Lina Originally uploaded by DreamShots I follow several photographers on flickr, and DreamShots is one of my favourites. He creates shots with fantastic lighting, great poses, and superb emotion. Even when taking very simple concepts, such as here, he executes them brilliantly (and I wish I had thought of this). In princple, such art should …
Category Archives: Photography
Photography and digital editing
There seems to be a large number of photographers who object to the use of Photoshop and the like to adjust photographic images. There are clubs where such practices are banned for competition submission. Given that RAW images require a little post-processing to be usable (and not everyone is happy for this post processing to …
Shooting portraits
On a group on Facebook, a beginner posted links to some nice vivid family photos and asked how he could do the same. I posted the reply below. His own camera is a Nikon D90 with a 50mm f1.8 prime lens. Yes, you can achieve the same sort of results with your camera. The Nikon …
Raw v. Jpeg again
Revisiting the raw v. jpeg debate, a key difference is that the raw file is what the sensor captured without any processing (other than some compression, if selected) being applied whereas a jpeg (or TIFF) is what the camera itself post-processed from the sensor data in accordance with various camera processing settings. The preview on …
Raw v. JPEG
Extracted from I Love Photography forum on Facebook Note that jpg (jpeg) files are 8 bit. Always. They use 8 bits for each of the three colours: R(ed), G(reen), B(lue). That provides for a greater range than the human eye can see, so if you are happy with what the camera produces when it converts …
Having nude photographs taken
Taken from a reply I posted on a facebook group discussion In most (but not all) countries, image rights automatically rest with the photographer, exclusively, unless there is a specific contractual exception to this (including employment contracts, where the employer typically takes the rights). Usually clients get a license from the photographer for specific usage …
Learning photography online
(from a reply I posted on a facebook photography group) There is a huge amount of material online to help individuals learn and improve their photography including academic course leading to recognised qualifications with a number of universities and photography organisations. The most important thing you can do though, is take photographs. Photography is an …
Digital Camera Recommendations
A few weeks ago, a colleague asked for advice on what DSLR camera to purchase for his wife for Christmas. She had past experience of using an SLR camera, an Olympus model, but had not used it for a good number of years. She also had a reasonable stock of Olympus lenses and he wondered …
Challenges to the DSLR
The micro-four-thirds system has introduced cameras that have all the characteristics of DSLRs without the reflex mirror system because of the use of electronic viewfinders (and hence they are not actually DSLRs) but currently these viewfinders are not as good as optical viewfinders especially when shooting fasting moving subjects and/or in low light.
Yet another photography user group on the web
There are a huge number of photography/photographer user groups on the web. These vary from the highly-generic (e.g. holiday pics) to the very specialist (e.g. macro photography of a particular subject matter using a particular lens/camera combination for example). I am a member of many, a subscriber to a few, an occasional contributor to a …