Category Archives: Photography

Polish illustrator and artist Pawel Kuczynski reveals our modern society in satirical illustrations. Pawel shows his illustrations without having to use any words, thus crossing the borders of language limitations. With this art, he opens up a series of questions to this world.

Here in this post, you can find 30 of the best illustrations by Pawel Kuczynski. Scroll down and inspire yourself. Please check Pawel’s Instagram for more amazing work.

You can find Pawel Kuczynski on the web:

#1

#2

#3

#4

#5

#6

#7

#8

#9

#10

#11

#12

#13

#14

#15

#16

#17

#18

#19

#20

#21

#22

#23

#24

#25

#26

#27

#28

#29

#30

Related Articles:

Canon EOS digital cameras have revolutionized photography for amateurs and professionals in many ways. Early digital cameras with LCD screens to review images meant that everyone could learn from mistakes during the shoot, and adapt their working process. As time has gone on, advances in technology have made Canon camera (opens in new tab)s so good you have to wonder if hard-learned camera skills are no longer needed.

Being old enough to remember the importance of getting the correct exposure for slide films, the flexibility and accuracy of the metering systems have taken the need to be precise away. I think this is an acceptable change – I still want to be in charge of my pictures, but I no longer feel constrained by exposure.

Taking great family photos can be a fulfilling and wholesome way of making some extra cash from your camera, and many portrait photographers turn it into full-time vocation. However, being a family photographer isn’t without its challenges: children, toddlers and babies are often unpredicatable and can be difficult to get them at their best.

From toddler chaos and looking everywhere but the camera to full-blown tantrums, child portraiture can be extremely challenging to get right. That’s why this month we teamed up a reader of PhotoPlus: The Canon Magazine (opens in new tab), Jonathon Crook, for a masterclass in family portraiture with full-time family pro photographer Taylor Brady. 

A talented UK Photographer and Artist Karl Roberts creates surreal self-portraits that amaze you. These images are visual stories that provide an insight into Karl’s life, created between 2017-2022. Each image has been created to tell a story, to allow him to speak without talking.

Scroll down and inspire yourself. Please check Karl’s Instagram account for more amazing work.

You can find Karl Roberts on the web:

#1

#2

#3

#4

#5

#6

#7

#8

#9

#10

#11

#12

#13

#14

#15

#16

#17

#18

#19

#20

#21

#22

#23

#24

#25

#26

#27

#28

#29

#30

Related Articles:

© Provided by Boss Level Gamer
Best Photography Games That You Can Play Today

Getting behind the lens of a camera can be an incredibly creative experience. It’s no wonder that video games would try to replicate that experience. These are the best photography games you can play right now.

In one form or another, each game incorporates photography within its gameplay. The list is presented in no particular order and is of the author’s opinion. 

Photography Helps Develop the Story in Toem

© Photo Credit: Something We Made
Photo Credit: Something We Made

The primary gameplay of Toem involves using your camera to solve various puzzles to help other characters. It takes place in a 2.5D cartoon world where the player ascends a mountain to witness a rare event known as “Toem.”

As they complete side quests from other characters, they’ll earn stamps to progress up the mountain. Interacting with the environment is sometimes the key to getting the exact photo you need to complete side quests.

The game features hand-drawn graphics and an overall aesthetic similar to the indie game Chicory.

New Pokémon Snap Is the Follow-up to a Beloved Photography Game

© Photo Credit: Nintendo
Photo Credit: Nintendo

Pokémon Snap is one of the most beloved games on the Nintendo 64. It shook up the traditional Pokémon game format and replaced battling with photography. Pokémon were no longer vicious creatures of war but rather cute subjects of a professor. The gameplay involved on-rail movement and photographing Pokémon across different levels. The photos you took were then graded based on their compositions.

New Pokémon Snap is the follow-up and features similar gameplay. As the assistant to Pokémon Professor Mirror, you must photograph the various Pokémon of the Lental Region to help him uncover the mysteries of “luminescent” Pokémon. There are over 200 Pokémon to photograph in New Pokémon Snap, and each has its own personality.

Fulfill Requests as a Freelance Photographer in Umurangi Generation

© Photo Credit: Origame Digital
Photo Credit: Origame Digital

A freelance photographer is essentially a profession that accepts side quests for a living. Umurangi Generation capitalizes on that concept as a freelancer simulator. The game takes place in fictional a New Zealand, where the island country is in the midst of a war with an alien race. The different objects and environmental locations you shoot will help add additional context to an otherwise bizarre narrative.

While accepting side quests will help advance the story, the player can free-roam and photograph the world as they please. As they progress in the game, they’ll unlock different camera and lens attachments that will expand how they approach their photography.

The Good Life Is a Photography Game About a Murder Mystery

© Photo Credit: White Owls Inc.
Photo Credit: White Owls Inc.

New York journalist Naomi Howard has been sent to a small village in England to investigate a myth that its villagers can transform into cats and dogs. Things eventually turn into a murder mystery. Photographing different landmarks and objects across the village will help advance Naomi’s investigation into the many secrets of the village.

In the game’s story’s background, the player can freely roam around the village to satisfy different villagers’ requests to make money and pay off Naomi’s debts. There are also light farm and life simulator elements, such as growing a garden or participating in social life with the villagers.

Beasts of Maravilla Takes Place in a Mystical Jungle

© Photo Credit: Banana Bird Studios
Photo Credit: Banana Bird Studios

Beasts of Maravilla falls into the subgenre of wildlife photography games. As wildlife photographer Marina Montez, you’re tasked with photographing your island’s eccentric creatures to show humanity to keep believing in magic. You’ll do this with Marina’s grandfather’s camera and journal documenting the island’s elusive and mystical wildlife.

In this 3D platformer, you’ll traverse the island’s varied terrains to photograph colorful wildlife. Similar to Pokémon Snap, each animal has their own unique behavior that can result in hundreds of different shots. The game’s developers worked with experts at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles to learn about animal behaviors and applied that to Beast of Maravilla’s animal design. They intended to create a video game that involved non-violent interactions with animals.

Photographs Is a Heartfelt Game About Remembering the Past

© Photo Credit: EightyEightGames
Photo Credit: EightyEightGames

Photographs is a rare photography game that’s not about taking pictures. Rather, you’ll complete mini-games on polaroid backgrounds to piece together a series of photos that tell the game’s story. You’ll move from one character’s story to another, and the happenings in each story are often associated with the mini-games you’ll be required to play in that part of the game.

It features pixel art graphics that pair well with a fairly relaxing and laid-back presentation. It can be completed in a few hours and is one of the few photography video games available on mobile platforms.

Pupperazi Is a Unique Photography Game About Social Media

© Photo Credit: Sundae Month
Photo Credit: Sundae Month

Pupperazi is a game about receiving feedback on your photography portfolio. Players take on the role of a humanoid camera that takes pictures on an island inhabited by canines. The main idea of Pupperazi is to go out and take photos of dogs to post on the social media site dogNET. Those posts then receive feedback in the form of comments and followers. Progressing in the story is tied to the number of followers you have.

The island’s residents will have various photography requests for you to complete. The recommendations you meet can help dictate how you take your social media career. The dogs in Pupperazi come in all shapes and sizes. And yes, you can pet them.

Wrapping Up

What did you think of our list? Feel free to sound off in the comments, and let us know if we missed any of the best photography games.

Facebook Reddit Twitter Pinterest

The post Best Photography Games That You Can Play Today appeared first on Boss Level Gamer.

If you’re a WordPress user, you know that optimizing your site for search engines is important if you want to attract more visitors. In this post, we’ll share some tips on how to improve your SEO using WordPress.

There have been some minor changes to WordPress lately, so I wanted to write this article for those of you who use WordPress for your photography website.

We’ll also discuss the importance of using keywords and backlinks, and provide some examples of how to use them effectively. So whether you’re just starting out with WordPress or you’ve been using it for a while, be sure to read on for some helpful tips!

I also want to note that I touch on these tips but of course each tip has it’s own guide that could be written for it. So if you want me to dive further into a specific tip with a separate guide, be sure to drop a comment!

1. Enable HTTPS on your site

One of the most important things you can do to improve your site’s SEO is to enable HTTPS. This ensures that your site is secure and that visitors can trust it. In addition, Google has stated that they give preference to sites that are HTTPS-enabled.

To enable HTTPS on your WordPress site, you’ll need to install a plugin like Really Simple SSL. Once you’ve installed and activated the plugin, all you need to do is go to Settings > SSL and make sure that the “Enable SSL” option is checked.

If you’ve ever been to a site and it said “Not Secure” next to the URL, this is why.

2. Use an SEO plugin

Another great way to improve your site’s SEO is to use an SEO plugin. There are many different SEO plugins available, but I recommend RankMath. It’s a free plugin that’s easy to use and it includes features like keyword optimization, XML sitemaps, and social media integration.

To install RankMath, head over to the Plugins section of your WordPress dashboard and search for “RankMath.” Once you’ve found it, click “Install” and then “Activate.”

An important note to make that I think some people don’t understand is that installing an SEO plugin does not automatically improve your site’s SEO. It is the options and tools the SEO plugin provides that allows you to improve your site’s SEO — such as the ability to create XML Sitemaps, creating a robots.txt file, and ability to edit metadata on page/post level.

3. Check Your Page Speed

Google introduced what’s called your Core Web Vitals.

These are essentially metrics that Google likes to look at with websites that let’s their machine learning algorithms know whether or not a page is fast enough and provides a good user experience for the user.

If your website is slow, then this is not good for SEO and for the user experience of your visitors.

In case you want to see your score, pick a few different pages from your site and paste them into Google Pagespeed Insights.

Now it would be difficult to cover all optimizations in this article, I may cover this in the future with a guide to improving pagespeed. If this is something you’d like to read then be sure to drop a comment.

4. Use keywords strategically

Once you’ve configured your permalinks, you can start using keywords in your posts and pages. A keyword is a word or phrase that someone would use to search for your content. For example, if you’re a photographer who specializes in landscape photography, some of the keywords you might want to use are “landscape photography,” “landscape photos,” and “landscape photographer.”

To find out what keywords people are using to find your content, you can use Google AdWords Keyword Planner. Just enter a few of your potential keywords into the tool and it will show you how many people are searching for each one.

In addition to using keywords in your content, you should also use them in your title and in the alt text of your images. The title is what appears at the top of your browser when someone visits your site, so make sure it includes keywords that accurately describe your content. The alt text is the text that appears when someone mouses over an image, so including keywords here can also help you attract more visitors.

One big thing is to also remember that you should only be targeting one keyword per page or else you may end up with duplicate content which is bad.

The example I love to give is that let’s say you sell shoes and shoelaces. Well you wouldn’t want to have one page targeting those two keywords because they are 2 different keywords. With that being said, you will want to have one page targeting shoes and another page targeting shoelaces.

5. Internal and External Links

Internal links are when you link to other posts you have written. They are useful for improving the crawlability of your site and helps with user experience, which are both important for SEO.

Linking to other sites can also help improve your SEO. When you link to a site, it’s called an external link or backlink. Backlinks are important because they show that your site is trusted by other websites.

To get backlinks, you can reach out to other website owners and ask them to link to your site. You can also guest post on other sites and include a link back to your own site in your author bio.

If you don’t like the manual work of outreach, then you can do the natural link building strategy that I prefer, which involves creating great content and having people link to it naturally.

By following these SEO tips, you can improve your site’s ranking in search engine results pages. This will help you attract more visitors and grow your business.

Here are the 30 astonishing Historical Photos that might give you the chills. There is an online page in Instagram called “years_in_photos” that is more than 95K followers. History is a fascinating subject and when we learn history through photos, it seems more relatable. You can check that Instagram page for more amazing photographs.

Scroll down and inspire yourself. All photos are linked and lead to the sources from which they were taken. Please feel free to explore further works of these photographers on their collections or their personal sites.

#1 Actor/footballer Vinnie Jones with opposing player Paul Gascoigne during a match. 1988

#2 Painters on the Woolworth Building in New York City, circa 1926

#3 Grand Central Terminal, New York City, October 1941

#4 The exact moment when 5-year-old Harold Whittles, who was born deaf, heard sound for the first time after an earpiece was inserted, 1974

#5 Bride leaving her recently bombed home to get married, London, Nov 4, 1940

#6 Ukrainian immigrants in the United States offer free borscht to celebrate Stalin’s death, 1953

#7 Boy smoking a cigarette with his chicken [1920]

#8 Prisoners liberated at Buchenwald concentration camp, 1945

#9 Café waitresses serving chips in Liberated Paris, 1940s

#10 Dorothy Counts – The First Black Girl To Attend An All White School In The United States – Being Teased And Taunted By Her White Male Peers At Charlotte’s Harry Harding High School, 1957

#11 Tired little boy after the circus Madison Square Garden 1947. [Photo by Ruth Orkin]

#12 An upset little patient after a visit to the dentist , 1920s

#13 Australian soldiers after being liberated from a Japanese concentration camp, 1945

#14 Startled Bystander At the Annual Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras Parade, 1994

#15 A man guards his family from the cannibals during the Madras famine of 1877, India

#16 Robert Wadlow, tallest human in recorded history with his parents and siblings, circa 1935, Wadlow’s height was 8 ft 11.1 in (2.72 m) while his weight reached 439 lb (199 kg).

#17 Man experiences irony, 1966

#18 John Rockefeller gifting a 5 cent coin to a child on his 84th birthday, 1929

#19 Rocky the Penguin never misses a chance to show off in front of the visitors to the Cotswold Wildlife Park, Burford, Oxfordshire, England. He was reared and preferred the company of two year old Nicola McNally to the other Penguins. May 1980. photo by Arthur Sidey

#20 1962: Inventor Allyn Hazard testing his proposed moon suit in a lava crater in the Mojave Desert. The suit carried oxygen and food.

#21 Juliane Koepcke, age 17, was sucked out of an airplane in 1971 after it was struck by a bolt of lightning. She fell 2 miles to the ground strapped to her seat and survived-she had to endure a 10-day walk through the Amazon Jungle before being rescued by a logging team.

#22 Indian ex President (left) transporting parts for India’s first rocket on his bicycle during his early days as a scientist (1963)

#23 A teenage boy giving flowers to princess diana with the help of his friends, 1989

#24 Children reaping the harvest. Finland, 1930s., Their eyes are piercing into my soul.

#25 Hop pickers using stilts on a farm in Kent (1928)

#26 South Vietnamese parents and their five children, fleeing toward Saigon. June 19, 1972

#27 Henry Behrens, the smallest man in the world dances with his pet cat in the doorway of his Worthing home, 1956. Measuring only 30 inches high, Mr Behrens has made a living by travelling the world with Burton Lester’s midget troupe.

#28 On August 8, 1982, a line drive foul ball hit a 4 year old boy in the head at Fenway Park. Jim Rice, realizing in a flash that it would take EMTs too long to arrive and cut through the crowd, scooped up the boy and got him to the dugout where the Red Sox medical team gave him life-saving first aid.

#29 U.S. helicopters pour machine-gun fire into the tree line to cover the advance of South Vietnamese troops ca. 1965

#30 Boy with a portable lemonade stand Berlin, 1931

Related Articles:

© Provided by MUO

Tilt shift photography is a special type of photography used by architectural, landscape, and other creative photographers. They use a particular kind of lens called a tilt shift lens, which can move in various directions and create different effects as a result. The most notable example of this type of photography is the miniature or diorama effect.

What Is Tilt Shift Photography?

Tilt shift photography is a photographic genre in which photographers manipulate life-sized images to look like toybox models. This effect can be achieved optically with a tilt shift lens while shooting the photos. However, this type of lens can be pricey.

The good news is you don’t always need a tilt shift lens to create the effects. You can use filters in post-production software to achieve similar results.

Although tilt shift photography has other uses, like distortion correction, it is famous for miniature faking.

The Science Behind Tilt Shift Lenses

Tilt shift lenses are specialized lenses that work slightly differently from your standard lenses. The lens is unique because it is based on a phenomenon called the Scheimpflug principle, which states that sharp photos can be achieved when the subject, camera’s sensor, and focal plane intersect in a straight line.

The focal plane is always parallel to the camera’s sensor in standard lenses. On the other hand, a tilt shift lens has adjustments to move the barrel in different directions. This changes the lens’s focal plane position with respect to the camera’s sensor. You will see all sorts of exciting stuff happening to your photos with tilt shift lenses for the same reason.

How Does a Tilt Shift Lens Work?

A tilt shift lens can shift from left to right and up and down in direction. It can also tilt up and down.

Tilt Mode

With the tilt function, you can get different depths of fields, thanks to the Scheimpflug principle. When you tilt the lens, the focal plane is no longer parallel to the camera’s sensor. Instead, it is angled, allowing you to play around with different depths of field to get various looks.

One of the creative uses of this function is the miniature effect you get when you keep the depth of field very shallow. With a deeper depth of field, you can also get corner-to-corner sharp images.

Shift Mode

In shift mode, you can “shift” your lens to see above or below the camera’s sensor. This is handy for architectural photography to correct perspective distortion.

For example, say you’re photographing a tall building. When you look up and take the picture, you can see the lines of the building converging at the top.

With a tilt shift lens, you can place your camera parallel to the building and shift your lens upward to get perfectly parallel lines on the building. In addition, a tilt shift lens projects a much larger circle of an image on your camera’s sensor than a standard lens. In short, you can cover a larger area with your tilt shift lens.

Where Are Tilt Shift Lenses Used?

Although you may think of a tilt shift lens as a unique lens meant for a specific purpose, it is versatile for different types of photography.

Architectural Photography

This type of photography is where tilt shift lenses are most commonly used. You can technically correct the perspective distortion with post-production software, but using a tilt shift lens can be very convenient and save you a lot of time.

With a tilt shift lens, you can also take many pictures and seamlessly stitch them together as a panorama. But, if you use a standard lens and correct the distortion in editing software, your final panorama may not be as smooth.

Landscape Photography

In landscape photography, it is essential to keep the natural lines like horizons and trees straight. Tilt shift lenses can help with that. You can use the shift option to achieve this.

Also, the corner-to-corner sharpness is highly sought after by landscape photographers. When you use the tilt option on your lens, you can adjust for a deeper depth of field. However, remember to use layers in your composition to make it more powerful.

Product Photography

It can be challenging to get the entire product in focus for small product photographs, like jewelry and watches. You may have to use advanced techniques like focus stacking to get the whole image in focus. This can be time-consuming.

With a tilt shift lens, you can tilt the focal plane to get a sharp image with the entire product in focus.

Portrait Photography

A tilt shift lens can be a great addition if you’re a portrait photographer because you no longer have to pose multiple models in a horizontal line. Instead, you can have people in different areas of your frame and still get all their faces in focus.

You can also creatively blur different areas in your frame to get a pleasing composition.

Creative Effects

People often associate tilt shift lenses with toybox-looking photos. When you use the tilt option on a large scene with a shallow depth of field, the resulting image looks like a scene out of a diorama.

Photographers use the tilt function to create one-of-a-kind photos that are intriguing and fun to look at.

Tilt Shift Photography Without a Tilt Shift Lens

Are tilt shift lenses out of your price range? You can mimic the effect of a tilt shift lens in two ways. You can buy a tilt shift adapter that converts your normal lens into a tilt shift lens. Or, try using Photoshop and other software to edit the picture for a miniature look.

You can also use the Snapseed app on your phone to edit the photos. It is developed by Google and is available for both Android and iPhone.

To get the perfect diorama look, you have to keep some things in mind while shooting the photos. First, shoot from an elevated angle so that it gives an impression of peering from the top. It is better to shoot a broader view to emphasize the toybox look.

While editing, make sure to increase the sharpness and play around with the saturation to get the desired look. The best subjects for tilt shift effects are buildings in downtown, busy street intersections, bridges, and castles.

Unleash Your Creativity With Tilt Shift Photography

If you’re in a photography rut, try tilt shift photography to break out of it. You don’t have to spend thousands of dollars to get involved in tilt shift photography. Instead, just simulate the effects with an app or software.

Trying different kinds of photography will help you improve your creativity and artistic skills.