90+ Online Photography Tools and Resources. Digital camera photo galleries, gallery database, info and forums. Your Friendly Photo Community. Michaels Photography School Lessons. Cats And Dogs! (Funny PICS!) National Geographic's Photography Contest 2010. National Geographic is once again holding their annual Photo Contest, with the deadline for submissions coming up on November 30th. For the past eight weeks, they have been gathering and presenting galleries of submissions, encouraging readers to rate them as well.
National Geographic was again kind enough to let me choose some of their entries from 2010 for display here on The Big Picture. Collected below are 47 images from the three categories of People, Places and Nature. Captions were written by the individual photographers. (47 photos total) Kanana Camp, Botswana.
Photos. Hdr. Tutorials. Ef. The World's Best Photos of bokeh and leica. Flickr Hive Mind. Flickr Hive Mind is a search engine as well as an experiment in the power of Folksonomies. All thumbnail images come directly from Flickr, none are stored on Flickr Hive Mind. These photos are bound by the copyright and license of their owners, the thumbnail links take to you to the photos (as well as their copyright and license details) within Flickr. Because some other search engines (Google, etc.) index parts of Flickr Hive Mind, you may have been led here from one of them. Welcome to Flickr Hive Mind, almost certainly the best search engine for photography on the web. If you are a Flickr user and use Flickr Stats you may have seen people being led to your photos via Flickr Hive Mind (as a Referrer). Flickr requires that I inform you that Flickr Hive Mind uses the Flickr API, but is neither endorsed nor certified by them.
There are literally hundreds of other web tools built around the Flickr API, see Flickr Bits for a bunch of examples. Luminous Landscape Forum (Powered by Invision Power Board) 30+ Fresh Free Adobe Lightroom Presets | VisonwidGet. Details Category: Design Tools Hits: 22632 Adobe Lightroom is a photography software program, it not only allows professional photographers to manage hundreds and thousands of images, it also allows you to to do high quality post production work, As we mentioned, presets can be shared, and a large number of Lightroom users not only spend a lot of time making incredibly creative presets, but also sharing them.
A number of great sites create or aggregate presets, In this post you will find some of the best Adobe Lightroom presets, and most important these presets are all available Free for downloading. 1. {ads1} 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 12 + 12 new presets from Sarah 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. View topic - Do "Standard" ISOs Have Less Noise? It is a somewhat complicated issue. The 40D, like the 30D before it, implements intermediate ISO's by software multiplication after digitization of the raw data. So there aren't really intermediate ISO's, as far as the camera electronics is concerned; instead, the camera overexposes by 1/3 stop at ISO 160-320-640 etc, and underexposes by 1/3 stop at ISO 125-250-500-1000 etc., using the nearest "main" ISO 100-200-400 etc.
That is, it internally only has the main ISO's; it adjusts the metering by 1/3 stop; and then after the capture it multiplies or divides the raw values by 1.25 to make the data look as though it came from the indicated ISO. What does this do for noise? Well, exposing to the right (ETTR) is a technique for reducing noise, because to push the histogram to the right you must increase the light gathered, and the more light gathered the less apparent the noise is relative to the signal. Now for the 1D2n. Raw Conversion made easy by Thom Hogan. Field of View Crop Factor (Focal Length Multiplier) With the advent of Digital SLR Camera Bodies, the term Field of View Crop Factor has come into our world. The source of this term is the smaller-than-35mm sensor present in many of Canon and other manufacturers' DSLR sensors. Canon's EF Lenses still focus the image on the same plane as before, but sensors smaller than 35mm sensors do not capture the entire image.
Thus, the image is "cropped". The Field of View Crop Factor (FOVCF from here on) refers to the amount of the image that is cropped. Here is a diagram illustrating the size differences between Canon's currently available DSLR sensors (I personally don't expect to see any new sizes introduced by Canon in the near future). The above image lists the FOVCF and the approximate size of the sensors. When looking through the viewfinder on Canon's DSLR cameras, the sensor size is immediately obvious as the viewfinder size generally reflects the sensor size. I'll say it again - the subject framing is significantly different.