Curves isn’t exactly intuitive, so Adobe lately has been introducing tools to make it more accessible.  As I mentioned in my “Introduction to Curves” post, the sliders available underneath the curve in Lightroom (and Camera Raw) to adjust brightness of Highlights, Lights, Darks and Shadows are one example of this.   Another example is the targeted [...]

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Low light indoor photography and stabilized video capture to be demonstrated during Mobile World Congress, Barcelona, 15th to 18th February 2010
Varioptic, the liquid lens company, today announced that it has developed its first liquid lens, A316S, offering Optical Image Stabilization functionality to mobile phones. 
Varioptic’s Autofocus (AF) liquid lenses are used in consumer,  medical [...]

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In response to the global demand from photographers, scuba divers, surfers and snorkelers around the world, DivePhotoGuide.com has launched a highly anticipated free series of comprehensive underwater photography tutorials and guides to help the world learn underwater photography. Never before has there been such a growing interest in underwater photography, as affordable digital cameras have [...]

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Christophe Gilbert – a talented photographer and retoucher from Brussels. In the late 80’s worked as an assistant photographer, specializing on cars. Asserts that the main idea in pictures. Himself calls himself a perfectionist, and an eternal student. Collaborates with Mercedes, Renault, Ikea, Levi’s, LG Electronics, Ogilvy, Playstation, Toyota, Volkswagen and many others.   — MAD
Source [...]

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Imagine an old fence, turned into a stunning photo display! It can happen and it has been done and shared on a great blog called Brick City Love!
The project started with this: …
And ended with this – take note of the burned test at the bottom which reads “give thanks with a grateful heart”!   — [...]

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The kerfuffle over the supposedly staged prize winning picture of a wolf is yet another reminder that there is a problem, but the more I think about it, the more I am convinced that the problem arises from how we view photography, from what we expect photographs to show or do. Here are some thoughts, [...]

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Some time ago, I went to a talk given by Joel Sternfeld at UMass, where some of his Oxbow Archive photography was on display. I thought I’d get to be presented with some insight into that project. As it turned out, Sternfeld decided to go through all his work, including (and focusing on) some very [...]

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One area I’ve not really tackled here on the blog is that of book reviews, primarily because I don’t see a lot of books come through that give me enough time to read them myself.  One notable exception to that was a copy of Jeff Revell’s “From Snap Shots to Great Shots” book on the [...]

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The most common questions I get here on the blog center around the idea of how to take better pictures.  Whether those “better pictures” are better landscapes, or portraits, wildlife or events, everyone wants suggestions on how to approach the practice of taking pictures better.  Esoteric and creative considerations aside, there are some fundamental “tricks [...]

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Looking through photo-enthusiast’s portrait photographs on the Internet I notice that nearly everyone goes for a very tightly framed shot with prominent head and shoulders or face.
If there is any space in the frame the photographer often gets a comment along the lines, I would have cropped the top or side or whatever.   — Paul [...]

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Balance is a key concept when composing a photograph. However, “balance” does not necessarily mean “centered” or “symmetrical”. A photograph can be balanced even when the subject of focus is to one side. A photograph can be off-balance even if the subjects are perfectly aligned.   — Tiffany Joyce
Source and Read More: beyondmegapixels.com
 
Technorati Tags: Composition Tips,Balance

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So you’ve been asked to take some pictures at your friend’s wedding, but you’re not sure what pictures you should take during a wedding or even how to pose everyone properly.   — Jason
Source and Read More: beyondmegapixels.com
 
Technorati Tags: Posing Tips,Part-Time,Wedding Photographer

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The Nikon COOLPIX S570 is a 12 Megapixel compact with a 5x optical zoom lens and a 2.7 inch screen. Launched in August 2009, it’s a fairly stylish mid-priced compact with a middle-of-the-road specification. Along with 12 Megapixel stills, the S570 offers four movies modes with the best quality option delivering VGA video (640×480) – [...]

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The compact Casio EXILIM EX-FC150 is based around a 10.1-effective megapixel backside-illuminated CMOS image sensor and an EXILIM-branded 5x optical zoom lens with a rather tight 37mm wide-angle. The choice of a backside-illuminated sensor allows an increase in image sensitivity, and the Casio FC150 boasts a maximum of ISO 3,200 equivalent, versus ISO 1,600 in [...]

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All of the major digital camera manufacturers have wide product ranges with cameras designed and priced to suit almost every budget and aspiration, in most cases ranging from professional digital SLRs costing as much as £5,000, down to simple budget compacts selling for under £100. As I’ve often remarked in the past, buying a camera [...]

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As its name suggests, the Olympus Mju Tough 6010 is the latest shockproof, waterproof and freezeproof compact camera on the block. Freezeproof to -10 degrees Celsius, waterproof to 3m and shockproof against drops of up to 1.5m, the Olympus 6010 can survive almost everything that daily life subjects it to. In addition the 12 megapixel [...]

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There are plenty of people that like to look down their nose at Samsung’s GX series, preferring the obvious and established brands such as Canon and Nikon. Even the Pentax cameras, the K10D and K20D – which were effectively the same as the Samsung GX10 and GX20, were picked over the Korean branded alternatives that [...]

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Casio has unleashed its "tough-man", a rugged, take anywhere, compact model known modestly as the G1. This tough looking camera is ready for any adventure and according to Casio it can take a licking and keep on clicking. Casio claims that the new G1 is waterproof, dust proof, freezeproof and shock resistant (at 7ft.). They [...]

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Canon’s EOS-ID Mark IV replaces the popular Mark III model at the top of the company’s ‘APS-H’ professional DSLR line-up, adding Full HD video capture, higher resolution, a new image processor and an improved AF system to the features of the previous model. HD video augments the extensive stills capabilities of the Mark IV, which [...]

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Import – Rename – View – Organize – Tag
The ultimate tool for digital cameras reveals everything
PIE is an unique picture browser and viewer with exquisite photo metadata and file renaming features. It extracts EXIF, XMP and IPTC from JPG, TIF and RAW files and makes it available in a [...]

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If you read this blog long enough, you know I am a big fan of small strobes. They are portable, relatively cheap, can squeeze some intense light and great for on the go. Key words for this post are relatively cheap.
While you can buy used SBs on eBay for a bit over $100 or [...]

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What AA batteries do you drop in your flashes? Alkaline? Heavy Duty? Nickel Cadmium rechargeable? Nickel Metal Hydride rechargeable? Lithium rechargeable?
According to my informal testing, Nickel Metal Hydride (NiMh) rechargeable batteries give me the most shots per charge. While the new Lithium rechargeables are getting good reviews on some tech blogs and supposedly have a [...]

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To a large extent, contemporary photography looks the way it does because of two major revolutions. The first, originating in the US in the 1970s, not only made colour photography the dominant image mode, but also opened up new ways of seeing. The second, originating in Düsseldorf, Germany, very forcefully also made us see things [...]

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The FZ35 scored poorly in our color accuracy tests, undoubtedly due in large part to the limited color mode selection provided. Most cameras offer a few color modes to fit different needs and situations, often including standard, portrait, landscape, and vivid options. The FZ35 has only one standard color mode. There ares a few Color [...]

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The DroboPro (big brother to the popular Drobo storage system) has eight drive bays that can hold 3.5″ SATA drives. Currently, 2 TB is the limit of a single drive (although 3TB is right around the corner), so a DroboPro can hold 16 TB total. Data Robotics uses a proprietary storage technology called BeyondRAID that [...]

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