March 2008

DxO Optics Pro v5 review and tutorial.

“Since version 1.0, DxO has been known as a RAW converter whose goal was delivering the finest image quality. DxO reaches this goal by providing [...]

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Canon 580ex speedlite flash through portable softbox

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Photos with the speedlites and the softbox : click continue for more photos and flash set-up images. Flash is set on ETTL , compensated between [...]

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Flash over sun photos. Shooting with a studio strobe outdoors.

click continue for set-up and additional photos. We moved the flash from frontal position to a position of 45 degrees from the model, direct light.

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Nikon D40 firmware update 1.11

“This download provides software for upgrading D40 A firmware to v1.11 and B firmware to v1.11. When performing this Firmware Upgrade, be sure to upgrade [...]

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Light position and distance.

“The thing that should strike you from this exercise is just how different a three-dimensional form can look when lit from different angles.

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Ray Flash Ring Flash Adapter review.

The Ray Flash is the first commercially produced ring flash adapter designed to turn a speedlight into a ringflash. While ringlight is nothing new around [...]

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Beauty dish sample photo and video fragments.

Shot with a beauty dish lately, here’s a sample photo : click continue for video fragments of beauty dish and softbox shoot.

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The PhotoShop Cs3 Bible by Laurie Ulrich Fuller and Robert C. Fuller.

“Get the book you need to succeed in any Photoshop endeavor — Photoshop CS3 Bible. In this totally updated edition to the international bestseller, the [...]

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Magnum Photos in Motion.

“Founded in New York, in 2004, Magnum In Motion is the multimedia digital studio of Magnum Photos. In Motion assembles visual narratives for online and [...]

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Canon 1ds mark III camera review at Photo.net.

Canon 1ds mark III camera review at Photo.net High resolution sample 1 High resolution sample 2

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Testing the Radiopopper at FlashFlavor.

“I used 3 flash unites in 2 different flash groups, Group A + Group B. (Remember, this is TTL folks). Group A 1:1 and Group [...]

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PhotoShop Blend Modes tutorials and articles.

“Photoshop and Elements allow for layer blend modes that change the way layers react with each other. Some of them you will use in every [...]

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Crack and Peel skin photoshop tutorial.

Give skin a cracked or peeling look with this tutorial.

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Bokeh in pictures at Luminous Landscape.

“One of the curious aspects of the phenomenon for me was that some people then, and some even now, respond to the idea scornfully or [...]

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Hyperfocal distances tables for Canon and Nikon cameras.

When you wish to shoot with maximum depth of field, you need to focus on a point known as the Hyperfocal Distance. When the camera [...]

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Shooting and lighting for food with Scott Kelby.

“Using pretty much the same lighting set-up; natural window light, along with a Westcott Daylight Fluorescent Spiderlite with a 24×32 softbox as a fill light, [...]

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Balancing the sun with flash.Crosslighting Photography.

“Warm up your eye and compositional brain using the sunlight properly, then convert to using your strobes to make a composition that you need for [...]

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The business of wedding photography at Photo.net.

“The Business of Wedding Photography is an extensive subject, best answered by a team of professional wedding photographers, who also happen to be star photo.net [...]

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Dave Hill and Lucisart plugin look resources.

Dave Hill look at Flickr Beers with Dave Hill at Strobist Creating that Dave Hill look at DIYPhotography

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How to create Photoshop actions.

How to make Photoshop actions at Epicedits

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Hugin – Panorama Photo Stitcher software.

With hugin you can assemble a mosaic of photographs into a complete immersive panorama, stitch any series of overlapping pictures and much more. Hugin panorama [...]

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Balancing light : Twilight – ambient light and flash.

“To really understand the concept of balancing light, many of you will have to expand your concept of a so-called proper exposure. After all, you [...]

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Digital Foundation – skin retouching and make up in photoshop video tutorial.

Digital Foundation – skin retouching and make up in photoshop video tutorial.

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Creating a custom living room portrait – portrait photography on location.

“In portrait photography, it helps to have a sense of imagination, vision, composition, and at times, a sense of humor. Interaction with your subjects is [...]

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Capture One 4.1 update.

Capture One 4.1 is being previewed at Photo Imaging Expo this week at the launch of the companies’ new open medium format digital camera platform. [...]

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Light up the Floor – A Floor Lit Table Top Studio Project.

“Just recently, I became the proud owner of a new dining room table. Not a massively exciting announcement you might think (and you would be [...]

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Your camera does matter.

I started to shoot with the good old D30, now I shoot with a 1ds II.Do I see differences? Yes. Would I be able to [...]

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Nikon D3 camera review.

” The Nikon D3 is a digital single-lens reflex (DSLR) camera introduced on August 23, 2007, following the D2 series as Nikon’s top-of-the-line professional grade [...]

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Canon 30d and 5d firmware update.

Canon 30d firmware update : It allows the latest lens names to be recorded in the Exif information of images taken. It adds lenses that [...]

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Bart Lapers Photography.

Bart Lapers Photography

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How to make an inexpensive light tent for product photography.

One day I was at my local photography store I saw one of theseĀ  light tents. It consisted of a collapsible white fabric box with [...]

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Cross Processing Photoshop tutorial.

Firstly, we need to adjust the levels; So Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Levels. Rather than manipulating the layers together as RGB, we’ll do [...]

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Retouching and Digital Makeup in Photoshop video.

Retouching and Digital Makeup in Photoshop video.

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AF-H: A New Focusing Mode for Hyperfocal Distance.

In manual focus mode, one of the things you can do is set the lens to the hyperfocal distance, which will depend on the actual [...]

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Photographing outdoors : beach portraits. Modifying sunlight.

While shooting portraits at the beach can be great fun, harsh lighting from the direct sunlight can result in blown-out highlights, distracting shadows, or squinting [...]

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Camera Panning – Photographing moving subjects.

Camera panning is a photography technique used to follow a moving subject when taking a photo. This creates a blurred background but keeps the subject [...]

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Setting Up a Pocket Wizard System video tutorial

Setting Up a Pocket Wizard System video tutorial

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Canon 1ds mark 3 camera sample image in full high resolution – 2.

Tomas Vandecasteele kindly provided us a sample photo taken with the new Canon 1ds mark 3 camera.

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Lightoom presets and video tutorials for workflow and special effects.

Getting started using white balance, tone & vibrance presets. Monochrome: Using the Black & White conversion, tints & vignette presets. Color Effects: Using HSL presets [...]

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Choosing a lens for portrait photos video tutorial

Choosing a lens for portrait photos video tutorial.

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Light Metering in photography – how it works

Metering systems are calibrated to a certain light value in order to gurantee constant exposure settings: 18% gray is commonly accepted because a typical scene [...]

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Joey Buczek Photography.

Joey Buczek Photography. make up / hair : Wanda MacRae model : Inessa

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9 Megapixel CMOS Sensor from Aptina.

asun pareja Aptina Imaging Enhances Technology and Product Portfolio Smaller Pixel Innovations, Improved 1.75-micron Pixel Technology in New 9 Megapixel Sensor and New Camera Phone [...]

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Taking photos in the cave at FlashFlavor.

Taking photos in the cave at FlashFlavor

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Easy cut-outs with Flex Drop background on location.

The FlexDrop is a fast and easy backdrop you can take anywhere. Even outside the reversible chroma-key green/blue fabric prevents light from coming through and [...]

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Canon 1ds mark III camera sample photo in full high resolution.

Thierry van Dort kindly provided us a sample photo from the studio taken with the new Canon 1ds mark 3 camera.

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Thierry van Dort Photography.

Thierry van Dort Photography

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Buying Lighting Equipment : Basic Three Light Setup video tutorial.

Buying Lighting Equipment : Basic Three Light Setup video tutorial.

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