The Natural Light Cycle for Photographers Natural light is what landscape photography is made of. Other forms of photography rely heavily on flash, but most landscapes rely entirely on the sun’s rays as their light source. That natural light from the sun is changing every second of the day. A picture taken at 9:00 a.m. will look fundamentally different than picture taken at 7:00 a.m., even if it is a picture of the exact same subject, from the exact same angle, using the exact same camera settings and focal length. Therefore, understanding these changes that occur throughout the day is critical to improving your landscape photography. These changes in natural light don’t just affect the overall lighting and exposure level of your photos, but also things like color and contrast. Morning Let’s start with the morning. Some of the best photo opportunities occur before the sun is up. But with that hurdle overcome, there are distinct advantages to shooting before the sun comes up. Twilight Blue Hour Sunrise After sunrise Afternoon Evening
20 Chrome Extensions For Happy Browsing Experience Here are some of the most useful extensions from Chrome. You will find them very useful for your specific Browsing requirements. For convenience they have been divided into specific sections. You will find that you can look at the specific section to pick out the ones you want Chrome Extensions For Developers IP Address: Using this extension, finding your IP is a matter of a few secondsPageRank Status: Want to know the PageRank for your website. Chrome Extensions For Music Lovers Anesidora: If you are fond of Pandora, but do not want to leave it open in another tab while using it? Chrome Extensions For Security Click&Clean: Using this particular extension, you may be able to clean out your hard disk, even scan and find malware and remove files that are temporary and many such things.Personal Blocklist: It has been felt that this extension should be there in the default settings itself. Chrome Extensions For Social Media Enthusiasts
10 camera techniques every beginner photographer should learn While it can take years to master the camera techniques you need to take amazing images, whatever your skill level and whatever you choose to shoot, it often pays to keep things simple. To help you along we’ve put together 10 essential camera techniques every photographer should master. We’ll start with taking control of focus then move on to using features like exposure compensation, white balance and more. From focusing and photo composition to white balance and lighting, this straightforward guide should cement your basic shooting skills, rid you of bad photo habits, and leave you to concentrate on simply getting better images. When trying out these techniques it’s often recognising what could go wrong that will help you avoid making the same mistakes over and over again. So with that in mind, we’ve also included handy examples of common problems and mistakes that can happen to anyone, whatever their experience, and how best to correct them. Get white balance accurate every time 1. 2. 3.
Nikon D3000 For Dummies Cheat Sheet Cheat Sheet With the D3000, Nikon proves once again that you don't have to give an arm and a leg — or strain your back and neck — to enjoy dSLR photography. This new addition to the Nikon family of dSLRs doesn't skimp on power or performance, offering a great set of features to help you take your photography to the next level. To help you get started using your D3000 camera, we’ve provided a handy reference to your camera’s buttons and dials and automatic and advanced exposure modes. Get to Know the Controls on Your Nikon D3000 Digital Camera Here’s a quick reference guide to the buttons, dials, and other external controls on your D3000. A Quick Guide to Automatic Exposure Modes on Your Nikon D3000 When you're just starting out with digital SLR photography, these fully automatic modes on your D3000 can make life easier. Advanced Exposure Modes for Your Nikon D3000 Digital Camera
Don't Be Afraid of Manual Focus If you’re a beginner in the wonderful world of photography, if you’ve never used an older film camera, or a combination of both, you might be unfamiliar with the workings of manual focus. Even if you are, you may not have thought about how you would use it in real-world situations. Fortunately as DSLR owners, we have the best of both worlds between manual and automatic focusing; we have a choice as to how we decide the subject of our photo, and other points that aren’t as important. But keep in mind, you’re not learning manual focus as a replacement for automatic focus, you’re learning it as a compliment. While modern DSLR’s and their lenses have varying degrees of complexity for automatically focusing on a specific point within a scene, film cameras before them relied on a manual system to focus. You might think, why would I want to do it any other way? There are a few reasons, in fact, but first, let’s cover how to use manual focus in the first place. How to manually focus your camera
How to enable RAW image support in Windows XP, Vista and 7 - ins Most digital cameras today support the RAW image format. Unfortunately, Windows doesn’t. RAW images cannot be viewed in Windows image viewer or Windows Live Photo Gallery, and Explorer doesn’t show thumbnails of RAW images. Thankfully, the Windows Imaging Component for Vista and 7 makes it possible for 3rd party tools to add support for RAW image formats to Windows, complete with thumbnails in Explorer. FastPictureViewer WIC RAW Codec Pack is such a third party platform that brings support for more than 20 different RAW image formats to Windows. The codec pack currently supports the TGA raster image format along with the 20 raw image formats from more than 13 camera manufacturers, covering about 300 camera models. FastPictureViewer WIC RAW Codec Pack supports both 32 and 64-bit editions of Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows XP SP3. To enable thumbnail support for other image formats not natively supported in Windows XP, you can use ThumbView.
Akvaforum.no - Akvarieforum, akvarium og akvariefisk Best Settings For Nikon D3000 Canon EOS 600D Tips and Trick The 18 megapixel Canon EOS 600D (called the Digital Rebel T3i in North America) is a new DSLR camera that sits above last year’s 550D / T2i at the top of Canon’s entry-level EOS line-up. The 600D / T3i offers a 1,040,000-dot vari-angle LCD screen, a 63-zone metering sensor – identical to the one used [...] 5 Bad Habits in Photography For as long as I’ve become a photographer, there’s a list of bad habits that’s as long. These bad habits of photographers could be easily avoided if you’re willing to start as early as possible to avoid further losses. Music Video by Androp – With 250 Canon EOS 60D Cameras! This music video by Androp creatively uses a large stack of Canon EOS60D DSLRs and flashes to create light patterns and stop motion footage. “Bliss” the Most Viewed Photograph in the World You must be familiar with the above photo. The Exposure Triangle of Photography The key to obtaining ideal photographs depends on the exposure triangle of photography.
Photography Tips for Beginners If you are just starting out in photography and you don’t know where to begin, or perhaps you have been taking pictures with your camera for a while and want to improve your shooting skills, the collection of material compiled in this article will not only help you in building up your photography knowledge, but also assist in advancing you to the next level. On this page, you will find everything from basic photography tips for beginners all the way to more advanced techniques and tutorials to help you grow and get the best out of your equipment. Let’s start out with the essentials. 1) Know Your Camera Before you start learning about photography, you should first get accustomed to your camera, so that you can find the relevant camera settings when we go over them further down in the article. If your primary camera is a DSLR, it does not hurt to know what a DSLR is and how it works. 2) Buying a Camera Want to put together a great camera kit? 3) Learn Photography Basics 8.1) Lens Filters
Nikon D3000 User's Guide Home Donate New Search Gallery How-To Books Links Workshops About Contact Nikon D3000 User's Guide © 2009 KenRockwell.com. All rights reserved. Nikon D3000 and 18-55mm VR. enlarge. September 2009 Page Index, D3000 User's Guide Nikon D3000 Review More Nikon Reviews Nikon Lens Reviews NEW: Nikon D3000 User's Guide iPhone and iPod App. Help me help you top I support my growing family through this free website, as crazy as it might seem. If you find this as helpful as a book you might have had to buy or a workshop you may have had to take, feel free to help me continue helping everyone. If you've gotten your gear through one of my links or helped otherwise, you're family. If you haven't helped yet, please do, and consider helping me with a gift of $5.00. The biggest help is to use these links to Adorama, Amazon, Calumet, Ritz and J&R when you get your goodies. Thanks for reading! Introduction Want free live phone support? Looking for a specific control? Below are the basics. Camera Settings Format
How to Shoot a Star Trails Selfie There are times when planning and patience can result in a killer shot. This nighttime star trails selfie (above) that I captured in the Canadian Rockies was one of those times. I’d planned to shoot star trails over Mount Rundle and the town of Banff, Alberta while hopefully capturing reflections in Vermillion Lake, surrounded by melting ice. My initial vision was for a completely cloudless sky, but the small yet persistent low clouds ended up adding an ethereal quality to the shot I hadn’t expected. When I looked back at my first 30 second exposure, I knew right away that this shot had some potential. I’d like to share with you exactly how I shot and processed this image so that you too can try your hand at star trails, and maybe even a selfie like I did. Required Gear Capturing the Shot Step 1 – Location and conditions In this case, my location was already set because I wanted Mount Rundle to be central in the composition. Step 2 – Composing the shot The Sony Timelapse App
Nikon D3000 Autofocus Settings Home Donate New Search Gallery How-To Books Links Workshops About Contact Nikon D3000 Autofocus Settings © 2009 KenRockwell.com. All rights reserved. Nikon D3000 and 18-55mm VR. enlarge. September 2009 Nikon D3000 Review More Nikon Reviews Nikon D3000 User's Guide NEW: Nikon D3000 User's Guide iPhone and iPod App. Introduction This is specific to the Nikon D3000. Many of these settings are locked-out when the D3000 is in the green AUTO mode, set on the big top dial. If you're trying to do something below and it won't work, it's because you have the top dial set to AUTO. The D3000 only autofocuses with the latest AF-S (and old professional AF-I) lenses. Most lenses sold today for the D3000 are AF-S, and so is the included 18-55mm kit lens. Autofocus systems are fast, but not usually instantaneous. External Controls AF Sensor Selector (rear) Rear Multi-Selector, Nikon D3000. enlarge. There is only one exterior AF control on the D3000 itself, the rear multi-selector. Nikon D3000. Menu Controls Ken