Holly from Noordhoek Holly from Noordhoek is a beautiful border collie puppy that lives with us until she’s ‘old’ enough to follow her ‘parents’ to Germany. Border collies are known as herding dogs, especially sheep. They are excellent watch dogs, love children and they are often described as the most intelligent dogs. According to...
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1 Digital Portrait Photography Workshop
Digital Portrait Photography Workshop
After the Tuesday session we will continue tonight to deal with Digital Portrait Photography.
After a quick flash-back on How to shoot Portraits, we will deal with post editing portraits in Photoshop.
The workshop will...
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1 Digital Portrait Photography Ycademy
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Copyright © 2010 Yorgo Nestoridis. Visit the original article at http://yorgonestoridis.com/yorgo-nestoridis-media/hd-video-with-your-digital-photo-camera/.Let your Digital Photo Camera shoot HD Video Clips
Exploring the world of Digital Photography and your Digital Photo Camera in particular, you may notice the Video Function on your Cam.
Most recent Digital Compact Cameras render good quality footage, many provide even HD quality.
Check it...
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1 5 Tips to take Pictures of Cars
1.1 Look at the subject from different angles
1.2 Look for interesting Details
1.3 Create Focus with your Camera Settings
1.4 Create Focus by Post-Editing
1.5 Narrow Framing
5 Tips to take Pictures of Cars
When you take shots...
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1 Watermark and Copyright with Photoshop CS4
Watermark and Copyright with Photoshop CS4
A small but important task for all creative minds: protect your work! Even considering that in certain countries, such as the USA, your images are automatically copyright protected when...
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1 Media Development and Design Ycademy
1.1 Semiomantics semantic Online Publishing Frameworks
1.2 Ycademy
1.3 Photoshop vs. Flash
1.4 Flash Ycademy
1.5 Your input is needed
Media Development and Design Ycademy
Website Development has changed in recent years: while 10 years ago simple html sites with some...
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1 Fresh Fish in Vouliagmeni – Varkiza
Fresh Fish in Vouliagmeni – Varkiza
To get away from the computer ahead of yesterday’s Ycademy online Seminar, I went for a stroll at the picturesque fishing port of Varkiza next to Vouliagmeni.
I have brought...
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1 Ycademy Digital Photography Seminar I
1.1 Goals:
1.2 Registration
1.3 Schedule
1.4 Materials
1.5 Difficulty Level
1.6 Agenda
1.7 Introduction to Digital Photography
1.8 Photography Basics
1.9 Digital Photography Basics
1.10 The Digital Camera
1.11 How to Shoot a Digital Photo
1.12 How to shoot with Manual Settings
1.13 Composition
1.14 Darkroom editing...
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Copyright © 2010 Yorgo Nestoridis. Visit the original article at http://yorgonestoridis.com/yorgo-nestoridis-media/digital-photography-ycademy-15/.Let your Zoom tell the Story
Today a simple exercise with your Zoom. The recommendation is to use only optical zoom as the digital zoom chips away loads of data and because the cropping tools in Photoshop return better results.
At tonight’s workshop we will comment...
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1 More Lightroom Presets: The 70s
1.1 Why use 70s Filters?
More Lightroom Presets: The 70s
Back in fashion, the 70s have also their photographic face. If you are of my generation or older, you remember the 70s quite well. Point and Shoot...
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1 Portrait Editing
1.1 Portrait Enhancement
Portrait Editing
May be the most popular subject of photos are people, friends, family, kids. Taking pictures of people is somewhat delicate since nobody likes lousy pictures of his face. In fact, few people like pictures which...
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Full Moon over Noordhoek Beach While we are used to a beautiful Full Moon over Noordhoek Beach – I was amazed at the ‘super moon’ photos posted officially on BBC and elsewhere on 6 and 7 May 2012 … pictures that seemed incredulous and left me wondering. I did take some photos as well...
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1 Shoot for Light and Color
1.1 Exercise 1: Light
1.2 Exercise 2: Color
Shoot for Light and Color
Today I would like to suggest two exercises to train the eye and mind. Let’s shoot for Light and Color.
Exercise 1: Light
Without light, there is...
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1 Portrait Shooting
1.1 Depth of Field in Portraiting with a low end Camera or Mobile Phone
1.2 Portrait Post Editing
Portrait Shooting
Based on Digital Photography Ycademy 9 we are able to plan our pictures depth of field. The only remaining problem is: you...
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Vouliagmeni Moon Photo with Point and Shoot Camera Believe it or not, it is possible to shoot the Moon with an average point and shoot camera. In fact, for as long as you dispose of a reasonable optical zoom (300–400 mm equivalent) and the possibility to switch to manual settings, you should be able...
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1 The Magic of Depth of Field
1.1 Exercise 2
1.2 The Camera and Photoshop or Lightroom
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Copyright © 2010 Yorgo Nestoridis. Visit the original article at http://yorgonestoridis.com/yorgo-nestoridis-media/digital-photography-ycademy-8/.Photo Editing vs. Graphic Design
Sometimes it is difficult to draw a clear line between photo editing and graphic design or editing. The present Ycademy Sessions deal with Photo Editing and the primary goal is to improve our photographic skills.
Whether we use Lightroom or Photoshop,...
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1 Working with Lightroom Presets
Working with Lightroom Presets
Presets are of great help to adjust images in Lightroom. For easy editing it is necessary to get familiar with terminology and some technical features. Most Lightroom presets find their equivalent in Photoshop.
Tonight...
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1 New Adobe CS5 Master Collection
1.1 The single most important reason to buy CS5
1.2 Adobe CS5 from the point of view of Ycademy
1.3 Adobe CS5 from the point of view of Semiomantics
1.4 Adobe CS5 from the point of view of...
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