Not Friday Finds: Low Angles

I’ve made a lot of changes to the site lately and I think I need to stop before it implodes upon itself. I’ve had so many errors today that I haven’t had any time to work on an actual post. Instead I’m going to share some awesome links and photos with you to make up for the fact that I skipped the last two Friday Finds.

The photos used throughout this post are taken by others and licensed under Creative Commons. The theme is low angle shots. For more low angle shots I collected, check out my Low Angle Shots Gallery on Flickr!

Photography Articles

• Simplicity’s Summer Photography Class 2010 – Photographer Faith Raider is offering a 4 week summer eClass for $20! I’ve been scoping out photography workshops and this is a steal! There will be two assignments a week, focusing on different aspects. Week 1: Light / People. Week 2: Focus / Flowers. Week 3: Crop / Objects. Week 4: Perspective / Close-Up. Registration ends June 27 and class starts July 5!
• The Grammie Diaries » Close Up Photography ~ Minus the Macro Lens – This is truly an awesome suggestion. Add a set of filters to your camera to take some macro-like photographs! I only have the 50mm lens at the moment and I really miss macro photography. This seems like a cheap alternative ($25!) to hold me over until I can afford another lens.
• Ask Deb! Get Answers to Your Most Pressing Photography Questions – A nice post about starting up a photography business and building a portfolio
• 7 Tips for Shooting with Normal Primes – Very helpful tips for shooting with prime lenses
• Your Camera Hates You – I’m not sure about the title of this article, but this is a simple explanation of how to shoot manually or in priority mode.
• It’s About Light – Lighting is critical to a good photograph. Unfortunately, natural light is also fickle and fleeting! I’d love to play around with light like the examples in this article.
• Finding the Light: More Tips for Natural Lighting – Another great natural lighting article.
• Slow Shutter Shoot Out: 3 Slow Shutter Speed Techniques – Time to break out the tripod.
• How to Choose the Correct ISO for your Shot – This article contains a quick cheat sheet too. I usually use 800-1600 when I’m inside because I HATE on-camera flash. I’m so forgetful when I go outside to turn that down, though! It makes a heap of difference.

Photo Editing Articles

• cfisherphotography: The Art of Photo Editing – This is a wonderful, quick tutorial on making the most out of the cheap Photoshop alternative, Piknic. I’ve used Picnik premium before and it truly is a very powerful tool! I had no idea it could do textures! I might just have to look into another month of premium!
• What They’re Not Telling You About HDR Images – I do like the look of HDR Images and I’d love to do one. My camera doesn’t do true bracketing though as far as I can tell, so I’d actually have to press the shutter, adjust the exposure, press the shutter, etc. I tried to do this once without a tripod and the results were dismal. Anyway, the technique is what makes and HDR image cool. It does not necessarily make someone a better photographer, even though the public may enjoy their photos more.
• Paint the Moon: Actions and Textures: First Class Freebies – I downloaded all of these the other day and have tried most of them. I really like her actions! The layers are labeled well and you can do a lot of customization. One strange thing her actions did was duplicate the original document into a new document, which destroys the history. (You guys know how much I love the history palette, right?) I can make no sense of doing something like that… ever. Lots of CoffeeShop’s actions do that too (though not all of them). I simply unchecked the Stop from the action though and all is well. Other than that, I really love them and might consider buying some of her sets in the future. Right now, I don’t think I need to buy anymore actions though.
• Photoshop Secret Shortcuts – I was watching a video over at MCP Actions’ site and noticed she was adjusting her brush size without using the toolbar menu. When I googled how to do it, I found this article which is rich with other nifty time-savers.

Site Notes

The following changes were made to the site this week. Please let me know if anything isn’t working right!

1. I made a Facebook fan page for digitalwoe.com. If you like my site and you’re on Facebook, I’ll be eternally grateful if you click “Like”! I had a Facebook page for digitalwoe.com scrapbook, but like an idiot I put “scrapbook” in the page name and there was no way to get rid of it. Then I created an application for this site because I was using a Facebook integration plugin that required it. I’m no longer using the plugin though and I hate having an application for what should be a fan page. So I scrapped all of that and I’m starting over. As you can see, my list of fans is a bit pathetic.
2. I changed the blog’s URL from the /photos/ directory to the top level domain. Everything seems to be auto-redirecting without problem.
3. I added about a bazillion memes to the Be Inspired page. I hoped to participate in a few this week, but have just been too busy.
4. I added a category drop-down on the main index page on the top right hand corner.

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