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Save Money Buying Off-Trend Vintage Lenses
How to actually save money with vintage lenses without compromising quality. Get ready to focus. Sorry. If you didn't already know, vintage lenses are a cost-effective way to build your lens collection so you can get creative with whatever you're shooting. You start off buying some on eBay, finding an adapter (I use GoBe's m42-EF mount, was like £13) and then being a little pissed off when you find it's full of mould. If you're thinking, "Mine's not mouldy, it just has a vintage tinge to it"—shine your phone torch through that bad boy and count the snowflakes. It's mould.
By Samuel F. Sherring7 years ago in Photography
Photography as Therapy
I am a brain injury, repeat brain injury, survivor with PTSD and anxiety/bipolar issues. Luckily they have meds but they don't help as much as needed, but I've found that I'd forget my woes a bit, so to speak, when I was out doing photography, especially in nature. For a while it was a guilty pleasure until on a hunch I Googled if it helped with PTSD and it does. In fact, war veterans use landscape photography as therapy for their PTSD. I wasn't in the military but I've had the crap kicked out of me lots. I simply grew up in that kind of neighborhood/town but now I live in Utah which I'll say is a lot safer. I can walk around Historic 25th Street at night with my Samsung S10 and Sony A6000 with a couple of lenses, including my $1K 210mm lens and I'm fine. Yeah, there's a bit of crime in that area per news but the news is always negative. Ogden has a big of a reputation but honestly it's not that bad. The people are worth getting to know.
By Joseph Barney7 years ago in Photography
10 Ways to Be in Your Travel Photos When You Hate Having Your Photo Taken
If you are like me, you arrive home from an adventure somewhere to find that you have very few, if any travel photos of you on those adventures. While I really do not like having my photo taken, it is nice to be in some photos to show you actually did go to those amazing places.
By Lisa Bundesen7 years ago in Photography
The Makings of a Photograph
Eric Kim said it best, when he describes his street photography as making a photo as opposed to taking a picture. He expresses asking someone to make a photograph seems more pleasing to hear as opposed to taking one's picture. The mere sound of the word “taking” adds a sense thievery and puts people on guard and less likely to agree to pose for a few snaps of the camera. Eric’s philosophy has added a whole new perspective to my own means of photography. I no longer look at my photos as a “picture taken,” but more so now as a “photo made.” A made photo is only made once the decision has been made to keep, show off, display or sell. Discarded pictures are your taken ones, taken, and discarded, and forgotten. Made pictures are the storytellers, like the story of the pictures I made for this chapter.
By John Neil7 years ago in Photography
8 Things You Need to Know About Depth of Field (DoF)
As a new photographer, it can be difficult to understand the various settings on your DSLR and how they all work together to create an image. Maybe you understand some things like shutter speed and composition, along with the tips for using the rule of thirds in photography, but you find the more technical aspects of photography a bit more elusive and complex, like depth of field.
By Hannah McSorley7 years ago in Photography
Desktop Inspiration
As per many of my inspirations, they seem to ignite while hard at work behind my computer. So it should come to no surprise that “Desktop Inspiration” is another such writing. I have two computers at my desk, a work horse that captures my emails, calendar of events, and everything work-related, and of course my inspirational rantings. the other computer is solely for scheduling my work force. It is this computer to which this writing comes into fruition. Often the computer will sit idle, and return to the random desktop images that Windows OS 10 offers, and at present I have the images on the nature's path imagery that is, every so often, updated, selected through Microsoft’s vast library of beautiful landscape photography. Seeing that I have been trigger happy this summer, taking my own photographs, I’ve adopted Windows Desktop images display and added my own photos to the mix, and have even been able to incorporate my own inspirational verbiage to the screen pictures.
By John Neil7 years ago in Photography
Choosing the Best Location for Your Photo Shoot
If you are trying to get your Instagram game up or simply trying to have memories of a really special event in your life. You most likely want to get a real professional camera and start taking pictures like a professional photographer. Well, it is really not that simple, not only do you have to learn how to use a camera, but you have to know how to take those desired photos.
By Mathew7 years ago in Photography
My Happy Place
My legs and feet were growing numb from sitting on hard ground. Something, hopefully a tree root, was digging into a crevice I’d rather not mention and swarms of mosquitoes were alternately biting any exposed flesh or flying into my ears, eyes and nose. (I’m smart enough to keep my mouth closed.)
By JT Fisherman7 years ago in Photography
Awesome Tips for Photography Models
Starting off to be a model: Photography can be an extreme job: whether it’s photos of family, friends, food, scenery or modeling. But for now, let's start with modeling, one of the most popular types of photography. You, or someone else that you may/may not know can be completely brand new, and want to give it a whirl. Here will be given some great tips for non-models to bring your pictures to life. Now, let’s get started.
By Mia Morales7 years ago in Photography
Earning Money with Photography
Have you ever wondered if your photography hobby could earn you money? Here are 9 ways you can start! Portraits Portrait photography can be a nice income. I started with High School Senior Portraits. Because I did not consider myself a professional at the time I did these for friends who were on a shoestring budget and only asked they cover my expenses. That was key for me because it provided experience AND it started the best marketing possible, referrals! Don’t frown at doing work for free—it pays off in the end. The defining moment for me, that validation I needed to begin charging, was the feedback from one of these free sessions. When my client posted his photos on social media his friend was upset that he paid several hundred for his photos and felt my clients' were much better.
By Opal Lynn7 years ago in Photography
This Is How You Can Restore Damaged Family Photos
Photos are mostly taken to preserve memories. In the growing digital era and the evolution in the field of technology, it has become easier for us to protect our photos for a long time. When photographs of your family get damaged or deteriorated, you are often motivated to bring them back to life by getting them to their original appearance and condition. There are a lot of methods such as physical and chemical treatments which can be used to enhance the aesthetic sense of the photograph which has been aged. You must know that there are a few downsides of using these treatments, and they can do as much harm as good. However, there are some things which we can do to preserve the beautiful memories captured before the introduction of the pixel. It is not the right thing to take these photos under these treatments even when people are aware of the risks those alterations might have.
By Eada Hudes7 years ago in Photography
