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Photography Lighting – Taking A Meter Reading
Taking a meter reading of the light that is in your shot can be the difference between an under/over exposed shot and one which is just right. I am not an expert on this subject, so rather than trying to write a tutorial I have found a selection of great articles from around the internet for your reference…
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Great Photography Photoshop Plugins
Photoshop plugins are always VERY useful during your post processing sessions. I have taken a look about the interweb and gathered the following great plugin’s to aid in your creativity!
Aperture Explained
What Is Aperture?
The main purpose of a lens is to collect the available light. The aperture of the lens is the size of the lens opening. The larger the aperture, the more light allowed to reach the image sensor.
Aperture is expressed as F-stop, F2.8 is the smaller the F-stop number, the larger the aperture.
Infrared Photography Explained
Infrared photography (filters etc) cause foliage to strongly reflect light in the same way visible light is reflected from snow.
Other effects of infrared photographs include very dark skies and penetration of atmospheric haze. The dark skies, in turn, result in less infrared light in shadows and dark reflections of those skies from water, and clouds stand out strongly.
Twelve Essential Photographic Rules
The twelve rules of photography that will stand you in good stead and get you great photos! This great article on Popphoto runs through the rules;
Website Profile – PlanetEarthDailyPhoto
One of the great things about running a site like FPR is the websites that you come accross, or in this case recommended (thanks Ron) and the people you meet (virtually)!
One such website is PlanetEarthDailyPhoto and one such person is it’s ‘owner’, Rich. ’PEDP’ features a new and unique photo from around the world every day
Top Web Sources For Photography Inspiration
Writing posts for FPR obviously involves many hours of scouring the web for both content, useful links and inspiration for the website and my own photography.
Whether this be photographs taken by others that I wish to include on the site, photographers that provide new ideas for my photography or Photoshop (and similar) tutorials that can be used in the post processing of photographs. Below are a few hand picked sites that are well worth a look!
Collection Of FREE Photography eBooks
I have been busy finding the following FREE photography ebooks and listing them all below for your convenience, enjoy!
FPR Interviews Inspirational Photographer Ron Dubin
Ron Dubin, author of ‘Bolivia: A Journey’ has been an inspiration of mine since I stumbled accross his site and started to follow his blog. Ron specialises in landscape and wildlife photography and has a style all his own.
