Tag Archives: Photography
Paris Hilton & me
One photographer’s story of when he saw Paris Hilton. Her bodyguards stopped him taking a photo. I presume the incident didn’t happen in public? He should have used a telephoto lens!
The second bouncer stops me via a mild bodycheck, which I return in kind to him.
“No pictures?”
“No pictures”
Sigma 18-200 lens has arrived!
My Sigma 18-200 lens arrived this afternoon after much reloading of An Post’s tracking site! Images later but I think this will be a good “carry around” lens to replace my 18-55 kits lens.
Much much later.. if you’d like to see how the lens performs, take a look at the Sigma 18-200 category on my photoblog!
Blended Exposures Revisted
DP&I.com: Blended Exposures Revisted – neat method of getting a little more dynamic range from your photos. Not suer if the GIMP can create a luminosity mask but similar methods can be used to get the same effect.
String Tripod
string tripod – I might try this as I could tie the string to my small portable tripod quite easily!
Canon CPS 14
Canon CPS has been updated. Looks like a few good reads!
What is RAW?
What is Raw? This article goes in-depth into what raw photography is about and explains the advantage of having 12 bits of colour versus 8 bits in a jpeg file.
Photo Links of the Day
- 9 time-lapse photos of a flooding – first the road sinks, then it breaks, then it disappears!
- Ryan has great photos of the Cork Folk dance Fest, Halway Vintage Festival and UCC!
- The certain smile – everyone gives that cheesy smile when they see a camera these days. One up for the zoom lens brigade!
- DIY Photography on the cheap
- Depth of Field
- Infrared with digicams
- Infrared links
- DSLR DOF
- The writing on the wall for digital
- Hanging Panoramas
- Composition tips for non-photographers
- Here’s another sharpening method that’s new to me. Highlight different aspects of you photos using layer effects.
- AJAX based rss aggregator
- Merging two exposures
- Canon Digital Learning Center
- Photoblog Roundup
- Short Courses – camera, looks like it covers some interesting topics such as lenses, creativity,flash, macro..
The new Canon: Canon 5D
Luminous Landscape published their impressions of the new Canon 5D which was announced a few days ago. Ken Rockwell has compared the spec list to that of the Canon 20D with some surprises!
Bob Atkins compares the 20D and 5D too. Some of the features of the 20D that are missing in the 5D ares ones I use – notably the built in flash and spot meter. Sometimes it’s just too much bother getting the 580ex out of the bag, and the on-board flash is sufficient!
Photography Meetup in Cork
Ryan wants to organise a meetup of photographers in Cork! Could be fun, but we might frighten the population of Cork if too many of us descend on Patrick Street at one time!