Image © 2011/Denise Ippolito Photography This is an ornament that I made using some of the images that I took while at Longwood Gardens last Christmas. This is a previous post but I thought since I had so many new subscribers that some of you may have missed it and with the holidays coming up …
Gary Farber from Hunts Video and Photo asked me if I had a Hoodman HoodLoupe when I told him I did not he said he would bring one with him to the Expo for me. We agreed that if I liked the Loupe I would write a review on it if I didn’t then I …
Image © 2011/Denise Ippolito Photography LeHardy Rapids ~ Yellowstone NP 0.4 sec. at f/36 ISO 100 I really liked the dark moody colors that are intertwined with the orange and blue tones. I also liked the highlights and chose to leave some of them. I never add a border but for some reason I felt …
I started creating “flipped” images after seeing some of Dave Phillip’s work a few years ago. I recently met Marilyn Gaizband through Ellen Anon at the Nature Visions Expo that Ellen and I gave our lectures at. After seeing some of Marilyn’s images in her book titled “Kaleidimals” that she published in partnership with the …
Image © 2011/Denise Ippolito Photography CLICK ON THE IMAGE TO SEE A LARGER VERSION Pixel Bender (PB) is a free Photoshop filter plug-in that you can download from Adobe Labs here. You can download it for CS4 but you will not have access to the “Oil Painter” filter which is the most popular filter unless …
I have been in the market for an ultra light super compact tripod that would fit easily into my suitcase or backpack. At the Mid Atlantic Photo Expo Gitzo had a display model of their Traveler Tripod. I picked it up immediately and knew that this was the one I wanted. It was very compact, …
Image © 2011/Denise Ippolito Photography CLICK ON THE IMAGE TO SEE A LARGER VERSION I wanted to create an unusual composition and final image for this orange lily. I originally thought that I would just try to sneak a peak at the lily by including only a glimpse of it on the edge BUT as …
It’s getting to be that time of year again when everyone is thinking about photographing wintering ducks. Why not visit the Barnegat Jetty in Barnegat Light New Jersey. I offer 1/2 day and multiple day workshops on the jetty and I have also written the Barnegat Jetty Site Guide as shown below. THE BARNEGAT JETTY …
Bloomin’ Ideas Slide Program/Lecture “NEW FOR 2012″ My one hour slide program/lecture “Bloomin’ Ideas” will cover the in-camera techniques that I use to capture beautiful flower images: composition, depth-of-field and selective focus, the use of extension tubes and reflectors, and the use of natural light. You will learn to create impressionistic flower blurs by using …
Image © 2011/Denise Ippolito Photography Eastern State Penitentiary ~ Philadelphia, PA CLICK ON THE IMAGE TO SEE A LARGER VERSION I titled this blog post “Extracting An Image From A Photo” because I wanted to show the way I originally saw the scene and the image that I decided to “extract” from that initial capture. …