Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Digital Polaroid Effects

Digital Polaroid Effects

The Polaroid instant camera is one of the most beloved icons of vintage photography. With the advent of digital cameras, however, its popularity has waned so much that in 2010, Polaroid instant cameras and film will be available only in special limited editions. If you don't have a Polaroid camera, or if you want to recreate the look of a Polaroid shot in one of your existing digital photos, you can do it with a little computer magic.



Several online services and software programs are available to make your digital photos into retro-looking Polaroids, complete with light streaks and the classic white frame. Check out some of these options and choose the one that works best for you.

Rollip

    Rollip is a free web application that offers 40 filters with different text and Polaroid effects. You can download your photo, print it, or use the provided URL to send your creation via email. Available at rollip.com.

Instantizer

    Instantizer is a quick-and-dirty application that frames your digital photo Polaroid-style and allows you to add a description, which appears in a handwriting-style font written on the white frame. The photo itself, however, doesn't have any of those cool light leaks and streaks of classic Polaroids. A provided link to the new photo is valid for only 24 hours. Available at instantizer.com.

Pola

    A free piece of downloadable software, Pola offers drag-and-drop functionality, the classic white frame, and the cool vintage lighting effects of the original Polaroid. Available at manuelbarzi.com/pola.

Poladroid

    Also free, Poladroid works in a similar manner as Pola but the interface is more fun: drag your digital photo onto the large Polaroid camera-shaped icon on your desktop and hear the familiar buzzing and clicking of a Polaroid camera as your new photo pops out. "Shake" the photo with your mouse and it will develop faster. Available at poladroid.net.

CameraBag

    Download the CameraBag digital photo lab and gain access to ten filters, including the Instant filter (the equivalent of a Polaroid shot). You can also apply multiple filters, reprocess, and customize to suit your artistic eye. The downloadable software costs $19 and is available for both Mac and PC at nevercenter.com/camerabag.


Digital Polaroid Effects

The Polaroid instant camera is one of the most beloved icons of vintage photography. With the advent of digital cameras, however, its popularity has waned so much that in 2010, Polaroid instant cameras and film will be available only in special limited editions. If you don't have a Polaroid camera, or if you want to recreate the look of a Polaroid shot in one of your existing digital photos, you can do it with a little computer magic.



Several online services and software programs are available to make your digital photos into retro-looking Polaroids, complete with light streaks and the classic white frame. Check out some of these options and choose the one that works best for you.

Rollip

    Rollip is a free web application that offers 40 filters with different text and Polaroid effects. You can download your photo, print it, or use the provided URL to send your creation via email. Available at rollip.com.

Instantizer

    Instantizer is a quick-and-dirty application that frames your digital photo Polaroid-style and allows you to add a description, which appears in a handwriting-style font written on the white frame.

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    . The photo itself, however, doesn't have any of those cool light leaks and streaks of classic Polaroids. A provided link to the new photo is valid for only 24 hours. Available at instantizer.com.

Pola

    A free piece of downloadable software, Pola offers drag-and-drop functionality, the classic white frame, and the cool vintage lighting effects of the original Polaroid. Available at manuelbarzi.com/pola.

Poladroid

    Also free, Poladroid works in a similar manner as Pola but the interface is more fun: drag your digital photo onto the large Polaroid camera-shaped icon on your desktop and hear the familiar buzzing and clicking of a Polaroid camera as your new photo pops out. "Shake" the photo with your mouse and it will develop faster. Available at poladroid.net.

CameraBag

    Download the CameraBag digital photo lab and gain access to ten filters, including the Instant filter (the equivalent of a Polaroid shot). You can also apply multiple filters, reprocess, and customize to suit your artistic eye. The downloadable software costs $19 and is available for both Mac and PC at nevercenter.com/camerabag.



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Picture-Editing Tricks

Picture-Editing Tricks

The great thing about digital photography is that you have much more power over the photograph during post-production than you would in a darkroom. There are many tricks to post-production editing, and all require the use of a photo-editing program such as Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom, or Paintshop Pro Photo. There is, however, a trick to photo editing that happens before post-production--that is the shooting format. Photos that are shot in RAW (tiff) format are can be edited much more easily than jpeg images.

Levels

    All DSLRs (digital single lens reflex cameras) come equipped with level meters. The levels in a digital photograph refer to the white versus black output. When one side is exaggerated and the other severely understated, chances are the photo is either overexposed or underexposed. You can attempt to fix the levels in post-production by increasing the black output level in a washed-out photo and increasing the white output in a dark image. Just remember that adjusting the levels severely (a lot in either direction) increases the noise (grain) in a photograph.

Photo Filters

    Adding a photo filter is the best way to correct an improper white balance. Photos whose white spaces look blue can be corrected with a warming filter of yellows and oranges, while photos whose whites look unnaturally yellow or gold can be corrected with cooling filters in blue shades.

Cropping

    Cropping is one of the simplest yet most effective photo-editing tools. Cropping an ill-composed photograph can be the difference between a work of art and a snapshot. Composition is as crucial to a photograph as lighting technique is. Photographs that are shot in large formats (RAW is best) can be cropped to bring attention to one subject in a photo filled with many, zoom into a particular area, and decentralize a subject. One trick to subject photography to keep in mind is the rule of thirds; never center your subject (unless that in itself is the goal), but rather keep it just slightly off to the side, top or bottom of the center. Imagine the photographic plane covered in a 3 X 3 grid; well-composed photographs generally tend to have the main subject at one of the four line intersections. You can achieve this through cropping.

Saturation

    Color saturation does exactly what the name implies, it saturates or increases each color. The same effect would be visible in a painting: the more paint applied to a surface (such as a wall or ceramic vase), the more vibrant and saturated the color becomes. Color saturation can usually be applied to the entire photograph or adjusted individually using a color-balance application. Increasing the saturation will bring a dull photograph that was underexposed or shot with improper white balance (when the white space looks either blue or yellow) truer to its natural hue.

Black-and-White

    In the case of a great subject (what is in the photo) but terrible technique (bad lighting, off colors), converting the photo into black-and-white, or grayscale, can save the photograph by disguising its inadequacies. Black-and-white is generally considered a dramatic effect, but it is also a correcting effect incognito. When altering a photo to black-and-white, you can either change the file format from RGB color (red, green, blue color) directly to grayscale, add a black-and-white photo filter over the original photograph or alter the image using a channel mixer. The colors in a digital photograph are divided into channels; if you use a channel mixer to change the photo to black-and-white, you can adjust each color to alter the photo to a crisp, proper balance of black, white and grays.


Picture-Editing Tricks

The great thing about digital photography is that you have much more power over the photograph during post-production than you would in a darkroom. There are many tricks to post-production editing, and all require the use of a photo-editing program such as Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom, or Paintshop Pro Photo. There is, however, a trick to photo editing that happens before post-production--that is the shooting format. Photos that are shot in RAW (tiff) format are can be edited much more easily than jpeg images.

Levels

    All DSLRs (digital single lens reflex cameras) come equipped with level meters. The levels in a digital photograph refer to the white versus black output. When one side is exaggerated and the other severely understated, chances are the photo is either overexposed or underexposed. You can attempt to fix the levels in post-production by increasing the black output level in a washed-out photo and increasing the white output in a dark image. Just remember that adjusting the levels severely (a lot in either direction) increases the noise (grain) in a photograph.

Photo Filters

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Cropping

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Saturation

    Color saturation does exactly what the name implies, it saturates or increases each color. The same effect would be visible in a painting: the more paint applied to a surface (such as a wall or ceramic vase), the more vibrant and saturated the color becomes. Color saturation can usually be applied to the entire photograph or adjusted individually using a color-balance application. Increasing the saturation will bring a dull photograph that was underexposed or shot with improper white balance (when the white space looks either blue or yellow) truer to its natural hue.

Black-and-White

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Monday, December 30, 2013

How to Find a Photobooth

How to Find a Photobooth

The photo booth has been an American cultural icon for decades. Dotting summer boardwalks, county fairgrounds and shopping malls, photo booths allow American teenagers, lovers and tourists alike to snap instantaneous photo strips. While many of the nostalgic booths have disappeared as personal digital cameras become widespread, photo booth rentals are available from coast to coast for corporate photo shoots and party rentals.

Instructions

    1

    Visit Photobooth.net (see Reference) the most comprehensive photo booth resource and locator. Selecte the Search and Browse tools to find a photo booth in your state or in another country. Click an entry to view the address of the booth, a description of the venue, map links and the price per strip.

    2

    Search Google Maps (see Resource) to find restaurants and bars with photo booths inside. Insert the words photo booth and near and your exact address into the Search Maps box.

    3

    Locate a recognized photo booth provider with guaranteed quality equipment through the International Photobooth Association (see Reference). Browse the Members Locations for recognized members, which are required to own at least two Photoworks Interactive Model 12 digital photo booths, the highest-quality digital booth. Rentals and sales are available through the members.


How to Find a Photobooth

The photo booth has been an American cultural icon for decades. Dotting summer boardwalks, county fairgrounds and shopping malls, photo booths allow American teenagers, lovers and tourists alike to snap instantaneous photo strips. While many of the nostalgic booths have disappeared as personal digital cameras become widespread, photo booth rentals are available from coast to coast for corporate photo shoots and party rentals.

Instructions

    1

    Visit Photobooth.net (see Reference) the most comprehensive photo booth resource and locator. Selecte the Search and Browse tools to find a photo booth in your state or in another country. Click an entry to view the address of the booth, a description of the venue, map links and the price per strip.

    2

    Search Google Maps (see Resource) to find restaurants and bars with photo booths inside. Insert the words photo booth and near and your exact address into the Search Maps box.

    3

    Locate a recognized photo booth provider with guaranteed quality equipment through the International Photobooth Association (see Reference). Browse the Members Locations for recognized members, which are required to own at least two Photoworks Interactive Model 12 digital photo booths, the highest-quality digital booth. Rentals and sales are available through the members.



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Saturday, December 28, 2013

How to Expose a Black and White Negative

Film is sensitive to light. Its sensitivity forms the foundation of how photography works. A camera is a light tight box with a small opening, which allows a specific amount of light to enter for a specified amount of time. When a negative is exposed to light, silver halide crystals react to create an image. Too much light on a negative produces over exposure and the picture loses detail. Under exposing a negative produces a print with strong gray tones instead of sharp black and white tones.

Instructions

    1

    Learn the camera's settings. Repeatedly getting the right film exposure requires solid camera knowledge.

    2

    Place the light meter on your subject's skin tone, if you are photographing a portrait.

    3

    Take one meter reading on the most lit part of your frame and another one in the shadow. Average the two shutter speeds or apertures, and use that setting to take your photograph. This procedure will allow you to compensate for harsh lighting.

    4

    Use your camera's Portrait and Landscape settings. These settings will give more specific automatic exposure suggestions for your environment than the Automatic setting.

    5

    Select the right film speed. Choose a film with a high ISO for low light, and a low ISO for bright and sunny lighting.

    6

    Look in your camera's viewfinder, and lightly press the shutter. Look at the figures at the bottom or side of the viewfinder. Locate the poles or digits. This gives you a specific reading for exposing the film and will tell you how to adjust your camera settings for the right exposure.

    7

    Change your shutter speed or aperture until the marker in your viewfinder is centered. This creates a balanced light reading.


Film is sensitive to light. Its sensitivity forms the foundation of how photography works. A camera is a light tight box with a small opening, which allows a specific amount of light to enter for a specified amount of time. When a negative is exposed to light, silver halide crystals react to create an image. Too much light on a negative produces over exposure and the picture loses detail. Under exposing a negative produces a print with strong gray tones instead of sharp black and white tones.

Instructions

    1

    Learn the camera's settings. Repeatedly getting the right film exposure requires solid camera knowledge.

    2

    Place the light meter on your subject's skin tone, if you are photographing a portrait.

    3

    Take one meter reading on the most lit part of your frame and another one in the shadow. Average the two shutter speeds or apertures, and use that setting to take your photograph. This procedure will allow you to compensate for harsh lighting.

    4

    Use your camera's Portrait and Landscape settings. These settings will give more specific automatic exposure suggestions for your environment than the Automatic setting.

    5

    Select the right film speed. Choose a film with a high ISO for low light, and a low ISO for bright and sunny lighting.

    6

    Look in your camera's viewfinder, and lightly press the shutter. Look at the figures at the bottom or side of the viewfinder.

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    . Locate the poles or digits. This gives you a specific reading for exposing the film and will tell you how to adjust your camera settings for the right exposure.

    7

    Change your shutter speed or aperture until the marker in your viewfinder is centered. This creates a balanced light reading.



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Wednesday, December 25, 2013

Homemade Light Reflectors

Homemade Light Reflectors

Light reflectors allow you to illuminate the subject of your photographs from several angles using a single light source, enhancing the quality of your photos. You can purchase light reflectors at a camera store, or create cheap but effective homemade light reflectors. A homemade light reflector can be made out of any reflective material, but two popular choices are aluminum foil and white bed sheets.

Aluminum Foil Reflectors

    To make a homemade aluminum foil light reflector, you will need aluminum foil, cardboard and spray adhesive. Supermarkets sell rolls of aluminum foil, and most hardware stores carry spray adhesive. You can use cardboard from an extra box you have around the house, or purchase it at an office supplies store.

    Cut a flat piece of cardboard into a square or circle, of any size according to your preference. Larger pieces will allow you to reflect more light than smaller pieces, but they are more difficult to transport and position when you shoot photographs.

    Remove enough aluminum foil from the package to cover the cardboard. If you have cut a large piece of cardboard, you may need to use several pieces of aluminum foil side-by-side. Coat one side of the cardboard with spray adhesive, and press the aluminum foil in place over the cardboard. Make sure to smooth the aluminum foil as you attach it to the cardboard. Once the adhesive dries, and wrinkles in the aluminum foil will be stuck there.

    Instead of using aluminum foil, you can use white paper. White paper will reflect less light than aluminum foil, which is useful if you want softer or subtler lighting effects in your photographs. You can also attach aluminum foil to one side of the cardboard and white paper to the other side. This allows you to switch your light reflector during a shoot simply by flipping the board over.

Bed Sheet Reflectors

    White bed sheets can also be used to reflect light. They will reflect similarly to a white paper on cardboard reflector. Bed sheets are useful because they can reflect a large area of light when stretched out, but in between shoots you can fold them up and transport them easily.

    You can use bed sheets as light reflectors without any kind of support by placing them on the ground underneath the subject of your photo. This will reflect light upwards toward the subject, illuminating areas that lights often miss.

    Alternatively, you can attach bed sheets to a stand to light photos from the sides. Purchase two wooden poles, and two short wooden 2-by-4s. Nail the poles to the 2-by-4s so that they will stand upright. When you are ready to shoot, set the two poles a few feet away from each other and drape the bed sheet over them.


Homemade Light Reflectors

Light reflectors allow you to illuminate the subject of your photographs from several angles using a single light source, enhancing the quality of your photos. You can purchase light reflectors at a camera store, or create cheap but effective homemade light reflectors. A homemade light reflector can be made out of any reflective material, but two popular choices are aluminum foil and white bed sheets.

Aluminum Foil Reflectors

    To make a homemade aluminum foil light reflector, you will need aluminum foil, cardboard and spray adhesive. Supermarkets sell rolls of aluminum foil, and most hardware stores carry spray adhesive. You can use cardboard from an extra box you have around the house, or purchase it at an office supplies store.

    Cut a flat piece of cardboard into a square or circle, of any size according to your preference.

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    . Larger pieces will allow you to reflect more light than smaller pieces, but they are more difficult to transport and position when you shoot photographs.

    Remove enough aluminum foil from the package to cover the cardboard. If you have cut a large piece of cardboard, you may need to use several pieces of aluminum foil side-by-side. Coat one side of the cardboard with spray adhesive, and press the aluminum foil in place over the cardboard. Make sure to smooth the aluminum foil as you attach it to the cardboard. Once the adhesive dries, and wrinkles in the aluminum foil will be stuck there.

    Instead of using aluminum foil, you can use white paper. White paper will reflect less light than aluminum foil, which is useful if you want softer or subtler lighting effects in your photographs. You can also attach aluminum foil to one side of the cardboard and white paper to the other side. This allows you to switch your light reflector during a shoot simply by flipping the board over.

Bed Sheet Reflectors

    White bed sheets can also be used to reflect light. They will reflect similarly to a white paper on cardboard reflector. Bed sheets are useful because they can reflect a large area of light when stretched out, but in between shoots you can fold them up and transport them easily.

    You can use bed sheets as light reflectors without any kind of support by placing them on the ground underneath the subject of your photo. This will reflect light upwards toward the subject, illuminating areas that lights often miss.

    Alternatively, you can attach bed sheets to a stand to light photos from the sides. Purchase two wooden poles, and two short wooden 2-by-4s. Nail the poles to the 2-by-4s so that they will stand upright. When you are ready to shoot, set the two poles a few feet away from each other and drape the bed sheet over them.



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