The photography world is constantly rattled by many opinion clashes. Which is the better camera, which is the better photography style and even which format is better to save photos in.
These and many more questions keep cropping up and seem like never ending. This discussion will help you in putting an end to at least one of such questions, that is, shooting in RAW vs JPEG – which is the better?
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I have so many friends who have the good fortune to travel the world, but they always come home frustrated because they either try to take portraits in obvious places, standing on top of the landmark with thousands of people all around, or they don’t show the things that they found interesting or personal about where they were.
So let’s dive in to solving for these common location fails.
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Photography is without a doubt a very powerful form of artistic expression. Although Instagram can make us all feel like pros, pictures of food and posted selfies do not even come close to professional photographers’ portfolio.
So today, let’s talk specifics and study top qualities which differentiate experienced photographers from the amateur crowd.
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Trick photography – creating appealing illusions with your camera
Trick photography helps in creating an illusion of the scene through the ideas of the photographer. While there’re many, some of the popular trick photography ideas include tilt-shift, infrared, high speed, light painting, zoom & panoramic photography.
Trick photography is a way to make a scene look more appealing and attractive to the audience by adding certain special effects to achieve desired outcome that a simple photograph of the scene would not be able to achieve.
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Minimalism as an artistic philosophy is difficult to precisely define. There are certain elements that are largely agreed upon, the foremost being that minimalism is all about simplicity.
Different photographers may have varying definitions of simple. If you were to give 10 photographers the same subject and ask them to shoot it within their own idea if minimalism, you’d likely get 10 completely different photos back.
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I have a family that I shoot several times a year, They’re “show people” , all outgoing and crazy and fun, and after at a certain point, the mom, Ginette, said to me, “You know, I love all of the perfect and beautiful shots that you get of us, but I think it’s time to show the world the kind of circus that I live in.
Ooh! Fun!!
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Of all the different fields of photography, street photography might be the most difficult. However, it’s also an area that many aspiring photographers jump into first. Street photography almost seems like the reason photography was created for in the first place.
Unlike taking photos in a studio, shooting landscapes or working with models, street photography entails a bit of chaos.
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Businesses as well as individual business professionals have a wide range of photography needs that may need to be filled over time, and as a professional photographer, you have the opportunity to profit when you make an effort to fill these needs.
There are essentially two types of corporate photography that you can focus on, and you may choose to focus your efforts on both of them.
Weddings, birthday parties, anniversary dinners, christenings, product launches, retirement parties – these are special occasions and people always want professionally taken photographs to remember them by.
This means that if you can perfect your technique and build a good portfolio of event images, you will always be in demand!
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There is a huge trend among baby photographers to do all of those awesome shots of babies all curled up and almost “in the womb” looking.
I LOVE those shots, but they have very definite parameters, meaning that you have to catch the baby while she is still curly; so 3 to 7, or sometimes, at the very oldest, 12 days old.
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