How To Photograph Your Crafts by cakecrumbs, journal
How To Photograph Your Crafts
The absolute number one cause of rejection of DD suggestions for most Artisan Craft CVs is poor photography. There is nothing worse than seeing an otherwise brilliant piece ruined by a dodgy photo. But even beyond DD acceptance, if you want to people on dA to be able to appreciate your skill you need to be able to show your work off to advantage.
Sometimes I'll tell a self-suggester that I can't feature their work because of the quality of the photography and they'll inevitably reply, "Oh, I'll have to get a better camera."
Repeat after me: the tools never make the artist.
You don't need a $9000 sewing machine to stitch a dress, you don't
PE Cliff Notes on History of Street Photography by myraincheck, journal
PE Cliff Notes on History of Street Photography
CLIFF NOTES ON HISTORY OF STREET PHOTOGRAPHY
Photography first emerged in the eighteen century http://www.photohistorytimeline.com/?page_id=52, but it wasn't until roughly the 1880s and 1890s that film speeds became advanced enough for a normal street scene to be captured (without having to use a long shutter speed that would normally result in blurs). Also around this time, the flash was developed, allowing the photographer to venture into areas that were once too dark for exposure. But one of the assisting inventions of street photography was the emergence of portable cameras, especially small 35mm, rangefinder cameras, first introduced tow
PE The Streettog: An Unexpected Journey by myraincheck, journal
PE The Streettog: An Unexpected Journey
THE STREETTOG: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY
“There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.” (J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, )
Taking a successful street photo, a photo that is able to strike, surprise, trigger an emotional response is not easy. You have to be looking, without really knowing for what.
You have to be looking for the unexpected.
You have to be alert, focused, intuitive, to foresee what could be a potential good street photo.
"Street Photography may be the single most difficult photographic genre. It i
PE Street and neighborhood by myraincheck, journal
PE Street and neighborhood
PE STREET AND NEIGHBORHOOD
Sometimes deciding if a photo fits Street category or not can be really quibbling.
Every subject can be photographed with a street approach and fit street photography, and every subject can be photographed with a not-street approach and fit something else.
Categories mean nothing outside this place (or other art sites) and mean nothing about the value or quality of an image.
Though they are useful to make it easier to see, discover, find street images.
I hope that these few lines will be able to clear some of the most common doubts in submitting to street category, and would spare you flipping a coin before subm
Just because you shot it in the street... by myraincheck, journal
Just because you shot it in the street...
PE: JUST BECAUSE YOU SHOT IT IN THE STREET IT DOESN'T MAKE IT "STREET PHOTOGRAPHY"
Street Photography is a largely misunderstood and misinterpreted photography genre.
Browsing dA's Street Gallery I'd say that people are under the impression that street photography is photography of:
1 street signs
2 side-walk close-ups
3 love padlocks
4 shoes (All Stars preferably)/photographer's feet
5 graffiti/tags/street art/cool vandalism
6 empty roads
7 cats
8 skaters
9 abandoned buildings/urband decay/trash
10 cool cars
11 cosplayers posing in fairs
12 family in family-trips, friends in cool poses
13 sexy models in subways/women wrestling
Many photographers wish they had a macro lens. They're expensive though! :noes: In fact, my only lens is the kit lens that came with my camera. 18-55 mm.
I have found a solution, lying around my house. It was free! :w00t:
This, which came off my grandpa's old tv(he gave it to us afterwards. :lol:) , is the magnifier! I had to unscrew it from this black thing and then I cleaned it off.
It's freaking amazing. Go buy a thick magnifying glass somewhere.
The results are really neat:
When shooting at the focal length 55, without the glass I can get this close:
With the glass in front of my camera lens:
First you're like boo..
Then you're li
Rebelling Against Assumption
"Canon is better. No, Nikon is better. It's only good if it's this model. You have this camera, no wonder you're a great photographer. This picture sucks, it's obviously because you're using this model. You can't take a good photo with that camera! I can't believe you chose that camera, what a terrible choice. Well, no wonder this photo sucks, it's taken with an entry level DSLR and th------"
It's okay. Don't panic. I'm here to set the record straight (along with some help with my friend David Tennant).
You may have heard this or something like this before. Unfortunately, there are people wh