The existing fashion industry on its larger part is being shouldered by fashion photography. The glamorous advertisements and pictures of fashion magazines like Vanity Fair, Vogue or Allure is all an upshot of fashion photography. Actually, this sort of photography has developed into a genre that is completely devoted to exhibition of vestures and other fashion items.
For those of you aspiring for a career in fashion photography, things won’t be straight. A break in the fashion market is never going to be a piece of cake. Your hard work would rarely pay, if you suffer a dearth of imaginativeness. However, in case you possess that sense of perfect image you got to have a good start. Fashion photography today is symbiotic to the aesthetics in clothes and fashions being embossed with exotic locations and story lines, has carved its own niche.
female Fashion Photography
What do you need to be a fashion photographer?
Well, the first thing you need to have in order to be a fashion photographer is an extremely creative bend of mind. Your eye should be able to discern every aesthetic detail of the shot. A thorough knowledge of cameras is also substantial for good photography. Besides, you need to plan the technicalities like the light, distance and other perspectives well enough.
The key is to visualize your set up, so as to communicate your ideas better. At the same time be sensitive to the moods of the models and interact with them freely – the kind of expression you are looking for. Fashion photography offers you diverse openings like options for freelancing or to get employed with fashion journals, newspapers, designers or fashion houses.
How do you begin with fashion photography?
Fashion photography is all about advertising and selling clothes. Your first and foremost motive as a fashion photographer should be to sell your images to the fashion editor. To establish your reputation in fashion photography, you need to begin with setting up a portfolio. The portfolio is your first selling point and it should be your best work.
In order to set up a portfolio you need to hire a model. You can get in touch with your local modeling agencies for that. It is not always that hiring a famed model would always do well; rather it would be better to hire someone who can perform expected before the camera.
Maintaining favorable relationship with models is necessary. There are models who would act tough with you as psychology plays an important part. Now, if you have intentions to shoot from home studio supply a changing room for them. In case the model turns unhappy, your photo session will be a complete waste of time. Consider the suggestions of your model, no matter how frivolous it may be. This will make them feel comfortable and you can continue your work easily.
After creating your portfolio, you should try every means to get exposure. The next thing for you to do is to set up an online portfolio, that is your personal website. It would be better to attach your previously published work to use them as a statement with the picture editors. Try to be professional and establish a workable relationship with all the fashion editors with whom you would work.
Most often the fashion photo editors hunt for concise images, which could convey distinct ideas. You should be able to create unique settings for you fashion representation. As you gain a collection of fashion images, you can start submitting them to fashion agencies.
All over the world there are women’s magazines, which are eager to acquire hundreds of stock shots every month. There are some larger agencies, which have buyers across the world. Some of these agencies can even re-sell your images in different markets.
There are numerous roads to enter this so-called glamorous field of fashion photography, you just need to explore the aesthetics impersonated in fashion.
Fashion photography equipment i use.
Some of the photography equipment i use is the Nikon D80 and for the light i use SB-800 Speedlight flash.
Wednesday, May 30, 2007
HD Photo
Last week at PMA, Microsoft formally announced HD Photo. For more information on HD Photo, head over to Bill Crow’s blog. The official press release can be found here. Here’s a summary of the important details:
- Microsoft is announcing HD Photo, a new format for end-to-end digital photography which offers higher image quality, greater preservation of data, and advanced features for today’s digital imaging applications
- The HD Photo Device Porting Kit, used to implement HD Photo in devices and other platforms
- Royalty free licensing
- A free set of HD Photo plug-ins for Adobe Photoshop, developed in conjunction with Adobe
- Microsoft is committed to standardizing the HD Photo technology
HD Photo overview & details:
- A new format for end-to-end digital photography which offers higher image quality, greater preservation of data, and advanced features for today’s digital imaging applications
- Key benefits include:
- Better Image Fidelity: Preserving all the original image content, enabling the highest quality exposure and color adjustments
- State of the art compression: Up to twice the efficiency of JPEG with fewer damaging artifacts, and scalable to lossless
- Powerful Features: Decode only the information needed for any resolution or region, or manipulate the image as compressed data
- Technical Details
- Support for the Widest Range of Pixel Formats
- High Performance, Low Footprint Algorithm
- Advanced Decoding and Transformation Operations
- Better image quality in a file that is up to ½ the size of JPEG
- Lossless and lossy compression with the same algorithm
- Lossy compression is much less destructive than JPEG
- An efficient, portable photo interchange format that preserves the entire dynamic range
- HD Photo Support in Microsoft products:
- Windows Vista in-box support
- Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 support via Windows Imaging Component (WIC), a free download
- Windows Imaging Component (WIC)
- HD Photo Device Porting Kit
- NET Framework 3.0
- XML Paper Specification (XPS) – The XPS format utilizes the HD Photo format to store image data
- Photo Info Power Toy
- Microsoft Expression Family
- HD Photo plug-ins for Adobe Photoshop
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Movie Maker Vista File Format Support
We've had some questions about what file formats are supported by Movie Maker on Windows Vista. Hope this helps!
Movie Maker can import a wide variety of video and audio formats. The format refers to the container which contains the audio and video streams. The audio and video streams are encoded using a codec which determines how the audio or video is compressed.
The following summaries the key format containers that Movie Maker supports:
Video
- DV-AVI (AVI)
- Windows Media Video (WMV, ASF)
- DVR-MS (Windows Media Center Vista Premium and Ultimate only, DVR-MS)
- MPEG-2 (MPEG-2 Program Streams on Vista Premium and Ultimate only, MPG)
- MPEG-1 (MPG)
Audio
- WAV (WAV)
- MP3 (MP3)
- Windows Media Audio (WMA)
When a file is imported in Movie Maker, Movie Maker will open the container format and then use DirectShow to determine what codecs are required to decode the audio and video streams. Just because the format is supported, for example AVI, doesn’t mean the required codecs are installed on the machine. Given the wide range of codecs available this can cause confusion. If the codec required to decode the video is not available, the file will not be properly imported. For example, if only the audio codec is available for a video file, the video will be rendered as black.
One of the most popular container formats is AVI. AVI files can contain a wide range video codecs, for example, the AVI video stream maybe encoded with MPEG-4 video. Assuming you have installed the proper video codec, Movie Maker will import this content. Movie Maker will always attempt to import the media file and if the proper DirectShow filter is registered, the content will be imported.
Most solid state video cameras include the required codecs that can be used by Movie Maker to import the file. Devices use a wide range of file formats and codecs so it’s difficult to provide a detailed list of supported device and formats. Typically, if the video file can be played in Windows Media Player, Windows Movie Maker can import the content. If you cannot playback the file in Windows Media Player, check to make sure you have the proper codecs installed on your machine. If the codec is not installed on your machine, download the codec directly from the manufactures web site. It is recommended to only install the codecs that you require. Also keep in mind that DRM protected content cannot be imported into Movie Maker.
When publishing your movie from Movie Maker, Movie Maker can publish video files to DV-AVI, Windows Media and Windows Media HD. Movie Maker provides a set of predefine Windows Media profiles targeting the most common scenarios, but you can also create your own custom profile. On Vista Premium and Ultimate, you can also publish your videos directly to DVD.
Related articles:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/faq/codec.mspx
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308464 (Windows XP)
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/moviemaker/expert/customprofile.mspx
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