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Photography Tips: Six of the Best
iStockphoto offers some practical advice and guidance on capturing the perfect image and taking amateur shots to the next level.
1. DIGITAL NOISE AND COLOUR DISTORTION
Image noise is the variation of values in the detection process of your camera. Noise and colour distortion (or digital noise) occurs most frequently in uniform colour areas, such as skies and shadows, and is caused by temperature and/or sensitivity settings.
With increased sensitivity, you should use more light to avoid producing noise. With long exposures, cameras can also product hot pixel noise (stand-alone colour dots/pixels). Read the rest of Photography Tips: Six of the Best →
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Win 100 Credits with iStockphoto and Design Federation
Calling all students! We have a midish-semester treat for you.
Design Federation has teamed up with iStockphoto and we are offering our studious readers the opportunity to win an account with 100 credits.
iStockphoto is a designer’s one stop shop for royalty free images. It stores over 4 million photographs, vector illustrations, video footage, audio tracks and Flash files in its member-generated community on the net for creative people. Enter to win 100 Credits with iStockphoto →
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Taking Stock of Stock Photos
As a photo editor and designer, I always have to ask the question ‘Where do I get the right pictures from?’ Until recently I used the traditional stock photo houses like ‘Getty images’, ‘Corbis’, ‘Jupiter images’, Alamy, etc.
However I decided to explore the microstock world a little and was quite suprised about the quality of the pictures available on microstock. What I see as a problem of microstock sites is that the content of the microsites is very similar – you will find the same pictures on Dreamstime as on Stockxpert, Fotolia etc. I have listed my favourite microstock sites below – the 4 which are the most popular because they have the largest portfolios. I also added some smaller sites which I found interesting.
