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Silhouettes in a Giant Moonrise, Captured Using a 1200mm Lens?

Earlier this week, photographer Philipp Schmidli of Lucerne, Switzerland captured this incredible photograph of a biker’s silhouette in front of a giant moon rising in the horizon.
Schmidli reveals that he has been trying to capture this photograph for four months or so, but complications got in the way of previous attempts. Clouds got in the way of the full moon in January, and bad weather interfered with his attempts in February and March as well.
Finally, during this latest attempt with April’s full moon, the weather cleared up and gave the “green light” for this photo idea.
He first spent hours exploring Google Earth, searching for the perfect location to shoot the image. He needed a hill in the distance that would allow his subject to be framed by the moonrise. The he ended up deciding on this hill: To have the subject be dwarfed by the size of the moon, he needed a large gap between the camera and the hill. The distance for this shoot ended up being 1.3 kilometers, or 0.8 miles.
Photographs by Philipp Schmidli

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Photography term of the day!
Fish-eye lens: Ultra-wide angle lens giving 180 angle of view. Basically produces a circular image on 35 mm, 5-9 mm lenses showing whole image, 15-17 mm lenses giving a rectangular image fitting just inside the circle, thus representing 180 across the diagonal.
Image By: creativechatname

Composition & The Rule of Thirds in Photography

Divide any frame into three equal parts both vertically and horizontally, like drawing a tic-tac-toe board over the scene. If you position major elements along these lines, and particularly where they intersect, it will draw focus to them and help lead the eye around the image. Any major lines in a photograph, be they created by color, texture, shadow, or light, should be used thoughtfully and with intention to attract the viewer’s gaze in the direction that you want it to move. Lines leading in from the edges, and especially the corners, are very strong.
Perspective: By positioning some elements closer to the camera and others at a distance, you add the illusion of the third dimension into your picture, which the human brain will pick up on and respond to. In the below image of the FedEx truck, because we intuitively understand depth, the road that recedes into the distance carries us along with it
Via: PictureCorrect Photography Tips

Patterns & Repetitions in Photography!!!

Patterns are to photography, what Rhythm is to music. Without the limitation of just a single point of interest, repetition helps your eye dance from point to point with pure delight. Patterns and repetition can be found all around us: a row of trees, a field of sunflowers, or a line of children waiting for a bus. When you get into the world of ‘Close-Up Photography’, you will start to discover a whole new world of patterns. Often things that you perceive as solid or even as a single texture are made up of much smaller patterns. But in most cases, repetition is a tool used to calm the viewer, making them feel comfortable and at peace while enjoying the view. Repetition is a tool, and what you build with it determines if people consider you a Master Photographer or “weekend warrior” who just takes snapshots.
(Photo captured by Robert Davis, viaPictureCorrect Photography Tips)

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Colorful Long Exposure Photos of Glow Sticks Dropped Into Waterfalls?

Photographers Sean Lenz and Kristoffer Abildgaard ‘From the Lens’, have come up with a brilliant light painting concept that produces gorgeous results. For their project titled ‘Neon Luminance,’ they dropped glow sticks into waterfalls and then used long exposures to capture the bright and colorful trails as the sticks were carried down stream. The other features of the landscape were lit using road flares, headlamps, and moonlight. If your wondering how the duo managed to get such bright glows from their glow sticks, it’s because they used high-powered ones manufactured by Cyalume (The sticks can be purchased for about $1 each over on Amazon). After dropping the sticks into various waterfalls in Northern California, they used exposures ranging from 30 seconds to 7 minutes to capture the movement of the sticks. For variations on the theme, they used different colored sticks and bundles of sticks strung together.
Neon Luminance (viaColossal), Image- Sean Lenz, Kristoffer Abildgaard

When we see a photograph on computer screen or on prints, we are looking at a 2-dimensional representation of a real 3-dimensional scene. And that is what photography is all about – capturing a 3D scene onto a 2D image. In fact, its amazing to know how photographers demonstrate “depth” or sense of “scale” in a photograph. They use the concept of Perspective. This is one of the tricky areas of photography which if a photographer is not consciously aware of, can produce unwanted “distortions” or “flat” uninteresting images. 3D is real. A 2D depiction of a 3D scene is just an illusion exploiting how our brain synthesizes information to determine the “depth” in real-time.
What defines “Perspective”
Perspective in photography can be defined as the sense of depth or spatial relationships between objects in the photo, along with their dimensions with respect to the viewpoint (camera lens or the viewer).
(“night bus” captured by David Hobcote, viaPictureCorrect Photography Tips)

Mountain photography tip!

Use the light to your advantage

In the mountains,the early morning light and late evening light is usually very flattering. Sometimes you need to wait for the right light. A lot of mountain landscapes are made due to the patience of the photographer. It also helps to know how the subject will look at a certain time of day.

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Immersive 360° Panorama Timelapse Lets You Experience the Aurora Borealis...

If you’ve always wanted to feast your eyes on the aurora borealis but haven’t had the time or the money to travel to areas of the world where the light display occurs, photographer Göran Strand has a treat for you. He has created an immersive 360-degree panorama using time-lapse photographs shot during a particularly active aurora. The video lets you pan around in the scene, offering a small taste of what experiencing the northern lights feels like.
Strand shot a total of 2,461 RAW photographs that amounted to about 30 gigabytes in disk space. The photographs were shot using a circular fisheye lens, allowing Strand to capture the entire scene above and in every direction with single exposures.
Strand tells us, “I wanted to show people how it was standing there seeing this beauty unfold. Many have never seen an aurora so this would be like actually standing there.”
Via.petapixel. Image credits: Göran Strand