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The RAW file format is digital photography's equivalent of a negative in film photography: it contains untouched, "raw" pixel information straight from the digital camera's sensor .

Tutorials - The RAW File Format

Silverlight photography tutorials.

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http://www.silverlight.co.uk/tutorials/toc.html

DIY Photography

Painting with light is a fun technique that gives great results. It is called painting with light because this is what you are actually doing while taking the shot - painting with light.

Aperture is one of the three main controls you can use when you are taking a picture. Along with shutter speed and ISO, aperture controls how light will hit the sensor (OK, old schoolers - hit the film).

In the previous few articles, I have discussed some basic aspects of photography. The first subject to get a close look was exposure , and I have discussed two of the three components that control it: shutter speed and aperture . In this article, I will bring in the missing piece - ISO (or film sensitivity).

Basics - ISO

Painting with light is a fun technique that gives great results.

http://www.diyphotography.net/painting_with_light

Lighting tricks

After talking so much about exposure and the controls you can use to, em.. well... control it, I thought I'd bring up some info that can help bring all the control info together.

http://www.diyphotography.net/exposure_demostrated

Basics - Exposure

Basics - FOD

http://www.diyphotography.net/depth_of_field

After discussing exposure in great detail, I would like to turn to a different kind of control - Depth Of Field (A.K.A.

Custom shaped Bokeh

http://www.diyphotography.net/diy_create_your_own_bokeh

Bokeh is an adaptation from a a Japanese word meaning blur.