10 reasons to turn off your autofocus
When I started using a camera autofocus was something out of science fiction. I mean … it would never work in real life, would it? Apart from anything else, how could it know what you wanted to focus on? Now fiction has become fact, and pretty well every camera has AF as standard. It works, [...]
How to Photograph Flowers
Preparation is key Getting your gear together and in working order, choosing the right lens, having a tripod set up and then preparing to take the image. Pause and examine your subject before pressing the shutter. Some questions to ask: how to crop it – get in close or take a wider angle shot? what [...]
Basic photography: understanding histograms
Every DSLR has a display feature called histograms. It looks like a graph with random data that any new photographer don’t know what it actually is. And maybe, won’t even care. Here’s a peek, it’s a reader that records how much light (how bright or dark) a picture is . You should know that every [...]
5 Still Life Lighting Tips for Beginners
This week, Christina Dickson of DPS share her tips of how to look for the best lighting condition for beginners. I find this tips very useful during my early days of learning photography. And I believe that it may applied to any beginners as well. Here it is. Lighting is the single most important element [...]
This IS a Photoshop work
PhotoSketch is an internet-based program that can take the rough, labeled sketch on the left and automagically turn it into the naff montage on the right. Seems unbelievable but—as the video shows—it works: According to authors, their software can take any rough sketch, with the shape of each element labeled with its name, find images [...]
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