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7 Easy Ways to Freeze Motion with Your Camera | MCP Photoshop Actions and Tutorials Blog for Photographers September 01, 2009 | 6 Comments |Add a comment As photographers there are times where we want blurred background and beautiful background separation. But other times stopping speed is our primary concern. We may want to freeze motion of a car, a plane, a bird, an athlete at a sporting event, or even with snapshots of our own kids running, jumping, diving, etc… If you have been shooting for years, you may already know all of this. If that is the case, I would love you to add comments with more ideas on the subject. Settings for the above shots: ISO 100, Speed 1/500-1/1250, Aperture f/4.0-5.6 – using Tamron 28-300mm lens (manual with no flash) Here are some of the many ways to capture a fast moving object or person without any blur or sense of motion (panning and other techniques will show purposeful motion – another post for another time). Using an SLR – a digital SLR is going to help you a lot here.

The Photographer's Ephemeris: TPE for iOS The Photographer’s Ephemeris (TPE) helps you plan outdoor photography shoots in natural light, particularly landscape and urban scenes. It’s a map-centric sun and moon calculator: see how the light will fall on the land, day or night, for any location on earth. TPE is a universal app with optimized user interfaces for both iPad and iPhone/iPod Touch devices. “Get it. TPE’s map-based approach means you aren’t limited to a predefined list of locations, which often miss the places many photographers go. Advanced features including visual sun and moon search, automatic time zone and elevation detection, correction for atmospheric refraction and height above the horizon, ensuring that you have the best possible information for planning your shoot. You can even determine when the sun or moon will be visible behind nearby hills and mountains. “It worked perfectly. Key features “One of the most useful apps for any nature photographer” – Outdoor Photographer Magazine Advanced features Geek features

Understanding Histograms Possibly the most useful tool available in digital photography is the histogram. It could also well be the least understood. In this article we will look at what a camera histogram tells the photographer and how best to utilize that information. Virtually every digital camera, from the simplest point-and-shoot to the most sophisticated digital SLR has the ability to display a histogram directly, or more usually superimposed upon the image just taken. The 21st Century Light Meter When I teach my landscape and wildlife field workshops and am using a DSLR (which I usually am these days) I am frequently asked why I frequently look at the LCD after taking a shot. In Bloom. Canon EOS 1Ds with 16-35mm f/2.8L lens @ 24mm. This histogram shows an almost perfect distribution of tones covering about a 4 stop dynamic range — from deep shadows on the left to just short of bright highlights on the right. This setting, like every other that you or your automated camera makes, is a compromise. Examples

Andy Rutledge - Baseball Redux Last week I was having a conversation with an editorial designer and I asked him if he did hardcore graphic design for web interfaces, too. “Not really.” He allowed as how while he would probably do someone’s clean or minimal blog design, he’d not go after something more intense, like a sports franchise website. Which immediately got me thinking. My friend used sports franchise websites as an example of the polar opposite of clean and minimal design in his answer. I reflected on the fact that, as a Texas Rangers baseball fan, I’m seldom able to quickly and easily find what I’m looking for whenever I visit their site. I’m not trying to pick on the Rangers site, alone. In the first 850 pixels or so, they’re typically offering me 30 to 40 items, all competing for my attention (and at least a couple of them are moving). I know that sports are, by definition, exciting. On the typical sports website there is no attempt at what I’d deem to be a usable experience. Let’s pretend. Baseball Redux

Get Photo-News with the PhotoVerse App Last week, the developers of an iPhone/iPad app contacted me about using my RSS feed to pull content for their new application. It’s a pretty cool idea, so I said “go for it!” PhotoVerse collects photography related news and blog posts like any RSS reader, and makes it handy for anybody interested in photography to keep up on their reading while also allowing them to share the articles on social media networks. The developers also asked me if I would like to test out the application… but I’m on Android, so no luck. I have 5 coupon codes for a free copy of the app.

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Hyperfocal Distance If you are shooting landscapes you probably should. Have you ever wondered where to focus on a landscape to render the greatest area of focus from near to infinity? If you know how to figure out your Hyperfocal Distance (HFD), you will know exactly where to focus your lens. So what is HFD? Every lens has a distance that can be calculated depending on the length of the lens and the aperture you are using. Older lenses used to have this calculation right on top of the lens. Maybe it’s because of the way the lenses are constructed or perhaps they just don’t think this kind of information is useful to today’s shooter. So what do you do if you don’t have a 15 year old lens? So the hyperfocal distance for a 50 mm lens at f / 16 using a circle of confusion of 0.03 mm (which is a value typically used in 35 mm photography would be calculated like this: All of that, just to figure out that you should focus at 5.2 meters. You can get your downloadable PDF by clicking here.

How to Use Panning to Make Your Photography Come Alive | MCP Photoshop Actions and Tutorials Blog for Photographers You are here: Blog Home » Guest Bloggers » How to Use Panning to Make Your Photography Come Alive How to Use Panning to Make Your Photography Come Alive As photographers, we are always looks for new techniques to improve our work and make our images stand out. As I was starting out in photography this often lead me to additional purchases of lenses, software and accessories. But there is something you can do to add the WOW factor to your photos without a trip to the camera shop – panning. Have a look at this cyclist I shot at 1/350 of a second as he raced by me at 20mph. Now let’s look at another cyclist in the same location that I captured while panning him as he raced by. Many people are intimidated by panning but it is a relatively easy technique to master. How to do panning… Give panning a try and you will find an excellent new tool for your camera bag. About Dave: Dave Powell is a photographer based in Tokyo, Japan.

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