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A Step by Step Guide to Creating Starbursts
Adding star / sun bursts to your image is a great way to make an everyday scene or moment look a little bit more interesting, so it’s a great trick to have in your photography arsenal! I actually don't play around with this as much as I should, but since I have just reminded myself of it's awesome affect - I'm off to play with it again today!
If you want to give it a go, it's really simple! Here's a step by step guide on how you do it....
5 Tips for Shooting Wide Open (and what shooting wide open is!)
I love shooting with a shallow depth of field, where you have only the subject sharp and clear, but everything else soft and out of focus. It's such a great way of drawing the eye straight to the subject of the photo, and eliminating any distractions around your subject. You can get this affect from shooting wide open, but it can be tricky to perfect! So, today, I'm giving you five tips for shooting at low apertures.
But, before we get to the tips, let's rewind a little bit, and start at the very beginning, with what shooting "wide open" actually means!
How to Rate, Delete and Keyword Images in Lightroom
Today, we are talking specifically about how to rate, delete and keyword your images in Lightroom. You'll need to do this to keep on top of your ever expanding library of images, so we are going to dig deep into how you can do this!
What Are Catchlights (And How Do I Get Them?)
The eyes are a huge part of a successful portrait (they don't call them the window to the soul for nothin'!) and one way we can make sure they really look their best is to make sure that they have catchlights.
A catchlight is nothing more than light being reflected in the eyes of your subject - they are the white areas you can see in the eyes on the examples below. They help to make your subject look alive, and give depth and life to any portrait - without them the eyes look lifeless and empty. The good news is they are incredibly simple to achieve - it really is all about how you position your subject!
Photography Composition Tip - Get Creative With Your Angles!
Are you getting tired of taking the same old photos and fancy mixing it up a bit? One way you can do that is simply be changing the angle you shoot from! Instead of only shooting the front of your subject, why not try shooting from above or below? Or get behind your subject, or get down low and be on the same level? You never know what will look the best until you take the shot, so move around you subject and shoot from as many angles as you can think of. Here's some more information and tips for taking images from all the different angles, and of course some example images to get you going!
5 Things to Make Sure You Get Right in Camera
Although we can literally do a ton of things in editing, and fix many in-camera mistakes from the safety of our computer desk, there are some things we just can't fix in processing, no matter how hard we try! Out of focus images, bad lighting, and clipped highlights are some of the things that we simply can't make right after the fact.
Here's are the five things I believe you should get right in camera every time...
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It's been quite a few years now since I made the switch from Aperture Priority Mode to shooting in Manual Mode, and it was one of the BEST things I ever did to improve my photography skills.
It was like a whole new world opened up to me, and I started TRULY understanding exposure, and in turn, getting the images that I wanted.
Of course, there was a lot to learn, and there are some things I wish I had known before I started!
So, here are 10 things about shooting in Manual Mode that you might just wish you knew…