Месяц: Апрель 2008

• Seven Reasons to Share Your Photographic Know How Online. Семь причин, по которым буквально каждый просто таки обязан делиться секретами фотомастерства с широкой общественностью. Шутки шутками, но Уди во многом прав. И все эти платные курсы-шмурсы, уроки-шмуроки, тренинги-фигенинги уже слегка поднадоели и давно уже не в моде.
  

  Over the last few weeks I got a few emails asking me what is the drive behind DIYP. That sent me to my deep observations state where I had some discussions with myself on the reasons I keep DIYP. When trying to understand my reasons, I also understood that the reasons for sharing your photographic know how are universal (pardon for the cheesiness). So here are (my) Seven Reasons to Share Photographic Know How Online.

• Subtractive Lighting: Creating Drama with Contrast. Драматичные контрастные снимки в студии.
  

  Everything reflects. That is something you will hear me say all the time. Whether at the workshop or working one on one with a photographer, one of the most important things to drive home is that everything reflects. Skin, silver, blue sweaters… they all reflect, but at obviously different qualities.

• Making a Pinhole Lens for SLR Cameras. Как сделать пинхол из ненужной крышечки для байонета зекальной фотокамеры.
  

  Ever since I started learning about photography, I have been fascinated with the art of pinhole photography. I always thought that the possibility of creating an image using the tiniest hole is amazing. If you are unfamiliar with pin-hole photography, see my related links section; I have added some links about pinhole photography for your wandering minds.

• Корректно разойтись с медведем. Интересная заметка, и не только для фотографов.
  

  Из детcких сказок к нам пришел образ медведя, как доброго и мудрого животного, хозяина леса. Но в жизни всё не так. И фотографы, которые снимают медведя в дикой природе, рискуют своей жизнью по-настоящему.

• The Best Softbox Ever. Весьма подробно иллюстрированная инструкция по самостоятельному изготовлению софтбокса. На что только народ не идет, чтоб $50 не платить.
  

  This is a DIY project I have had in mind for a while now. When I purchased my studio flash heads, they came with a couple of small softboxes. Although I prefer to use translucent umbrellas whenever I can (small, light, easy to transport), there are times when a softbox is a better solution. While I could use the studio head softboxes in some circumstances with my small strobes, there was no way of effectively holding the flash in place without a lot of jerry rigging. To this end, I wanted to design a softbox that would be light, reasonably strong and durable, adaptable (double diffuser, grid attachment, barn doors etc.) at a later date and have a quick and easy way to mount the flash.

Сегодня ссылки преимущественно технического плана.

• Сamera takes 60,000 pictures a second. Это вам не 60 кадров в секунду.
  

  Many believed that the ultimate limit in high-speed photography had been reached when Baron Shiba, Japanese engineer, announced not long ago a camera that could take 40,500 pictures a second (P.S.M., May ‘31, p. 143). Now, however, the Japanese Institute of Aeronautical Research at Tokyo has installed an amazing camera that can take as many as 60,000 photographs in a single second’s time.

• Teaching yourself photography. Я еще не жаловался, что в последнее время стало маловато публиковаться хороших статей о фотографии? Так вот эта — одна из них.
  

  Imagine, for a second, that you are a young person with a camera. There are other cameras in the world around you, and there are people who use those cameras, too, but nobody really knows what they are doing, nobody can teach you anything you don’t already know, and the only tool you have in the world is the internet. All hope is lost … Or is it?

• Multifunction Pop-Up Flash Zoom Digital Camera Wide-Angle Lens. Какой ужас.
  

  This camera will take great quality images of 5 Mega Pixels with up to 12 Mega Pixel pictures available via interpolation. Also features with this wholesale digital camera is the large 2.4-inch LCD TFT display for a bright preview of your pictures and movies, a SD/MMC memory card reader for expanding on the 32MB of internal flash, and other great included accessories such as a camera tripod and high quality carry bag.

• Five rules for working with models. Очень, очень, очень правильные советы. Других не надо.
  

  Don’t kill your models.

• Sigma DP-1 Review. Блин, какая же прикольная штуковина.
  

  Which brings us to the Sigma DP-1, the subject of this report. For the first time we have a shirt-pocket sized digicam using a roughly APS-C sized sensor. This is approximately the size used in popular DSLRs such as the Canon 40D and Nikon D300, and slightly larger than the 4/3 format used by Olympus and others in their DSLRs.