- photo contests ▼
- photoshop contests ▼
- Tutorials ▼
- Social ▼Contact options
- Stats ▼Results and stats
- More ▼
- Help ▼Help and rules
- Login
One of the best ways to become an experienced and efficient photographer is to work for a newspaper. The demands and variety of work will see you develop excellent time management and social skills highly necessary in all areas of photography. The work is varied and challenging and sometimes travel is required.
submitted: 5 years and 3640 days ago
In the days of film the professional and the keen amateur photographer would spend a lot of time in the dark room working with chemicals to create wonderful photographs. The developing labs seen all over the world were established and developing film became easy and affordable. In resent years we have seen the advent of digital photography and huge changes in the way a photographer deals with images. A digital computer and a good colour printer have replaced the dark room.
submitted: 5 years and 3640 days ago
A correctly exposed photograph will be one where the optimal amount of light will fall on the focal plane. Exposure on to film will create an image just as it does in for each individual pixel on our digital CCD. Too much light and the highlights will be blown out and the picture will be washed away in white light. Too little light and the image will be dark and less colourful. Correct exposure is a balance between shutter speed, which lets light in over a period of time, and aperture, which is a hole that depending on the size, will allow more or less light to enter the light tight box on our camera.
We know you already know this, if you have come this far with this ebook.
Let's go on and enjoy a more detailed explanation.
submitted: 5 years and 3640 days ago
There are many ways we can photograph a single subject and a good photographer will be thinking of how to create something unique and special in any scene. Sometimes it is as easy as changing our angle of view and getting down low or being above the subject. Getting in close to focus on a part of the overall picture can often be what we need to do. A beanbag is very useful for supporting a camera when lying down for that low shot.
Let's look at some techniques and go on to look at how to handle a camera.
submitted: 5 years and 3640 days ago