Five Things Brides Wish Their Wedding Photographers Knew

結婚的主角總是新娘子，攝影師無論如何都必須照顧新娘子的意願。來自紐約 Lempa Creative 的夫妻檔 Dale 及 Jill Lempa，他們是一對婚禮攝影師，提出了五個建議，從新娘子出發，對婚禮攝影師很有幫助。

http://fstoppers.com/5-things-brides-wish-their-wedding-photographers-knew

Using colour harmonies in photography

An excellent article on colour harmonies for beginners!

Using Color Harmonies in Photography 

# 1 of 9: Monochromatic Color Harmony

by
Alain Briot

http://www.luminous-landscape.com/columns/color_harmonies_1_monochromatic.shtml

A course on digital photography by Stanford

This is a course on digital photography (CS178) by Stanford University. See the course schedule and the course home page. The best of all, see the applets designed to supplement the course lecture materials.

與背景融合的時尚人像攝影

有不少時裝攝影或所謂「時尚人像攝影」(glamour photography)，其實都只是攝影師叫女模特兒騷首弄肢，只要把燈光、調色和反差等基本技術弄好便成，根本與攝影藝術扯不上任何關係。

來自莫斯科的攝影師 Mercuro B. Cotto，職業是時尚攝影師，原本也可以單靠叫模特兒騷首弄肢混飯吃，但他卻願意花時間思考如何配合 模特兒與背景之間的構圖，增強作品的感染力，算是把 「時尚人像攝影」 添上些藝術色彩。見他的網頁。

Top quotes from great photographers

If your pictures aren’t good enough, you aren’t close enough. — Robert Capa

The photograph itself doesn’t interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality. — Henri Cartier-Bresson

It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter. — Alfred Eisenstaedt

There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs. — Ansel Adams

Everyone will take one great picture, I’ve done better because I’ve taken two. — David Bailey

A camera alone does not make a picture. To make a picture you need a camera, a photographer and above all a subject. It is the subject that determines the interest of the photograph. — Man Ray

Photography for me is not looking, it’s feeling. If you can’t feel what you’re looking at, then you’re never going to get others to feel anything when they look at your pictures. — Don McCullin

All photography is propaganda. — Martin Parr

The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don’t have to explain things with words. — Elliott Erwitt