Apr
21
I must admit that this intrigues me, and has for some time. I have always been something of an eavesdropper, and find myself listening to and watching other people’s interactions very intently. A few years ago I made some furtive audio recordings of conversations held by total strangers in various public places. I had planned […]
Apr
19
While I personally prefer color photography almost always, there are times when a landscape can be very interesting to me in black and white. I suppose that what makes a black and white photo successful is the focus on contrast, texture and tone. Sure, things like proper exposure, an interesting subject and good composition all […]
Apr
15
There are five main image file formats used in digital photography. In this article, I am going to describe each of these file types, and when they should be used. JPEG JPEG is the most common file format used in digital photography, and on the Internet. This is basically due to file size, since images […]
Apr
10
Photomatix Pro will work with a variety of file formats. Specifically, the software will open and save images with the following formats: JPEG, TIFF (8-bit, 16-bit and Floating Point), Radiance RGBE, OpenEXR, and RAW files from supported cameras. A list cameras which the current version of Photomatix Pro and Light support RAW files are available […]
Apr
10
While I don’t shoot a lot of urban landscape photography myself, I hope to someday do so. Currently I live in a rural area and have to drive for about forty five minutes to an hour in any direction to get to a “normal sized city”. Most of my shopping and so forth is done […]
Apr
8
In this article, I’m going to give a brief overview of my favorite famous portrait photographers. A few of these names have been mentioned in past articles on this blog, but are most definitely worth mentioning again. Diane Arbus Diane Arbus is my favorite portrait photographer of all time. She was to become known as […]
Apr
8
Nature and wildlife photography is one of the most popular stock image site categories. It is also one of the most competitive, since most stock image sites are already very saturated with these types of images. In order to get your nature photographs accepted, they truly must be unique and exceptional. Also, since customers of […]
Apr
8
Digital photography has made the use of film almost entirely obsolete. There are however some advantages to using film, which digital photography so far does not offer. Higher Resolution For one, film offers images that can be viewed at higher resolutions. This is because film offers images that have true curves, since the image was […]
Apr
5
When part of a subject in a photograph appears to be larger than the rest of the rest of it or larger than than the other objects in a photo, this is called Perspective Distortion. Perspective distortion, which is related to focal length, appears to increase as the camera gets closer to the subject. A […]
Apr
4
Edit: The newest version of Topaz Simplify, which has come out since I wrote this review, is much much better! There are a lot more presets to work with and more overall control. I would definitely recommend trying it out. After being introduced to both Topaz Adjust and Topaz DeNoise Photoshop plug-ins, I decided […]
