Monday, February 29, 2016

A Guide to Retouching Hotel Rooms

A Guide to Retouching Hotel Rooms




fstoppers architecture



A Guide to Retouching Hotel Rooms



8 Awesome YouTube Tutorials Every Photographer Should See




BRIGHT IDEA FOR LOWLIGHT PHOTOGRAPHY 
UTAH ENGINEERS DEVELOP CAMERA FILTER THAT PRODUCES SHARPER, BRIGHTER PHOTOS IN LOW LIGHT



7 DIY Photography Tips Using Household Objects





Enhance Texture and Detail with Intelligent High Pass Sharpening


PS actions download





The Ultimate Course for Fashion and Beauty Photography and Retouching



5 Photoshop Blend Modes That Can Change An Image Within Seconds








CAMERA LENS CORRECTIONS

CAMERA LENS CORRECTIONS




Focal lengths – Video Tutorial
 

CAMERA LENS CORRECTIONS!








































How Its Made - Large Format Cameras

How Its Made - Large Format Cameras



How Its Made - Large Format Cameras - Walker Titan SF 4x5.mp4


WALKER TITAN SF 4x5








Film Photography Podcast



#FILMSNOTDEAD

Josef Koudelka

Josef Koudelka




  








Josef Koudelka
is one of the more important Czech photo journalists of the 20th Century. In August of 1968, he witnessed and photographed the Warsaw Pact invasion of Prague. For the next 7 days, Koudelka captured the protest, violence and historical impact in a series of dramatic photographs that shared the event with the world. For years, he went uncredited as the photographer of these images out of fear for his life.
He even won the Robert Capa Gold Medal for the work anonymously. Interestingly this would be the only conflict news event that Koudelka would ever cover. In this video we'll take a look at Koudelka's career. His early work with the theater greatly influenced much of his later work including the Prague invasion, Gypsy studies and later landscape images. Koudlka is a brilliant photographer. For all of his talented he went largely uncredited for most of his career. Book: Koudelka: Nationally Doubtful (Art Institute of Chicago)


Josef Koudelka
www.luminous-lint.com/app/photographer/Josef__Koudelka/A/


10 Lessons Josef Koudelka Has Taught Me About Street Photography - eric kim


VOGUE - Josef Koudelka




Quotes By Photographer Josef Koudelka

I have to shoot three cassettes of film a day, even when not 'photographing', in order to keep the eye in practice. - Josef Koudelka


 





“The biggest lesson in photography is that from negative we make a positive"
Josef Koudelka


“What matters most to me is to take photographs; to continue taking them and not to repeat myself. To go further, to go as far as I can.” – Josef Koudelka

“I am not interested in repetition. I don’t want to reach the point from where I wouldn’t know how to go further. It’s good to set limits for oneself, but there comes a moment when we must destroy what we have constructed.” – Josef Koudelka

“If I am dissatisfied, it’s simply because good photos are few and far between. A good photo is a miracle.” – Josef Koudelka

“I have to shoot three cassettes of film a day, even when not ‘photographing’, in order to keep the eye in practice.” – Josef Koudelka

“Sometimes I photograph without looking through the viewfinder. I have mastered that well enough, it is almost as if I were looking through it.” – Josef Koudelka

“When I photograph, I do not think much. If you looked at my contacts you would ask yourself: “What is this guy doing?” But I keep working with my contacts and with my prints, I look at them all the time. I believe that the result of this work stays in me and at the moment of photographing it comes out, without my thinking of it.” – Josef Koudelka

“I don’t pretend to be an intellectual or a philosopher. I just look.” – Josef Koudelka

“I photograph only something that has to do with me, and I never did anything that I did not want to do. I do not do editorial and I never do advertising. No, my freedom is something I do not give away easily.” – Josef Koudelka

“I don’t like captions. I prefer people to look at my pictures and invent their own stories.” – Josef Koudelka
“I never stay in one country more than three months. Why? Because I was interested in seeing, and if I stay longer I become blind.” – Josef Koudelka

“My photographs are proof of what happened. When I go to Russia, sometimes I meet ex-soldiers… They say, ‘We came to liberate you….’ I say: ‘Listen, I think it was quite different. I saw people being killed.’ They say: No. We never… no shooting. No. No.’ So I can show them my Prague 1968 photographs and say, ‘Listen, these are my pictures. I was there.’ And they have to believe me.” – Josef Koudelka

“The changes taking place in this part of Europe are enormous and very rapid. One world is disappearing. I am trying to photograph what’s left. I have always been drawn to what is ending, what will soon no longer exist.” – Josef Koudelka

“It never seemed important to me that my photos be published. It’s important that I take them. There were periods where I didn’t have money, and I would imagine that someone would come to me and say: ‘Here is money, you can go do your photography, but you must not show it.’ I would have accepted right away. On the other hand, if someone had come to me saying: ‘Here is money to do your photography, but after your death it must be destroyed,’ I would have refused.” – Josef Koudelka

“When I first started to take photographs in Czechoslovakia, I met this old gentleman, this old photographer, who told me a few practical things. One of the things he said was, “Josef, a photographer works on the subject, but the subject works on the photographer.” – Josef Koudelka

“I would like to see everything, look at everything, I want to be the view itself.” – Josef Koudelka



12 Great Photographs By Josef Koudelka















Sunday, February 21, 2016

How to Shoot Cities at Night

How to Shoot Cities at Night    




How to Shoot Cities at Night - PLP #118 by Serge Ramelli




Paris

Serge Ramelli Paris













Sunday, February 7, 2016

Negative darkroom editing

Negative darkroom editing



alternative photography com
www.alternativephotography.com



MAGNUM PHOTOS DARKROOM MAGIC | THE GENESIS OF PHOTOSHOP & LIGHTROOM

Darkroom manipulation


Photographie 8 The portrait of Henri Cartier-Bresson captured by Bob Henriques during Martin Luther King’s march on Washington








Ben Horne: Contemporary Large Format Landscape & Nature ... photography

Ben Horne - youtube

https://benhorne.wordpress.com

My philosophy is to get to know the location before even bringing my camera with me into the wilderness. I will often spend several days at each location so I can experience sunrise, sunset, and the way that the light falls on the land. This allows me to formulate how best to capture the beauty of a scene. Without doing this, I find myself very intimidated by the beauty of a location, and feel that I am not capable of truly capturing the essence of a location... 

... 
shot on 8x10 film, and a few of my earlier images were shot on 4x5 film ...



IQ180 Vs. 8X10 film article






No cropping? LOL.
Here's Henri Cartier-Bresson's original negative of his famous "Behind the Gare St. Lazare",
aka "man jumping a puddle"
photo:

after





Picasso original



Picasso cropped



Dimensions: 500 × 640 (0.3 MP)





The Past "Photography" the Future "Imagery" Not for ME!

dictatorial nonsense


Where did it all begin?


Sand Creek Lakes - Not your normal wedding photoshoot


Scanning and Editing Color Negative FIlm

Luminosity Masks and Film Scans



Backpacking with a 4x5 Camera

Color Film Choices for Landscapes


First Impressions with the Fuji G617 Panoramic Camera



negative film processing







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Contact Sheet: Hendrix



V-J Day in Contact Sheets




Comparing Digital and Large Format

My Photographic Journey: (Ep.10) Comparing Digital and Large Format Technique
[Ben Horne]




Digital vs. Film - Canon 5D Mark II vs. Kodak Ektar 35mm "Pound for Pound, Pixel for Pixel"













Monday, February 1, 2016

Darkroom Printing

Darkroom Printing



Magnum and the Dying Art of Darkroom Printing


Marked Up Photographs Show How Iconic Prints Were Edited in the Darkroom


Over the last fifteen years, almost every photographer I’ve interviewed has waxed poetic about that “magical” experience of seeing an image develop in chemicals for the first time. You have to wonder whether today’s young photographers will rhapsodize as much about the first time they color-calibrated their monitors...








Want to see what kind of work goes into turning a masterful photograph into an iconic print? Pablo Inirio, the master darkroom printer who works at Magnum Photos‘ New York headquarters, has personally worked on some of the cooperative’s best-known images....

















Jediná Foto Češka na Tour

Jediná Foto Češka na Tour




Jediná Češka na Tour: Půl milionu na rameni a fotky, jaké nikdo jiný nesvede


Tahle Tour de France měla vlastně standardní průběh. Dvakrát během ní zmokla na kost. Jíst obvykle nestíhala. V předposlední, horské etapě – té, kde útočil Čech Kreuziger – ji málem smetl vrtulník. A po cestě do Paříže dojela o půlnoci posledních deset kilometrů k benzínce s úplně vyschlou nádrží. Nic, co by ještě fotografku Markétu Navrátilovou, jedinou Češku v pelotonu Tour zocelenou tolika „starty“ v závodě, mohlo rozhodit.



Skrytá psychologie neúspěchu: Proč se vyplatí občas narazit



Bajkazyl, cyklistická pohotovost, která městu vrací divokost a svobodu







RAW, Post Processing & Printing

RAW, Post Processing & Printing



How to prepare data from camera for high quality print



RAW, Post Processing & Printing




FORUMS ➔ Post Processing, Marketing & Presenting Photos



Lightroom Web Module to create private gallery for clients




How-To Tips: Preparing Photos For Large Format Fine Art Photo Prints











panorama, print,

Wedding songs

Wedding songs 



Coldplay - The Scientist  -  4:25
Ed Sheeran - Thinking Out Loud  -  4:56
James Blunt - Good bye my lover  -  3:57
Coldplay - Fix You  -  4:56
Ed Sheeran - Photograph  -  4:34
Passenger - Let Her Go  -  4:14




Johann Pachelbel - Canon in D Major  -  3:53










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WordPress - Nejlepší návody 2015

WordPress - Nejlepší návody 2015




Nejlepší návody pro WordPress z roku 2015



Rok 2015 se pomalu chýlí ke konci a bylo by dobré si připomenout ty nejlepší návody pro WordPress, které jsme zde uveřejnili.
Ještě předtím bych však rád poděkoval celé WordPress komunitě v Čechách za to, že je aktivní a že si v duchu filozofie WordPressu aktivně pomáhá a sdílí informace. Ať už na sociálních sítích ve skupinách jako WordPress CZ/SK – diskuzeWooCommerce SK + CZWordPress Meetup ČR nebo na srazech, které ve svém volném čase pořádají kluci z NášWP.cz. Jměnovitě pak Radek Kučera,Tomáš Poner a Vladislav Musílek.
Také díky za konzultaci Pavlu Ungrovi u článků týkající se SEO a WordPressu.

WPlama.cz: rekapitulace roku 2015

Rok 2015 byl druhým rokem existence tohoto webu a i když většinu obsahu tady tvořím , tak se občas našli další lidé, kteří se zapojili ať už radou v komentáři nebo třeba i překladem šablony.
V tomto roce jsme zde uveřejnili celkem ... více 




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Multimédia jsou důležitou součástí každého blogu anebo online magazínu. Práce s nimi ve WordPress je mimořádně jednoduchá i pro laika, ostatně jako většina jeho funkcí. Ovšem právě začátečníci naráží na časté problémy s nahráváním obrázků.

Nelze vytvořit adresář ...


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Praktická ukázka zrychlujeme wordpress - 1





Test rychlosti načtení webu (web stránky)

Google - PageSpeed Insights



Pingdom Website Speed Test









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Shoot Through vs Reflective umbrellas

Shoot Through vs Reflective umbrellas



Shoot-through vs Reflective umbrellas


central "hot-spot"
Lighting that is done close to the subject shows that the shoot-thru umbrella has more coverage but no ‘wrap’ to it, while the reflective umbrella has less coverage but more even light. When shooting a portrait, the white umbrella when placed close to the subject creates a center weighted soft 'hot spot' of light ie. the intensity is strong at the centre, and fades to the shadow.
The skin looks soft with this light. At the same close distance, the silver umbrella gives more wrap and even coverage of light. The skin gives shows an even sparkling effect, which is good for people with great skin. At long distance though, both light produce almost the same effect and difference if any is negligible(even for lighting geeks), although the silver umbrella eats up more power from the light source to give the same amount of light as the white shoot through umbrella... source



Comparing Light and its Modifiers




Light Modifiers Comparison

COMPARING 7 COMMON LIGHT MODIFIERS







Lighting Techniques - sid vasandani


One Light Wonders



Shooting on a White Seamless





Mixing Flash & Ambient Light


Case Study: Light of the Legends



What Umbrella Do I Need?






softbox vs shoot-through umbrella vs bounce umbrella








Umbrella 102 for Beginners: Placement of your Umbrella and Flash



Monday Giveaway! | Westcott Lighting Parabolic Umbrella! - zach and jody.com






 http://micksproject365.blogspot.com







Basics: How to Choose an Umbrella





Archive 2017 · Question regarding an umbrella softbox





Shoot Thru Umbrella and Bounce Umbrella – a Comparison




What Is The Difference Between a Parabolic Reflector, a Beauty Dish, and an Octobox?

Karl Taylor edu











Broncolor 88
Broncolor 133
Broncolor Para 133
Broncolor Para 222


Reflect Off Umbrellas or Shoot Through?



Mastering Soft Light Photography

















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