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We live in an exciting and interesting time — one when some of our most commonly accepted ideas, traditions and principals are being challenged. This past week featured a fascinating read in the Wall Street Journal asking “Are Playgrounds Too Safe?”, making the case that “decades of dumbed-down playgrounds, fueled by fears of litigation, concerns about injury and worrywart helicopter parents, have led to cookie-cutter equipment that offers little thrill.” Recently Forbes featured an article smartly challenging things many of us grew up being taught and often adhere to still. 1. 2. 3. …More
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DSLR Tips Workshop: How to use polarizing filters to reduce haze and deepen blue sky
DSLR Tips Workshop: Using polarizing filters to cut through haze and deepen blue skies Landscape shots with distant subjects like canyon rims or mountain ranges can often look hazy even under the sunniest conditions. One of the most effective ways of cutting through this haze and capturing a vibrant photo with saturated colours and a deep blue sky is to use a polarizing filter. The photo of the mountain range, above left, may have been taken under bright, sunny conditions, but the result looks hazy and is lacking impact. Checklist: Using polarizing filters 1: Buy a circular polarizing filter which matches the thread on your lens; check the end of the barrel to find out the correct size. 2: With the polarizer screwed onto the end of your lens, turn the outer section to see the polarizing effect. 3: To prevent your DSLR from counteracting the polarizing effect, set the White Balance to Daylight and consider applying negative Exposure Compensation of, say, -2/3 or -1 EV. Watch out!
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Night Photography Lesson
Copyright: This lesson MAY NOT be copied to your website or blog, please use the social networking buttons above to link to it. See our Terms and Conditions. This free lesson assumes the student has some knowledge in practical photography (equivalent to a pass level in our Basic Photography course). If you like what you see in this lesson, but cannot understand all the information given, enrol in our new Creative Photography course and get all the help and encouragement you need! Once the sun has set many photographers will pack away their cameras and go home. Throughout our courses we emphasise the importance of light for the photographic image. Taking photographs at night is a lot simpler to achieve then one might think. Here we have some guidelines on the possibilities open to us with night photography. With many night photography subjects, total darkness at night isn’t necessarily the best time to actually do ‘night shots’. Fig n.2 Canon G9 1/8 sec @ f3.5, ISO 200. Exposure Tools
20 Things I Wish I Knew About Photographing in Manual Mode » Photography Awesomesauce
1. ISO is an important setting you shouldn’t ignore. It works differently than ISO on an old film camera. 2. 3. 4. Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links, which means Photography Awesomesauce receives commission if you make a purchase using affiliate links. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. These tips are not by any means rules to follow.
RAW vs JPEG
The RAW vs JPEG topic seems like a never ending debate in photography. Some photographers say shoot RAW, while others say shoot JPEG. What is RAW format in digital photography? Sand Dunes - Shot in RAW I remember my first time going through the camera options and reading the Nikon D80 manual, wondering about what RAW does and why I should consider using it. Sounds familiar? 1) What is RAW? RAW images, also known as “digital negatives” are virtually unprocessed files coming directly from the camera sensor. 1.1) Advantages of RAW format Compared to 8-bit JPEG format that can only contain up to 256 shades of Red, Green and Blue colors (total of 16 million), 12-bit RAW images contain the most amount of information with 4,096 shades or Red, Green and Blue (equivalent of 68 billion colors!) 1.2) Disadvantages of RAW format 2) What is JPEG? JPEG is the most popular image format for photographs today, capable of displaying millions of colors in a highly compressed file. Take a look at this image:
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5 Day Deal – a don’t miss event for any photographer Posted by Darlene on January 5, 2014 · Leave a Comment This is THE sale of the year for photography lovers! Do NOT miss this sale if you want to pick up some photography ebooks, videos, and how to help. Save 100s of dollars on this deal that only lasts 5 days, go now! Top 10 Reasons to Attend a Photo Walk Posted by Darlene on August 28, 2012 · 2 Comments I’ve talked about photo walks before and if you’re a regular reader, you may have already figured out that I’m a big fan of them! Survey [closed] – what topic would you like to know more about? Posted by Darlene on April 4, 2012 · 7 Comments A quick survey to find out what you want to read about on this site. Win an iPad for World Backup Day and Backblaze Posted by Darlene on March 29, 2012 · 4 Comments Don’t get caught with a hard drive or computer crash. Tips for Photo Walking Posted by Darlene on October 10, 2011 · 4 Comments Photography tip on how to have a fun and successful Photo Walk.
13 Creative Exercises for Photographers
Like the world’s tidal waters, photographic creativity ebbs and flows for many of us. Sometimes creativity can use a jump-start, an artificial method to get the photographer to start looking at the world in a new way in order to facilitate, restart, refine, or improve your photography. There are many ideas on how to get yourself to push through an artistic block or inspire you to further expand your boundaries. Not all of them involve the camera. Several websites and books publish a mix of assignments or exercises for the intrepid photographer. These are my versions of various exercises that have been passed down from one creative generation to another. Exercise 1: Two Dozen Pick a location. The first time I did this, I hit a virtual brick wall after about 12 shots, and that was eye-opening in many ways. Exercise 2: Ten of One Take 10 unique and/or abstract photographs of 1 small subject. The smaller the subject, the more challenging this can be. Exercise 3: Four Corners You get the idea.
Digital Camera Sensor Sizes: How it Influences Your Photography
This article aims to address the question: how does your digital camera's sensor size influence different types of photography? Your choice of sensor size is analogous to choosing between 35 mm, medium format and large format film cameras — with a few notable differences unique to digital technology. Much confusion often arises on this topic because there are both so many different size options, and so many trade-offs relating to depth of field, image noise, diffraction, cost and size/weight. Background reading on this topic can be found in the tutorial on digital camera sensors. Sensor sizes currently have many possibilities, depending on their use, price point and desired portability. The relative size for many of these is shown below: Canon's 1Ds/5D and Nikon D3 series are the most common full frame sensors. Camera phones and other compact cameras use sensor sizes in the range of ~1/4" to 2/3". The crop factor is the sensor's diagonal size compared to a full-frame 35 mm sensor.
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