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I may have mentioned in the past that I began my journey into photography by working with black and white images and film, from start to finish, including loading my own film cassettes, developing and printing my own photos. Still to this day, black and white has a special spot for me. With digital photography, …
Regular reader Pat sent along some information on ShortCourses.com. They have several online books Welcome to ShortCourses.com, Famous for its books on digital cameras and digital photography. THE digital photography resource for over 6,000,000 visitors a year I quickly glanced over a couple of the “courses”. As of the time of this writing, there seems …
From BBC News: About one-third of digital camera users in the UK are not backing up their photographs, reveals research. But at the same time, the survey of 2,227 consumers revealed 89% of those quizzed now own a digital camera or camera-phone. And just under half are taking more than 10 snaps each month.
From the New York Times: Like many amateur photographers, Joe Dejesus posts his photos online and compares them to the work of others on the photo-sharing site Flickr. At some point last year, a number of landscape photos caught his eye with their vibrant tones and colors. Their secret was a software technology known as …
I have been active with computers for many years, and much of that I was also active in photography. Organization of my personal space, work space and life are all pretty haphazard, but my photography has always been very organized. I started in photography many years ago, and soon after began developing my own 35mm …
Last week I discussed practicing using a single focal length to get a better understanding of how a given focal length can affect you photographs. This week, I discuss a few tips for improving your travel photography. If you have ever had to sit through a slide show of someone’s travel photographs, you are well …
The old adage about practice makes perfect applies to photography as well. Very few cameras today have fixed focal length lenses but they are still available. Quality in zoom lenses has become much better with the passing of time and now super zooms (in the 10 and 12x range) allow consumers to get in even …
Adobe has released 3 betas for their new Lightroom product that is set to compete with Apple Aperture. I have been eagerly awaiting for them to release the windows beta. I just received the press release; Adobe Lightroom for Windows Beta 1.0 is now available for download. I will keep everyone up to date on …
More and more digital cameras are coming with very long zoom lenses. While 3x or 4x optical zooms used to be common, we are now seeing 6x, 8x, 10x and even some 12x zooms, equivalent to a 28mm – 336mm lens in 35mm film. While these super zooms are great at magnifying your subjects, they …
Last week I talked about the quality of light and how it is affected by the size of your light source. I hope that you have since tried to compare similiar photos in different types of lighting. Until you practice and experience it, it can be a hard concept to utilize in your photography. One …