#Photography Questions

[livefromphilly]

Peace King. Where is some dopes spots in the city to take pics? Need some good back drops.

I think some of the coolest spots are around the rivers and bridges. The views from the South Street Bridge and the Ben Franklin are the best in the City imo, and I like the view under the Ben as well.  Walnut Street over the river right before 30th also has a nice view. 

I don’t typically shoot people so I’m not sure how great these would as back drops, but I think they’re worth trying. 

Good luck and happy shooting! 🙌🏾

[firesidetextiles]

Hi, I just saw your wooden planchette purse (super cute!) and I was curious how you take your photos? Getting that smooth all white background and lighting and stuff

Hello! Thank you!!

Apologies for this being so long. I can def chat about photography. Let me know if I can answer any other questions or go into even more detail!

For the most part I take photos on a white background in two ways. The planchette purse ones were taken on a MyStudio background which is a white plastic corner thing that looks like this:

I got it on Amazon years ago after Skullery (ParliamentRook here on Tumblr) talked about using one. (the price has gone up there so maybe check other stores if interested)

However! I also just use large pieces of Bristol board paper, either flat on a table or with it taped or weighed down into a similar curved backdrop (running along a wall for the back and across a table on the bottom). Here's a pic of it flat:

And here's what that shot looks like on my phone:

Here's a picture of it kind of curved against the cat's bed instead of a wall:

Here's the final edited shot from my camera.

(I know these two samples don't show very much white background like the purse photos do, but I can't find too many photos that show the full setup as is, zoomed out. I've use the paper trick for a lot of my photos though, especially the embroidery hoop art pieces. You can use multiple pieces of large paper for large photo subjects by either erasing or editing out where one edge of the paper overlaps another.)

The big trick is to use natural - but diffused - light as much as possible! To the direct left of these photos is a huge living room window (the first sample photo is taken where the lamp is in the second). The folded white Bristol on the right side in both shots bounces the light from the window back across the photo subject.

As far as diffused light, it'll kind of depend on your region/location and windows. Bright but overcast/cloudy is best because the light is being softened through the clouds. Timing during different parts of the day/seasons can help too, like morning over midday. Sunny direct light can blow out details and cause sharp shadows. I'm personally having a difficult time getting good natural lighting for photography now in my current living situation because the light here is always so bright. The pictures of the purse and the sample pics above were all taken in Washington state. It was easier to get shots in winter/spring instead of summer. I feel like I developed a good photo style while living there and I can't quite capture light and color that way anymore unfortunately.

I'd recommend checking out all your windows and the way the light shifts throughout the day. At a friend's house, taking them right outside her garage door was the best and at previous place I lived it was out on the front patio.

This is one of my recent photo experiments using light indoors (there's a second bulb above just out of frame):

There's also ways to make simple lightboxes like this one (and this video gives a good visual for the curved paper backdrop I tried to describe):

As far as stats for other info, the camera I shoot with - besides my phone - is an old Nikon D50 with a 50mm f/1.8D fixed lens originally for shooting concert photography. My only other lens is broken, but the f/1.8 makes it great for low light as needed. (Lowering the f-stop also gives you that depth of field blur.) A tripod can be super helpful, especially if it's low light and you need to lower the shutter speed and use a timer. I shoot all my camera photos in RAW instead of JPG because it gives you way more options for photo editing before any adjustments in Photoshop. On my phone I use Afterlight for photo editing.

If you read this entire thing, thank you for sticking it out! And again, if anyone has any questions or if I can take sample pics or anything, feel free to drop me an Ask. <3

[doornkamp-blog]

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS - Become a better Photographer

SOME QUESTIONS ON PHOTOGRAPHY RECEIVED WHILST ON HOLIDAY On my recent holiday (cruising on the River Maine) I was asked a number of photographic questions. Let me share four of them with you:    Q.1     I can’t get my camera to focus properly at night time.    A.1     Change from Auto Focus to Manual Focus – as I did for this shot of the quayside in Sydney Harbour (Australia).    Q.2     My…

[life-questions]

What are some good free photo editing apps?

[highlysuspiciousstew]

[bluerosefox]

Genie Gave Me a Brother AU

-Slams DPxDC door open and tosses AU idea on table-

Tim's parents send home an artifact that is said to able to grant wishes! While being curious about it Tim messes with the artifact and when he 'solves' it, according to legend one must solve it to get a wish, he wishes he wasn't alone anymore.

The object glows bright and as he shields his eyes he can hear.

'So you have wished it, so it shall be!'

He gets his wish in the form of a recently reincarnated ghost!King (who entered the DC world for a reincarnated vaycay... he should had known something was going to happen because CW was encouraging the break) Danny whose just a baby/toddler right now.

Basically, big brother Tim and baby Danny adventures in Gotham after that.

[sleepanonymous]

New hand photo of Vessel just dropped (jk its from 2017)

[demadogs]

some of you need to hate ai way more than you currently do

[noseysilverfox]

✨️By the way, I don't have the opportunity to see who voted for what✨️

[zweiginator]

patrick is a grunter and art is a whiner

[livefromphilly]

what are you shooting with? (i've only been following for a month i think)

I have a few different cameras. These are the ones I currently own and shoot with (the bold ones are the ones I use the most):

Sony A7RIV

Fuji X100V

Sony RX100VII

Ricoh GRIII

Leica D-Lux 4

Canon Powershot G2

Nikon FE2

Nikon F

Nikon D60

Rollei 35

Canon Snappy XL

Holga 120N

I also used/owned these cameras and the past and will occasionally post old photos from them:

Nikon D300S

Nikon D800

Nikon FE

Sony A7RII

Sony A7III

Sony A7C

Sony RX100III

Sony RX100IV

Ricoh GR

Fuji X100F

Fuji XF10

Olympus 35RC

Zenza Bronica SQ-A

Panasonic GX7

Panasonic GX85

If you have any questions about what specific photo was taken with what camera, feel free to ask. I have an Instagram where I do list each camera I shoot with, but I've been doing this blog for a while now so it would be a lot to change on here 😂

[reality-detective]

Photographer Valerio Minato spent six years hunting for this shot.

He captured the moment when the Moon rises just behind Mount Monviso (Italy), with the silhouette of the Basilica of Superga in the foreground. 💫

[woodsmanwife]

Behind the scenes hotel photoshoot. Photographing my wife might just be one of my all-time favorite things to do! What's your favorite thing to do?

[ofliterarynature]

Library sale finds! My tbr shelf weeps in despair.

[simmyfrobby]

the martyrdom of saint denis (detail) by léon bonnat - 1880

[afropuffsartstudios]

Doll Community Question

Bonus points for pictures