Tag Archives: Photography

What to do? Leave the can in or get rid of it? Interesting essay as I cloned a car out of one of the photos to appear in a few days here. It also gave me the opportunity to rotate and brighten the original image too. I hadn’t noticed the awful slope of the far shore!

Several excellent interviews of street photographers in the latest Popular Photography Magazine. (via PhotographyBlog)
Later… I noticed one piece of advice that was repeated in several of the interviews. You should manually focus your camera to 2 or 3 meters, and set the exposure before hand. That’ll certainly avoid the 1-3 second lag while the auto-focus kicks in, especially in low light.

Various articles and magazine updates via Photography Blog:

• Secrets of Success – ” What does it take to succeed as a photographer?” or succeed in any field for that matter as the list is fairly generic!
• How To Reproduce A Tone – Interesting use colour tools.
• Vivid Light #35 is available with some good articles. .. and it can be just damn bad luck that images get lost although I do admit I rarely delete photos!

Later… Mark posted 24 photos from the past year. He took 10,000 photos with his Canon EOS 10D and here’s his favourites. (ok, that 10,000 photos beats me by a few thousand! You must have a very patient girlfriend!)

If you go into the woods today, you never know what you might find! You might even get stung by these little creatures.
I lay on the ground about 2 inches from the flower as I took this and when he fell from the flower I made sure to get up quickly!

This is the first time I’ve come across this subject online, and this thread has some excellent replies.
Wish dpreview had a flat-mode. I hate loading lots of pages to read a thread. It’s a pain on dialup and for archiving!

This is an amazing action shot of a horse race! Wow!As the author says, “A wide angle put to good use in difficult conditions.” I can only imagine!

Lots and lots of articles via Photography Blog this morning!

• B&W – Take great photos in black and white! Good examples, and I believe B&W photography lends a dramatic atmosphere to any scene!
• Bokeh in Pictures – I had never heard of Bokeh before. Here’s a good technical description of an interesting concept, Bokeh is simply a way to describe how out-of-focus points of light are rendered. It describes the appearance or “feel” of out-of-focus backgrounds and foregrounds.
• Film users! Don’t be afraid to use your computer to manipulate and fix you photos! All the tools you have in your darkroom are also there in Photohop, The GIMP and related software!
• Confessions of a Gear Junkie.. Heh. My own collection of junk hasn’t reached the stage this author has got to yet!
• Becoming a Photographer – take a course, practise, do you have what it takes? Hmm, I won’t be giving up the day job any time soon!
• LCD vs CRT – LCDs are getting better but CRTs still have the edge in image quality!

Later … There’s a new issue of the Digital Journalist out. Looks like some good editorial reading there. I wonder if they have any comments on the recent photos from Iraq.. Yes, here it is.