Sunday, December 4, 2011

Four steps to the perfect camera purchase | Crave - CNET

Four steps to the perfect camera purchase | Crave - CNET: "Let's be clear about one thing: there is no "perfect" camera. What you're looking for is a camera that will do most of what you need, do it well, and make shooting enjoyable. Anything beyond that is a big bonus."

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Guide to buying a cheap camera | Crave - CNET

Guide to buying a cheap camera | Crave - CNET: "It seems like every year there's a glut of point-and-shoot cameras getting blown out at ridiculously low prices for the holidays, all teased with the same three specs: megapixels, zoom, and screen size."

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Compact cameras for advanced shooters (roundup) | Crave - CNET

Compact cameras for advanced shooters (roundup) | Crave - CNET: "It's a common complaint: you want the photo quality of a dSLR but find you're leaving the camera at home because it's so large."

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A Guide To Infrared Photography

A Guide To Infrared Photography: "Infrared light is technically not a light source, it is invisible radiation, that our eyes cannot see but the sensors of our digital camera’s can.
By shooting in infrared, we can get some weird and wonderful effects, green foliage ends up looking like it has snow settled on them, due to the way it reflects IR wavelengths, blue skies and water end up very dark (near black) depending on which IR filter you use, as they absorb IR wavelengths."

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Saturday, December 3, 2011

The Father Who Creatively Photographs His Children

The Father Who Creatively Photographs His Children: "Jason Lee. A wedding photographer by heart, who is tasked witht he duty of capturing a person’s most important moment of his life. It seems Jason keeps that task very close to him when with family too."

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Four steps to the perfect camera purchase | Crave - CNET

Four steps to the perfect camera purchase | Crave - CNET: "Let's be clear about one thing: there is no "perfect" camera. What you're looking for is a camera that will do most of what you need, do it well, and make shooting enjoyable. Anything beyond that is a big bonus."

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Wedding Photography Tips – PictureCorrect

Wedding Photography Tips – PictureCorrect: "s your photography equipment gathering dust because your desire to be creative is gathering dust as well? Don’t let it! By sticking to some basics, and doing your homework, wedding photography can be a very stimulating and rewarding pastime. People are always getting married, so the opportunities for photographing weddings – and making some cash to boot – are there if you want to inject some life into your hobby."

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Panning: Weekly Photography Challenge

Panning: Weekly Photography Challenge: "This week your photographic challenge is to take and share a photo that uses the technique of panning. We’ve written a tutorial previous on how to master the art of panning (also check out this one on panning too)so you may like to go read that one first – but the challenge essentially revolves around photographing a moving subject and attempting to keep it in focus by panning your camera along with it. The result is hopefully a relatively in focus and sharp subject with some lovely motion blur around it"

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Friday, December 2, 2011

12 tips for better holiday photos | Digital photography clinic - CNET

12 tips for better holiday photos | Digital photography clinic - CNET: "Before you start immortalizing your holiday gatherings of friends and family, learn to use your camera. Celebrate the new year by taking it off auto. Party in a priority mode."

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How to Use Templates to Create a Collage or Montage in Photoshop

How to Use Templates to Create a Collage or Montage in Photoshop: "A short while ago I wrote an article on using templates to create a collage or montage of images in Gimp. Sometime after, the templates that I suggested you could use were taken down from the original website."

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