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Reflections
Using reflections in photography can lead to some amazing effects and beautiful images. Using water, windows, mirrors or any sort of reflective surface can change an image into a work of art. Using reflected light can vastly improve the quality of lighting available. Diffused light is generally better for taking photos and using reflected light, either as the main source of light or for highlighting, is an excellent way to capture diffused light.
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/11/30/50-beautiful-examples-of-reflections-photography/
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152ndThe winners of the 152nd Print Exhibition Awards have been named. The Royal Photographic Society’s International Print Exhibition is the longest standing exhibition of its kind in the world, having been staged almost every year since the founding of The Society in 1853. This year’s theme was ‘New Horizons’, and almost 2,000 prints were submitted from over 500 photographers worldwide.
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Discover how to use your digital camera to its full potential with our Digital Photography Tips. We are a community of photographers of all experience levels who come together to learn, share and grow in our understanding of photography.
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by Steve Berardi, March 22, 2009
Taken from Tim Grey’s Digital Darkroom Questions
February 26, 2009
Submitted by Bill Coakley, March 2009
Question:
As a landscape photographer I have always used the shutter button for focusing and shutter release. I have been reading a lot about back-button auto focus. It seems as if this is a wonderful feature. How does this apply to landscape photographers?
I happen to be a huge fan of using “back-button focus”, as it allows me to designate a different area of the scene for focus as compared to exposure. The basic approach is to lock focus based on the most important subject within the frame, and then to set the exposure based on the most appropriate area of the image for an overall good exposure. Quite often you’ll find the best exposure involves setting focus on one area and exposure based on a different area of the scene. So, it affords much more control, and in my mind that is a very good thing.
Where does digital camera noise come from ? – Sonny Saunders
January 2009
High ISO noise: The higher the ISO setting, the more noise that is generated by the sensor. Using a higher ISO setting is like turning up the volume control on a radio.
Underexposure: Since noise resides in the dark areas of photographs, underexposing makes noise more obvious. Use an exposure that just makes the highlight alert (blinkies) go away, or check the histogram and make sure you have some histogram graft in the right most box.
Digital Artifacts: An artifact is anything that occurs in a photograph from technology and not from the scene itself. Digital cameras have a problem handling infinite gradations, such as found in the sky, as pixels are either on or off and this can cause noise in these areas.
JPEG Artifacts: Artifacts are caused by image compression in the camera, and reconstruction in the computer. The higher the level of compression the more noise generated. Use the highest-quality, least compression, setting.
© Sonny Saunders, 2009
Memory Cards – Sonny Saunders
September 2008
1) Memory cards are critical to digital photography. Lose a card and you can lose hundreds of images.
c. Do not open the camera memory card door when the camera is reading or writing to the memory card.
d. Do not remove the memory card from a card reader while it is still transferring
7) Do not format memory cards with your computer.
8) Older cameras may need updating in order to use some of the newest high capacity, high speed memory cards. Check the camera manufacturer’s website for updates.
9) It is estimated that the useful life of memory cards is about 20 years, long after they have become obsolete for photography purposes. Most memory card failures are due to contact failure, so be very careful when inserting cards into a camera or a card reader.
10) Avoid filling memory cards completely. Always stop and leave a few unused spaces.
11) The Read/Write Speed of memory cards may be expressed as a “X” factor. To determine the speed multiply the “X” number by 150 kbs (150KB in one second).
1X = 150KB per second 80X = 12MB per second
10X = 1.5MB per second 150X = 22.5MB per second
50X = 7.5MB per second 300X = 45MB per second
© Sonny Saunders, 2008
Review photos just taken, easily – Bill Coakley
Try Faststone Image Viewer. Many club members use this product to review photos just shot because:
- it’s so easy to use
- you can step from one picture to the next in full-screen view
- you can then easily mark or copy pictures right there for further attention
Shooting the Moon – Sonny Saunders
4) Set the aperture at f/11 (f/8 on point & shoot cameras).
5) Set the shutter speed to 1/500 second.
Note: you may have to manually focus
Expose towards the right edge of an image histogram — but with caution – Bill Coakley & Sonny Saunders
Adjusting your exposure so that histogram data are close to the right edge will maximize the precision of image although you might have to darken it a bit in the final PC processing. However don’t go too far into the fifth segment or you may experience color fading. Try some settings in the fifth segment to determine where color intensity is lost. In any event don’t pass the right edge or you will have unrecoverable loss of image data. Also, if you have a camera like the Canon 30D try the histogram display with the three primary colors – you may find in some cases that one of the colors goes off the right (burn out) while the ordinary gray histogram seems OK.
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