Digital Photo Secrets Book, How to Take Pictures Like the Pros
This past year our family was blessed with an addition in the form of an eight pound, three ounce baby boy so I knew that I would need to brush up on my photography skills.
I’ve always been the guy that is constantly ending up with one of his fingers blocking the shot.
Or blurring every picture because he doesn’t know how to set the shutter speed.
Or even most embarrassingly, leaving the lens cap on the camera.
Not exactly the best candidate to document those precious baby moments that you only get to see and document once.
When the holidays arrived, I knew that I had to get better at photography quick!
Doing some after new year’s shopping online, I came across an ad for an ebook offered at digital-photo-secrets.com.
I needed a quick solution, as everyone that has had a newborn already knows, running down to the book store isn’t always an easy thing to do.
After searching around a bit I finally hit on digital-photo-secrets.com, which has an e-book that promises to dramatically improve photography skills with the skills that professional photographers often use to get those great shots.
I cannot believe how much these tricks helped…
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A collection of cheap do it yourself light boxes and product photo techniques.
Here’s a tutorial for a home setup with detailed Photoshop CS techniques
using curves to improve product photo shots. This is a good primer for Ebay sellers.
The Strobist blog has plenty of tips for shooting products. Here’s one with some excellent tips for shooting shiny objects.
He also has some great tips for making a cheap $10 light box for shooting macro photos using a cardboard box and some posterboard and a single light source.
Here is the cheapest DIY lightbox setup of all. Using 5 sheets of paper and a single light bulb this tutorial shows you how to make a cheap lightbox in about 20 minutes.
A slightly more expensive light box version using an Ikea laundry hamper can fit larger objects and folds neatly after use.
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