Месяц: Ноябрь 2007

Have you been looking for a way to add some extra zest to your Photoshop images? Have you wanted to find some cool Photoshop filters but didn’t want to spend any of your cash? Well, I have put together a long list of Free Photoshop Plugin along with a summary of what you will find on each of these sites. Amongst all of these sites you will be able to find 1000s of Photoshop plugins and filters so I hope that you have some time on your hands. Please comment about sites that I have missed. Have fun Photoshopping.

I got this lens for my birthday last year, and it’s the most challenging lens I’ve ever used. The 3D effect one can get from it is very cool, but the lens has some severe limitations.

Your digital camera can be a lot more useful than you might think, especially while travelling. If you’re not a flashpacker like me who doesn’t mind lugging around a cellphone, watch, PDA and laptop, your digital camera can easily pull double-duty and really help you out in a pinch. Here are twelve novel uses you probably never thought of for your digital camera:

The breathtaking sight of lightning splitting the evening sky has to be one of the more dramatic subjects to photograph… and also surprisingly easy.

5. Avoid Filling Your Cards Completely
I have a friend who recently had an issue with a memory card. When he took it into the store he bought it from for advice they asked if he’d completely filled the card with images. When he said he had they told him that this could occasionally cause problems with some types of cards. I’d not heard this before and am a little skeptical about it myself – but it’s probably worth keeping in mind. I guess the advice is to regularly take images off your cards rather than doing it just when they are full. This is common sense anyway as it stops the heartbreak of losing gigabytes of images if you lose a card/camera or have a card error with a three quarters full memory card.

After a long week of editing videos (sorry guys but I’m a photographer and this things takes time to edit and render afterwards) and images from the meeting in Brussels I can honestly say that it was a MAJOR success.

My friend Dan Zeis has been shooting (among other things) Marching Band Competitions for the past couple of years and I help him out from time to time with it. He’s made a decent event business out of this, selling prints and gifts to the band parents via his website.

ArcSoft RAW Thumbnail Viewer™ is a free plug-in for Windows that allows you to preview your RAW photos when browsing through your files.
In the “Thumbnails” view of Windows Explorer, RAW files appear as generic icons. With ArcSoft RAW Thumbnail Viewer™, you can now see a thumbnail version of your picture! No more endless searching, just easily locate the photo you want to edit or print. Double-click to launch your favourite photo editor!

Ask ten photographers a question and get ten different answers. We asked a selection of EPUK members what they’d wish they’d known when they entered the industry.

Way back in 1993, he shot a photograph of 7-year-old Dorsi Bonner dressed up as a clown for Family Fun Magazine. In 1996, Menuez turned the image over to RF distributor PhotoDisc, which is owned by Getty. In 2001, the photo ended up on the packaging of a Fuji disposable camera 2-pack. In 2004, Bonner showed up at a party where some friends had one of the Fuji 2-packs. “Isn’t that you?!?” they asked.

Наконец-то! Мне подарили фотоаппарат. То есть, я его сам долго выбирал в Интернете, а потом еще дольше объяснял семейству, что именно оно мне хочет подарить… Подарили, и не перепутали ничего – классный, маленький, помещается в карман. Четыре мегапикселя – не шутка. И даже видео снимает. Начинаю процесс самосовершенствования себя, как фотографа – иду фотографировать кота.

У фотографов птицы пользуются особой популярностью. Кроме того, что многие пернатые очень красивы, они живут практически повсюду. А что уж говорить о разнообразии видов и форм… При этом фотографировать птиц не так то просто: с одной стороны, это настоящий спорт, а с другой – сложная наука, ведь фотоохотник, специализирующийся на фотосъемке диких птиц, должен быть еще и специалистом орнитологом.

Once in a while the subject of copyright in photography comes forward.
It is an area where, understandably, there is much misconception, mainly because there is not a “universal” law on copyrights in photography. Actually, different countries have different laws and even inside the same country, like the US, copyright laws change from state to state.

Vibration Reduction (VR) system compensates for image blur caused by small, involuntary movements (from wobbly hands, shooting from a moving vehicle, etc) which are called camera shake. This system can be found in many Nikon products, such as interchangeable lenses for SLR cameras, digital cameras and binoculars. In this issue, the principles of VR will be explained by using an interchangeable SLR lens as an example.

I didn’t know I could do that with my flash! You know, the gear we use today is so sophisticated – heck, just look at the size of the manuals available when you purchase that loved camera. That a good understanding of all the camera/flash features can be a great benefit to us on the job. Let’s talk about just one today – I call it Flash: Zoom, Zoom!

Бывают случаи, когда объект на фотографии шикарный, а фон ужасен. И самое обидное, что не в ваших силах его улучшить. В таких случаях, спасает Photoshop или любой другой графический редактор – Gimp, Pixelmator или любой другой с более менее нормальным набор инструментов и базовых фильтров. У меня буквально сейчас именно такая ситуация с некоторым количеством фотографий из моего последнего фотосафари. Предлагаю Вам небольшой мастер-класс по Photoshop’у, который помогает исправить ситуацию.

The last month or so we’ve added so many digitial photography tutorials that I thought it was important to make a page that pulls them all together. I guess it can be thought of as a free online digital photography course. The technical side of the photography tutorials are useful for those with SLR digital cameras.

I’ve now heard “travel photography is dead” from the mouths and pens of people who “know what they’re talking about” several times in the last week. My initial reaction was a defensive, “the hell it is! You can have my travel photography when you pry it from my cold, dead hands!”

How many times do we need to be told that exposure is not just shutter speed and f-stop but, even more important, white balance? Reminders may be annoying, but I know absolutely that if I don’t take the extra time to evaluate each new lighting situation, I will pay later with mediocre quality and sometimes serious correction problems. The complexity and quantity of settings required to perfect digital capture are admittedly hard to keep track of in a controlled shoot—mind-boggling in the fast pace of location events. It’s understandable why automatic settings that are responsible for the current shallow ease of entry into commercial photography also falsely lure the professional seeking to mitigate her workload on site.

It’s not easy to sell camera phone photos. The quality is usually low and the prices are often lower. Even Scoopt’s 10 biggest hits seem to have been largely shot on digital cameras rather than camera phones. But that doesn’t mean that if you do happen to be in the right place at the right time, you won’t get coverage.
Here are eight amateur shots that hit the headlines.

Black & white photography, for me, is one of the most interesting and inspiring aspects of this art form we call our hobby and passion. It’s raw & refined, natural & unusual, bold & subtle, mysterious & open, emotional & impassive, simple & complex, black & white & everything in between. The monochromatic image has been with photography since the beginning, but what began as the only way to capture images has turned into something much deeper.

How to create a beam of light to produce a dramatic effect, 4 photography tips to help you make more creative pictures, how to wrap text around an unusually-sized object, and a great way to email your photos using PDFs.

Я не eXPert по фотографии. Но очень к этому стремлюсь.

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