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7 Tips to Create Levitation Photographs - Unphotoshopped!

If you think you need digital trickery to create awesome levitation photos, think again. Programs like Photoshop have given rise to a new wave of amazing, unbelievable pictures that amateurs and professionals alike can design with just a few button presses. But while digitally manipulating photography may have opened up a whole new world in terms of what photographers can do after taking the shot, there are plenty of good old-fashioned real-world tricks out there that professionals have been using for decades to make us see what they want us to see in their photographs. credits to lookbook.nu Want to know how you can use some of these low-tech magic in your own photos? Read on for seven tips that will make your photography soar (get it? – it’s a levitation joke) without you needing to shell out for expensive software.

Dandelion House, Nova Scotia

Dandelion House, Nova Scotia  

Tips on Photographing Food

Are you a food traveler? Do you feature your food excursions on a blog or in a diary? If so, taking photos of your meals and sharing them with your blog readers, friends or family is a great way to show them the foods you have enjoyed during your travels. There are a few things to keep in mind when taking pictures of food. Done the wrong way, the dish can look unappetizing and misleading. Done the right way, the dish can look so good you can taste it! Listed below are a few tips for taking great photos of food: 1. Focus: It is very important to keep every part of the food in focus and to shoot your photo at close range. You want the dish to look as realistic as possible, so if any part of the meal is out of focus, adjust the lighting and camera range until you get a good shot. If you have a digital SLR camera, and you really want to impress; turn off the automatic exposure setting on your camera and use a faster shutter speed (1/60th or 1/200th) coupled with a larger aperture (f/2 or...

Guest Post: Turn your Love of Eating into a Food Blog

Obsess over the contents of every meal? Is the biggest stressor of your day the decision of where to get dinner? Do your friends roll their eyes at you when you talk about eating? If you answer these questions in the affirmative, then you likely consider yourself a foodie: a person driven by a passion for all things in the culinary arts. Foodies scour their local communities for edible gems found in restaurants and markets often located well off the well beaten path of popular food culture. Ardent foodies venture into the edible unknown, leaving behind “normal” food venues in search of more interesting and fulfilling eats. Most people don’t spend too much time thinking about where or what they’re going to eat. So as the “lone wolves” of dining, foodies often find themselves without friends to share in their culinary explorations. If you find yourself frequently eating at restaurants or sampling new market wares by yourself, I have a suggestion for you to reach out to