This is a collection of pieces of advice to make your everyday photos more enjoyable to look at; a little more with every post. These are only bits which do not claim to be complete, but are rather all you need to know at that moment.


I assume my readers are non-professionals who are interested in capturing their memories in the way they have experienced them, instead of how their camera device automatically suggests an output, thereby speaking of using anything from a mobile phone to an auto-set DSLR.

About the author: I am Mareen Fischinger, a professional photographer, living and working in Düsseldorf, Germany.

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(Please note that I know nothing about certain camera models and do not see myself in a position to give any shopping advice.)
September 3
photojojo: LEFT: Normal photo  RIGHT: HDR-enhanced with iOS 4.1 Yesterday Apple introduced iPod Nanos that look like Shuffles, iPod Shuffles that look like pocket change, iTunes that looks like Facebook, and best of all… HDR in the iPhone camera app. Basically, when you’ve got bright light in part of your shot that would results in blown our highlights, you turn on HDR. The camera takes 3 shots instead of one, and combines them to preserve details in dark ares and bright areas. From these early demo shots, Apple’s implementation looks to be subtle and well-done. First look: HDR photos with Apple’s iOS 4.1 (AppleInsider)

photojojo:

LEFT: Normal photo  RIGHT: HDR-enhanced with iOS 4.1

Yesterday Apple introduced iPod Nanos that look like Shuffles, iPod Shuffles that look like pocket change, iTunes that looks like Facebook, and best of all…

HDR in the iPhone camera app.

Basically, when you’ve got bright light in part of your shot that would results in blown our highlights, you turn on HDR. The camera takes 3 shots instead of one, and combines them to preserve details in dark ares and bright areas.

From these early demo shots, Apple’s implementation looks to be subtle and well-done.

First look: HDR photos with Apple’s iOS 4.1 (AppleInsider)



August 3

justmeandtheworld asked: Good Morning Mareen!
Could you tell me what is the best or your favorite lens for portraits?
Thank you!

24-70 mm on a full-format.



June 7

Using a disposable camera

I am not a professional, But i have found that using a disposable camera and then scanning the photos in gives them a cool feel and old/vintage effect. I put some of mine i took with a disposable camera on my tumblr.

submitted by FRUTESCENT.



May 31

Blending multiple exposures

stefantueshaus responding to this question by Richard Marks:

»I have been attempting to blend multiple exposures lately, but I have not been able to find a suitable tutorial or explanation online. Could you possibly explain how to create an image of multiple exposures, such as this one by pattpoom on flickr?«

The easiest way of putting several, different exposures together to one picture is using Photoshop’s HDR-tool. You just open Photoshop click File > Automate > Merge to HDR (maybe it is called a little different, I’m just translating from the German version).

Now you can choose the folder with your differently exposed pictures (RAW files only!) and Photoshop will put them together automatically. In the next step you have a little preview of what the picture will look like and the different pictures it’s built from on the left side. By clicking the little box next to the pictures you can choose which ones should be part of the result, you can see the changes in the preview window. Some tweaks are possible.

+ Read a tutorial about another way to do this on Photoshop Support.



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tinyfurrybugs asked: i just got myself a 50/f1.8 prime,i have been shooting a lot of things with it, from people to food and even building,i totally love it. Is there any tips or advise you can give so i can improve my utilization on the lens?

secondly, i want to shoot a person with the sky/cloud as the background, i always end up either able to only see the background&the subject is dark OR white sky/cloud&able to see the subject. how i can i get both?

Nice!

The lens is at it’s full bright potential when you open the aperture almost all the way. This means you should set your camera to AV and open it to f/2 or even f/1.8 and let the shutter time be adjusted to that.

About your second question, read below, I have already talked about fill flash.



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Anonymous asked: Hi! I was the one who asked about the RAW viewer. Unfortunately, I'm not a Mac user. :( I'm using Windows Vista.

Oh, sorry!

Maybe you should try Microsoft Expression Media.
Microsoft bought iView and renamed it.