photo</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Again, don't over crop</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Keep in mind when shooting what you would like the final photo you would like in the frame</span></li>
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to crop the photo in crazy ways, even though there are rules in
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off your art and that's fine. However, if you are doing portraits,
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<span style="text-align: start;"> This is the beginning of a series of posts on Macro, originally I was going to just write one giant post with all the different options from DIY to macro lenses and lighting options, but I decided(mostly having to purchase a few new things and waiting for them to come in decided it for me) it would be best for all if we break it up into some short posts. Now most likely they are not all going to come out one right after the other, there will be 1-2 different topics in between each Macro post.</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: start;">A close up filter is basically an in expensive magnifying glass for your lens, a set of four ranging from +1 to +10 will run you about $10-$15. The things I like about close up filters, is they are small and easy to bring anywhere, they are really simple to use, you just have to screw it onto your lens, they fit onto all of my lenses, and they are really cheap. There are, however, quiet a few drawbacks for them. The first one, obviously, being the quality. This really is one of the lowest quality options, you may not be able to get as close up as you would like to without beginning to distort the photo. Also it's not really the best option for getting a true Macro shot, you may pick-up a little extra detail, but it's not going to be as much detail as the other options out there.</span></div>
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A little extra tip, always have s small spray bottle with some water in your camera bag, this is a tip someone told me a few years ago and it has helped me get some excellent shots. A lot of times I use it for spiderwebs when the sun is hitting them just right. However, I also used it in these photos for the water droplets!</div>
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<br />heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08706463348556238357noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3926410468821617417.post-76788992451234904812012-09-05T20:58:00.001-07:002012-09-05T20:59:23.478-07:00How-to Macro coming soon....A how to Macro photography post will be up on Saturday, here is a bit of a preview!<br />
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Long exposure photos are one of my favorite to take and to look at.This technique is very self explanatory, you want to set you camera for a long exposure time so it can capture all the available light. </div>
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One of my favorite parts of this technique is "painting" with light. Basically all you do is "paint" with a flashlight/lighter a picture, while the camera is taking the photo.
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These are two finished photo's from my living room fireplace. For these two photo's I took multiple exposures of the same area with different parts lit up, then combined them together. The reason I decided to put both in the blog is because I cannot decide which one I like better. I used 3 exposures for each final product.</div>
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The one in the right I just drew in the fire. The one on the right is the same original fire but on the mantle I also highlighted the frame, birdhouse, and figure. Let me know what one you like better and why! :)</div>
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Step One: Set up my tripod and took these 4 photos:</div>
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To take these photo's I set my camera for a 30 second exposure time and f/22(If you want a more technical explanation of what an f/stop is, you can read this article <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-number">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-number</a>). I did not have my wireless remote, so I had to hit the button then run to the other side of my living room with the lighter(not lit until I got to the fireplace, we must practice safe photography) this is why some are a little shaky. I am sure if my neighbors saw what I was doing they probably would have thought I was crazy, thank goodness for blinds. </div>
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Step Two: I uploaded them into Photoshop and pretty much cut and paste them together. The tops of the photo's were pretty easy to transfer over:</div>
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The bottom was a little trickier, mostly because when I first transferred it over it was too big and just looked like it did not belong, so I re-sized it and used the blur tool to blend it all together like this:</div>
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The after that, just make sure all of the new additions to your photo don't leave any unsightly lines that are going to give away the fact that everything was not originally one photo. If you have any of these lines and they are not too noticeable, try to use the blur tool to blur it together.If that doesn't work with out destroying the photo try re-selecting and re-copying over the section of photo you want.</div>
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Here is another example of long exposure photography I took form the hill by my apartment. Unlike the above photos it was taken in just one exposure.<br />
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Another popular use of long exposure photography is for taking photos of moving water(rivers, waterfalls, etc.) I don't have an example of one of these photo's right now, but I will try to post one soon.</div>
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However, there is this hill I come over everyday on my way home from work and I have always wanted to play with Bokeh a little more because you come over it and can see all the city lights.<br />
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Time lapse is a technique which shows a naturally long process in a short amount of time, flower blooming, fruit decaying, sunsets, etc. </div>
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SCQPAG26GFPZ</div>heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08706463348556238357noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3926410468821617417.post-22653984003735015242011-11-04T11:36:00.000-07:002011-11-04T12:21:52.494-07:00Bokeh FiltersBokeh is where you use a shallow depth of field to create a blur that has a pleasing affect on your pictures. This effect is not necessarily limited to highlights and points of light, however that is where it is most easily recognized. A Bokeh filter is used when you want to take indirect points of light and turn them into shapes or designs.<br />
You can purchase Bokeh filters ( <a href="http://photojojo.com/store/awesomeness/bokeh-Kit/">http://photojojo.com/store/awesomeness/bokeh-Kit/</a>) however, they are very simple to make and the homemade ones work just as well.<br />
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You will need, a lens of your choosing, the lens here is a Tamron 28mm to 80mm, a piece of dark construction paper(preferably black, but if you are like me and did not have black, any dark color will do), scissors, a surface to cut on(cutting board, piece of cardboard etc.), and a utility or an exacto knife.</div>
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2. Now you want to put you lens face down onto the piece of paper and trace.</div>
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3. After you have traced the lens 3 or 4 times(depending on how many shapes you would like to make). Draw a small shape in the middle of the circle. Try making different shapes of different sizes so you can find what will work best for your lens. For what I was using it seemed the smaller shapes I made worked better.</div>
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4. Once you have all your shapes, use your knife to cut the shape out of the paper.</div>
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5. Now take your scissors and cut the circle out of the paper and cut down until it fits inside your lens.</div>
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However, if you accidentally cut your circle too small, cut one strip of paper, place that around the edge where are additional light may come through, and use some delicate tape to tape in place. </div>
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Now find a dark place with some indirect light point and shoot. This technique works the best at night however it can be done during the day as well.</div>
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Also depending on the circumstance it may be wise to have a tri-pod with you as you try this, so you can play around with the shutter speeds as much as possible.</div>
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These were just taken of the traffic lights next to my house.</div>
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<br />heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08706463348556238357noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3926410468821617417.post-41377522557185858582011-11-03T23:40:00.000-07:002011-11-04T09:27:08.439-07:00The awkward introductionI have been thinking for probably an hour about some funny, interesting way to start this blog. This is the first blog I have written that isn't strictly for a small group of my close friends. I really did not know it was possible to have stage fright while sitting in front of a computer with no audience to speak of.<br />
Now that the awkward introduction is out of the way I can start the real story. I decided today that I needed motivation to write a blog, I have had one in the past but I have never really been one of those people who thoroughly enjoys writing, so i decided to entice myself with a new challenge to help my blog be more consistent. So I figured why not take something I love (photography) and combine it with something that I really want to love (blogging) and turn it into one epic adventure.<br />
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I have loved taking pictures ever since I can remember, I would always steal my parents camera and shoot until it ran out of film. When I was about 12 years old my parents bought me my first (nice) camera for Christmas and I fell in love. I would make them stand outside in the freezing cold with me for hours as I took 1500 pictures of the same thing. Though out High School my love for photography continued to grow, however I went to a very small high school where no photography classes were offered, so I was more of a "make it up as I go" photographer. When I started college I barely knew what an f/stop was, but I somehow managed to score myself a photography job, shooting for the university I was attending. This is where I really received most of my technical training and worked with some of the best University/Photo Journalist photographers in the business, these guys have been featured in everything from Time Magazine to National Geographic. With my new mentors set in place I took those semesters to learn everything I possibly could. After a year I took time off school, came home, got married, moved to Colorado, and started a full-time job, and left very little room for any sort of photography. So after about 6 months of barely even using my camera. I decided it was time to clean the proverbial dust off my camera and start using it again.<br />
The whole idea of this blog is, each week I will find a photo technique/editing technique I have not tried before, attempt it, and then write a blog about it including photo's of the process and the final project. hopefully not only inspiring myself, but some others as well.<br />
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So here we are...the begining of what I hope to be an excellent adventure.heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08706463348556238357noreply@blogger.com0