Рубрика: photolinks

• Building the HD Ring Flash. Стробист порадовал оригинальным решением проблемы отсутствия кольцевой вспышки.
  

  I just didn’t have the heart to force-feed you another donut. Even Krispy Kremes get old after three days in a row. Logo or not…

• “If your photographs aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough”. Классная цитата.
  

  I first heard this many years ago when as a young freelance photographer working for AP in southern Europe I suggested to a visiting senior editor that lax security and one of the longest civilian runways in the world made the city’s airport an obvious destination for hijacked aircraft and that the absence in the bureau of any lens longer than an old 200mm would mean that we’d be hard pressed to cover it. ”If your photographs aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough,” he said but what he meant was, “I have other priorities”.

• How Well Do You Really Know Your Camera? Вопросы, помогающие выяснить — насколько хорошо вы знаете свою камеру.
  

  These questions are really aimed at the digital SLR users, so if you’re a compact camera user some of the questions won’t directly apply. Even so, a good chunk of them can be answered with any digital camera. Film users will probably have even less questions that are applicable.

• Gorilla Massacre Video. Жутковатое видео от National Geographic. Ну и фотографии там классные, конечно же.
  

  Photographers Michael Nichols and Brent Stirton explain the significance of the recent gorilla massacres in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

• WedPix: Online Wedding Photography Magazine. Можете смело поднимать меня на смех — я только сейчас узнал о существовании этого сайта.
  

  WedPix, the Wedding Photojournalist Association’s (WPJA) Online Magazine, is a complimentary resource for brides and grooms, photographers, wedding planners and all wedding photojournalism enthusiasts. The articles featured in every issue, cover a vast array of topics, including general wedding photography advice for the couple, technical discussions, feature articles on WPJA award-winning members, business/marketing discussions, and many others.

• When less is more. Отличная статья о минимализме в фотографии. Иллюстрации там тоже отменные.
  

  It can often be incredibly tempting to try and fit more information into a photograph. Understandably so – wherever you turn, you find a barrage of information. Minimalism truly is a lost art in photography, and you’d be surprised to find that it’s actually quite difficult to get right.

• DIY homemade GaryFong Like Light Sphere. Тут народ как с писаной торбой носится с новой приблудой — ведром для вспышки Lightsphere (кстати, если кому надо привезти — я знаю к кому обратиться). Нечто подобное легко сделать самому.
  

  Gary Fong has become a de-facto standard for speed light diffusion. The accessories made by Gary include the famous Lightsphere and lots of other small flash improvements.I have tried to make some flash modifiers in the past, like a flash mounted softbox or an improvised beauty dish. Zond is following this approach with a Lightsphere solution.

• Photoassignment. На Lighting Mods (если не читаете этот замечательный блог, то очень многое теряете) нашел ссылку на этот весьма интересный проект.
  

  This photo blog was born out of the frustration with photo procrastination between three friends. The best way to improve at anything is to practice, a lot. So we made a pact – to complete a photographic assignment every week, no matter what, on everything and anything. This isn’t a competition – there are no judges, no scores. The goal is to become better photographers, and share ideas while we’re doing it.

• Ziser Sets New Off Camera Flash Record. Простенько, но со вкусом используем вторую вспышку при съемке свадьбы.
  

  That’s right, David Ziser used one off-camera flash to create a record number of light directions on the scene!!! OK – already with all the hype – I just wanted to see what it looked like in print. I don’t know if I set any record or not, but I did managed to light this image with only one flash! So you say – OK, Mr. Ziser, How did you get a back light on the subjects along with that very nice loop lighting pattern on their faces, and get the ambient balanced perfectly as well?? If it’s only one flash, then you must have used some “Smoke and Mirrors” for the shot. Well, you would be half right if that’s what you thought – smoke – NO; mirrors – YES.

• National Geographic Grant. Грант на $50 000 от National Geographic для профессиональных фотожурналистов. Сроки приема материала — до 1 февраля 2008 года.
  

  National Geographic awards one Grant for Photography annually to a professional photojournalist. The Grant monies go directly to funding the production of a photography project. The project may be considered for publication in National Geographic magazine and/or the National Geographic magazine website or for possible exhibit at National Geographic headquarters or other venues. Individuals who would like to be considered for the NG Grant must submit a Grant Application according to the guidelines described below.

• Tips on shooting good landscape. Советы по съемке пейзажей.
  

  The question rose on dpreview a few days ago “How to shoot sunsets?” and resulted in a very interesting thread of 42 posts.In this article I will try, once more, to summarize this thread while also introducing to it some of my personal knowledge since I’m quite a landscape photography lover.

• The genius of photography – 3-6. Третья часть сериала BBC. Торрент. Есть и ссылка на eDonkey.Предыдущие две серии.
  

  Right Time, Right Place: The series exploring the history of photography examines how photographers dealt with events like D-Day, the Holocaust and Hiroshima. Some strong language.
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• Ultra high-speed Compact Flash – do you need it?. А нужны ли ультрабыстрые флешки современным камерам? Нужны, но не всем.
  

  Of the three DSLRs we tested standared high speed and UDMA cards with, the fastest shooter – the Canon EOS-40D – worked better with the slower card. This demonstrates that high speed performance is not always enhanced by the use of UDMA cards – if your camera doesn’t state UDMA card support, it’s almost certainly better to stick with 133x high speed cards, both to save money and to maintain optimal performance. The only exception is if you use large cards and don’t want to wait for long periods when emptying them. Even so, you will need to invest in a UDMA card reader and, most likely, a Firewire expansion port. But if you shoot RAW and your camera does support UDMA, you probably will benefit from using UDMA cards.

• Как перестать беспокоиться и начать фотографировать. Весьма интересные мысли о фотокомпозиции. Хочу отметить, что я во многом разделяю мнение автора.
  

  Фотокомпозиции нельзя научить в принципе. Это, как музыкальный слух, либо он есть (в принципе наличие “фотоинтуиции” можно элементарно проверить), и его можно и нужно развивать, либо там “медведь потоптался”, и тут уж извините, остается либо барабан, либо рэп…

• PhotoshopUser TV Episode 107 (November 12, 2007). Очередной выпуск ФотошопТВ. Два интересных урока ретуши фотографий.
• Night photography: Digital and/or film. Некоторые мысли насчет ночной фотографии.
  

  Before the recent rise of the digital SLR, medium format film cameras were often the tool of choice for night photography. For many night photographers this still holds true. Due to longer focal lengths, and film reciprocity, a standard full moon exposure for medium format film can often run in the 15-20 minute range at f/8. With clear skies, a 15-20 minute exposure produces a star trail length that hits a personal sweet spot for me. I will often push the Canon 5D into the 10-12 minute range to get longer star trails. With noise reduction this ties up the camera for 20-25 minutes per shot, giving you shorter star trails than film, and less productivity.

• 5 основ фотомастерства. Сказочная бредятина. Перевод, да? Впрочем, единственное правило «фотомастерства» там все-же приведено — практика. И поменьше теории, а то будете как я снимать.
  

  Итак, пост будет про основы основ фотографии. Это то, на чем базируется искусство фотографии. Это законы, лежащие в основе мастерства фотографа. И, наконец, это принципы, следуя которым, любой новичок может значительно улучшить свои навыки фотографирования.

• Photoshop CS3 Essential Skills/Retouching. Очень даже неплохое руководство по ретуши фотографий в последней версии фотошопа.
  

  Mark Galer has delivered an eSeminar for Adobe on commercial retouching. If you would like to download the slides to this eSeminar download them at the jump.

• DIY Grid/Snoot. Выкройки сотовых насадок для вспышек. Под разные модели.
  

  Photographer Jon MacKinnon, like me, he’s an aficionado for the DIY stuff.

  He contact me a couple of weeks ago saying the he recently started a Discussion group at Flickr concerning my Lighting Mod posts (do you still remember them?) DIY: 580EX Color Gels Printing Diagram and DIY: Black Straws Snoot Grid (Part 1) and the discussions are all about diagrams for different flash models and you can even add your own model if it isn’t already there.

• Photos taken with fast lenses. Тест нескольких очень светосильных стекол.
  

  The hulking Mt. Prospect 90mm lens and the Rodenstock 68mm lens (both are f/1.0) are notably sharper and less “foggy”, despite all lenses being crisp and clear through the viewfinder. A focussing rail would make critical focussing much easier, but at f/1.0 (and f/0.75), there was never a problem with getting a high enough shutter speed to hand-hold the lenses (the 90mm lens is about 2 kilograms!).

• About macro extension tubes. Макрокольца: преимущества, недостатки, альтернативы.
  

  All lenses have a limit to how close they can focus. A typical lens, for example, may not be able to focus on anything closer than 30cm. This is because as objects move closer to the lens, the focal point moves further back, eventually beyond the plane of the film or sensor. An obvious way around this problem is to move the lens further away from the camera. That’s what macro extension tubes do.

• 1000s of Free Photoshop Plugins & Filters. И опять много-много плагинов для фотошопы.
  

  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.

• Loreo 3D lens in a cap. Занятная приблуда для получения стереопары. И никакой возни со спариванием двух старых мыльниц в одну с двумя объективами.
  

  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.

• 12 Clever Uses for Your Digital Camera. Дюжина типсов по фотосъемке на чужбине.
  

  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:

• Photographing lightning. Фотографируем молнии.
  

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

• 13 Tips for Using and Caring for Memory Cards. Продлеваем жизнь флешке.
  

  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.

• Brussels Strobist Meeting – 3rd Nov.07. Брюссельский слет стробистов — несколько интересных видео.
  

  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.

• Marching Band Photography Tips. Секреты съемки военных оркестров. У нас, правда, это мало актуально, но мало ли, вдруг пригодится.
  

  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. Полезная софтина. Показывает в окне Windows Explorer превьюшки, зашитые в RAW-файлах.
  

  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: What do you wish you’d known when you started out? У десяти успешных фотографов спросили: что бы вы хотели знать, перед тем как занялись этим бизнесом. Были получены очень любопытные ответы.
  

  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.

• Saved…by a model release. О пользе модельных релизов. Составьте грамотный договор с моделью, и ваша задница может спать спокойно.
  

  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.

• Записки дилетанта. Забавный юмористический рассказ про сюдьбу начинающего фотографа.
  

  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.

• Основы фотоохоты. Интересная статья. Особенно для фанатов птичек пофотографировать.
  

  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.

• Photographing Copyrighted Work. И опять о том, что можно и что нельзя фотографировать.
  

  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.

• VR (Vibration Reduction) System. Как работает система подавления вибраций в исполнении Nikon. Странно, а мне казалось, что там призма бултыхается, а не линза.
  

  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.

• Zoom-Zoom: Flash Technique. Если голова у вспышки зуммируемая, то этим надо пользоваться.
  

  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!

• Когда фон фотографии ужасен. Простенький такой урок: выделить и заблюрить. И говнофотка автоматом становится шедевром.
  

  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.

• Free online digital photography course tutorials. Неплохая подборка уроков фотографии для новичков, но есть пара статей и для продвинутых.
  

  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.

• Travel Photography is Dead. Любопытные рассуждения о судьбе тревел-фото. Суть заключается в том, что раньше путешествия в экзотические страны могли себе позволить только богатые фотографы, а сейчас по всему миру разъезжают миллионы говнофотографов с говнозеркалками и под завязку затоваривают фото-экзотикой фликр и стоки. Вывод такой: если ты богат и у тебя есть талант, то фотографии ты всегда сможешь продать. Ежели у тебя есть только деньги, то извини-подвинься, твое время прошло.
  

  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!”

• White Balance, the Secret Weapon. Несколько хитростей работы с балансом белого.
  

  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.

• The Top Camera Phone Images that Made the News. Самые известные любительские снимки, попавшие на первые страницы таблоидов.
  

  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.

• The Top 5 Black & White Photography Tips. Пять советов для любителей черно-белой фотографии. Перевод статьи: 5 советов для ЧБ фотографов.
  

  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.

• PhotoshopUser TV Episode 106. Очередной выпуск видеоподкаста для фотошоперов.
  

  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.

• Фото XPерт. Еще один свеженький блог о фотографии. Хотелось бы посоветовать создателю не зацикливаться на переводах англоязычный статей, а больше писать своего — это ценнее.
  

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

• ActionCentral. Экшены к фотошопу. Очень много.
  

  Devoted to the exchange of Photoshop actions among users as a service to the image editing community.

• Качество стекол Nikon в России.. А вот это натуральная бомба. По всей видимости, одним Никоном дело не ограничивается. Печально все это. Опять жителей этой страны держат за идиотов.
  

  В Праге в Фотошкоде мне сказали, что в Россию техника Никон идет, минуя всего одно звено в производственной цепочке, – это ОТК =) Ни Никон, ни дистрибьюторов в этом винить нет смысла. Таможенные пошлины в нашей любимой стране таковы, что дилеры вынуждены были обратиться к производителю с просьбой снизить себестоимость техники. Как выяснилось – единственный способ, – исключить полную проверку на соответствие всех норм. А надо сказать, – 20% стоимости это как раз тестирование.

• The optical lens manufacturing business heats up. Интересно, приведет ли эта разработка Фраунгоферовского института к удешевлению топовых SLR объективов или опять дело камерафонами ограничится?
  

  Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Mechanics of Materials have developed and optimized the “hot embossing” technology for the manufacturing of glass lenses. Glass lenses can nowadays be found in cameras, automobile headlamps, and a variety of optical sensors. Today, the lenses are produced by “precision molding”, whereby the glass is heated together with the forming die and then pressed into shape. The new technology is up to 10 times faster, a good 70 percent cheaper, and produces lenses of comparable quality…

• Nikon D3 and memory card speeds. Сравнение скорости работы с Nikon D3 CF-карт SanDisk Extreme III, SanDisk Extreme IV, ATP Pro Max II и Apacer Photo Steno III pro 150X.
  

  Well, this is it. The SanDisk Extreme IV is still the fastest card on the block – it’s THE choice if you absolutely need the utmost in speed, as the tests above clearly show.
  But remember – these cards are expensive and unless you’re a reporter, you probably don’t need all that speed. Only buy it if you really need it, otherwise, you’re probably better off with a larger, slower card.

• Another Lightbox-for-Less Success Story. Еще один самодельный лайтбокс для съемки небольших предметов.
  

  If you have, let’s just say, a trunk-full of strange and wondrous objects fresh off the barge and out of the splintered shipping crate from lands afar, chances are good you’re either the kingpin of an international smuggling ring or you’re going into business for yourself. If you’re my friend Eli, you’re the owner and operator of Old Man Hodapp’s Worldly Treasures, peddling only the finest of… Completely weird stuff from all over the globe.

• My Photo Editing “Code of Ethics”. Скотт Килби пишет о своих «этических принципах» работы в Photoshop-е. Забавно, но по многим пунктам мои «принципы» совпадают со Скоттом с точностью до наоборот.
  

  This may sound silly, but I absolutely hate cropping in Photoshop, and go out of my way to avoid it. I want to do my composing in the camera, so if I wind up having to crop later in Photoshop, I feel like I didn’t “Get it right in the camera,” and it drives me nuts.

• Ступени становления фотографа. Забавно, да.
  

  Их всего три.

• 12 Javascript Image Galleries. Дюжина скриптов для небольших фотоальбомов.
  

  There are a large number of Flash image galleries but sometimes Flash is not required or cant be used so we turn to Javascript and CSS. Here is a roundup of some of the better Javascript and Ajax based solutions to our gallery requirements …

• Fujinon Lenses. Cтраничка, посвященная объективам Fujinon. Особенно ценна тем, что на сайте производителя информации о них очень мало.
  

  Over the last couple years, I’ve been fortunate enough to use several Fujinon large format lenses. I was first attracted to the Fuji large format lenses due to some very unique offerings. For example, the 240mm f9 Fujinon A and the 450mm f12.5 Fujinon C both offer a combination of tremendous coverage, outstanding sharpness, tiny size and very light weight that is unavailable in comparable focal lengths from any other lens manufacturer. I purchased these two lenses new from Badger Graphic Sales in March, 1998. In the two years since, they have become two of my favorite lenses. Based on the compact size and excellent performance of these two lenses, I decided I to try some other Fuji lenses.

• 62 Killer Photoshop tricks. Капитальная подборка ссылок на секреты фотошопинга.
  

  Making a Photoshop shield11 Super Awesome Photoshop Movie EffectsPhotoshop hints and tricksPhotoshop Tips and Tricks for BeginnersTop 5 Photoshop TutorialsFive Simple Photoshop Tricks I Bet You Don’t Know100 Awesome High Resolution Photoshop Brushes53 Ultimate Tips For Better Photoshopping

• DQ QuiKeys – Workflow Empowerment System. Любопытная приблуда, но стоит как крыло Боинга.
  

  WHAT EXACTLY *IS* DQ QuiKeys? ISN’T THIS JUST ANOTHER SET OF ACTIONS? Not really. Not at all, actually. DQ QuiKeys is a unique hardware/software workflow system for Photoshop. The hardware is a custom 57-key keyboard which is tightly integrated with actions, tools and scripts which we’ve been developing for over two years. DQ QuiKeys essentially takes the hidden tools of Photoshop and puts them in your hands … a truly unique Workflow Empowerment System for photographers.

• Eye-Fi Card Review. Какая прелесть.
  

  It’s not often we review accessories, and we’ve never really reviewed an SD card, certainly not on its own. That said this isn’t any ordinary SD card and it does offer something fairly unique; WiFi connectivity and automated image transfer for any camera which takes SD. As you can see from the image above the Eye-Fi card is the same size as any other SD card but contains not just a WiFi unit but also 2 GB of flash storage (an impressive enough feat alone). Retailing at $99 it’s not massively expensive either.

• Съемка очень больших фотографий.
  

  Таким образом, единственный способ получить очень большую фотографию – снимать ее по частям. В этом случае, конечно, снимок будет не совсем мгновенным, разные участки будут сняты в несколько разное время, но, на самом деле, ситуация будет не очень сильно отличаться от того, что мы имеем при съемке с фокальным шторным затвором. Там разница во времени экспозиции противоположных концов кадра у аппарата Зенит равняется 1/30 с. Мы собираемся получить снимок в 30 раз больший. Следовательно, если мы сумеем сделать 30 снимков за 1 с, то мы получим тот же эффект, как если бы щель затвора бежала с той же скоростью, но вдоль в 30 раз более длинного кадра.

• Gifts for Photographers. Всякая мелочовка, которую можно подарить другу-фотографу.
  

  Here is a treasure trove of gift ideas for photographers of all levels and for all budgets. You’ll find gift ideas for point-and-shoot photographers, film photographers, DSLR users, book & magazine ideas, and of course, stocking stuffers. Many of these gifts would be great for kid or teen photographers as well. You’ll find pages and pages of ideas for all of the photographers in your life (and maybe some ideas for yourself!).

• Trading Your GPS For a Flash. Неожиданное применение крепления для автомобильного GPS-навигатора. Надо будет попробовать как-нибудь.
  

  When strolling at my local autostore I stumbled across this very interesting gadget. It is a windshield mount for a GPS device. The natural thing for me, being the why-don’t-you-stop-and-ask-for-directions-said-the-wife kinda guy that I am, and the natural and logical thing for me is to buy a GPS. However, those babies cost millions. I had no alternative but to go to my other hobby – photography and see how I can use this mount for my photography studio.

• Portrait Lighting – business 3 light set-up. Простая студийная световая схема с объяснением и иллюстрациями.
  

  Here is an example and demonstration of my most often used portrait lighting set-up. I call it my “business portrait” lighting set-up or my three light portrait lighting set-up. It’s nothing fancy, just good solid lighting, and it’s very acceptable to the business community. There are lots of corporations and companies that want business portraits for brochures and advertising purposes. This is the perfect lighting set-up for the commercial photographer that needs to get something nice and get it fast.

• Про фото. Новый для меня сайт.
  

  Основная задача сайта – предоставить всем желающим материалы для освоения базовых навыков обработки цифровых растровых изображений, в основном цифровых фотографий. Целевая аудитория – владельцы цифровых фотокамер, не являющиеся профессиональными фотографами.

Сегодня будет много «вкусного».

Hyperfocal Distance.

First, let’s cover what hyperfocal photography is. Simply put, hyperfocal photography is when you adjust the aperture and point of focus so that everything from a desired point (usually the foreground) to infinity is in focus. It takes work and an attention to detail, but mastering it and becoming efficient at it can certainly improve certain aspects of your photography.

WeddingPhotoForum.

На этом проекте запрещено использование ников! Доступ ко всем разделам форума предоставляется только участникам, работающим в области свадебной фотографии. Заполняя форму регистрации, указывайте свои настоящие фамилию и имя, указывайте сайт с примерами работ, чтобы участники проекта имели представление о том, с кем они ведут беседу – это обязательное условие!

Are You Taking Snapshots?

We’re sorry, but we did not find this file suitable as stock. With the rapid growth of the iStock collection, we give valuable consideration to each file but unfortunately cannot accept all submissions.
This is called the “Subpar” rejection. Perhaps you’re familiar with it? It means there’s a certain something lacking from your image that is holding it back from the collection. But what does that mean, “not suitable”? What isn’t suitable about it? What the heck is Subpar around these parts?

100 Awesome High Resolution Photoshop Brushes.

Lets dive today into a sea of brushes. Hundreds of thousands of sets are lying undiscovered like pirate treasures all over the web. Due to this phenomenally vast amount of Photoshop brushes available, directories are becoming very popular lately.
Designers are collecting them like mad. Not to mention that finding the most unique or bizarre set is a must.
And believe me, in this case, size does matter… So, here’s my contribution to all the Photoshop brushes starving hordes of designers and artists, including myself: 100 Awesome High Resolution Photoshop Brushes. And don’t forget to check the list of brushes sites and directories at the end of the article!

How Even a Teenager Can Earn from Photography.

Okay, maybe not just any old teenager. Canadian photographer, Joey Lawrence, might still be shy of his eighteenth birthday but he has the eye and attitude of a grizzled old pro, and the skills to match. He has awards from Microsoft, Bogen and the United Way but more importantly, he already has regular checks from clients and a calendar bursting with bookings.

Муар или детали?

Жизнь сложилась так, что у меня появилась возможность вживую сравнить Kodak SLR/c и Canon 1Ds MKII. Это очень близкие по разрешению камеры (13.5 и 16 мегапикселей, линейное разрешение отличается на 10%), но на Canon anti-alias фильтр есть, а на Kodak — нету.

О вторяках.

“Вторяк”, он же “second shooter” – это такой фотограф, который снимает вместе с “основным” в одной команде. Не следует путать “вторяка” с “дядей Генри” (”Uncle Henry”), то есть одним из гостей, который пришёл на праздник с говнозеркалкой. Гость щёлкнул на память – и пошёл дальше праздновать, а фотографы, пока праздник не закончился, должны работать.

It’s a blog, blog world – the photo blog of Magnum Photos.

There are blogs about family vacations, cooking, knitting, little dog puppies, cats, hidden sexual fantasies, about photography, art and so much more. Despite the fact that nobody could ever possibly read all the blogs out there due to the sheer tremendous number of thousands and thousands of blogs, most of the time it wouldn’t be worth it anyway. Frankly but at the same time nicely put: Most blogs are not very interesting at all. At least not if you are not the author or a close friend of the author.
But of course there are many, many exceptions to this as well. There are a whole bunch of blogs that are worth reading, that you can learn from, that can inspire you and broaden your horizon.
In an effort to bring some more inspiration to all of us I have collected 83 links to blogs about photography, art, multimedia and journalism, that I hope might be a source of good information for you. You might know a lot of them, or even all, but maybe you can find a couple of blogs that you did not yet know.

Five Fantastic Flickr Photographers.

As I’ve recently become more active with Flickr, I’ve encountered some amazing photographers. I realize that I’ve only seen a glimpse of the artists out there, and I’m truly excited to continue exploring this community. Out of my 100 contacts (which isn’t many at all), I find myself being drawn to the works of a select few. Here are five photographers who absolutely amaze me.

Two Dramatic Lighting Setups.

Very Soft Light from Behind the Photographer.
This is an easy setup to do whether you have a large softbox or not. You can substitute a large scrim for wide, full light. Simply shoot from in front of the light, and make sure the position is straight on. Notice that the shadow is very distinct, yet soft… sort of like a ringlight.