Understanding and Using the Camera Light Meter

It's important to know just how your digital camera light meter works if you want properly exposed images. The metering system more or less controls the camera's aperture and shutter speed settings and it does this based on the ISO speed and the image's lighting conditions. The metering usually includes spot, evaluative zone or matrix, partial, and centre-weighted metering. All of these have lighting conditions that they excel at as well as those they fail at. It will help your end results if you understand these options.

Camera Lighting - Tips on Proper 3 Point Lighting

Not to be repetitive - and most production people know this, but one of the most important aspect of videography is lighting. It is important to have a solid understanding of the aspects of proper 3-point lighting. Understanding and utilizing this correct setup will allow for the most professional finished product possible. Whether you are shooting on video, film, or even photography, the concept works for all three.

Understanding Camera Aperture

The first step in understanding camera aperture is to get a clear picture in your mind as to what it actually is. If you think of a human eye your cameras aperture can be likened to the pupil which opens and closes to allow differential amounts of light through the eye to the light sensitive retina behind it.

Lighting Photography Tips - A Guide to Using Your Flash

Although flashes are just one type of photography light, they are also one of the most common. Nearly all cameras these days have a built-in flash and most professional photographers use a flash regularly for their work. Just like cameras, flashes vary significantly in their construction, functionality and accessories. Here's a breakdown on how to get the most out of your flash.

Hyperfocal Focusing: What Is It And Why Should You Use It?

When should you use hyperfocal focusing? Well, sometimes when shooting a landscape, you want everything sharp from the front to the back of the scene. Setting a small aperture such as f/16, f/22 or even f/32 can help, but if you really want to maximize depth of field, hyperfocal focusing is the technique you need to use.

What is Photorealism?

With modern times, comes modern ways of thinking. With modern ways of thinking comes new ways of approaching old things. This is done by blending the old and the new by correcting the old with the new. Such is the way with photorealism. This art from, which is dominated by painters instead of photographers, is the making of a painting out of a photograph. This started in the 1960's in the United States and has even branched to another art form called hyperrealism. Photorealism has emerged from Pop Art to act as an opposition to Abstract Expressionism and Minimalism. At times, it has been wrongly names as Super Realism, New Realism, Sharp Focus Realism and Hyper Realism.

Light The Night - Light Painting

Light painting is one of the lesser known techniques in photography and is usually only carried out by serious night owls... and some very keen photographers. Primarily performed at night and outdoors, such night captures can make scenes look more dramatic than they would under normal conditions. Light painting is not a new thing either, it's a technique that has been used for over 100 years, and contrary to modern beliefs it's not at all easy to get the optimal result. Accuracy in exposure settings, the right tools, the right atmospheric conditions, and patience are all key to a great night capture involving light painting.

Get Closer to Your Subject

Almost any shot will look better if you take two or three steps closer to your subject. Filling the frame entirely with your subject will make a terrific difference to your photos.

Alternatively, instead of moving closer, use the Optical Zoom of your camera to get a close up shot. Don't use your Digital Zoom as it will degrade your image quality.

Exposure Compensation

The digital camera is in reality a great possession with many facets of its utilities and not only that knowing these utilities makes the understanding the digital camera complete. The utilities are also so very diverse that they too offer further introspection of details in their varying applications. Such an area is digital camera exposure compensation. Only knowledge of digital camera exposure is not enough, so the digital camera exposure compensation requires some amount of exposure in itself! This discussion is focused towards that cause itself.

What is a Reverse Painting?

Welcome to the world of Reverse Painting on Glass. This technique has been considered a popular 'art of the people' for many centuries. The use of glass as a support for this intricate painting technique has not hindered its continuing popularity.

A reverse painting is created by painting a subject onto one side of a sheet of glass (or plexiglass) after which it is viewed from the other side of the glass, or through the glass.

Light Painting Techniques: 7 Useful Tips

Light painting is a fun photography technique where photographers use camera flashes, flashlights and spotlights to paint light in a scene. It can easily qualify as the best/most fun night photography technique. Although many photographers have attempted it before, only a few have mastered the technique. Below are some very useful techniques to consider when you want to perfect your light painting skills.

Cubism in Art

Between 1907 and 1914, a new visual art style was born and developed. Until this point in time, artists painted pictorial illusions organized of compositional space in terms of linear perspectives. Led by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, the emerging style of this time period rejected the theory that art should copy nature and dismissed the traditional techniques of perspective, modeling, and foreshortening. Picasso and Braque chose to embrace and emphasize the two-dimensionality of canvas. They reduced and fractured objects then realigned them within shallow, relief-like space with multiple and contracting vantage points.

Tips for Zero Budget Short Filmmaking Nobody Will Tell You

If you are reading this, you must be someone who wants to make his first short film; however, an expensive budget stops you from making one. Yes, this is a common problem which first-time filmmakers face. Even when I started making short films, I had this problem. I have made five short films. All of them had zero budget.

In this article, I will share tips to make a short film without incurring any expenses. So, let's start.

Basic Principles of 3D Animation

65% of people are considered visual learners. This is easy to understand considering that most information (90%) that is transmitted to the brain is visual. It also transmits visual information much faster (60,000 times faster) than text. It is therefore not surprising that videos are the most popular medium for communication and engagement currently available online.

Vector Art Technique

Vector Art is a technique, which means art created with vector-based programs. Vector art basically uses dots, lines, and curves. Vector programs take note of the relationship between these elements. This allows images created to vary their scale without losing quality or pixelating. In comparison, pixels lose quality when they are raised above 100% of their size.

Popular vector programs are Illustrator, Freehand, Corel Draw, and Flash. Almost everything created with these programs is considered as vector work. I say "almost" because there are exceptions to each rule. If your vector work combines vector images with raster images, I'm afraid that it is no longer a vectorial work (and consequently does not belong to the Vector Gallery).

What Is Digital Designing and How It Is Changing With Today's Technology

In today's world everything is going digital. Communication is becoming Digital Communication, advertisement is now Digital Advertisement. So with these changes the meaning and definition of designing has also changed and is now known as Digital Designing.

Now don't get confused by the this word.
Simple meaning of this is any designing done on digital platform is known as Digital Designing. In early days people used to draw by hand on paper/ books but now same things are drawn by hand but the difference is now we use stylus instead of pencil, we have tabs, screens to draw rather than on paper. We fill color in our art work but not with water colors or paint colors but digitally in software' like Photoshop, illustrator, digital painter tools etc.Earlier we used to have different kinds of brushes for painting,hard,soft,thin, thick,round, square,etc but now we only have one stylus and rest settings can easily be done in the software itself.

Top 5 Reasons Why Learning Adobe is a Boon for Everyday Life

Studio photography has not lost its charm yet. There still are a few advantages of studio photography over outdoor photography, which we will discuss in this post.

This Is How Augmented Reality Will Reshape Our Future

Augmented Reality uses the existing environment and overlays additional information on top of that.

If you are still unclear about what AR is, then all you have to do is go back and remember the time Pokémon Go took over the internet by storm. The game revolves around players catching digital monsters. Similarly, apps such as Snapchat, Facebook and Instagram offer users with filters which overlay animated images onto users' faces.

You will now be wondering how this technology can reshape or transform our future. Augmented Reality could bring about a lot of changes and development to various industries. Let's find out what they are.

5 DIY Photography Hacks to Capture Amazing Shots

Photography is one of those skills which can't be perfected overnight. It is an art, which takes a lot of practice and perseverance to master. However, in the age of the internet and digitalization, most of us are on the constant lookout for easy tips and tricks to learn things quickly. That's why we bring to you some cool and amazing DIY photography hacks that will improve your photography skills. If you are an amateur photographer, then this one is for you. Let's begin!

What is Media Monitoring and Why Does it Matter?

Media monitoring is paying attention to who's saying something about your company, your competition, your market, and any other subject that's important to you and your operations. In today's environment, media monitoring must encompass more than just print, expanding to the internet, television, and social media.