Monthly Archives: November 2013
Action Filmmaking 101
How-To Creating a compelling short film is easy, with a little planning and a willingness to stop what you’re doing and position the camera and the action properly. Most motion clips of weekend activities are boring because they’re shot from … Continue reading
In Search of Quiet
Two weeks ago my girlfriend, Aubrey, and I headed out to the mountains to enjoy the fall colors and early snow. We had limited time, so we chose the easy, and thus popular, hike to Lake Ingalls. Knowing that most … Continue reading
Use Color For Impact
How-To Color triggers psychological responses, emotions, feelings of calm, anger and serenity. It also draws the eye to specific locations within an image. Colors can be soft and muted or bold, vivid, intense and saturated. They fall into spectrums that … Continue reading
The Best Wedding Photographers In The World
Previously we announced a website, Best of Wedding Photography that invites the best wedding photographers in the world to it
Free Resources for Creating a Flat Design
Published in Blog Design, Design, Free Resources, Icons, Photoshop Tutorials, Tools, Tutorials, WordPress, WordPress Themes Flat designs are taking over quite quickly it seems. I doubt anyone could argue against it being the latest and greatest for (fairly) new trends … Continue reading
Featured Photographer – Danny Green
I was born and still live in Leicestershire with my wife and two children. I became interested in Nature from a young age and was very rarely at home, always wandering the woods and rivers looking for wildlife. My late … Continue reading
Aerial Perspective
How-ToA favorite angle from which I love to make photographs is from very high above my subject. The higher up I get, the more unique the view. This compels the viewer to study the photo longer to discern why it’s … Continue reading
Photo of the Week – 11 July 2012
Approaching StormPhoto ? JJR47 with permission to About.com, Inc.Click on the photo to see the original post in the forum. Each week I select a photo from those posted in our forum to be the new photo of the week. … Continue reading
Delete A WordPress Post Using AJAX
Published in Design AJAX is an extremely powerful tool for bridging the gap between your server side code and your client-side code. It enables you to not only make better interfaces and more useful tools, but to lower your bandwidth … Continue reading
Defeat Chromatic Aberration
How-ToThis photo of Mono Lake, California, shows a fair amount of chromatic aberration. The Lens Corrections palette in Adobe Lightroom 5. Figure 1: You can see the fringing in this enlargement. Figure 2: In Photoshop, go to Filter > Lens … Continue reading
Spider Season
Have you ever wondered why it seems like there are more spider webs around this time of year? I
Tic-Tac-Toe
What does a game of tic-tac-toe have to do with photography? The grid this simple child’s game is played upon is key to composing your image in a dramatic way. In photography, this grid works with the “rule of thirds” … Continue reading