Thursday, January 29, 2015

Long Exposure Photos

http://photography.tutsplus.com/articles/50-captivating-slow-shutter-speed-photos--photo-476

Some of the things that you can do with the camera are amazing. One of these being able to leave the shutter open for long periods of time and doing long exposure settings.

Doing long exposure photography is something that you have to get used to and get to know. While you are dealing with leaving the shutter open for long periods of time, you have to worry about the other settings of the camera or else it could leave for over exposed or under exposed shots especially when dealing with night photos. Long exposure is something you have to work with, but the end results can be amazing.

A lot of things that you can do with long exposure photography vary from doing shots to create a timelapse, shooting star trails streaking across the night sky, or seeing the flow of water in a waterfall. Other things that people tend to have a lot of fun with long exposure, is light painting. Leaving the shutter open and using light streaks to draw things in the image. These ideas can turn out great!

Thursday, January 22, 2015

Cory Richards

Cory Richards

http://www.coryrichards.com/
http://vimeo.com/94614809

Cory Richards is a climber and photographer. A lot of his photos are what he has captured while out doing climbing adventures and his travels. Many pieces show beautiful landscapes from around the world, as him and him company travel through them in attempts to climb.

In his video, he talks about being in the harsh environments and how uncomfortable he feels when he is capturing his photos. It goes along with getting out of your comfort zone to capture what it is that you truly want.

Wednesday, January 14, 2015

100 Tips

http://tutons.com/100-tips-professional-photographers/

An article that I recently stumbled upon. It contains a lot of tips from other photographers for photographers.

Through reading it, I realize that a lot of it is true and can help a lot of people. With most of the tips, I can relate to them because they are things that I do not follow enough of. I believe that I should get out more and shoot things. It's always nice to have your camera on you because you can miss a lot of opportunities that you see everyday. Walking around, being at work, or even just driving to class, you might see something that you think would make a great photo. By, not having your camera on you, you miss the opportunity.

There are also things that go on to say, "the more you take photos, the better you'll get," or "you can learn a lot about yourself through photography." There are a lot of things that I agree with in this article. By looking through the eyepiece of a camera, or even thinking about how you plan on capturing a subject and how you want to portray it, you start to see things in a different light. Things start to look different to you; you want to think about what other people will think when they see your photos. What is the message that you want to convey to the viewer? Or, even how you want the viewer to feel when they see your photo. I think that it's small things like these, over time, can come to change a person.