Photo Manipulation Tips

The wildest imagery to the simplest idea can be conveyed through Photoshop using photo manipulation.

Photo manipulation techniques are used by many designers to create extremely creative works of art. It is enormously popular amongst most graphic designers who choose to use Photoshop.

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Wedding Tools

Do I need A Wedding Album ?...and if so, what kind ?

Every photographer you meet with will have a different business philosophy and a different product line of albums. Here is a list of the most common options that wedding photographers offer :

• Disc But No Album - do you get an album or not? 
• Proof Albums vs. Wedding Albums - proofs are all of the final images from your wedding without editing/retouching. Normally used for you to pick the final pictures you want to be edited and retouched in your final album. 
• Matted/Traditional Wedding Albums  - more traditional style of album where archival quality photographs are hand-mounted into a book, and surrounded by a matte. 
• Magazine Style / FLush-Mount / Coffee Table Books - these are generally the highest quality books. this style of album is digitally designed, and the final product is a hard cover book. 
• Press Book  - these albums have thin pages, using photographic paper. 
• Pages vs. Sides vs. Spreads  - photographers use different language when explaining their albums. Remember to check if your photographer charges per image or per page. Some even charge a flat fee for the album no matter how many pages or images it has. 
• Large vs. Small  - decide on what will work best for your lifestyle. 
• Design Style  - any professional wedding photographer should be able to show you multiple example albums, so be sure to look at their album designs closely to make sure they match your style. 
• Pre-Design vs. Choosing the Photos - keep in mind that your photographer has a lot of album design experience that you can draw on when choosing the photos. 
• Parent Albums  - a smaller duplicate press books for your parents. It’s a great gift to say thank you for their love, support, and guidance.

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Your Camera Doesn't Matter

It's always better to spend your time and money on learning art and photography, not by spending it on more cameras. Compelling photographs come from inspiration, not duplication.

Someone asked,
"If I got a camera with only 6 or 7 MP, can I make good pictures with it?"

Buying a great camera doesn't mean you can create compelling photographs.

Cameras don't take pictures, photographers do. cameras are just another artist's tool. Why is it that even though everyone knows that photoshop can be used to take any bad image and turn it into a masterpiece, that even after hours of massaging these images look worse than when one started?

A camera catches your imagination. No imagination, no photo - just crap.

The quality of a lens or camera has almost nothing do with the quality of images it can be used to produce. That's what visual communication is all about : thinking long and hard to make your point clearly and quickly.

I haven't used that huge lens in years. That's when the skills comes to the rescue!

Your equipment DOES NOT affect the quality of your image. The less time and effort you spend worrying about your equipment the more time and effort you can spend creating great images. The right equipment just makes it easier, faster or more convenient for you to get the results you need.

Using any camera you have, even from your cellphone - you be able to create the masterpiece of your own with a little bit help of your imagination. It's called photo manipulation.
(photo manipulation is an art where ordinary photos are transformed into something alluring, unexpected and totally out of the box).

source kenrockwell

 

Pencil vs Camera

Artwork by Ben Heine