Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts with the label Photography blog

How to improve your indoor photography skills

In this blog, we are going to discuss how you can improve your indoor photography skills. Sometimes it becomes the most challenging job to shoot indoors for beginners and for the professional but  Sometimes, you can find beautiful light that is just waiting there for you to use it. There’s nothing like it for an editorial shoot when you need that combination of full lighting control, minimal shooting time, and predictable results. Most of the time your ability comes with knowledge and experience but mastering your light in any situation will enhance your skillset. So let’s discuss some tips which will help you to be an amazing indoor shooter.  Lighting Setups: Window light as just about the most beautiful light you can find when the conditions are right and It can be manipulated with any combination of window dressings such as blinds and curtains. Simply place your subject nearby the window and let the light create much of the portrait’s drama. I like to position the subject s...

How to Capture Wedding Photos: Few Leading Wedding Photo Tips

  The reason why photographing a wedding may be difficult is because it comprises all genres into one. Always prepare to take portraits, still life, action, sometimes travel and landscape, or even crazy underwater images. These tips will help you handle everything and produce wowful results. 1. Put Together a Shots List Every photographer has a set of successful wedding photography poses, but always ask your clients if they have their own ideas on how they would like to be photographed. If the wedding couple wants to have individual pictures with few guests, you should be aware about it and realize how to organize everything in the best possible manner. Think about all details worthy of being captured and write your Wedding Roundup Photos down. 2. Find a Wedding Family Photo Coordinator The most stressful section of the photoshoot is the family photo. People are running around, you are not acquainted with anyone, visitors are in a ‘festive spirit’ often encouraged by a few drinks, ...

Tips To Master The Art of Architectural Photography

  In this digital era people consume and view a large quantity of architecture through photographs as opposed to physical, spatial experiences. The advantages of architectural photography are great; it allows people to obtain a visual understanding of buildings they may never get the opportunity to visit in their lifetime. And architectural photography is largely used in real estate business as well. The following tips aim to not only improve the visual strength of your architectural photography, but also the stories that they can tell and it will also help your real estate clients. 1. Shoot in a variety of weather conditions and times of day: People often tend to seek the most dramatic lighting to shoot architectural wonders, such as sunset hours when shadows are long and colors are bright. It only really encapsulates the building’s atmosphere at one specific point in time. Shooting a series of images during different times of the day, or even in various weather conditions, can he...

How to Get Jewellery Image Retouching Right

4 Tips for Perfect Results 1. Remove Cluttered Backgrounds- Use a White One In the eCommerce industry, employing a white background for images may be a prevalent trend. Most eCommerce platforms, like Amazon & eBay, prefer product images with a white background. Amazon even makes it necessary for the primary product photo to possess a white or transparent background. And permanently reasons too! A plain white backdrop draws attention to the merchandise. Different colors and designs look brilliant over white. It makes the jewellery image pop. Plus, stones and metals begin prominently during a white environment. 2. Tread Lightly with the Reflections and Shadows Most jewellery pieces have stones, metal, and other elements that shine. regardless of how careful you're, their photographs are sure to have some reflections and shadows. Jewellery images can begin as breathtaking, as long as you wisely use the lighting, shadows, and reflections. But, it’s important to notice that these th...

Product Photography Tips

1: Use proper lighting Product photography starts with lighting the photo. Without adequate lighting, neither your product nor your background determines what it looks like for you. "The background with white light appears white in the photo, looks gray". Options for product photography lighting are Studio Lighting and Natural Lighting. The product you are drawing, the photo purpose, and the platform you are advertising it on, you have to decide whether natural light is really good for product images featuring foods, people, and clothing. Can work well and these natural-looking photos can work well in social media contexts such as Instagram. 2: Use a tripod Tripods may sound like silly and unnecessary technical devices, but they make a huge difference in the clarity and quality of product photos. And they are not necessarily expensive or difficult to use. Tripods are essentially supports that stabilize your camera with an unsteady hand. Using a tripod will ensure that blur is...

Portrait Photography: 5 Tips to begin with

If you are looking to sharpen your portrait photography skills, this blog post is for you. As a Photographer you already know the basics of portrait photography but that isn’t enough for stunning Portraits.   As per Wikipedia, Portrait photography or portraiture in photography is a photograph of a person or group of people that captures the personality of the subject by using effective lighting, backdrops, and poses.  If you want to capture the true personality and emotion of your subject, you need to plan the scenario in which you can express them with your portraits. So here are 7 tips that will help you improve your Portrait photography skills: Frame of the portrait Play with lights Use of Props Take candid shots Planned timing and location   1. Frame of the Portrait: Having your subject in the middle of the frame with a good background makes a stunning portrait but you should try more angles to discover which is the best suited frame for your portrait. You should...

IMPORTANCE OF JEWELLERY RETOUCHING

It is common knowledge that capturing scintillating jewellery pictures is a daunting task. Filigreed pieces often fail to be captured in full details whereas the reflection from gemstones renders them dull in images. Professional snap clarity also depends on strategic lighting and jewellery dimensions. If you fail to harness the potential of sophisticated camera techniques, your promising business prospects can be dampened by poor photography. This is where jewellery retouching becomes inevitable. Retouching is imperative to attract the attention of online jewellery shoppers by highlighting to them the exquisiteness of your products. You need to hire professional retouchers knowledgeable about entire effective jewellery retouching techniques to carry out the entire array of touching up activities like removal of background, fine-tuning light, and reflection, eliminating blemishes, adjusting contrast and dark spots, and final image resizing. In fact, there are numerous technique...

Newborn Photogrpahy

A New Era of newborn photo shoots has blossomed. No longer just for baby models and greeting cards, it has become commonplace for parents to blanket social media with their wee Sophias and Aidans ensconced in cheesecloth cocoons or tucked into rustic wooden buckets. I believe the prevailing newborn shoot aesthetic is deeply dreamy and homespun- Pinterest-y, if you will. It is a great way to hold onto the memories of childhood. This crazy phenomenon can be well explained by the following lines- If you are getting married and you want to capture that day, you hire a wedding photographer. In a similar way, if you have a baby and you want to capture the baby and really have these beautiful moments, then you need to hire a New born photographer. New parents love newborn portraiture. I feel it enables them to capture a fleeting moment in their lives, one that is impossible to get back. New Born Photography is the only area where photographer is solely responsible. They need to have the...

Family Portrait Ideas You’ll Want to Try

Each family is unique in their own way - a trait that should be applied to their own portraits. Whether you’re looking for pose examples before an upcoming photoshoot, or aiming to explore new horizons on your photography, these family portrait ideas will serve as inspiration to capture outstanding, heartwarming scenes. Focus on experiences: Few things are as precious as spending quality time with your family. Hold on to these memories forever by making them the center of your family portraits. As a photographer you should try to spend time with the family and try to capture the moments and experiences. This will result in beautiful family portraits. Capture the love: Love is what holds a family together, so why not try to capture the moment of love in the family portraits. And what better expression of love than a tender kiss? As you can see in the picutre, natural elements are a wonderful addition to these type of portraits. Include the pets: Pets are family, a...

How to Take Perfect Headshots: Photography Tips

What are Headshots? A headshot is the category where the focus of the photograph is on person’s face, headshots are a critical piece of many professional. A dynamic headshot for models, actors, and other performance professionals will be the difference between acquiring the gig or not. Your clients can be no more excited than if they get a gig based on the power of their headshot – and of course, this means more jobs for you. Follow these few tips to achieve the perfect headshot: 1          Focus on the eyes The eyes are said to be the window of the soul. Therefore, nothing is more important than achieving sharp, crisp eyes in your shot. Capturing the eyes in a powerful way will draw the viewer into the photo, establishing a strong connection. 2          Use of Lens Nothing is more disturbing than a near-dynamic headshot that fails simply because of lens distortion. Generally, avoid mid to wide...

Essential Photography Gear Items Every Photographer Should Own

Photography can be an expensive hobby, but it doesn’t have to be! Yes, you’ll need  some gear in order to snap photos that match your vision, but there are ways to reduce how much it’ll cost you. The most important thing is this: you don’t have to buy all of that stuff  right away . If you’re just starting out in photography, there are a few key bits of essential gear that you should have—and nothing more than that. Once you’ve built up your photography skills, then you can invest in more equipment. But what are essential gear items for photography? Here’s what you should buy to get started on the right foot: Tripod : Tripod is one of the versatile and necessary camera accessories. Whether you’re shooting landscape, portrait, night, street, or even wedding photography, you’re going to need a tripod at some point or another. Tripods are extremely useful in low light settings as the stability of a tripod allows you to take longer-exposure shots withou...

What Is Digital Photo Restoration and How Does It Work

Digital photograph restoration is the process of restoring the appearance of a digital copy of a physical photograph which has been damaged because of environmental causes or simply affected by age or neglect or any other reason. Digital photograph restoration uses a variety of image editing techniques to remove visible damage and aging effects from digital copies of physical photographs. At Uretouch we use professional software to repair the appearance of the digital images and add to the digital copy of the photo where pieces of the physical photograph are torn or missing. Evidence of dirt, scratches, and other signs of photographic age are removed from the digital image manually. Unwanted color casts are removed and the image's contrast or sharpening may be altered in an attempt to restore some of the contrast range or detail that is believed to be in the original physical image. In addition image processing techniques such as image enhancement and image restoration are a...

Types of video editing and its benefits

Video editing is the manipulation and arrangement of video shots. Video editing is used to structure and present all video information, including films and television shows, video advertisements and more. If you are videographer then you must know the importance of video editing and it’s near to impossible to get a perfect video without editing, so we cannot ignore its importance. If you don’t have the proper knowledge or resources for video editing or you don’t have enough time for it, then we at Uretouch would be more than happy to help you with your post production works. Types of video editing: Linear video editing: It is a video editing post-production process of selecting, arranging and modifying images and sound in a predetermined, ordered sequence. Video is edited in a very linear way, several video clips from different tapes are recorded to one single tape in the order that they will appear as a final complete video. Non-linear editing: It is a form of audio, video, or ...

Photography is Incomplete Without Good Retouching

I firmly believe that in today’s world photography is incomplete without good retouching . Our industry has changed so much over the last few decades that ignoring retouching is equivalent to believing that learning the intricacies of composition is unnecessary. Am I wrong? I want this article to promote conversation. We live in a world where we’re allowed to have our own opinions and I’d love to hear yours in the comments at the end. Photography Industry Has Changed, Or Has It? In years gone past, before digital cameras and Photoshop, when photographers didn’t make significant adjustments to their photos, photography was pure. It was better. People knew what they were seeing was real and as a result photography was better. No, that’s not the case at all. Firstly, back in the day there was something called the darkroom. In that magical place images went through pretty significant changes. Today we have Photoshop and other photo-editing programs which allow us to make adjustment...