Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Narrative Wedding Photography: Telling a Story – PictureCorrect

Narrative Wedding Photography: Telling a Story – PictureCorrect: "As a Staffordshire based wedding photographer I look at a lot of wedding photography and it’s can be very hard to see something you love and not want to replicate the image in your next wedding. However, I don’t think that is the right way to approach shooting the day."

How to Capture a Silhouette – PictureCorrect

How to Capture a Silhouette – PictureCorrect: "Photography is not so much about taking pictures as it is about creating art from within the known universe. Unlike traditional forms of expression where an artist works with a variety of abstract emotions and ideas to produce media, photographic art captures a real-world entity to produce abstract emotions and ideas."

Tabletop Photography Walkthrough or How to Create an Eye-Catching Product Shot

Tabletop Photography Walkthrough or How to Create an Eye-Catching Product Shot: "In this article I am going to show a common routine I use as a product photographer or at least that’s how I see it. Being completely self-taught, I’ve always taken a step-by step approach to any and all of my photography assignments. Learning photography based on the trail and error method. For this shot, I’ve made more steps then I would usually would for a shot like this as I wanted to make it specifically for this tutorial."

3 Ways to Change White Balance in Lightroom

3 Ways to Change White Balance in Lightroom: "White balance is something that many photographers select with their in-camera settings and its function is to correct too warm or too cool colour casts as a result of the lighting in your scene. For example, fluorescent lighting is very ‘cool’ lighting and your images will take on a cold colour cast if not corrected with a warming colour balance in the camera settings."

Panasonic adds LUMIX DMC-FZ47 to superzoom range

Panasonic adds LUMIX DMC-FZ47 to superzoom range: "Panasonic has added another superzoom to its FZ-series camera range. The LUMIX DMC-FZ47 features a 25 - 600 mm equivalent zoom lens with a special coating that's claimed to reduce ghost and flare, and a brand new sensor capable of recording 1080/60i high definition video. It also features a host of creative photography options, including those seen in the company's DMC-G3 camera announced in May."

New Gerber multitool features built-in tripod

New Gerber multitool features built-in tripod: "Since the advent of compact digital cameras, tiny tripods (or minipods, or whatever you want to call them) have become a pretty common sight. They're often even included as part of a digital camera package, along with the ubiquitous lens-cleaning cloth. Given that they appear to be a popular tool, Gerber has done the obvious, and built one into its new Steady multitool."

Sony Cyber-shot TX55 and WX30 16 megapixel compact cameras unveiled

Sony Cyber-shot TX55 and WX30 16 megapixel compact cameras unveiled: "Sony has announced a pair of compact cameras, the Cyber-shot TX55 and WX30, both featuring a 16.2 megapixel Exmor R CMOS image sensor and full HD 1080i AVCHD movie recording capabilities. The TX55 is billed as world's thinnest full HD camera, at 12.2mm (0.48 in) thick. The new arrivals are due out in September."