Using A Model Pose Guide - Give Portrait Photos That Professional Edge!

A model pose guide can be an asset when looking to get the best kind of portraits. Anyone can look fabulous and attractive in their photographs by using the tips that professional models and photographers use to produce that perfect cover shot.

Looking Good In Front Of The Camera

You can gather the tips for posing from a collection of magazines with your favorite model shots, by choosing a specific photographer's portfolio or generally looking at the poses that recur consistently in the publications. On the other hand, one can find a guide that combines all these ideas into one book for reference whenever you want a portrait done.

It is always good to try out different model poses during the shoot and modify them to suit your personality. You do not have to be as slim as the models or dress the same way to get the right pose. Simply look your best and trust the photographer's guidance and it will show in the resulting photographs.

Portrait photographers can also make use of a model pose guide for their assignments. Whether you are taking pictures of children or doing more corporate shots, a guide for poses is excellent for adding a professional touch to the photos. A posing guide does contain tips for handling all kinds of clients to bring out their best side, which in turn reduces frustration and makes the photo session more fun.

Advantages Of Using A Model Pose Guide

A posing guide is a reliable source of advice for photographers and models because it is written by photographers who have years of experience in the portrait photography field. It can also inspire creativity since there is always room to adjust the model according to the context of the photo shoot. Some modeling techniques work universally regardless of the model or the location, and these can be applied to produce interesting results.

The guide can provide information about the best colors to wear for the portrait photo, the best kind of lighting to use, and how to choose the right location for the shoot, both for indoor and outdoor photography. A reliable guide guarantees good portraits every single time since the author has used some tried and true methods to build their careers.

With all these benefits, a model pose guide is ideal for portrait photography, both for the photographers and the subjects of the shoot. Look for the best guide available today to start improving the quality of your photographs and build an impressive portfolio today.

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Using Stock Images in Web Business

Promotions is a must in business to stand and rule in market and when we are from the visual age what can be the best way in promotions than to make right use of the visual opportunities. Stock pictures along with the technology can be the best way to attract the attention however words play an important role too but from the research it has been found that humans can remember more easily than data. However a balance between words and proper images can tell as well as sell, giving your web site visitors complete package to hold their interest.

How to make choices among stock images for your web purpose

If you want your content to be understood more appropriately a proper and good quality picture can do wonder. Images and pictures in today's world of competition are more important than they have ever been but you can get their boons only if you know to use pictures and images in a best way by making the best use of visual opportunities. Using those images which are over arty or too obscure may work only in certain cases of specialty but for most of the graphics need in web designing you need to choose from those stock images than can enhance your web site or your point of sale without causing any kind of distraction. If you have exciting text in your web site make it more understandable to the correspondence by using collection of those stock images that along with making complete sense can be a complete one look of your story you are trying to tell.

Not any stock photos can do wonders

After 72 hours of a lecture with only words and no pictures, most people can retain to the most 10% of the content but after 72 hours of an visual documentary the level of retainers' is found to be 65% much higher than the former giving you the idea, how can stock photos work in your websites. But not any collection of stock photos will work. As images convey the message more easily they need to be fresh, interesting with proper clarity and high resolution. You cannot use fuzzy black or complete white images with low quality and no visual appeal, as stock photos when used in proper way can be the best marketing material for your website but you have to make sure that you are emphasizing on quality by getting the highest quality images and photos.

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Great Strategies Using Adobe Camera RAW To Remove Excess Noise With High ISO Exposures

I often shoot where it's difficult or impossible to use a tripod for twilight exposures. While the sensors of high-end digital cameras keep improving, most photographers prefer to use settings less than ISO 400 for the sharpest results and least noise. But when using small apertures for greater depth of field plus reduced ISO settings, tripods are typically required in many low light environments. Higher ISO settings might eliminate the need for a tripod but at the expense of increased image noise.

When shooting RAW exposures it's possible to reduce the effects of noise even with very high ISO settings of 1600 or 3200 by using the 2010 Adobe Camera RAW version, which has nine different adjustment sliders for noise and sharpness control.

To illustrate my noise reduction strategies I've chosen a hand-held twilight image of the Golden Temple (click the link below to view) in Amritsar, India, where no tripods are allowed. The image was exposed at ISO 3200 with a shutter speed of 1/15th second at an f/8 aperture and a focal length setting of 50mm using a Canon 24-135mm lens with built-in image stabilization. Normally a 50mm lens position would require a shutter speed not longer than 1/50th second to avoid camera shake but the image stabilization feature kept the image sharp even at 1/15th second hand-held.

Using ISO 3200 results in extreme digital noise but taking advantage of the full range of controls with Adobe Camera RAW I was able to dial in settings that resulted in the effect of a tack sharp, grainless image. I imported the RAW photo from the camera's CF card straight into Adobe Lightroom for Camera RAW adjustments prior to exporting the photo into Photoshop. For the sharpest result I exported three copies of the same image into Photoshop as separate layers with increasing amounts of luminance noise control applied separately to the highlights, mid-tones and shadows respectively.

Using a high luminance global setting across the entire photo would have eliminated noise in the shadows but at the expense of overall image sharpness. Using less noise reduction for the mid-tones and even less for the highlights kept the image looking sharp. The other eight Camera RAW slider settings listed below enabled me to finesse the final result to regain the effect of overall image sharpness with no noise.

Using feathered Color Range selections for highlights, mid-tones and shadows I created layer masks for each of the three layers in Photoshop--one that revealed only highlights with the luminance set at 30 and the sharpness set to 10, one with a layer mask that revealed only the mid-tones with the luminance value increased to 50 and the sharpness moved up to 20, and finally one copy with a layer mask that only revealed the shadows with the luminance set to an even higher value of 70 and the sharpness set at 30. These are my nine Camera RAW sharpness/noise control settings for the shadow areas of this image:

Sharpening: Amount = 30, Radius = 1.0, Detail = 100, Masking = 100

Noise Reduction: Luminance = 70, Detail = 100, Contrast = 100, Color = 100, Detail = 100

Typically, even with high ISO images, noise is hardly visible in the highlights so they don't need much luminance noise reduction. A bit more noise is seen in the mid-tones but the most is visible in the shadows where I've applied the highest luminance noise control. Every low light level image will require different amounts of correction since increased time exposure can also increase noise. Noise reduction must be tailored accordingly and viewed at 100% magnification for examination. The key is to use as little luminance noise reduction as possible so as not to de-sharpen the image. Using the least amount of luminance noise control in the highlights with slightly more in the mid-tones will keep the image looking sharp. Noise is most noticeable in the shadows where luminance noise reduction is most important. The darker areas of the image can handle more de-sharpening without noticeable degradation of the overall image sharpness.

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