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Cool visual effects

Article Category: Computers and Technology

Author Name: Mike Johnson

Ever wonder how those amazing light photos you've seen online are made? There are many online tutorials that can teach you how to make these amazing photographs, and most of them are done in a few easy steps, and most of them do not even require a significant knowledge in photography. That's right: there's no need to go to photography school and pay hundreds of dollars just to learn the cool visual effects one wants to get out of their digital camera. All you need is time, patience, and of course, a reliable internet connection. Don't forget your camera!
These cool visual effects come in various forms, ranging from light shows to intricate image manipulations. Although most of them can be done off the bat, meaning without having to rely on any image editing program such as Photoshop, it's also good practice to know the necessary software that will further the quality of your work.
You may be wondering to yourself, "What kinds of cool visual effects can I do?" Aside from the ones you've already seen while browsing through your favorite social media site, or perhaps while randomly running through different websites that feature spectacular imageries that blow the mind, there are many other cool visual effects that you can try or even invent.
Imagine fantastic gravity-defying tricks that show a woman suspended in mid-air, while doing a pirouette down a thirty-foot building. Close your eyes and picture in your mind the image of a man dressed in fire, running across a tranquil pond without creating a single ripple. Imagine a madcap whirlwind of furniture twisting in the space of your living room, superimposed upon a backdrop filled with an absurd cast of your duplicates looking at the bizarre display before you, each having varying reactions that exhibit either shock or wonder. Impossible? Not quite! The cool visual effects and tricks you can learn online are so amazing that these wondrous descriptions can easily become a reality, provided you have enough time to learn them as well as the knowledge needed to control the software to enhance or create them.
The cool visual effects are taught in tutorials ranging from simple to advanced, and most of them are offered for free by visionaries who simply wish to share the knowledge they have gleaned after hours, if not years, of studying other techniques or discovering new styles. There are digital photographers and artists out there who will tell you that it has cost them hundreds of dollars just to afford and attend film school to learn these techniques. But with the help of the internet and a decent amount of hard work, you can be at par with even the hardiest of digital photographers. You can even learn techniques developed for years in the span of a few days.
The cool visual effects you will learn in your quest to become a digital photography wizard cover a number of types. The common ones include no equipment manipulation at all: just a firm understanding of how to trick the senses and manipulating whatever landscape you have taken a photo of. Learning about different angular shots is one of the techniques you will need to master cool visual effects that require no heavy image manipulation. For example, a normal field shot featuring your girlfriend lying down on a bed of brown grass superimposed against a thick landscape of greenery could be turned into an amazing trick of the mind. By twisting the image upside down, your significant other is now an angelic vision pasted upon a sky of brown and green, looking down upon a sea of blue and white; a tranquil image that can take one's breath away and, perhaps if you entered a competition, get you that award that will put your name in the photography history books.
If you have spent enough time learning how to control your camera effectively, you can master techniques involving depth of field. Normal shots involving crowds can be manipulated into a dramatic display of motion; by adjusting your lens and choosing the right kind of magnification, you can focus on a single subject while blurring out the crowd behind or before it, turning the background and foreground cast into a misty or mosaic display that frames the image's point of interest.
Cool visual effects also involve the way filters are used. Sure, it's easy to take a black and white shot using a monochrome setting on your digital camera, or by simply using a black and white point and shoot camera instead, but why stop there? You can add more drama to the field by taking two shots of the same image. With the help of a tripod to keep your camera steady, you can capture a black and white as well as a coloured shot of the same view, allowing them to be identical when placed on top of each other. By using image manipulation software such as Photoshop, you can crop or lasso (a tool that allow you to precisely cut a portion of an image) a section of the image then superimpose it upon its duplicate, creating a dramatic focus that juxtaposes the subjects in your shot, creating a dramatic effect that can paint different thoughts in your viewer's minds.
They say a picture paints a thousand words. If a normal shot is a chapter in a book, manipulated ones can become entire books themselves. Digital photography is not just capturing a moment then adding various effects to it. It's an art form that allows one to create stories using visualization, invoking various tales that let admirers of one's work create their own conclusions depending on how specific or cryptic the imagery is.
To illustrate this, close your eyes and imagine a beautiful girl wearing purple and blue headphones, a smile pasted across her tranquil face. She is standing on top of a building overlooking an amazing city skyline, with hundreds of cars moving to and fro as commuters and travellers go about their daily business. Through careful image manipulation, timing, as well as the use of special camera effects, you can turn this already beautiful shot into a work of wonder. By adding light effects created by moving a glow stick across the shot, you can then allow the viewer to see a visual metaphor of what she's listening to. Curved, jagged or spiked lines could translate to movements in an oscilloscope, making a sort of audio visualization that's painted around her peaceful demeanour. The urban landscape before her can be turned into a light show by using light capture techniques involving manipulating one's camera aperture; this is a common form of imagery that's already rampant in most trick photography examples. Don't be daunted by the big terms used in this example; most professional photographers went from zero to hero in the span of days by understanding the nuances of light manipulation, and you are no different.
There are more cool visual effects that you can discover online. Like mentioned earlier, most of them are readily available, while some may be learned by reverse engineering a particular shot. Don't be afraid to venture into the world of visual artistry: there is a massive market for it, turning the common photographer into a new form of artist: the digital visionary. Have the courage to learn the techniques needed, and you will no longer have to close your eyes just to see the images you have in your mind. Good luck!

Keywords: Trick Photography Techniques, A Guide to digital photography, photography tutorials, cool visual effects, How to make photo effects

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