Here is the weekly round up brought to us all by Toad Hollow via Lighstalking. Enjoy the ride.
Another wonderful week in the wide world of photography passes us by, and Toad Hollow Photography is there collecting a list of links of tutorials, great photography and interesting blogs to share with everyone. This comprehensive list contains links to truly incredible works by some truly gifted artists and photographers. We hope you enjoy viewing the images and blogs here as much as the Toad did in bringing them to you.
Check out the Toad’s latest acclaimed photoblog series “The Toad And The Lodge”, showcasing a series of images captured of a long term care facility that lies abandoned for over 17 years now. This 5 part series discusses the history of the location as well as drawing on metaphors for the meaning of life. Pt 1: Tillicum Lodge: A Lost Facility | Pt 2: The Silence Is Deafening | Pt 3: The Overgrown Courtyard | Pt 4: Field Of Whispers | Pt 5: Echoes Of Our Elders. The Toad also maintains a large gallery of images on their Architecture and Landscape Photography website.
Here is a sample of this week’s links for the full set go HERE
TUTORIALS
Project in development: Inexpensive way to shoot expensive jewelry – Alex Koloskov is one of my favorite photographers, not only is he one of the leading photographers of our generation, he also selflessly continues to give back to the photography community through his blog posts. This post is a great example of this; here Alex shows us how to achieve GREAT results in the genre of product photography using relatively inexpensive and easy to use photographic components. If you’re interested in emulating fabulous lighting for your imagery then you just simply must see this article.
Quick Tip: Duplicating a Project – sometimes a brief article with tips and tricks can be just as helpful as a full on 1,000 page tutorial. This blog post is a great example of this.
Quick Photo Tip: Turn Your Photo Upside Down – another fabulous article by Joe Baraban gets the photographer thinking differently about the photography they produce. This is a great exercise, guaranteed to get everyone looking at their compositions with a different perspective.
Portrait Editing In Photoshop-part 2 of a series – a great piece that shares some awesome insights, tips and tricks into performing portrait editing in Photoshop. Complete with a sample image, this tutorial will definitely get the creative juices flowing in terms of using this tool for your post-processing needs.
Composing Better Backgrounds in Photography – a great tutorial that gives the reader some great tips on how to compose a shot with a great background. This short and easy-to-read article delivers some great ideas on how to come home with the perfect shot, well worth the time to visit and read.
Red White and Blue Shoe – this post and image belongs in two categories for this weeks list, here in the Tutorials section and in the Great Photography section below. Ultimately, the great tips and tricks on studio lighting won over, and we placed it here. Erik and Kathleen Kerstenbeck capture a truly unique shot and discuss the intricacies of the lighting employed to achieve this look, producing a post that is guaranteed to delight in terms of great photography, but also shares some great tips and tricks on this particular style of photography.
Photo Composition Technique – The Feinberg Rule – I have a voracious appetite for learning about compositional and lighting techniques and this article delivered something absolutely new to me. This brief tutorial discusses The Feinberg Rule and supplies an example image to use to visualize how to apply it. This is an exciting technique that I have never heard of myself, and am very much looking forward to trying it out in our practice. Check it out yourself!
GREAT PHOTOGRAPHY
Girls School L – Into the Light | Abandoned Girls School L | Corridor | The Conservatory | The Grand Staircase | Staircase Detail | The Upper Rooms | The Pool Party – what a completely fabulous series posted here by one of our generations leading UrBex photographers, Chris Maskell. This fabulous bit of heritage architecture that once was a girls school now lies in near ruin. Chris carefully and purposely composes a stunning series and provides some background history on the location to provide extra depth. No matter what your taste in art, this series is guaranteed to delight and amaze everyone who pops by for a visit.
Learning to See (Part 8) – profound, touching, emotional and accented with some of the best photography the world has ever seen, this post from Tom Dinning takes us deep into ourselves and answers some questions about why we pursue this craft. Guaranteed to inspire you to push further and harder, this wonderful post will leave you with as many questions remaining as answered. This is a must-see post for this weeks list!
Oxford School of Photography 