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A digital magazine for photographers. Featuring student images from our Online Photography Course over at http://www.slrphotographyguide.com/online-courses.shtml

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Sll Life TipsHow to shoot snow

2015 ISSUEJANUARY

GUIDEPHOTOGRAPHYSLR

http://www.slrphotographyguide.com/online-courses.shtml

THANKS FOR CHECKING OUT SLR PHOTOGRAPHY GUIDE

JANUARY EDITIONDIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY MAGAZINE EDITOR TANYA PUNTTISLRPHOTOGRAPHYGUIDE.COM

2015

This month cover photo © Derek Telford (USA)

in this issue

image © Elisa Curro

“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things,

trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're Doing Something. and more importantly, you're Doing Something.

So that's my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes.

Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Don't freeze, don't stop, don't worry that it isn't good enough,

or it isn't perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life. Whatever it is you're scared of doing, Do it.

Make your mistakes, this year, next year and forever.” Make your mistakes, this year, next year and forever.”

Quote ~ Neil Gaiman

image © Jod Ambachtsheer (Australia)

image © Mireille Pizzo (Australia)

image © Tanya Pun

Did you make any New Year’s resolutions concerning your photography in 2015? I did and I’m going to try my utmost to achieve them.

John and I sat down for a few hours on New Year’s eve and actually wrote down several projects that we want to achieve in 2015. It’s great to have a partner on the same page as you and one that enjoys similar likes and dislikes. I have trained John well ;)

My major New Year’s resolution is to visit all 74 islands in the Whitsundays (Australia). My major New Year’s resolution is to visit all 74 islands in the Whitsundays (Australia). It’s not actually a big ask because I have probably set foot on almost half of them already. Or at least own over them in a helicopter while snapping off a few hundred photos. When you actually get paid to do that on occasions, such as an elopement wedding on a remote beach, keeping my major New Year’s resolution shouldn’t be too difficult this year.

Having the Whitsundays as our backyard is also a denite plus. No long travel arrangements to make and no expensive accommodation to pay for. The weather arrangements to make and no expensive accommodation to pay for. The weather is usually kind, we hardly ever have a winter and when we do it’s only for about 3 days around mid July. With so many sunny days at our disposal, playing in our backyard comes easy.

Yet it is the smaller resolutions, or projects, that excite us both. Not so much those we made about losing weight or getting tter, the ones where you dene exactly where you want to photograph, at what time of the year you need to be in a certain place, what type of images you want to come away with and what in a certain place, what type of images you want to come away with and what you want to do with those images once they are taken.

John and I have already taken a few steps toward meeting our goals this year. The detailed planning has begun and with one another on the same page, we should easily see our resolutions for 2015 come to fruition.

If you have made some resolutions of your own for 2015, we hope you achieve them all.

Happy New Year!Happy New Year!Tanya & John

image © Sheryl BusseISO 3200 | 400mm | f/5.6 | 1/1000

image © Nyrelle Hawkins (Australia)ISO 100 | f6.3 | 30sec

image © Marcy Dunn (USA)ISO 2000 | 50mm | 1/60

image © Ernie Ong (USA)Experimenting with focal points

They say learning is the process of a lifeme, it should only stop when we do.

What a profound and deep sentence that becomes for us photographers when you sit and ponder, just for a moment, the ever changing technology that becomes available to our creed on a daily basis.

New camera brands and models, soware, lighng, intricate technologies and ever New camera brands and models, soware, lighng, intricate technologies and ever changing trends to challenge even the most avid, well read and financially heeled user. Who really has the me, or money, to keep up with the non stop flow of products and informaon in our beloved industry?

Yet aempng to at least keep abreast of this ever changing scene is something we must Yet aempng to at least keep abreast of this ever changing scene is something we must endeavor. If we don’t keep learning we will likely be run over by the oncoming wave of newbies, like a wild charging herd of bison, with their flashy new digital products and seemingly inbred knowledge of soware that renders half decent images into fine art collector items.

If you look around at your countries leading professionals, doesn’t maer what connent If you look around at your countries leading professionals, doesn’t maer what connent your on this will prey much apply to all, there will be amongst them people who have made the change from film to digital, plus some newbies who have never handled a roll of film in their lives. All have one common trait. They never stop developing their greatest asset, which is of course, themselves.

This is a busy world and to keep up with social trends, environmental changes and new This is a busy world and to keep up with social trends, environmental changes and new technology is difficult. What we need to develop is a self improvement plan where we set aside me to read industry magazines, study, research, aend workshops and lectures, watch online tutorials or partake in some type of external training.

Whatever you need to do to keep pace with change, simply keeping in mind that your Whatever you need to do to keep pace with change, simply keeping in mind that your own self development will be ongoing unl the day you exit this world, should keep you at least near the front line of the pack, keeping pace with the ever increasing herd nipping at your heels.

Don’t get run over. Keep learning unl your me is done.

Self Learning

© Darlene Chapell Torres (USA)

© Nikki Cook (Australia)Man fishing with yabbie potsF 5.6 |ISO 100 |1/500 shuer speed

(quick tips for those in snowy wonderlands)

You may have noticed that all subjects, especially light ones like snow, pick up a colour cast from surrounding light. This is the reason why photos of snow taken in daylight under a blue sky often have a blue tinge.

One of the simplest ways to correct this is to set a custom white One of the simplest ways to correct this is to set a custom white balance (Kelvin) in camera. Experiment between 7000 - 8000 degrees kelvin, take a shot and review it on your LCD screen. If it’s still too blue, increase the setting. If you find your image is now too red, decrease the setting and try again.

You could also try setting white balance to ‘shade’. Your camera You could also try setting white balance to ‘shade’. Your camera will then automatically adjust the white balance to around 7000 degrees kelvin.

Or if you shoot in RAW file format, you could simply leave the white balance setting on AUTO and adjust it later on with your RAW file editor.

One more tip, if you find your snow images are too dull / grey, try One more tip, if you find your snow images are too dull / grey, try increasing your exposure compensation to +1 or +2 (refer to lesson 5 of our online photography course) to help give them that extra brightness.

ARE YOUR SNOW PHOTOS TOO BLUE?

image © Kathy O'Toole1/400 | ISO 320 | F6.4

image © Joy Keeling BobrinkISO 100 | F/20 | 1/20sec | 18mm focal length

image © Susan Becker (USA)Praccing indoors with indirect natural light. f/2.8 |1/160 shuer speed | 85mm focal length

image © JonDelta Maruszewski (USA)shuer speed 1/250 |ISO 100 | aperture F/8

image © Kathy Webb (Australia)F 7.1 | ISO 1000 | Shuer 1/6 sec | focal length 130mm | tripod and flashlight used

image © Yvonne Warriner (UK)f/10 | 1/200 sec | ISO 200.

image © John G JohnsonI cropped her eyelid and added colour effects using Picasa, then sharpened and added contrast effects in Photoshop Elements 10, then used 2 different mirror effects in Smart photo editor to get the final result. All up it took about 3 minutes!

Frost on the Pane - image © Diana Wise (USA)ISO 320 | 95mm focal length | f/5.6 | 1/125 Cropped and added contrast, sharpened and defined in both iPhoto program and BeFunky. Hand held while seated at my office window.

images drawn by © Tanya Puntti - slrphotographyguide.com - not to be redistributed

mum sitting, dad standing

Posing GuidesComing soon and exclusive to those taking our online photography course. Full guide for families with toddlers is now available to download within our private facebook group (students only). Look under the ‘Files’ tab under our

group header. Enjoy =)

piggyback / close crop piggyback while sitting

sitting chest to chest

full body shot sitting on ground or chair

half body shot full body shot

laying on ground close hug while sitting

Did you know our online photography course

now comes with downloadable cheat sheets?

"If you haven't taken advantage of printing the cheat sheets, I strongly suggest you take time to do so. These alone are worth

the price of the course." ~ John Smith (student)

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