65+ Stunning Macro Photographs with tutorials

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We are often bothered and eluded by the large things like landscape, river views, lakes etc. but we rarely look to the smallest things in our world. Macro photography is one of those medium which makes you feel that even the smallest things have many parts to play in this globe. Macro photography means that image on the film plane is nearly equal to the size of the object. The lenses designed for macro photography are very sharp at macro focal length. Recently, the term Macro Photography is used at market level to state that: being able to focus on an object close enough, so that when a print is made the image is almost of the same size as the object itself.

Equipment Needed-What Kind of Camera

Opting for Point and shoot cameras will be a good choice indeed. These cameras have great ability to deliver a good image, but for a better result it is wise to shift for single-lens reflex cameras. These allow you to attach special Macro Lenses which further gives you the opportunity to see what you have on the digital Sensor.

Few things to follow

1-If you attach a telephoto extender between your camera body and lens A 1.4x or 2x , it converter, it gives you a far better and large image along with macro capabilities. Due to this extender a long time is need for the exposure and to reach the light on the digital sensor.
2-Macro lenses are those lenses which are specially designed for this purpose, sometimes it is also regarded as micro lens by the manufacturer. The later term is specifically more accurate than the former, but alas! We called it Macro more often. This lens provide you with consistent high optical quality while taking the macro shots , since they continuously change the formulae each time you do more focus .
There are different kinds of Macro lens

• i) 50-60 mm range- used for taking products photographs
• ii) 90-105mm range- used for normal insects , tress, plants and small objects
• iii) 150-200 range gives you high power- typically used for insects, birds, plants,

Technical Consideration

Depth of Field

There is a primary requirement for the field is: it should be of lower depth, as it turns out to be essential to focus critically and systematically on the most important part of the subjects. Small sensor bridge cameras and compact digital cameras have an coincidental advantage on macro photography due their inherently deeper depth of field. It has been observed that with the decrement of actual focal length of the lens the depth fades and so these compact digital cameras can easily get to the magnification of a 420 mm lens along with greater depth of field.

Lightning

It is really a common problem faced by many photographers during their projects or work. There are some lenses which touch the object while focusing, now it is really difficult to place a light source between the object and camera and so making it impractical for maximum close-up photography. Even a normal lens (50mm on a 35mm camera) can focus on an object to such an extent that lightning remains difficult . So to overcome this incredible Telephoto macro Lenses come to aid for the photographers. This lens has a focal length of 100 to 200 mm and permits sufficient distance for the light to reach the object.

65+ Amazing Macro Photographs

Insects Macro Photography

Amazing House Fly Macro Photography

sweet love Macro Photography

Frozen lady Macro Photography

Liquid Art Macro Photography

Coffee Macro Photography

Under Water Macro Photography

Macro Coco Cola Photography

Dizziness Snail Macro Photography

Dizziness Snail Macro Photography

Amazing Water Reflection Macro Photograph

Tadpole Macro Photograph

Bubbles Macro Photograph

Reflection With Smiley Macro Photograph

giant-baboucha Macro Photograph

Bubbles Macro Photograph

Hidden life of insects

Culr Amazing Macro Photograph

Dilated Macro Photograph

Shallownesss Blue Macro Photograph

Water Droplets Macro Photograph

Bulb Filament Macro Photograph

Simple Flower drop Macro Photography

Blue Smoke Macro Photograph

Milk Drop Macro Photograph

Rose Macro Photograph

Spring Macro Photograph

Snail Macro Photograph

Rhyothemis triangularis Macro Photograph

Male Striped Horse Fly Macro Photograph

Joakim Kræmer’s Macro Photographs

Garden Macro Photograph

Caterpillar Macro Photography

Frozen Dew drop Macro Photography

Snail on Grass Macro Photograph

Mushrooms Macro Photograph

Amazing Wet & Blue Macro Photography

Snail Macro Photograph

Trijection Macro Photograph

Dark Bubbles Macro Photograph

You Had Me At Hello

Flower with Water Drops

Living Inside Water Macro Photography

Stunning Macro Photography

Magic Mushroom Macro Photography

Life Inside A Snow Globe Macro Photography

Sawfly Larva and Hexi Macro Photography

Lost In Colors Macro Photography

Extremely beautiful picture! Roses are my favorite flower, and this one is particularly great. I love the droplets of water, they really add a nice contrast to the flower. The green and red colors are also great, and I love how the droplets are green instead of clear. Red and green colors also put me in the mood for Christmas. The center of the flower is wonderful, and I love how in changed colors. Also, the shadows under the petals add a nice touch to the overall photo. Despite it’s beauty, it’s definitely not the most original piece out there. Overall, it’s a really excellent piece.

The Fibonacci Macro Photography

Wasp Reflection Macro Photography

After the Rain Macro Photography

Rainbow Colours Macro Photography

Bee Macro Photography

Le Petite Tortue Macro Photography

Love drop Macro Photography

Huernia hystrix flower Macro Photography

Awesome Macro Photography

Break Dance Macro Photography

Awesome Water Drop Macro Photography

Galactic Macro Photography

Wasp Macro Photography

Carbon Bubbles Macro Photography

Decapitation Macro Photography

Insects Macro Photography

Useful Macro Photography Tutorials

An Intro to Macro Filters

Pixalo Macro Photography Tutorial

Macro Photography Tips by National Geographic

Water Drop Macro Photography Tutorial

Macro Photography tips

Need your feedback

The most important thing to remember when taking Macro Photography, is that you need to be patient. Lots of patience is required to get the correct snap with good exposure and focus. I guess that i have included most of the best Macro photographs available. In case if i missed your work, then please let me know via comments. I am happy to include yours. Let me know about your Macro Photographs via comments, I will add them asap.

35+ Inspiring Nightscape photography and Tips

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Nightscape Photography is one of the eluding styles of photography in lines of selection of photography-style by a photographer. It is sometime possible to shoot Landscape panorama, sea views, and bridges at night in such a manner as if, it has been taken at day time. A cityscape at night with lights blazing away like stars in the sky can be a scintillating show, and when captured in a photo, it can dazzle the eye. The twinkling effect in the photograph is mainly controlled by the exposure time and the size of aperture. By setting smaller apertures will create and exaggerate the star-like radiating shafts of light that can appear to emanate from small points of light in a scene. To take an excellent Night shot, you may need to setup the camera settings to different values, so I have included the common settings which most prefer for Nightscape photographs.

Useful Tips

• Tripod is very important; in fact it’s the basic need. You won’t be able to hold a camera steady enough for long time without a tripod.
• Using a remote release that will allow you to hold the exposure open for as long as you need is advisable.
• Always use ISO 100. But I have seen few recommending ISO 200, I really don’t go with that value because high value of ISO settings though reduce the capture time but it will introduce high noise in the final image.
• For Nightscape the advisable aperture is F8-F16. But it really depends on the subject you want to capture
• Use Slow shutter speed, it always depends on your subject and effect you want to reach at. Darkness is another factor to consider. Many use Bulb Mode which need ir remote control but in camera its 30 sec if you don’t have remote.
• If you are taking pictures of street lights, transportation, automobile trails, moving cars , bridge lights etc., then remove your UV filter you have in your lens, as it will cause blaze or haze which will disrupt your photo.
• Turn off your noise reduction in your camera (if have). Because if you are using a file format of large size like 6.1 megapixel then you really don’t need it, moreover you are on the long night exposure. Noise reduction on your night shot just reduces some detail on your images. Your reading and storing process of data also slows down, so turn it off and have a night shot, after your shutter turns off, you will get your image on the screen.
• White balance is really important. If you are shooting trailing lights, bridges, cityscape then you can use this settings
  WB=incandescent +3
  For other shooter, you can have auto white balance +3 too.
  You can set your exposure compensation around +1–+3
• Always hold your patience as night shooting really takes lot of time.

Night Shot Camera Settings

Camera: Canon EOS 5D ( Any of the type )
Lens: Canon 17-40mm f4 L
Exposure: 100+ sec (100 and above)
White balance: +3
Aperture: F8-F16
Focal Length: 17 mm
ISO Speed: 100 - 200
Exposure Bias: 0 EV

35+ Inspiring Nightscape Photographs

Stockholm night

A nightly prayer – Nightshot Photograph

Light Painting by MagLite – Night Shot photography

Taichung City, Taiwan – Nightscape photography

Severn Glow – Nightscape photography

Manhattan, New York City – Nightscape photography

Olympic Pacific Coast Last Light Catchers

A 30 second exposure (f/5.6 @ ISO 400) captures a purple fog produced by the lapping waves ephemeral presence along the line of an advancing tide. The longer exposure also allows the last of an already set sun to paint rocks on the beach with a warm glow.

Red clouds – Night Photograph

Magical Snow – Nightscape

Boston Skyline in the Blue Hour

The Light of Greality – Nightscape

Repose – Nightscape photography

Lonely hut at the top of the mountain in wilderness. Moon and stars shines the sky. Morning Sun starts to make some appear in the backround.

Forth Rail Bridge @ Sunset – Scotland

This is a view of the famous forth rail bridge taken from the north bank of the firth of forth in Scotland.

Tokyo tower – Nightscape

Provencher Bridge – Nightscape

Punggol beach – Late night shot

This has plenty of my favourties in one frame – long exposure (121 seconds), wide angle (17mm), late night, surreal water and gorgeous textures. From a late night shoot with the gajman. We drove up to Punggol beach to shoot something different, and were very happy with the results.

Neustift – Nightscape

A thunderstorm over Kansas at night

Chennai Marina beach Nightscape

Long Exposure Cityscape Nightscape

Jersey City, New York – Nightscape

Pacific Coast Highway – Nightscape

Playground – Nightscape Photograph

Rowes Wharf and Custom House Tower at Dusk, Boston

North Point Park at Sunset- Nightscape photography

Nightscape photography

Capetown – Nightscape Photograph

Evening Flow Nightscape Photograph by Skarpi

Dubai Marina Nightscape Photograph by Daniel Cheong

Ligth House Nightscape Photography

Dubai Nightshot by Daniel Cheong

Water candles – Nightscape

Taken from the same view point of my previous shot, but this time zooming in with my Sigma 18-200mm (Focal Length = 65mm). A total of 4 exposures, 3 at f/8 for the foreground and one at f/18 for the fountains

Austria Nightscape Photograph

Las Vegas – Nightscape

South Africa – Nightscape Photograph

Need your feedback

The most important thing to remember when taking nightscapes, is that you need to be patient. When each photograph takes at minimum 10 minutes to complete, you need to be prepared to be in for a long night. After taking a few under or over exposed shots, or wobbly ones where a gust of wind blows at the wrong moment, you might end up with a keeper.

I guess that i have included most of the best Nightscape photographs available. In case if i missed your work, then please let me know via comments. I am happy to include yours.

20+ Amazing Time-lapse Photography Inspirations

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Today i have come up with an interesting photography technique named “Time-lapse Photography”. It’s somewhat related to Long Exposure Photography, but here all the individual shots are combined together to form a slow motion video. In Time-lapse Photography, the same subject will be captured which will spread out over a period of time. Each frame thus captured at a slower rate are then smudged together to form a single video.the When the video replayed at normal speed, time appears to be moving faster and thus lapsing.

Time-lapse Photography helps you to see the subject which will take much time to complete in a shorter interval of time. For example, If you want to admire the sky from sun rise to sunset, you need not wait till the whole day. With the help of time lapse photography you can create a video of 1 min duration or even less which will cover all the changes occurring during the entire day. Isn’t it interesting to hear? Let me explain you the process of Time-lapse photography step by step.

How it Works?

First of all we need to switch the camera into manual mode. Use your test shots exposure information to set the aperture. Be sure to pick a shutter speed that will give you a good time lapse effect. If you have a shutter speed that is too fast you’ll end up with a choppy looking video. Although based on the subject you are shooting the shutter speed will vary. The length of the event is really a major factor which you must consider while selecting the speed and the number of shots. If the event takes 1 year to complete, then you must try to take few shots with a reasonable number of shots. However if you want to create a smooth and seamless video then the shutter speed must be high.

Set your camera to use JPG and at a size that you think is reasonable. If you don’t it will make your post processing more difficult as you’ll have to convert all your RAW images to JPG and then re-size them. Auto-white balance can change and fluctuate, especially if you’ll be shooting something for a while and the light gets brighter or dimmer over time. Setting it to manual helps ensure all your photos keep reasonably the same look. And also set your camera’s exposure manual as well. Once the camera settings are over, place the camera in a tripod inorder to avoid blur effects. If you don’t have a tripod then make use of some other base supports. Remember while taking the shots, the camera must be stable and fixed without any disturbances to get the perfect effect.

If the time interval of the event is high and you want the camera to make shots automatically then make use of Intervalometers. With an intervalometer (or timer remote controller), you can program your camera to shoot at certain times and at certain intervals such as 1 frame every 5 seconds, 1 frame every minute, and so on. This leaves you free to go do something else, when you’re ready.

Leave the set up undisturbed till the event is finished completely. Once you have finished taking all the images, now import them to a PC and edit the images to adjust the brightness, contrast, size, etc. Inorder to create the video, I suggest you to use Quicktime Movie Pro. QT movie Pro is cheap ($30) and it can provide you all the necessary settings which are needed to produce a perfect video file. Make use of the below tutorial to learn how to create Time-lapse photography better.

How to do Time-Lapse Photography

Here is a tutorial which shows you how to use the camera to take the shots and how to create slow-motion videos. Hope this tutorial would be very useful for all beginners.

Time-lapse Photography Pulse Night shots

Time-lapse photography by Jason C.S. Chen.

Time Lapse Tour of Yosemite National Park

Timelapse tour of Yosemite National Park. See one of my favorite places in the world.Tunnel view, Valley View, Cook’s Meadow, Bridalveil Falls, Nevada Falls, Mist Trail, El Capitan, Yosemite Falls, Half Dome, and much more.

Time-Lapse Photography of the German city

Time-Lapse Photography of the German city Stuttgart showing 20 Locations in 24 hours. Shots are taken on the Canon EOS-1D Mark II

Timescapes Timelapse: Mountain Light

These shots are taken during the trip in August to California’s White Mountains and Yosemite, all shot on the Canon 5D2.

Time-lapse Photography : Singapore Awakens

A visual tale of Singapore as it awakens to a new day. Shot with the Canon 5DMKII using Time Lapse Photography, this short film was shot entirely in Singapore during the month of April 2010. During the filming I used a Canon 24mm Shift & Tilt lens, a 100-400mm Zoom, a 24-105mm zoom, a 50mm f1.4 and a Lee 10 stop filter. These filters are glass and while fragile, deliver a really nice clean image with very little colour cast.

The Forest of Dean – Time-lapse 03

Taken in the Forest of Dean January 2010. The time-lapse image was taken over a period of 1 Hour using a Canon 5D still camera. One frame was shot every 30 seconds using a 10 stop filter to give 25 second exposure with 5 second intervals between exposure. The long exposure time was used to try and smooth the effect of the uneven lighting caused by the sun passing behind the trees.

Time Lapse in Motion

Motion Time Lapse Cinematography by Aidan Maguire

Aurora Borealis – Iceland 2010

Time-lapse video of the northern lights.

HDR time lapses in and around Essex

Last year the photographer decided to set himself a bit of a project / challenge – and that was to shoot a series of HDR time lapses in and around Essex. Well, one thing or another got in the way of that project and only part of it was actually completed.

Time Lapse Reel

This is a compilation of some of our Time-Lapse Photography taken in 12 cities in the United States.

Feast of Northern Lights

Most of this is done on Canon 40D but some is done on Canon 400D.
Canon 400D is now preferred camera for time lapse as he only produce medium sized jpg files (easy to process and I get more frames per memory card). Most of these shots were taken with a 15-20sec exposure. He has been doing this for about a year now and he am keen to learn how to get better quality video.

Nuuanu Pali Lookout | Time Lapse HDR

An HDR time lapse video from 318 HDRI images. Soundtrack is “Hale Ipukukui” by slack key guitar master John Keawe.

Diamond Head Time-lapse

Time-lapse shot in Waikiki under the full moon. The long exposures and light from the moon make it feel like daytime. I did a bit of grading in MB Looks to get the cool blues, the gold buildings are pretty close to what they looked like straight out of the camera.

Filmed on Canon 7D, exposures timed with the Satechi Intervalometer. Used the Tokina 11-16 lens for the wide look on this piece.

Mindrelic – time lapse summer/autumn

Tilt Shift Time Lapse Video

This video was created while on a balcony in down town Reykjavik, Iceland for 2 whole hours. 3 different lenses from a Canon 500d were used to shoot this video.

Oh Yeah | Time Lapse HDR

241 bracketed exposures were batch processed into HDRI images in Photomatix. Slideshow created with Memories on TV Pro.

Nature Time Lapse by mockmoon

It is a video dome by Nagano, Gunma and Saitama from Japan using a Nikon D3 Fujifilm S5pro. They have a great use of color and show several beautiful clips of nature. The music really ties this together as well.

Palma de Mallorca’s Bay, a 24 hour Timelapse

I love Timelapse Photography. I especially enjoy looking for the patterns that show up when time appears to be moving faster than usual. I first felt in love with it when I watched the films “Baraka” and “Koyaanisqatsi: Life out of Balance”, where it is used heavily to show everyday life from a different perspective. For some time I wanted to create a Timelapse of Palma de Mallorca’s Bay, in Spain. There’s magic in this Bay and after 24 hours and 4320 photographs, (and a little help from the weather gods!) here’s what came out. Filmed with a Canon DSLR 7D, and a 17-40mm lens. One photo taken every 20 seconds remotely with a intervalometer. Put together in Quicktime Pro, and final edit in Final Cut Pro.

Time-Lapse with Nikon D60 by Inofaith

A time-lapse sequence with my new Nikon D60 SLR camera.

Timelapse Northern Lights And Startrails

A storm on the surface of the sun known as a “coronal mass ejection” pushed billions of tons of superheated gas into the solar system, which is now appearing over some parts of the northern hemisphere in the form of aurora borealis. The Telegraph reports: “Dramatic auroras were seen in Denmark, Norway, Greenland, Germany and across the northern United States and Canada” Tuesday night. Watch in HD! 2900+ still images taken with Nikon D40 through a Sigma 10-20mm f4 lens and nikon 35mm f1.8. I used Camera control pro for some clips, but most of them were taken only using the Nikon ML-L3 remote since D40 doesn’t have a built in intervalometer. One clip is taken in Bergen, Norway, the remaining clips are taken in Levanger, Norway. Some aircraft navigation lights and even a few meteors are captured in this timelapse.

Startrail Timelapse Compilation – Nevada Nights

Here is a short timelapse from stills taken with my Nikon D3 & Nikon D300. The stills from each scene were then combined to create star trails photos.

Any Suggestions?

I hope that i have tried to collect the best Time-lapse Photography available. If I missed any of your works, then do let me know via comments. I will be glad to add your works along with a backlink to your site. At the same time, please use these photography inspirations to make a memorable album cover.

25+ Inspirational Photography by Eric Gustafson

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Today I’ve planned to show you some of the inspirational photographs taken by Eric Gustafson. Eric currently resides in Austin, but has lived throughout the United States (including Seattle, Florida, Indiana, Virginia & Texas) during his lifetime. He has been working odd jobs and taken small freelance work to support his love of digital photography. Hoping to continue his work on a more broad level, he is currently open to the possibility of any new opportunity that would allow him to continue doing what he loves.

In one of an Online interview, while questioning his process of creating and shooting both urban and rural environments, he said :

To achieve my results, I either drive or bike to various locations and explore on foot, armed with only my camera and sometimes a tripod for the low light situations. Nothing is ever pre-arranged. No lighting setup. No props. No actors. When I find myself exploring and traversing areas unknown and new to me, armed only with my camera and a curious perspective, time slips away and I see things the way I feel they were always meant to be seen. I capture them. I take them afterwords and play with them. I get lost in them. To me it is an intimate process of projecting myself and my perspective onto the world, and the images that I produce are a very personal reflection of myself.

I always try my best to get everything right before I snap the shutter, but if I feel there is something I can do in the post (coloration, adjust lighting, etc.) I have no problem doing it. Ansel Adams is quoted as saying dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships. I couldn’t agree more and treat the use of Photoshop the same way (since it is, essentially, a digital dark room). Photography snobs with their rule of thirds and immediately dismissive view of any aesthetically chosen post work as “ruining” an image are essentially slapping him and many others in the face. In my opinion the only sort of photographic ‘morals’ that should exist for anyone who takes pictures should be for photo-journalists. And one I am not, so I choose to see the world as well as I can imagine it!

source : Interview by Artistaday
Eric has taken Photographs in various categories, let me present you the best in all of them.

25+ Inspirational Photography by Eric Gustafson

Check his other works

Hope you liked the photographs of Eric Gustafson. Those above photographs are selected by me, if you want to check the entire collection of Eric Gustafson’s Photo gallery then you can check them at antilimit.com . You can also check his portfolios at DeviantArt as well.

If you want me to showcase your Photo gallery here in smashingtips.com , then let me know via email or contact form. I am happy to include your works for free.

45+ Surreal Infrared photography Inspirations and Tips

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In Infrared Photography the image sensor used is highly sensitive to infrared wavelengths of light. We all know that white light is composed of several bands of colours known as spectrum and the wavelengths ranging between 750nm to about 1200 nm, falls on infrared (IR) band. The spectrum used is in this technique is termed as near-infrared, to distinguish it from far-infrared, which has been Domain for Thermal imaging. By near-infrared we want to say: the wavelengths ranges from 750-900nm, rather than having the extremities (1200nm).Generally an infrared filter is being used for this purpose ,so the filters looks dark red or black. This filter blocks all other wavelengths of light and allows IR light to pass through it. Sometime Professional shooters use this filters along with infrared-sensitive film to obtain in-camera effects; black and white images with lurid appearance is known as wood-effect. This wood effect is mainly caused by the foliage, trees, in the same way as you see the light reflected from snow.
Some other features of infrared photography includes penetration of atmospheric haze, dark skies, caused by Mie scattering and Rayleigh scattering, in a reduced way.

Equipment

The cheap solution for infrared photography is to use processed E-6 film strip as filter. The filter you want to use completely depends on your desire for getting results. There are many filters available in the market but B+W 77nm 093 F-PRO is quite good in removing the visible spectrum.
The Best way to do infrared photography is to convert your camera into an IR one. This gives more space for doing your photography. DSLR’s have low-pass filter which block the infrared light, so by replacing this filter with infrared sensitive one. By doing this, the camera becomes highly sensitive to IR light, as it is to Normal light.
If you don’t want to convert your camera then Nikon D1,D1h/x, Nikon D2H are some good hotties for buying. These cameras have low pass filters which are very less sensitive to infrared light thereby allowing IR light to be captured.
There many choices for filters and cameras so be aware of what you take as there many bad lenses also which will totally ruin your campaign.

Some of the best IR filters

• Tiffen 49mm Infra-Red 87 Filter
• Opteka HD² 58mm R72 720nm Infrared X-Ray IR Filter
• Hoya 52mm RM-72 Infrared Filter
• Hoya 58mm RM-72 Infrared Filter

Focusing Infrared

A red dot, diamond or line with red “R” known as infrared index marking, is designated to many manual focus SLR of 35mm and SLR with medium format lenses. This helps to gain absolute focusing without any harassment. Normally single-lenses-reflex cameras are attached with a filter which opaque to all wavelengths, as a results both focusing and framing gets ruined. So one must detach the filter during focusing and for this to be done, one must use a tripod, a lean, narrow aperture with mild shutter speed but without any sacrifice in focusing. If you use a wider aperture then it too can produce sharp images only if refocusing is done to the index mark.

45+ Surreal IR photography

Infrared Photography taken using Nikon D50, Cokin P007 infrared filter

Surreal Infrared Photography taken with infrared filter R72 and Nikon D80

The Winter Solstice at Midnight in a Perfect World Infrared photography with HDR effect

infrared Photography : The Fisherman by Roie Galitz


Taken using SONY DSC-H9 + R72 filter


This photo was taken on June 21, 2009 using a Fujifilm FinePix S7000.

This IR photograph is taken using Hoya IR R72 Filter with Focal Length: 18mm and Aperture: f22

This IR photograph is taken using Cokin 007 (89B) IR Filter with Focal Length: 18mm

Infrared shot taken with modified Nikon d80

This IR photograph is taken by JustOldPurpleAngel an Deviantart user. No much info about the filter used.

Castle Molsdorf – IR photography taken by Blackdaddy of devaintart

Its Nong Nooch Tropical Botanical Garden at kilometer 163 on Sukhumvit Road in Chonburi Province, Thailand. Taken using 950nm infrared filter.

Infrared Photography taken using Canon PowerShot A640

Infrared Photography : Nong Nooch tropical Garden by Michilauke

Infrared Photography taken with Hoya R72 IR filter and Lens used is the Nikkor 17-35mm 2.8

Pengail Cilik Malaysia Infrared photography

Blue sky Infrared Photography

Bridge Infrared Photography taken with Nikon D70 1/500s f/4.5 at 44.0mm

Malaysia National Zoo Infrared Photography

Silent Lake Bukit Cahaya, Shah Alam – Infrared Photography

Infrared HDR Palmer Park Colorado Springs

Tasik Banding Infrared photography

Infrared shot of Lake Louise

Infrared Photography taken with Nikon D80 – 18-70 @ 18mm – 30 sec – iso 100 – Cokin P007 infrared filter

Infrared Photography taken with Nikon D80IR

Infrared Photography taken with infrared filter, suntec ir72

Infrared Photography taken with infrared filter

Infrared Photography taken with infrared filter R72

Infrared Photography taken with infrared filter R72

Surreal Infrared image taken with Hoya IR filter and Nikon 17-35mm

Mirror of Ice Infrared Photography

Xanthorrhoea Preissii taken with Canon EOS 50D, Canon EF-S 17-85mm AF IS USM lens, Manfrotto 144B Tripod, Velbon 157Q Head, Hoya R72 Filter

Dresden Zwinger from behind with the Zwinger Lake in the foreground taken with Hoya R72 infrared filter

The Horse infrared taken with Hoya R72 infrared filter

sacre caeur IR taken with Hoya R72 infrared filter

The park Infrared Photography taken with Nikon D70 / Kood R72 filter

Infrared Photography taken with 950nm IR filter

Fishing Women Infrared Photography by Awan Setiawan

Infrared Photography taken with EIR False Colour Infrared Film

Japan infrared photography taken by lrargerich

Boston in Red infrared photography taken by Werner Kunz

Tree Reflections infrared photography taken by John Brian Silverio

An infrared shot of Barrett Lake without channel swapping

An infrared shot of Palm Springs

Keraton Cirebon – IR photography taken by Aerobozt of devaintart

End Smile Infrared photography By Awan Setiawan

Marine Park of Brazil Infrared Photography taken with Pentax ist D and lens Pentax-F FISH-EYE 1:3.5-4.5 17-28mm

Daisetsuzan National Park infrared Photography taken with Nikon D70s.

My words

So as a whole we can see it is better to convert camera by attaching filters rather than buying a new one. There are different types of filters which I already discussed above and there are more which you can easily opt in market, but remember one thing: always take your camera with you and have background report of what you are buying; remember even the costliest one can fail you .Infrared Photography is one of the hotshot photography in today’s generation and it will surely elude you as time passes.

Please feel free to make comments and don’t forget to add any info about cameras, lenses, filters I missed.

45+ Online Image Editors and Funny Photo Effects Creators

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Before the development of web, if someone wants to edit images then he must either buy an image editing software like photoshop or he must use some free image editors available. Then the advancement in web development has enabled the developers to provide the features of offline software in web. At the beginning of web development, some of the Online image hosting sites started to provide tools to the users to re-size or crop their images. Then in recent years, the developers were able to include almost all the features of image editing software like Photoshop in web. At present if you want to edit your images, instead of buying costly image editing software and installing them on your hard Drive , you can simply edit your images with these online image editing tools without much trouble. And there are also few more photo editing sites available for creating funny photo effects. With the help of these sites you can change, enhance and make funny photo effects without any program like Photoshop.

Online Image or Photo Editors

I have collected most of the Online image editors available on net. With the help of these websites you can resize, enhance and manipulate the images in few seconds with the help of mouse clicks. Now you do not have to waste much money in buying costly image editors to edit your photos. These online Photo Editors allows users to upload images from their PC or they can also import images from photo sharing websites like Photobucket.com , flickr.com , Picasa.com , facebook.com , etc. They provide image resizing tools which will help all webmasters to re-size images easily online. After editing images you can also upload images to the photo sharing websites or you can save in your hard drive.

What can you do through online photo editing tools?

• Fix your photos in just one click
• Use advanced controls to fine-tune your results
• Crop, resize, and rotate in real-time
• Tons of special effects, from artsy to fun
• Astoundingly fast, right in your browser
• Awesome fonts and top-quality type tool
• Convert the File Type
• Generate photo galleries
• Include and write text on the images
• Insert attractive Frames to the images
• You can even create an animation (Animated GIF)
• Works on Mac, Windows, and Linux
• No download required, nothing to install

Fotoflexer

FotoFlexer is a advanced online digital photo editor. It performs advanced effects which are previously available only to professionals using expensive software. FotoFlexer is based on Flash and you can upload image of any size. It Handles multiple layers with grace. It also Includes advanced features like curve tweaks and intelligent lassoing for free.

Flauntr

Flauntr is also a free Online image editing tool. With flauntr you can apply stunning one-click effects to your digital photos for free. Convert edited photos into posters, canvas prints, and greeting cards and also lots of one-click options to edit your digital photos instantly. However it doesn’t have layers support.

Online Image Editing tool : Photoshop

Photoshop is the latest iteration of Adobe which has got a huge boost with support for the large images coming out of today’s high-megapixel cameras. It is fully based on Flash and image upto 10MB size with maximum resolution of 6000×6000. Once can preview the editing features in real time. It also runs on Adobe’s latest and greatest Flash technology.

Sumopain- Online Image editor

Sumo Paint is a fully featured photo editing and painting application which is definitely tailored for drawing.

Phixr Online Photo Editor

Phixr is an HTML based image editor. It does not save your photos on its servers for very long, so you can edit sensitive images and nobody will see them. It also doesn’t provides layers support. The max resolution of image can be 1440×1080.

Phoenix Image Editor

From basic image retouching to complex effects, Phoenix delivers the key features of a desktop image editor with the simplicity and accessibility of a web-based application. User can upload image of any size. It supports great layer masking, community support, and tutorials. Work from Phoenix can be sent to another editing tool in the Aviary Web suite.

Pixlr Photo Editing services

Pixlr feels a lot like a desktop application, complete with a workspace which you can rearrange and customize to your liking. It is a flash based online image editor without any upload limit for images.

Splashup

Splashup, formerly Fauxto, is a powerful editing tool and photo manager. With the features professionals use and novices want, it’s easy to use, works in real-time and allows you to edit many images at once. Splashup runs in all browsers, integrates seamlessly with top photo-sharing sites, and even has its own file format so you can save your work in progress. Layers, layer effects, filters and brushes all are available in this online editor.

Picnik : Photo editing made fun

Picnik is the default photo editor for Flickr, very slick interface. Picnik makes your photos fabulous with easy to use yet powerful editing tools. Tweak to your heart’s content, then get creative with oodles of effects, fonts, shapes, and frames. It’s fast, easy, and fun.

Picjuice – online photo editor

With picjuice you can easily edit your photos: resize, crop, rotate, flip and adjust contrast and color levels. After you have finished, click on the “Save” icon to download your photo.

Picture2Life : Edit, Collage, Animate and Share

Picture2Life enables you to do what you really want with your pictures. Some of the things you can do include editing, creating collages or animating your pictures. Its super easy to use and best of all, its all free! Bring life to your pictures by adding special effects or adjustments (Brightness, Contrast, Rotate, Crop, Flip, Fade Edges, and soo much more!).

Piki Pimp – Online Image editor

PikiPimp offers very simple editing tools, but is heavy on adding “bling,” text, glitter and animations. Will also let you put your creations on items in your PikiStore.

Pixenate

Pixenate is a HTML based Image editor , so no need for any flash plug-in.Pixenate is the photo editor of choice for photo printing and photo sharing businesses.The maximum size of image can be only 10MB and it does not supports layers support.

LunaPic Online Photo Editor

LunaPic is a free online image editor which is based on HTML.The maximum size of the image can be 4MB and It doesn’t have Layers feature. It can run on machines even without Flash installed. It has some really inventive special effects such as reflective water that ripples and fire effects.

Pixer.US

Pixer is a flash based online image editor. It has wide range of layers, filters and effects. With pixer.us you can edit your photos online using only your browser.

Alilg Free Image Editor

It is an Online Free Photo Editor with simple Photo Editor tools to basic Photo Editor tools. A Free Online Photo Editor which you can access to internet. with the Free Online Photo Editor you can easy create new image and edit it, you can import Photos to your image document or as firstly open an image from your computer to edit. The Online Photo Editor can insert filter effects on your Photos, for example with Grayscale filter you can make your colorful Photos to grayscale Photos, or you can use of negative filter on your Photos or blur filter. This Free Online Photo Editor can change brightness and contrast on your Photos easy just by select it from menu.

DrPic.com

Upload your image to this free image editor and take advantage of their numerous tools and then save it either to your disk or to the Web in your choice of formats.

MyImager.com

This editor has a rather odd interface in that everything is done using a dropdown menu which causes the page to reload when you make a change. The service only accepts GIFs and JPGs, and is free, but advertisement heavy. You can remove the ads for $1 a month.

Web Resizer – Online Image editor

This free online image Web Resizer helps you optimize photos for web or email. Easy to use. Amazing results!

Funny Photo Effect Creators

So far i have listed the online image editing sites which allow you to edit your images. But there are also other photo editing sites which are used to customize your photos and help you create special photo effects. Everything will automated in these photo effect creating sites. All you need to do is just upload your images to the site , It will give you the options to create the desired effects. So Now one need not be a Photoshop expert to modify the images or customize them. These online photo effects creators will do everything with just simple mouse clicks. You can use these sites to change, enhance and make funny effects on your photos.

Some of the notable Features

• You can create Cards , Animations , photo effects and magazine covers.
• Use advanced controls to fine-tune your results
• Add cool photo effects and create funny face photo montages
• Create mosiac effects in your photos
• Create photographically rich and artistic effects
• Embed your face from the photo to the various templates, add photo frame or just trim it.
• Create virtual hairstyles
• Generate photo galleries
• Create ad posters , magazine covers, Movie Poster, Hockneyizer , Pocket Album , etc
• Create easily high resolution polaroids

PhotoVisi : Create a collage with frame

Photovisi consists of 18 photo templates. You can choose any one and create collages from Your photos as wallpapers and more.

Photo 505

Photo505 consists of hundreds of ready made photo effects. You can create your desired effect with just single click. They provide online preview feature to let you preview your images.

Hairmixer : Online virtual hair style makeover

Choose from hundreds of virtual hairstyles and get a new hairstyle and hair color with just simple clicks. No need to have any experience in image editing and all.

WriteOnIt

With this free online image editing tool you can easily create your photomontage, free cards, magazine cover and other funny jokes for you and your friends.

Fun Photo Box

The FunPhotoBox site has free online image editing tools which can help you to create funny pictures from your photos.FunPhotoBox is a free photo editing online service.You can create Cards , Animations , photo effects and magazine covers.

PhotoFunia

PhotoFunia is an online photo editing tool that gives you a fun filled experience. You upload any photo and just wait to see the magic. Their proprietary technology automatically identifies the face in the photo and let’s you add cool photo effects and create funny face photo montages. PhotoFunia is free and very easy to use. Just select an effect you like from over 100 different effects, upload your photo, and PhotoFunia will handle the rest for you.

PicArtia

Picartia is free online Photo editing tool. With this Photo Editing tool you can create mosiac effects in your photos. You can even use it in your blogs, websites or post it as an online gift to your friends on different occasions like school gatherings or birthdays.

BeFunky

With Befunky anyone can become an artist. BeFunky Photo Effects allow users to easily create photographically rich and artistic results from their digital images without the need for any technical knowledge. With just single click , you can create your desired effects easily. It has built in templates which allows users to preview.

LunaPix : Make Funny pictures & add photo frames

LoonaPix.com is a free photo editing online service. With LoonaPix image editing tool you can embed your face from the photo to the various templates, add photo frame or just trim it. In other words, you make your photo funny and unique. And, notice, it is easy and free!

Funny Photo

Funny Photo ! has several unique photo effects which will make you busy for sure. Their templates will make it easy to create any effect in your image with just a single click. They provide the following features :

• Paste your Photo into New Reality
• Switch the Head
• Frame your Photo
• Simple Frames

Dumpr – Photo Fun

Dumpr is a free online photo editor tool which provides few unique templates and effects. Each effect has its own customizations options. You will be prompted to upload a photo (or image) from your computer. Some effects offer several variations (ie, pick a museum to hang your photos in.) When done, click Continue and your image will be processed immediately.

MagMyPic : Fake Magazine cover maker

MagMyPic is a free online magazine cover maker. Put you Photos on Magazine front pages with this image editing tool. It has 30 different magazines to choose from. You can select any of them and make an impressive, unique, custom fake magazine with ease – it’s simple!

Hollywood Hair Virtual Makeover

With this Hollywood virtual hair makeover you can change your hairstyle with any hottest Hollywood celebrities. You can also change you skin tone , lips color , eye color , etc with just a single click.

BigHugeLabs : Do fun stuffs with your photos

With BigHugeLabs you can create lots of special effects in your images with single clicks. You can create ad posters , magazine covers, Movie Poster, Hockneyizer , Pocket Album , etc.

FaceInHole

With FACEinHOLE.com you can easily create a new look for you and your friends. You just need to select a scenarioand and upload your photo. If needed adjust a photo to make it look good.

Online Personalized money maker

Create your own personalized money bill at the click of a mouse button.

MyHeritage Face Recognition Tool

MyHeritage.com is one of the world’s first services to apply advanced
face recognition technology to personal photos and family history; and it’s free! But you need to create an account to access edit your images.

Hetemeel : Dynamic Einstein picture

Hetemeel allows you to add custom text to Einstein’s image. You can change the text on the image to whatever you like. Change the text in the form below, then click on “preview image”. The text in the image will change accordingly. You can align the text with spaces and enters.

Poladroid – The easiest and funiest polaroid maker

Create easily high resolution polaroids with the help of online poladroid maker tool.

FotoTrix – Online Image Generator and editor

Fototrix have over 2,500 templates for your digital photographs! Make it look like you had your photograph taken with a celebrity or add some goofy props to spice up your photos. Give yourself an award (upload your photo, add award props like Emmy and Oscar awards) or just add a silly hat to your photographs.

Fake Magazine Cover maker

you can personalize magazine covers online (no software applications to install, just use your web browser) by uploading digital photos you have on your computer. You can put your face on the cover of many well known magazines (from celebrity gossip zines to children’s learning magazines).

Jpj Fun : Make awesome pictures with ease

The EFFECT LIST section makes possible to imagin yourself on billbords, on newspapers, on “wanted” posters like it was in “wild wild west”, on 100 dollars bill, on the posters with famous celebrities and any any other awesome effects.

Blingee

Blingee is a HTML based image editing site. With blingee you can add glitters , graphics and comments to your images online.

Pizap : Free Online Photo Editor

Pizap is a fun free photo editor that lets people easily create wacky images with their digital pictures. PiZap was created as a tool primarily for social networking users who want to post their images to their favorite social networking sites.

PhotoFaceFun – funny photo effects creator

Photofacefun.com has got lots of frames and backgrounds which you can easily add to your images. Just upload the photo and select the photo effect or frame you need. The photofacefun.com will do the remaining things.

Pixelstouch – funny photo effects creator

Pixelstouch is online image editor which converts
photo to sketch , photo to painting , color photo to B&W at one click and totally free of cost.

Fotocrib : Online Photo Editor

a web based photo editing service. fotocrib currently allows users to …

• Create montages
• Add 3D effects
• Encrypt photos
• Create rounded corners
• Convert between jpeg, png, gif, pdf and postscript formats
• Send photos to email recipients

PixiSnap : Create Photo Mosaics & Polaroid pictures

Pixisnap allows you to create your own pixisnap photos in 3 easy steps: choose a mosaic type, upload your photo and customize your mosaic art. Create photo mosaics and Polaroid pics in a snap with Pixisnap! Turn your lifeless picture to awesome photo mosaics or cool Polaroid and make them your desktop wallpaper or Myspace background. You can create full colour postcards, greeting and business Cards , Animations , photo effects and magazine covers.

Did i missed any site? let me know

Hope you liked the list of online image editors and photo effects creator. I have tried my best to gather all the available online tools but still there is chance that i would have missed some. So please let me know if you came across some other online image editors which i have missed here. I will update the list. If you like the post, help me by tweeting and sharing in facebook.

85+ BreathTaking Tilt-Shift Photography and Resources

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Tilt-Shift photography is the technique of using selective focus. This is used to reduce the magnitude of large size photos to make it into miniature models. One moves the lens adjacent to the plane of the image in the shift phase while moving the lens through an angle to that of the image plane is termed as tilt.

During the tilt step, a large aperture is used so as to obtain a shallow depth of the field under focus. The ultimate aim is to tilt the lens so that only a small portion of the larger perspective is under focus. In some cases the lens might be rotated in an axis parallel to that of the film. In this case it is termed as the shift as mentioned above.

With the help of a view camera it is easy to achieve tilt and shift. Most view cameras enable you to adjust the lens and camera to increase or decrease the point of focus. A tilt shift lens which is also known as the perspective control lens is often used with a medium format camera which might have as much freedom as a view camera. Further in a medium or a small format camera even with the help of a perspective control lens you may not be able to achieve a lot of range.

A short focus Perspective control lens is used in architecture planning, while longer focus lenses are used in landscape modeling and close up shots. The Perspective control lens has an image circle that is unarguably larger than most other lenses enabling it to cover the entire image area. The film is usually large and lens movements are restricted. This ensures that one cannot shift the image area to outside of the image circle.

There are several Perspective control lens including the ones by Nikon and PC Nikkor both of which were used in SLR lenses. SLR cameras are very good for tilt-shift photography. The SLR lens gives you a great alternative for enabling tilt and swing in the cameras. The design behind the SLR lens is quite simple and thus it results in a curvature of the field of focus. The sharpest area of focus is near the axis.

With the same theory of tilt photography you can achieve selective focus. This is the process emphasizing on a part of the photograph while delimiting the resolution of the other parts of the age. The use of selective focus as discussed above is used primarily for faking scenes as miniature things.

In the era of digital processing it is not a difficult proposition to do miniature faking with the aid of a tool like Photoshop!!

50 BreathTaking Tilt Shift Photography

Ultimate LEGO Art Collection with useful resources

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Lego Art over the years has gained a lot of importance with respect to both innovation and creativity. I have personally enjoyed playing around with Lego bricks and have found it to be interesting and does not restrict to any particular age group at all. New Lego arts include complicated structures that are interesting and challenging at the same time.

These stunning Lego art inspirations grow more interesting when there are more than 35 pieces and this number could go up depending upon the complexity of the structure. Modern art these days involve more of colorful Lego bricks that are bright and make it look livelier as well. These are more expressive and look natural as these are plastic blocks that could fix over each other and this makes them commutable from one place to another as well. I personally am not good at drawing but Lego art inspires me a lot as you could come out with attractive structures without having to actually draw them using free hand.

Lego Art famous Buildings

Software for Lego designers

These are some of the freewares available for lego designers. With these software you can design the Lego art before implementing in real. Hope these softwares will be useful for you.

Lego System 1.0

Lego System is a beautiful set that contains 60 Lego icons with the help of which you can transform your whole system into a crazy Lego Land. Lego System consists of colorful icons just like the interlocking plastic LEGO bricks and an accompanying array of gears, mini figures and various other parts. Lego bricks can be assembled and connected in many ways, to construct such objects as vehicles, buildings, and even working robots.

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BlockCAD

BlockCAD is a straight forward application that will enable you to build 3D models with Lego-like bricks. You can save your models, or save pictures of them (.bmp, .jpg), even reuse a complete model as a part in another model.

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SR 3D Builder

SR 3D Builder is an easy-to-use aplication that enables you to construct virtual Lego models in 3D. It supports dat files, ldr files and mpd files.Great fully 3D building envinronment with reflection and transparencies• You will see your model during loading time and can pause for instruction steps• You can modify and save models (.dat compatible format).

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Lego Stop Motion Sites

Brickfilms

This site and its community is dedicated to brickfilming – making stop motion animation with LEGO or other brick like elements. The directory contains a large collection of films, you can submit your latest work, discuss this and every other issue that might come to your mind in the forums and also checkout the Resources and Tutorials to help you with any brickfilming related questions.

Spite Your Face Productions

Spite Your Face is a London animation company, it is responsible for a number of celebrated short films, they specialize in animation and video content for broadcast, web, corporate and DVD. And they love Lego.

Brickfilmsfestivalen

A Swedish Blog dedicated to the art of Lego Stop Motion. It offers great resources as well as a showcase of movies.

Bricks in Motion

Bricks in Motion is a new and up and coming site devoted to the creation of stop motion animation movies using LEGO bricks and other toy block mediums. The only problem is they are lacking content, could everyone please start submitting stuff. This site could be cool.

Best Bricks

Best Bricks is a community of stop motion animators who animate using plastic bricks. Members can submit their films to the directory for other users to view and enjoy. Best Bricks is made and updated by volunteers who donate their time and money in the site. It is also the Best Bricks policy to always provide access to all content on the site for free.

Videos on Lego Art

The White Stripes – Fell In Love With A Girl

 

The Simpsons – Intro made with Lego

Lego Wii

Bowling for Sandercoe

Eddie Izzard- Death Star Canteen