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Neil Creek is an Australian photographer who is part of the Fine Art Photoblog. He is a photo project junkie, and runs a new one every month on his blog.
The View From Below at neil.creek.name© Neil Creek
Photo projects are sweeping the ‘net. If you’re a photographer online and you aren’t yet participating, you should!
Thanks to my participation in photo projects my photography has improved, I’ve made many new friends and contacts, and largely through participating in and later running projects, my own blog has gone from 30 views a day and no subscribers to 500+ views a day and 600+ subscribers.
These challenges take many forms and call upon you to take photos that meet a certain set of rules as a way of testing your abilities, teaching you skills, and coming together to participate with other photographers from all around the world. There are all kinds of projects covering all kinds of topics, including: self portraits, specific subjects, particular camera gear or post processing and more. Some projects are a single photo, one a week or one a day, some last a month, others an entire year!
Tags: community, friends, learning, network, networking, organize, participate, project, projects, skill
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Lighting can be the difference between a good shot and a great one.
Walk into most professional photographer’s studios and you’ll be confronted with truckloads of lighting equipment. To the average hobby photographer it’s enough to make your mind boggle - and for your stomach to turn as you think about the cost of it all.
Most of us can’t afford a full lighting rig - however what if there was a way to experiment with the type of lighting gear that pro photographers use without spending too much money? What if you could make it yourself.
In this post I’ve found 10 DIY Flash and Lighting Hacks that put some of these lighting techniques within the grasp of the rest of us. Some are more involved than others but all are fun and will provide you with some new lighting gear to experiment with.
1. Multi-Super-SB-Ring Light
What can you make with six speedlight flashes, a coffee can and a little spare time?
You get a multi-super-sb-ring-light! (pictured left).
You could probably also blind a small village if you’re not careful!
Find out what it is, how to make one and what the results are like here.
This one looks like a lot of fun to play with - even if it’s just for the challenge of it and the looks you’d get when you pull it out next time you do a shoot..
2. Poor Mans Ring Flash
All you need for this one (pictured left) is a used milk bottle/jug and some scissors.
The result is that you’ll have a Poor Mans Ring Flash.
A ring flash is one that fits around the lens - it creates a wonderfully unique lighting effect. They will usually lighten your wallet by a couple of hundred dollars.
It’s so simple that I whipped one up for myself today in 5 minutes.
It worked out pretty good too - not bad for the cost of a couple of liters of milk!
If you want to experiment with other methods of making DIY ring flashes you also might want to check out this post for another method. This one is a little more involved, but I think will probably get better results.
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October was a great month for Digital Photography Tips Online. Here are some of the highlights as well as a few of our ‘classic’ tutorials from this time last year:
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July was a great month for Digital Photography Tips Online. Here are some of the highlights as well as a few of our ‘classic’ tutorials from this time last
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It has been quite a while since I wrote a post summarizing what some of my favorite Digital Photography Tips sites have been publishing - so today is the day. I hope you enjoy this compilation of some of the highlights from the last month or so.
4 ways to bounce a flash - from DIY Photography
Photo Critic shares how to win photography competitions
Strobist writes about Hacking Your Camera’s Sync Speed
Photojojo shares a tip on how to take ’spinning’ photos - a cool effect
Epic Edits writes So you think you know what an f-number is
Top Left Pixel has a cool image and mini tutorial on making ‘little planets’ shots
Epic Edits shares a tip on Non Destructive Dodging and Burning
Photodoto shares some thoughts on Using Overexposure
Think Camera shares some tips on Long Exposure Photography
Photocritic shares a few thoughts on teaching kids about photography (I’ve been working on a similar post for the next few weeks of DPS - stay tuned).
Don’t forget some of our own recent popular tutorials:
How to Photograph Fireworks Displays
How to Take Great Group Photos
Most Popular DSLR Lenses
Understanding Histograms
Introduction to Filters for DSLRs
WIN a Cam-Pod in our Forums
Lastly - for those of you who love the videos that we feature - I’ve included two videos below. The are part of a series of videos titled ‘Off Camera Flash’. Enjoy:
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Every now and again I like to post a few links from other great photography sites around the web. Here’s what I found on my surfing today.
Photojojo has a tutorial on Making a Flash Photo Flipbook - fun!
DIYPhotography has posted Part 2 of their Guide to Photographing Children
Instructor Insights shares a tutorial on Converting Color Images to Black and White in Photoshop
Outdoor Photography Tips shares an article on Improving your Artistic Eye
Photocritic shares a guide to Doing a Photo Critique
And lastly - a little fun quizz. Which famous photographer are you? Here’s my result - (share yours in comments below):
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