Helsinki Design Week By Kokoro & Moi

Another cellphone shot! I absolutely love how powerful the phone cams have become. They may not be technically the greatest, but emotionally they satisfy that need to capture a moment in time ubiquitously. This was take from a courthouse window, while I was waiting in a jury pool. It was through a plate window, and yet the versatility of the camera allows for pretty decent shots.

A 1950s Kitchen, Locked Away Since It Was Built Benjamin Starr, visualnews.com

Like walking back in time, furniture designer Nathan Chandler opened the door on a home he bought in 2010 and found the kitchen in nearly original condition from when it was built in 1956. For some reason the original owners built the house…

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Understanding Natural Light Part 1: Quality of Light Oded Wagenstein, digital-photography-school.com

Light has different qualities, and by understanding those differences and using them in your favor, you can become a better image maker. From my point of view, the best place to start improving your ability to work with light is by learning its mo…

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Friday the 13th, 2014… the full "honey (or strawberry) moon," with mercury in retrograde.

Shot this almost last minute, just using an inexpensive basic zoom lens and a tripod (autofocus too on most of the shots, no less— I know, I know). It was at 180mm. No fancy telephoto, no telescope mount. The lower photo (longer exposure) shows my perch for a few of the shots. To cut the neighborhood porch lights, I actually shot  from between bushes and trees. From my angle the lights were almost all out of sight.

The top photo is the one I liked the best.

The middle two show a series of adjustments I made. I fired about 17 shots, and started a very small amount of post on them (primarily cropping tight to moon),

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Only have the low res version from FB (reclaiming some of my FB shots). A random creepy "sky-before-the-storm" cloud shot-- don't recall if this was Camera or iPhone. I do recall tornadic conditions, so likely springtime or early summer a year or two back.

8 portrait posing tricks to improve body shape and hide unflattering features James Paterson, digitalcameraworld.com

In this portrait posing tutorial we show you eight posing tricks you can try on any subject to improve body shape, conceal unflattering features and make them look their best.Regardless of what your model looks like, posture can make or bre…

Experiment Inexpensive aluminum macro tubes (I bought the PHOTODIOX brand WITHOUT the camera digital contacts). This means NO APERTURE control, and manual focusing only. You can see that you have very low depth of field in the bottom three shots. I read about an aperture trick (you set the aperture, then click on the aperture lock, and unscrew the lens while the camera is live and add the macro tubes). In theory this may attract dust to sensor, so not sure about doing it frequently. Used that on the dime, but it was also on a fairly flat plane.

Tripod is mandatory for these, as you sometimes have to take longer exposures as you get extremely close (could have tried new LED hardware store floods, but instead played around with available window daylight). 

Will have to try future tests with strobes and constants.

jjhart93.tumblr.com asked some cheaper alternatives to Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign, I found these, well to be honest, I just went to Wikipedia and check which ones worth the download effort and put a link to them, check them out:

Ability Photopaint

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