Alpha Photography Blog

I was just reading through an issue of Digital Photo magazine and what really struck me (apart from the really good articles) was the number of retailers and courses on offer.

Photography used to be part of that “higher” realm of art that was not attainable by many.  The equipment required, studio lighting and film developing practices made it a very specialised skill that took hours and hours, and thousands of dollars to achieve.

Nowadays, photography studios are popping all over the place.  Despite the fact the world economy is  still in a state of upheaval, in the area that I live, 3 new photography studios have opened in the last 8 months.  It’s pretty amazing really.  There must be the demand for it.  Maybe there’s a connection between the population increase and the number of portrait studios around

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In last week’s post we went through how to insert text into a photograph.  This week I’ll go through how to edit that text and make it look less flat.  Here again is the final image:

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I had a question the other day about how to enter text onto a photograph using Photoshop.  It’s one of those things that as soon as you know, it’s really easy.  Here is what I’m creating:

I’m sure there are a few ways to do it, but here’s what I find the easiest.

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Continuing the theme of the previous post, before you travel somewhere completely new, it’s a good idea to do some research into what there is to photograph, and the best times of day to take these pictures.  You may also need to find out what the best vantage point is, so when you get back home you can look at the photographs you took and get excited all over again.

Here is one where timing, vantage point and lighting all had to come together at just the right time.  I had a window of about 5 minutes to get this shot:

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