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Shoot still life fine art indoors

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Anonymous, 24 October 2007 14:31

It’s always easy to find inspiration when you’re out shooting stunning light, a dramatic event or a beautiful landscape. It’s far more difficult when you’re stuck indoors on a dark, wet winter’s day. For this indoor project you need to look for objects with interesting shapes, textures and forms. Even the bric-a-brac hidden in the darkest corners of your home, ...

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Shoot still life fine art indoors

rating is 2.5

Anonymous, 24 October 2007 14:31

It’s always easy to find inspiration when you’re out shooting stunning light, a dramatic event or a beautiful landscape. It’s far more difficult when you’re stuck indoors on a dark, wet winter’s day. For this indoor project you need to look for objects with interesting shapes, textures and forms. Even the bric-a-brac hidden in the darkest corners of your home, ...

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How to light fine art nudes

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Anonymous, 24 October 2007 12:46

The key element with successful studio shots is how you position the lights. For fine art images it’s best to keep the number of lights to a minimum, so stick with one or two lights, using one main light and a second just to add light to the hair or lighten shadows. For the more moody, stylised look in our ...

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How to shoot body shapes in the studio

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Anonymous, 24 October 2007 12:45

Fine art portraits using only available light can produce great results, but the greater control and versatility of studio lighting means you can fine-tune the lighting for individual shots and achieve a range of effects. Unless you’ve got the luxury of a studio at home, you’ll need to hire one for your shoot. There are plenty of hire-studios around the ...

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Shoot stylish fine-art portraits

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Anonymous, 24 October 2007 12:44

  Follow our step-by-step guide to capturing stunning and stylish fine-art portraits. Step 1. Be professional If you’ve asked a friend to pose, how you approach the whole project is really important. When we approached our model Jo, we explained we wanted to shoot a series of fine art/lifestyle portraits that would mean revealing some of her body but not ...

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Shooting fine art landscapes

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Anonymous, 14 September 2007 11:59

The landscape is one of the most popular and familiar of subjects, so how do you transform your shots from simply a good record of the scene into one worthy of framing and putting up on your wall? Firstly the composition of the image needs to be strong enough to make the image eye-catching. This means that the shot needs ...

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Shooting fine art still life

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Anonymous, 14 September 2007 11:55

From capturing the fine detail of delicate flowers to exploring the shape and texture of rock or stone, still life subjects can be almost any subject. What sets them apart from more normal images is usually the framing, composition, lighting and presentation of the subject. A still life image usually works best if the subject is simple, well-defined and stands ...

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Shooting fine art female nudes

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Anonymous, 14 September 2007 11:50

The human body has been one of the most popular fine art subjects for centuries. While the early artists strove for accurate and lifelike representations of the people around them, the advent of photography has driven creative types to look for new ways to represent this most familiar subject. Many fine art portrait photographers echo the almost staged locations and ...

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Using a self timer

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Anonymous, 14 September 2007 11:24

Mounting your camera on a tripod and using either the self-timer or a remote release to fire the shutter is a great way of ensuring that you minimise camera-shake. But taking your eye away from the viewfinder can have some unexpected side effects. The main one concerns exposure, as without your eye to the viewfinder light can enter through it ...

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