Category: Shoot

Sports photography

Shooting good pictures of sports events is challenging at best. Rob Miracle is offering good advice about sports photography, grouped in several important categories: Location, Location, Location! The Decisive Moment Required Equipment Depth of Field — Isolating the subject Focus Composition Know your Sport, Know your Players Freezing Action Shots Giving the illusion of movement…

Black & White photos

Some itemized advice for shooting B&W digital pictures: B&W loves textures and fine grained surfaces Check your light Use low ISO: Image noise is more visible in B&W Check your composition: The lack of colours will make your spectator more attentive to a a bad framing Before converting to B&W, do all the cleaning and…

Photography in a forest

Sometimes, in the past, I wondered if it would be difficult to shoot animals in a forest. When I traveled to Amazonia, I could observe by myself that it is much more difficult than elsewhere (and specifically more difficult than in Brazil’s Pantanal). The obstacles: Animals are often high in the trees (nearly never creeping…

Solutions to photographer’s block

Some photographers may have « writer’s block » (or photographer’s block, more acurately) and feel that they no longer want to shoot pictures. I found two answers to this problem on the Internet. The first one is a a series of advice by Photocritic: 10 ways to prevent photographer’s block. 100-step challenge: Walk 100 steps,…

Time lapse 6: Introductive lesson

When I started writing a short series of posts about time-lapse photography, I thought it would be quick. But I keep getting information about good web sites and articles about it. So, I could not close this without mentionning the introduction to time-lapse photography just posted on Digital Photography School (an excellent web site, by…

Learn photo

The great Recession is here, you are depressed as I am and you do not know what to do. Change gears! Go and teach yourself photo and a lot of its techniques on web sites like Photojojo and Digital Photography School. I found there a lot of ideas, tricks and tips I use. But, above…

Nature and wildlife photography

Nature photography and wildlife photography are two specialities that can be classified as difficult. Here, nothing beats advice from great photographers. This is why I noticed those two great articles, though they are very different: Mark Godfrey explains on Nature.org how are made some superb nature images. The pictures are permanent in their classic vibrance…

Time lapse 4: Flowers

To close this week’s series about time lapse videos, here is one of the most classical and traditional subjects: Growing plants and blooming flowers. Lily Time-Lapse in HD from danLinfield on Vimeo. Amaryllis Awakening from David Lanier on Vimeo.

Time lapse 3: Nights and stars

There is no doubt that time lapse videos made of pictures taken at long time intervals and stitched into a a single video, require mastering a difficult technique. But waht about doing it at night shooting the starry sky? Everything gets more difficult. So, kudos go to SkyTimeLapse!

Time lapse 2: How?

A few recommendations for time-lapse videos: Use high-definition: Your photo camera can do it, the video will be great in HD. Include some attractive central subject: Don’t just shoot clouds and skys. Make sure that there is a lot of activity: It would make no sense to speed up a boring single move from right…

Time lapse 1: Snails

Time-lapse movies are actually photos taken at a relatively slow pace (for example, one photo per minute or one photo per second) and assembled into one long sequence displayed as a video movie. What is slow will appear fast. Interestingly, it can be done by nearly anybody with: A good camera A tripod Some patience…

Cooking photos

I don’t know about you, but I consider studio photo as one of the most complicated photography techniques (possibly with underwater photos while diving). But in the middle of this general context, photographing dishes to illustrate a book seems to be one of the most difficult specialties. I will not detail the technique, but I…

Panoramic photo, tricks

Photographic panoramas are certainly, with HDR images (high dynamic range), photographiques, avec les images HDR (à haute dynamique), one of the photo techniques that most profited for the arrival of electronic imagery. What seemed reserved to the owners of luxuriously priced and specialized equipment now appears simply an idea to bring variety to your photographic…