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I was born in the fall one year and I am still alive today.

Creative and Perspective Photography : Collection 2

Reblogged from art-profiles.com: As we have written before, Perspective photography is a technique that employs optical illusion to make an object appear farther away, closer, larger or smaller than it actually is. It is used primarily in photography, filmmaking and … Continue reading

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How to Create A Multi-Layered Panoramic Poster

HOW TO CREATE A MULTI-LAYERED PANORAMIC POSTER  1: CREATE A FOLDER FOR YOUR IMAGES On your desktop, create a folder for your Project images (the ones you took), if you haven’t already. 2: OPEN ALL IMAGES IN PHOTOSHOP In your … Continue reading

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How to Create a Multi-Layered Poster: Alphabet City Test

Alphabet City by Abba Richman 1: CREATE A FOLDER FOR YOUR IMAGES On your desktop, create a folder for your Project images.  Rename the images to correspond to the letter they represent. 2: OPEN ALL IMAGES IN PHOTOSHOP In your … Continue reading

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Convert Color to Black and White in Photoshop

Method 1: Converting to Grayscale 1: At the top navigation menu, go to Image > Mode > Grayscale.  A dialog box appears asking, “Discard color information?” Click OK or press Enter.  Your color image will be turned into a black-and-white … Continue reading

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Adjusting Exposure

Recently, many of my GCC students have been asking me the same question–”If my pictures are overexposed or underexposed, how do I decide which part of exposure to adjust?  The aperture or the shutter speed or the ISO?” The Answer: … Continue reading

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The Standard 3-Point Lighting Technique

The Three Point Lighting Technique is a standard method used in visual media such as video, film, still photography and computer-generated imagery. It is a simple but versatile system which forms the basis of most lighting. Once you understand three … Continue reading

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Composition

CompositionThe arrangement and relationship of the different parts that make up the whole image. In visual art terms, composition is divided into two areas: 1. The elements of art: the composition’s individual visual parts (the subject) These are the real, … Continue reading

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Film

Color Vs. Black and White On Digital Cameras, all photographs are shot in color and changed into black and white in an editing program either on the camera itself or on a computer. It is up to the individual if … Continue reading

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Filters

Filters Glass or plastic adapters added to the camera lens to modify the scene in front of you. *When you use a filter to create a photograph, the results are permanent. They are very different from the Photoshop filters and … Continue reading

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Lenses

The Normal Lens – The lens that most closely matches the view of the human eye in terms of area, perspective and the relative size of objects. Most companies have settled on the 50mm lens as their normal lens. The … Continue reading

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