EV, short for Exposure Value, can be defined as the various combinations of camera shutter speed and relative aperture that give the same exposure. For example, 1/30th at f/8.0 is the same EV as 1/60th at f/5.6, and so on. So, if we have a sc ...

An important concept to understand when dealing with studio lighting for portrait photography is contrast. Contrast is the difference in the amount of light that falls on the dark areas of a scene and the amount of light that falls on the hig ...

Well, if ISO determines how sensitive your sensor is to light, and your sensor records the light (a fancy way to say records the finished image) then that sensitivity of the sensor is basically going to determine (along with your aperture whi ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

With a 12 megapixels sensor, a stabilized wide-angle lens and manual controls in an ultra-compact body, the Fuji F200 EXR simply has no competition. Add low image noise and superb dynamic-range and you get a unique package. Even though it is ...

360 degree images in the darkest nights - Spheron VR’s Scanlight provides 360 degree high quality images even in darkest night Advanced digital imaging specialists SpheronVR AG has announced the new Scanlight, which is due to be showcased ...

Unified Color today introduced its innovative new digital imaging software, HDR PhotoStudio, at the Photographer’s Marketing Association (PMA) conference and trade show. Poised to become the new standard in digital photography, HDR PhotoSt ...

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 ...

Natural Lighting Artificial lighting Lighting Angles How many lights do you need? Lighting Ratios Photography is the art of illusion, tricking the viewer into thinking an image reproduced on a two-dimensional piece of paper or a comput ...

I LOVE ALL THE DIFFERENT FILMS! When I buy film, I buy 2 or 3 rolls of about 10 different films rather than boxes of the same film. I love to experiment with new films and see how they all result in vastly different photos. Though I’m startin ...

Night photography has the ability to take a scene and cast it in an unusual light-- much like the golden hour surrounding sunrise and sunset can add an element of mood and uniqueness to a sunlit scene. Just as how sports and landscape photog ...

New medium-format Phase One P65+ beats all other cameras for overall dxomark sensor performance. RAW performance data for Hasselblad H3DII 50 also now available on dxomark.com Paris, France – May 14, 2009 –DxO Labs announces today the pub ...

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 ...