With the mother of all
food holidays just around the corner, I thought this would be the perfect time to discuss food photography. Whether you are a total foodie wielding a blog about your nightly experiments or are just into taking pics, I found lots of helpful tips on
Digital Photography School about how to take mouth-watering food photos.
Although you can
check out the full list of hints and tricks on the blog, the tip that stood out the most was one that told me to experiment with different angles.
I just came across these
Animal Prints ($25) by photographer Sharon Montrose, and I'm totally smitten. The LA-based shutterbug snapped these real live animals, who mostly "live happily at a small California Zoo," perched in front of a white backdrop on hardwood floors. The details are truly amazing, and I applaud her for getting these zoo dwellers to stand so still!
Yes you CAN take your digital pictures and transform them into a masterpiece like the one below, thanks to a free web application called
Pixisnap! With Pixisnap you can create photo mosaics or Polaroid-inspired pics for free. To get started just choose which type of picture style you want, upload your photo, and then customize your mosaic art.
Who loves black and white photography? The correct answer is: EVERYONE loves black and white photography!
Now you can shoot in romantic shades of gray on your iPhone — with the App
Vint B&W.
It's like the better our cameras get, the bigger our urge to make pictures look old and vintage-y.
First there was
Poladroid to make your photos look like now-defunct Polaroids, and now I've found a tutorial from Make that teaches you to
turn an old flatbed scanner into a scanner camera that produces noir-ish black and whites, like in this dog picture.
Are you into making your photos look rad and old?
I just came across the beautiful work of London-based photographer
Polly Wreford, and I'm completely spellbound. Her images are overflowing with gorgeous light and soft colors. She shoots lifestyle, interiors, and still life, but it just so happens that every room in her portfolio is more stunning than the next, not to mention completely inspiring for a deco-phile like me.
Halloween is nearly upon us, my friends, and if that doesn't give you an excuse to
make yourself look like a zombie then I don't know what will!
It's super easy: Using the web-editing site
I told you about before,
Picnik, just upload a photo with a human face in it, then in the create tab, and scroll down to the Halloween options.
Use the zombie brush to coat your subject's face, body, and clothes, and watch as the life is drained from the face.
The
Polling Place Photo Project is a NYTimes experiment to document "the local voting experience" around the country. They have invited citizens to snap pictures of their polling places when they go in to cast their vote, and then submit them to the website.
Anyone can participate (all states, all political persuasions) — check their
Resource List to find out what the law is regarding photography at polls in your state, and get to snapping.
Ever since Polaroid decided
to discontinue its instant-film products, I've been trying to snatch up all of the 600 film I come across. But, that gets pricey, considering the film costs nearly a buck per development. You know
how I love my Polaroids, though, so it puts me in a pickle.
I carry my camera around with me almost every day so I don't miss a photo opp. You just never know when you are going to have a
celebrity sighting or get up close and
personal with a new gadget!
I am not sure I could even count how many photos I have snapped this year, but between geek events, weddings, vacations, and random photos I've taken on
my way home from work I know it's more than 1,000.
