Photography

Five Easy Ways to Help Your Digital Photos have Special Effects   by Skywalker2010

Art historians will tell you that modern art–with its emphasis on distorting reality came about after cameras were invented Battery Charger. If you think about it, we’re kind of like those nineteenth-century artists. Our digital cameras take great photos but after a while, it all starts to feel pretty mundane. What can we do to jazz them up? It turns out that there are a slew of easy, eye popping special effects that you can try tilt shift, high dynamic range, blur effects, and more both on your PC and, in some cases, right in your camera when you take the picture.
This faux-miniature style of photography is called tilt-shift because it ordinarily relies on a special articulating lens to create photos in which the depth of focus falls in an unexpected way. If you take a normal photo of a city skyline, for example, everything is so far away that it’s pretty much all in focus at the lens’s infinity setting. But if you take a picture of a dollhouse, everything is so close that only part of the shot can be properly focused. If you were to capture the skyline in such a way that only the foreground were in focus, then it would look like a miniature. Expensive tilt-shift lenses deliver that unique effect but you can use your image editor or a spiffy new in-camera feature to get the same look.
You can use almost any image editing program to take an ordinary scene and make it look as though it were a miniature. A few years back I described how to do this in Adobe Photoshop Elements. Here you can see a regular photo of my kitchen remodel, and the tilt-shift “dollhouse” version. Olympus’s Diorama Art Filter and Canon’s Miniature scene mode both choose a narrow horizontal plane of focus, blur the top and bottom of the image, and give colors an artificial boost. The resulting images make big objects look tiny Camera Battery Charger, as you see here.
In the old days, taking a panorama meant using a special camera or taping together a set of pictures. Today, of course, perfectly joined panoramas are a snap. You need to take a series of photos, pivoting your body a little between each shot so you get about 30 percent overlap in each. Then import them into your favorite photo editor or a free program like Windows Live Photo Gallery and let the software automatically “stitch” them together. I explain the whole process in “8 Tips for Photographing Panoramas.”
With most digital cameras, you need to adjust your aperture settings to capture a crisp, well-exposed shot with a very shallow depth of field. Although most people love this effect it draws the viewer

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