It’s no secret that I am very interested in photography. And the tubes of the webbernets are chock-full of great online resources to help us i our quest for better pictures and images. This week, in the Web Wanderings, we’ll focus (ha!) on links that offer insight into such improvements.
Strobist: Learn How To Light – Might was well start with the heavy hitter. Think you know about how light works? Consider yourself an expert in flash photography because you’ve mastered the “red eye reduction” button? Ha. The folks at Strobist will demonstrate to you how very little we know…but make us feel smarter after we’re done. An essential resource for anyone interested in flash photography.
4 Easy Photoshop Techniques to Make Your Pictures Pop! – Digital Photography School provides a few step-by-step, simple Photoshop tricks to bring out the best in some of your photos. All four of them are super easy to do, and, while they won’t work in every scenario, I recommend adding them to your stable of post-processing tricks for those times you need a little extra “oomph” for an image.
11 Tips for Better Candid Photography – Posed pictures are SO lame…unless you’re doing portraiture, of course. But for those times that you’re NOT shooting in a studio, you want to capture that “photojournalism” feel that is ever so popular these days. This list, provided by DPS, has some great ideas that will really improve your candids. Seriously.
How to Shoot Impromptu Street Portraits – I swear I am going to try this one day. It’s such a brilliant idea, and this post by Photojojo walks you through it with ease and panache.
Self Portrait Photography Tips – I have gotten to the point that I am reading this post almost daily, just to cement it in my mind. Really great insight into how to pull off awesome and intersting self-portraiture.
And we’ll wrap it up with links to some of my favorite fellow photogs and their work: