The purpose of HDR photography is to create an image of a scene that has a greater range of light values than can be normally be captured by a single film or digital image.  Depending on how it is used, HDR imaging software can allow the phot ...

The concept behind this tutorial is simple. To use this technique, you must manually adjust the various “zones” of an image to your liking. For example, if the ground is too dark, you brighten the ground. If the sky is too bright, you darken ...

Tech features on the Sony G3 include Face Detection linked to both the autoexposure and autofocus systems, and capable of differentiating between (and prioritizing towards) the faces of children and adults. There's also an Intelligent Scene R ...

Ideally, 14-bit RAW files contain 4 times more information than 12-bit RAW files in the shadows. Realistically the gain may be limited somewhat by noise, but the noise levels also improved, leaving us with more bits to use. This much dynamic ...

By 'exposure' we mean the amount of light that falls onto the film, or CCD if you are using a digital camera. In modern cameras the exposure is usually set to automatic by d ...

Definitions What is Dynamic Range? What is the unit of Dynamic Range? What is an HDR image? But aren't we confusing dynamic range with bit-depth here? Shouldn't 24-bit be higher than 16-bit? I'm lost with all those bit numbers! High ...

Creating a surreal scene in photoshop. In this tutorial, I will show the steps I took to design this absolutely magical, floating Eiffel Tower scene in Photoshop. The inspiration of this tutorial came from this wonderful design done by mat ...

The Fuji Finepix S8100FD is a standard super zoom digital camera. It has a fairly typical set of features for this type of camera including manual exposure controls, image stabilisation and face detection technology. It has 10 megapixels, an ...

"High dynamic range (or HDR) technique allows you to reveal detail and contrast that are missing from normal images. Generally, HDR is used to deal with high contrast subjects to allow you to capture more highlight and shadow detail than conv ...

I’ve played with the Multi Exposure feature and it is cool, although I don’t have anything worth showing yet. The Art Filters differ from the typical in-camera filters in that they’re applied while you’re shooting. It’s significant that they’ ...

The Ricoh CX1 may seem like other Ricoh cameras before it - however the new 9 megapixel CMOS sensor adds some important features - namely extremely quick continuous shooting. With 4fps at full resolution the camera can shoot quicker than most ...

Sony today announced a new 12-megapixel Cyber-shot® camera (model DSC-W220) that combines powerful imaging features with intelligence to make taking great pictures easy. The entry-level W model has features that until now were only found i ...

A few weeks ago I was lucky enough to be chosen as one of only a few select photographers in the world to put the new Nikon D3x through it’s paces.  I tested it out during an assignment for award-winning fashion designer Brad Webb of Darb Cou ...

Casio Computer Co., Ltd announced today the release of the compact EX-Z550, equipped with state-of-the-art fully-automatic features including Casio’s unique Dynamic Photo function. The EX-Z550 features a wide-angle 26mm 4X optical zoom len ...

The Fujifilm F60fd has relatively few external controls, just 11 in total, which is surprising considering that this camera offers nearly a full range of photographic controls. You can directly access the various flash, macro, self-tim ...