Category: Equipment

02/20/06

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Categories: Studio Photography, Wedding Photography, Equipment, General Photography

Articles by James Booth

Out there is a ZATZ magazine (just learned about it), where the Senior Editor James Booth has written a lot of articles regarding photography. Among those articles I was interested in "The art of amateur wedding photography" (part I, part II and part III) and Wedding photography mishaps.
But you will find much more articles written by James. Check it out.



Permalink 05:18:54 pm, 106 words, 1874 views  
Categories: Business of photography, Equipment, General Photography

"Do It Yourself" in Photography

For those of us fellow photographers, who has a very limited budget, but knows how to use their heads and hands, I dedicate this post :). Here is the list of links to websites, where you can find how to do the whole bunch of things for photography:



02/07/06

Permalink 11:55:54 am, 106 words, 3061 views  
Categories: Wedding Photography, Equipment, General Photography

Flash is a tricky business

Many times the photographers could rely only on the flash. The light could be so dim or so weird, and there is no other choice as to introduce your own light - flash, to be able record the moment or correct the light. Everything would be great if using flash is easy, but there are many issues that affect the final image. Wading the waters of the Internet I found a good article with examples on use of flash. It is called Flash Techniques, written by Neil van Niekerk. That's a good read and should clear up a few issues you may have had with your flash.



02/02/06

Permalink 02:50:31 pm, 385 words, 2712 views  
Categories: News, Equipment

First impression of Adobe Lightroom

At DPReview.com I found about the Beta version of Adobe Lightroom. This software is for photographers and aligned specifically for their workflow. In the Beta version not all functions are enabled, but still it is a good tool for the photographer (considering the available functions). Even my lightweight PowerBook G4 (512Mb RAM) has been able to process images in reasonable time. The only thing that bothers me so far is the speed with which the software generates/prepares the thumbnails for the images. I imported abouth a thousand images and I could not review them that easy - to see a bigger image it would require a minute or more. The background processing of thumbnails inhibits the review function. And this process takes hours, more like 6-8 hours. What concerns me more is "Will these thumbnails take space on my harddrive? And how much?". The thumbnails are processed of two sizes - small and full.
The good thing is the software has a lot of functions and it reads various file type (like RAW) without a hiccup or a question. And the changes you apply are stored separatelly, so you can always roll them back. Though I have to see how I can export the images with the changes I need.
See more detailed review by Michael Reichmann at The Luminous Landscape.

UPDATE on 02/02/2006:
After working with the Lightroom for a few more days, I found another thing that bothers me. When I ran a slideshow of the photographs, some of the photographs do not appear in full resolution. It seems that the software resized the tiny thumbnail to fit the screen and all this aweful pixelation hits you in the eye. Totaly there is about 3-5 images like that among 130+. I tried to look for a way to regenerate the thumbnail or fix the problem in any way and failed (or there is no such way - I cannot say).
So considering this issue and the enormous time needed to check/process thumbnails I am switching to more specialized tools, which do specific tasks, such as Adobe Bridge to manage your library of photographs, iView Pro or Portfolio to create slideshow and video, and Adbobe Photoshop to edit and print your photographs. But it could be just me perception, try it yourself and judge based on your opinion.



10/21/05

Permalink 05:07:25 am, 57 words, 1756 views  
Categories: Equipment, General Photography

Concepts in Digital Imaging

Browsing through various websites I encounter interesting pages, here in the section called "Molecular Concepts in Digital Imaging" you can find several articles about underlying technology used in digital photography. Among those are: Anatomy of a Charge-Coupled Device (CCD), CCD Saturation and Blooming, CCD Noise Sources and Signal-to-Noise Ratio, Digital Camera Readout and Frame Rates and more.



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When we find something interesting and useful, which we want to return to and share with others, it will be posted here. It could be about composition, digital effects, photoshop, photography business or links to interesting websites.

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