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Photography Tips, Tricks, and Know-How

Photography Tips, Tricks, and Know-How

A room to discuss and ask questions about photography, the business of photography, etc.
See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
Sinan AYHAN
Andrew S
Sinan AYHAN
JA Castillo
See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
"Photofont? is an exciting new font technology that allows you to create and use multi-color type with transparency. Photofonts are files with the extension .phf. They are bitmap fonts that can be of any size, use up to 16 million colors and alpha transparency. Photofont ID is our plugin for Adobe InDesign CS3 and CS4 for Mac and Windows that allows you to use photofonts inside of InDesign to set headlines in color, textures and photos. The photofont file format specification is publicly available. It is based on open standards such as XML and PNG. You can create and edit photofonts using our professional bitmap font editor BitFonter for Mac OS X and Windows." - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML from Bookmarklet
JA Castillo
JA Castillo
Amazing photo explaining the layers of a Polaroid picture from Time Magazine (Polaroid Story, 1963, by Fritz Goro). - http://brokenbottleboy.tumblr.com/post...
Amazing photo explaining the layers of a Polaroid picture from Time Magazine (Polaroid Story, 1963, by Fritz Goro).
Sinan AYHAN
رونوشت به آیدا:( من هنوز عاااااااااشقه محل کار باباتم گفتم بدونی :دی - joupy
Yukarda iyi bir şey yazıyordur inşallah : )) - Sinan AYHAN
zaman zaman insanların tat anlayışları farklılıklar gösterebiliyo tabi.. - Faruk ŞEN
puhahahaaaa - selen
Sinan AYHAN
Sinan AYHAN
See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
"Taking an image and making an image are two completely different animals. What I often see in landscape photography are photographers taking beautiful pictures, and performing minimal work on the image in postproduction before printing the image. For these photographers, they believe that their work relies on mastering the tools at hand – the camera and lens – and using them to best advantage in the field – not working on the image in postproduction. While many of these images are beautiful and compelling in their own right, I would suggest to these photographers that they have not availed themselves of the true magic of photography in the digital photographic era. We need not take beautiful pictures, we can make beautiful pictures – and the computer is the tool that lets us perform the magic." - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML from Bookmarklet
I read this back in 2004 when I first started photographing with my first DSLR. Many points he makes is very valid. At that time I was battling with the personal struggle of 'scientifically accurate' vs 'my intention' - and I think that this is ultimately what makes something 'technical' vs 'art'. - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
Wow, I used to feel exactly the same as that guy, and I've got a comparable history in the field, although I'm not a fine art photographer, I shoot and have been processing images in Photoshop for a living 15 years now. I remember Photoshop 2. Yeah. But I'm tired of it all... give me my beautiful mechanical SLR and a fast prime or give me death. It's just a totally different game. I know how to shoot, I know how to photoshop, but my goal is to learn to process my own film in the coming year... just for fun. - Adrian
@Adrian good to know! I have been with Photoshop since 2.5 I still remember how a TIFF image for print would totally crash my PC haha - film is fun. That's where I started also though - I was a photo editor back in college and spent endless hours in the darkroom - the digital cam was a blessing. It gets *really* expensive after a while when you shoot film (comparatively speaking, of... more... - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
I started with film, but never processed my own, lost my SLR back in 2002 and went digital like the rest of the world without blinking. It was all work for me, shooting wireless site locations, and creating architectural renderings of antennas, equipment, building mods, landscaping... tedious stuff like that. I've learned a lot from digital that I never learned on my first SLR by just... more... - Adrian
Darkroom alert though: make sure that you're not afraid of dark (which I am). After slaving 12+ hours / day in it you might get very sick staring at the safe light. But there is certainly a huge amount of joy doing large prints. It's tough though. If you are even considering dodging and burning, you will get back to Photoshop very soon. This limitation somehow would push you to be a... more... - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
Yep, you got it, digital or not, get it right the first time! When I have 6 shots left on my last roll, I don't mess around. Scarceity enforces discipline. :) But seriously, for me film is strictly hobby, and I definitely look forward to see what I can do with processing and enlargements. Dodging and burning, I rarely do even in Photoshop. I want to try it though! As far as work, I would never shoot film again as even my cellphone takes good enough photos for the print sizes my clients need. - Adrian
Sinan AYHAN
82M'miydi... :D, çok severim kendisini... - System Enginari
Bilmiyorum valla numarasını, şirket arabası kullanıyorum 2006'dan beri. Özlemişim bu meydanı... - Sinan AYHAN
Sinan AYHAN
Chad McCoskey
Sinan AYHAN
November 22 - Comments disabled - Share
great panaromic - sertaç aydoğdu
nasıl güzel olmuş bu.. bayıldım! DM'lerini de kontrol etsen diyorum biraz :p - aslıa.
Sinan AYHAN
Sinan AYHAN
JA Castillo
Sinan AYHAN
Az önce e-postama geldi. Çok fazla sevmem fw: e-postları ama gelişim evleri ilginç geldi. National Geogrephic tadında bir kuşun gelişim safhalarını öğrendim
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Dun aksam National Geogrephic de TABU adında bır program vardı. Uzak Dogu da 16 Gunluk Kus cenınlerını yedıklerını anlatıyordu ....:( - Betul Aydin
JA Castillo
Manfrotto 797 ModoPocket, Smallest Folding Camera Stand - http://www.amazon.com/gp...
Manfrotto 797 ModoPocket, Smallest Folding Camera Stand
...thanks to Scott Bourne for this; via Twitter... - JA Castillo from Bookmarklet
See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
"Hi there, Welcome to my little tribute page to what I consider the best camera in the world, the Hasselblad Xpan. This page has been up for quite a few years now, the original version of this page got a lot of hits until it disappeared sometime in 2005, version two soon followed and stayed strong for a couple of years and now in 2009 we are up to version three. I am still not a writer or reviewer or web designer, I’m barely even a photographer, nor am I getting cheques from Hasselblad (yet!) I just want to tell everyone about my love affair with this unique and fantastic camera. The Xpan was introduced by Hasselblad at Photokina, in Germany in 1998, I found out about it sometime in 1999 and I wanted to own one from that moment on. In early 2004 I finally got the funds and the balls to buy one, so I did it and I have never regretted it. It came with the standard 45mm lens and belonged to a camera collector who had only put a couple of films through it, a little while later I bought... more... - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML from Bookmarklet
oooh sexy awesome camera. how much? - Bill Scherer
the comparison image he created is very enlightening: http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2720... - Carlos Ayala
comparison image caption: "The 45 mm is a 45 mm in the regular 24 x 36 mm mode but in the panoramic 24 x 65 mm mode it has the equivalent focal length of a 24 mm lens, the 90 mm lens becomes a 50 mm lens and the 30 mm becomes a 17 mm lens. " - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
And his Flickr set for images shot with the camera: http://www.flickr.com/photos... - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
Pricing: Used: Hasselblad XPan 35mm Rangefinder Manual Focus Panorama Camera Kit with 45mm f/4 Lens at B&H $ 1,649.00 http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh... - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
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See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
"You must have heard about stereographic projection or polar panoramas. Some of the people are familiar with these projections with the name of “little planets”. These are extra ordinary images which are produced with the help of panoramic photos. These images are easy to produce and results of these images are stunning and attractive. Take a panoramic photo, modify it, and in the end with the help of Photoshop filter (Distort > Polar Coordinates) complete the whole process. This is what we can say its basic rule. By following this easy tutorial, you can find further details and necessary information. Following are 50 stunning and eye catching examples of panorama photography." - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML from Bookmarklet
ovigia
How-To: Extract images from a video file using FFmpeg - Stream #0 - http://stream0.org/2008...
"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
ovigia
"Magic Lantern is an open platform for developing enhancements to the amazing Canon 5D Mark II full frame digital SLR." - ovigia from Bookmarklet
JA Castillo
Nathalie, Dreamer of FF
Is there a way to browse people's flickr favourites more effectively? I'd like to see them at least at the small size instead of the square thumbnail and have to click through?
Nathalie - I find FriendFeed the best way to do just that... - Justin Korn
However, it's tedious to setup. You have to add each of the Flickr people you want to watch manually in a Group. Example: http://friendfeed.com/photo-f... - Justin Korn
Justin: that still shows the square thumbnail. I'd like to see them at least at the small size. it's the same when people's favourites show up on my feed, it just shows the square. - Nathalie, Dreamer of FF
I just realized, this gives you the square thumbnail...and you beat me to it above. Not sure if something already exist, but perhaps it's an app waiting to be built? - Justin Korn
I wonder.... *heads to the App Garden on flickr* - Nathalie, Dreamer of FF
That is cool! Thanks. - Kenton
Feedly?? Import the RSS feed. - Roberto Bonini from iPhone
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
JA Castillo
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