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How to take successful photos at night, by Gordon Laing.Photos taken at night can produce spectacular results – in fact many cities present their best views after dark. Night photography can also be very forgiving in bad weather, so if rain’s prevented you from grabbing the shots you want of a city, it’s well worth trying again after sunset. Related Article: Photographic Technique: Nocturnal

The shutter is usually made by a fine metal curtain, extremely thin and delicate (you better not touch it!) that when lifted, lets the light in (juts like your home's curtains) and when down, stops the stream of light. In some reflex cameras, and some compact point and shoot there is no shutter , whose presence it's simulated by the light turned on and off of the sensor. Now that we know what it

This picture is not a Photomontage, is the wonderful job of a professional photographer whose name is Margherita: On a A3 format sheet arrange a face, with flowers or else. The drop works as a lens, then remember to hung the image upside down more or less at 40 cm behind the drops. The shutter speed must be very fast 1/6000-1/8000, use a very long depth of focus that requires lots of light, so

The use of flash. As we have seen, often natural light is vastly more than enough to run a very wide range of portraits, with very different results and effects, adequate for many situations; the fact remains that the possibility of better control of light offers different possibilities of expression and, above all, solve problems with relative ease that would otherwise require complex systems

What gives character to each photograph is always light. In one click we can appreciate many elements such as composition, the shooting situation, the uniqueness of an event, a phrase caught on the fly, the solemnity of a landscape or a building, land degradation or the splendor of a place, a human condition, the beauty and action of an animal, or many other elements, but never, under any

This is one of a series of articles dedicated to portrait. They are written by the professional photographer, Attilio, who has already teamed up into the blog. Portrait is the more practiced photographic genre in the history of photography.This genre is not easy and should not be underestimated. Technique skills are essential and they have to be combined with the photographer personal

Both lens aperture and exposure time, hence diaphragm and shutter, affect the image in two different ways: 1°) By modifying the amount of light that reaches the sensor - the aperture affects the intensity of light, the shutter controls the time during wich the sensor i exposed to light. 2°) Each of them has also different effects on the image. The aperture value affects the depth of field,

The photo that you see is not a Photomontage, is a picture made with the technique of light painting, for we can achieve we need a digital camera that allows to use the manual, a tripod and a torch. Set the camera on a tripod, make totally dark the Room, adjust the opening time of the camera shutter, the Council for time to step up to 5 seconds, press the Shutter release button and at this

Linear perspective:This is an extremely interesting and complicated to explain.When we see the pictures of the Masters or simply of photographers ahead of us, we see now in their photos a sense of depth that usually in photos of a beginner rarely we see. This depends on the way in which it makes use of perspective linear and air.In a subject the prospect linear is created by lines that seem

To begin we need to have a clear idea of what we want from a picture with long exposition, for this I mean from 1’’, even if in some cases you can have wonderful results with even less time, for example, a landscape with flowing water. It is very important to consider the instruments you use, in this case you may need a trestle proportional to your camera (if you use a reflex with a tele, you

In this article I'm going to talk about the image composition. I must foresay that many people are able to take good shoots since they have an inner sense of composition,many others learned it little by little. About this topic, I suggest you to read the tutorial on how to train and develop the photographic eye. The camera, unlike human eye, records everything, so, what at first may elude our

First part I thought about writing some tutorials with the basics, to help those who approach for the first time in the world of SLR. The tutorial is divided into 2 parts, the first is essential, the second called “Further Reading” contains more complex concepts that is best ignored until there is very familiarize with the first part of the tutorial, and even then you might not ever feel the need

How many times we have seen wonderful nocturnal images of cities, with those irreal lights whose transform common urban landscapes into misterious places, with fantastic lights and colors? Now we have a crossroads in front of us: taking pictures in the "blue time" or truly nocturnal photos. During the blue time (which lasts about twenty minutes), the sun is still rising, or setting, therefore we