Contre-jour, a French term with a literal meaning of “against the light”, refers to photographs that were taken with the camera directly pointing toward the source of light. Contre-jour is also a photography technique to create a silhouette of a subject that is surrounded by a soft and halo-esque light. This technique is known in […]
Photographers who take photographs at night or in low light usually use long exposures when taking photos. If you want to blur light and motion, you can also use long exposures. Shutter speeds as slow as one second are often required under low-light conditions. If you want to make night scenes to appear as bright
Many amateur photographers and seasoned professional photographers alike find night photography quite a challenge. Of course, when shooting night photography, a photographer must be prepared for low light conditions. Light (as we know) is an important element in photography and taking photos with less than adequate light conditions pose a challenge even to experienced photographers.
Landscape is one of the most favorite subjects of seasoned and amateur photographers alike. Landscape photography is a photography style that captures the beauty of nature in all its glory. Photographers who dabble in landscape photography use tools like pinhole camera or a large format camera and tripod, using wide angle lens.
Many photographers doing studio photography use a soft box as an alternative to an umbrella to diffuse lighting. Many of the lighting principles when using an umbrella as a light diffuser apply when using a soft box in illuminating objects. However, it usually requires a more powerful light source than umbrella or direct lighting. As
Aside from many photographers, graphic artists and designers also use colored filters to apply their desired tones to their photographers. The use of filters can help highlight and dramatize a photograph. The most commonly used filters are the cooling filters and the warming filters. The warm filters are usually used to achieve warm orange tones
Many photographers find the challenge and excitement of street photography very enticing. For them, they feel exceptionally rewarded when they are able to create great pictures from street photography. There are a lot of interesting and unique subjects to take photographs of in the streets. Good street photographers are able to take great pictures of
The rising popularity of minimalist cooking has been changing the realm of food photography. With minimalist cooking, rarely used and specialized cooking utensils, expensive and hard to acquire ingredients have been scaled down to the bare minimum. Some people think that the recession has spurred the rise of minimalist cooking but there are those who