Come in! There are a few adventures I’ve written about, but most of the content offers classes in photography and mentoring for photographers, including photo theory, which, although a vital part in our profession, is largely an overlooked subject in all published media that profits from and feeds our gadget minded mindset today.
Continuing on from where I left off in the last article on things to do in researching a camera, I was using dpreview.com to go through a list of specifications and adding clarifications to what each spec means for the Lumix DMC-FX150 camera, manufactured by Panasonic. They make a fine camera, but my using it as an example is not a recommendation. read more
I have wanted to go through things I like to do to research a camera I’ve heard about and may be interested in buying. I think it would be really useful and helpful, but procrastinated on it only because I did not know how it could be presented in newspaper columns, that is, going through …
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Seeing like an eye, HDR coming to cameras soon Welcome aboard photo enthusiasts. Last time I threw out the acronym HDR, which stands for high dynamic range. Possibly some of you have been to a Peter Lik Gallery and viewed his beautiful landscapes that in part benefitted from the HDR effect. This is a most …
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So what’s new? Reading about face detection and blink recognition built I’m wondering what this new technology and what’s next for new digital cameras? In October of 2008 there was the annual 6Sight Future of Imaging Conference looking into future digital imaging. In the heyday of film photography in the 1990’s the images being captured …
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Happy New Year, and out with the old in with the new. To finish the old I was last talking about shutter lag, making the point that in some compact digital cameras it can be a half second or longer. What’s the big deal, well, that’s a big deal. In photography a half second can …
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One of the most annoying aspects of owning a pocket or point and shoot digital cameras for me is the lag time, that is, the time it takes from when you press the shutter button to when the picture is actually taken. My first pocket digital was the Canon S50. It was a 5 megapixel …
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It’s getting on to three years since I began writing this column. The first articles provide essential information on buying a new camera and with the time that has passed you could be in the market for an upgrade. Let’s go through the buying steps and see what has changed and what the latest advances.
Just when you think you have it down they come at you with another upgrade. Lightroom 1 has an upgrade and you guessed right, it’s called Lightroom 2. No doubt it keeps getting better for digital photography. This version has several shining improvements, although I’ve heard like all initial new offerings, some bugs to. The …
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The Lightroom interface – inside boat reflection by photo artist Marcia Smilack Let’s get back to Lightroom, the software program extraordinaire for post-production handling of all your photography, I have included with this article a visual to illustrate to you how it looks on your computer monitor, and to help you navigate along with me …
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