Society & Culture  & Entertainment: Photo To Oil Painting

Photo To Oil Painting

If you are able to create a still life fruit painting that even your friends tried to eat it, you should be proud of yourself. If the painting you made on the other hand looked more like a cartoon, cheer up, maybe your just suppose to join the kinder art class first and develop your art skills gradu

Society & Culture  & Entertainment: The Art of Copying

The Art of Copying

There may be only one original you, but you can copy anything else.

Society & Culture  & Entertainment: What Experience Do I Need to Be a Director of Photography?

What Experience Do I Need to Be a Director of Photography?

If you happen to be a film buff and have wondered who or what factors determined a particular visual style or series of lighting effects, look no further than the director of photography. A career as a director of photography will give you an opportunity to wear many hats in managing technical and a

Society & Culture  & Entertainment: How to Resize Your Photos Fast and Easy

How to Resize Your Photos Fast and Easy

So you have a bunch of beautiful photos and you would like to share them with friends and relatives. Your options are practically endless: uploading them on your webpage so that everyone can see them, emailing the best pictures to your friends, inserting them into a document, making a nice slideshow

Society & Culture  & Entertainment: Need Photography Tips? We've Got Them

Need Photography Tips? We've Got Them

Photography can be one of the hardest art forms to master as it requires natural talent and training. It doesn't mean you have to be born to shoot pictures, but learning new techniques and secrets is vital to succeed in taking good photos.

Society & Culture  & Entertainment: Macro Photography Case Study: Photographing Flowers

Macro Photography Case Study: Photographing Flowers

Macro Photography is simply the art of taking close-up photos. Your camera may come with a macro setting (sometimes depicted with a flower symbol), or you may have a Macro lens for an SLR camera.When taking photos of flowers, many photographers opt to move in quite close and use a Macro lens.Find ou

Society & Culture  & Entertainment: Capture the moment with a photograph of your graduation

Capture the moment with a photograph of your graduation

Graduation day - the day that every student longs for after all the hard work, exams, late night coffees and sleepless nights. It's a day filled with joy, excitement and celebration with families, tutors and ...

Society & Culture  & Entertainment: Cheap digital cameras -- worth the money?

Cheap digital cameras -- worth the money?

Capturing life's passing moments was considered a luxury or a time consuming task in the past. Photography seemed a painstaking process that required specialist expertise or complicated equipment. The convergence of Information Technology with imaging ...

Society & Culture  & Entertainment: How to Make Sure Your Senior Pictures Are Perfect

How to Make Sure Your Senior Pictures Are Perfect

Getting any kind of professional photograph done is an important occasion for the person or persons being photographed. Also, senior portraits are an important rite that almost every senior must go through. Since senior portraits are such an important part of a senior's life, it is best to make

Society & Culture  & Entertainment: How to Photograph Fabric

How to Photograph Fabric

Photographing a stationary object such as fabric may seem simple, however, it requires attention to background, color cast, white balance and lighting to ensure an accurate photograph. If the fabric has a lot of detail or texture, using a proper lens or camera setting is necessary to showcase these

Society & Culture  & Entertainment: How to Set the Right Dimensions and Resolution

How to Set the Right Dimensions and Resolution

Editors require pictures at 300 dpi saved as JPEG or TIFF. It is frustrating to get photos rejected because they were not saved at a 300 dpi resolution. Image editors are sometimes not really sure themselves about how is resolution correlated with paper size and don't realize that by simply cha

Society & Culture  & Entertainment: Why Does an Artist Need To Showcase His Art

Why Does an Artist Need To Showcase His Art

Whether new in the industry or having years of experience, to gain more online presence and have a higher traffic flow to your site, you need to showcase your work. This is the primary role ...

Society & Culture  & Entertainment: 3 Basic Tips in Digital Photography for the Typical Hobbyist

3 Basic Tips in Digital Photography for the Typical Hobbyist

One of the greatest inventions today is the digital cameras. This latest innovation enables people who are not familiar to use a digital camera easily. Even typical users and aspiring photographers can easily get along with a digital camera without spending too much money and time.

Society & Culture  & Entertainment: How Much Wedding Photography Do You Need?

How Much Wedding Photography Do You Need?

I am sometimes asked (sorry guys, but I've never been asked this by a woman), why in the world should you want more than an hour's coverage on your wedding day, and why are photographers so damned expensive? These questions crop up at every wedding fayre so I thought I'd answer them h

Society & Culture  & Entertainment: Formal Elements of Film Pacing

Formal Elements of Film Pacing

A film's pace is determined by the screenplay's structure. To establish a compelling but comprehensible pace, a screenplay must weave together an outsized A-plot with an intimate B-plot, involve the audience in the protagonist's quests to solve the plots' central problems by establishing stakes and

Society & Culture  & Entertainment: Skylight Filter Effects

Skylight Filter Effects

Skylight filters make a standard zoom lens even more versatile.Lens image by pershing from Fotolia.comLens filters are an important tool in digital and film photography. In particular, a skylight filter, also known as a 1A filter, is useful whenever shooting outdoors. While digital...