Photography Tips, Tricks, and Know-How

"The M9 is so simple that I use it set to German menus, and it's still far easier to operate than any DSLR in English. I shot these all week with a single SanDisk 8GB Extreme III SD card, downloading and backing it up every night, then reformatting it every morning. I shot 6.5GB (286 shots) on my biggest day, so I never had to break out a second card, and I shot everything in DNG + JPG at about 23 MB total per shot. Likewise, I popped in a freshly-charged M9 battery each morning, and it always lasted the day." - ovigia from Bookmarklet

"Extracting all frames from a video file is easily achieved with FFmpeg. Here's a simple command line that will create 25 PNG images from every second of footage in the input DV file. The images will be saved in the current directory." - ovigia from Bookmarklet

"Magic Lantern is an open platform for developing enhancements to the amazing Canon 5D Mark II full frame digital SLR." - ovigia from Bookmarklet

A few photos and another life lesson... - Chad McCoskey from Bookmarklet

chi è un fantasma - sonia123

Nathalie - I find FriendFeed the best way to do just that... - Justin Korn

that means if I don't go on a regular basis, the unread count is just going to keep going up and up and up. Something like this works best for me, I think. Selectively choose whose Favourites I want to see in a particular moment in time. For example: if your flickr favourites show up on my home feed one day and I like some of the shots I see from the square thumbs, I might be interested in seeing what else you've faved, but I don't necessarily want to "follow" all the shots you fave 'forever' - Nathalie, Dreamer of FF

Another end creates another beginning... - Chad McCoskey from Bookmarklet

The rain is coming. Be prepared. - Chad McCoskey from Bookmarklet

Interesting, The vast majority are 35mm or 50mm. - John (a.k.a. dendroica)

That is one item I found odd as well. I thought it would be more 70-200mm or 85mm. - JA Castillo

Before asking the question, figure out what you NEED. - Chad McCoskey from Bookmarklet

"Presented jointly by Paul’s Photo and the Greater Los Angeles Zoo Association, the LA Zoo Photo Day is a fantastic photo opportunity for film and digital photographers of all levels of expertise. Paul's staff of experts and representatives from the greatest brands in photography will be on hand to assist you for a full day of photography and education. The Los Angeles Zoo offers photographers the opportunity to capture “natural looking” wildlife photos right here in the city. The Los Angeles Zoo Photo Day provides photographers the tools required to create fantastic photos. Hands-on workshops and staffed stations are ideal for the novice photographer who desires to learn the basics of wildlife and nature photography. The LA Zoo Photo Day offers an opportunity for the accomplished shutterbug to explore new horizons while focusing on the art and science of outdoor photography." - Anika from Bookmarklet

"Photographers enjoy use of the photo day stations and equipment, continental breakfast, catered lunch, T-shirt and a full day of photography. Guests receive continental breakfast, catered lunch and early admission to the zoo only. For further information or to reserve by phone, please call 323/644-4703. You can also click here to print out a registration form (.pdf). Cost to attend is... more... - Anika

1. DON’T Rely Solely on Clone Stamp Tool for Your Dirty Work 2. DO Use the History Brush. 3. DON’T Expect Gaussian Blur to Do All the Work, or Even a Clean Job 4. DO Give the Pen Tool Some Love 5. DO Experiment With Other Tools You Wouldn’t Normally Use 6. DON’T Neglect the Many Selection Tools at Your Disposal 7. DO Let the Liquify Filter Work Its Magic. 8. DON’T Overlook Quick Masks. 9. DO Heal Away the Pain 10. DON’T Be Bashful With Creating Clipping Masks 11. DO Eliminate Backgrounds With the Magic Eraser Tool 12. DON’T Stop at Brightness and Contrast to Color Correct 13. DO Choose an Adjustment Layer Over an Adjustment - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML from Bookmarklet

More introspection and an announcement of my "40th year" project - Chad McCoskey from Bookmarklet

Sucks up your friends' favorites and displays them in a nice clear way. - Sasha Kovaliov(.com) from Bookmarklet

I actually have a visualize account lol, but didn't know they had an app to where you could add to Flickr via the right click menu off from Firefox. Thanks for the info, that makes my day! :) TIM J. @ WWW.MHWD.ORG - Tim Tunnicliff from email