16 Digital Photography Tips for Christmas

It’s just a few days until Christmas so I thought a quick tutorial on the topic of Christmas Photography might be appropriate. Hopefully this will give you some good Christmas photo ideas.

Here are 16 Christmas Photography tips and ideas to try that come to mind for digital camera owners wanting to capture the big day:

Read more: http://www.digital-photography-school.com/16-christmas-photography-tips#ixzz1hJihK356

Melancholia: when worlds collide, beautifully

fxguide talks to 'Melancholia' VFX sup. Peter Hjorth, plus Platige Image and Pixomondo, about the visual effects for Lars von Trier's film. Includes a video breakdown of the effects work with commentary by Hjorth.

An ad for beer, with deer

In ‘Nocturnal Migration’, a Tooheys Extra Dry spot for agency BMF Sydney, director Garth Davis of Exit Films called on Alt.vfx to help create a gathering of city-dwelling deer having a night on the town.fxguide talks to Alt visual effects supervisor Colin Renshaw about mo-capping real animals, adapting to the needs of the spot, and making deer party.

More Incredible, Invisible Effects

2011 has been a big year for big visual effects films, but almost as equally prominent have been effects of the invisible kind. In fxguide’s last ‘incredible, invisible effects’ piece we looked at Contagion, Killer Elite, Apollo 18, Drive, Deathly Hallows: Part 2 and Water for Elephants. We’ve also had in-depth coverage of recent releases Hugo, J. Edgar, The Muppets, Tower Heist, In Time and Moneyball. Nowfxguide turns to a collection of more great invisible effects work seen in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Twilight: Breaking Dawn – Part 1, Machine Gun Preacher, Jack and Jill, Young Adult and Dolphin Tale.

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Adobe Photoshop CS5 - Top 5 Features

Art of Destruction (or Art of Blowing Crap Up)

Destruction pipelines today are key aspects of any major visual effects pipeline. Many current pipelines are based on Rigid Body Simulations (RBS) or otherwise referred to as Rigid Body Dynamics (RBD), but a new solution – Finite Element Analysis (FEA) – is beginning to emerge. In this ‘Art Of’ article, Mike Seymour from fxguidetalks to some of the major visual effects studios – ILM, Imageworks, MPC, Double Negative and Framestore – about how they approach their destruction toolsets.

Water Splash Photography Technique

Splash Master Class: https://www.e-junkie.com/ecom/gb.php?ii=1014975&c=ib&aff=158330&c...

We Highly recommend this resource to any photographer who needs to master splash photography technique

Three point video lighting tutorial

This video shows how to use a 3 light setup in a coventional 3 point lighting setup he also shows how to light a white background. Although this is for video lighting this would still apply to still photography and these lights are strong enough for portrait photography. Enjoy Got to product http://www.smick.co.uk/sonline/super-softbox-3-head-lighting-for-digital-and-...

Best Camera Trick Ever ! Using Rubber Band

This has to be the best camera tip of all time. If you want to improve the quality of your video's ...this is a must see. You will be amazed at the quality you can add from the most simple idea.

Courtesy : brusspup  

AVATAR Photoshop Tutorial. Become a Na'vi.

In this Adobe Photoshop Tutorial I show you how to turn a photo of yourself or any photo, into a Na'vi from the Avatar movie.
You'll learn how to remove your eyebrows with the clone stamp tool and spot healing tool. You'll learn how to reshape your eyes and nose with the liquify filter. I also show you how to get the most out of Photoshop brushes.
To download the tribal brushes and sparkles go here:
http://www.obsidiandawn.com/

This is a great resource for photoshop enthusiasts.
I'll also show you how to create the AVATAR writing using the Papyrus font.

Have fun guys, I really would like to see what you come up with. I'll do my best to answer any questions you might have.
Thanks for watching.
Kieran

Courtesy to Kieran