Sharing some photography articles for reference...

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Flash Photography Articles

• Flash - Get a Flash First to Improve Your Photos
• Flash - Shedding Light on Flash - Part 1
• Flash - Shedding Light on Flash - Part 2
• Flash - Color Correction Using Color Gel Filters
• Flash - Controlling the Direction of your Light
• Flash - DIY Bounce Cards and Flags

General Photography Articles

• Point and Shoot Camera Photography Tips
• All Hail the Prime! Celebrate Simplicity

Post-Processing Articles

• Photoshop - Improving Specific Colors

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[rion]

love the photoshop article, thanks.

I do love Photography, I already have a bunch of ebooks... like Understanding Exposure by Bryan Peterson. but I don't own a camera, kahit yung ordinary cheap ones.

I just love creative fantasy shots combined with photoshop manipulations.

yung style ni Tarsem Singh in movies like.

Jeniffer Lopez's "The Cell".



and "The Fall"

[gerardj]

uy ganda nito, try ko agad yun tips mo sa point and shoot cameras yun lang afford ngayon hehe. learn the basics muna, sana next na babasahin ko sa mga articles mo eh yun pang dSLR na, ibig sabihin meron na din ako nun! wooohooo!

[leinahtan]

Great info

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new article:

Exposure - Relation Between Shutter Speed and Aperture Value

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Macro photography is interesting where everything seems to be magnified and the viewer gets into this surreal environment that we’ve never seen before even though the subject is mundane and common.





The ability to see the details, colors, shapes, and textures opens up a photographer’s creative vision beyond what the eyes can see. In order to capture subjects with such magnification, however, special equipment are required, specifically, special lenses.
Normal lenses cannot magnify subjects beyond 35-25% of the actual subject size. Macro magnification, in general, should yield at least 1:1 ratio or life-size magnification or larger.


There are a lot of great macro lenses available for all kinds of cameras, but most macro lenses are costly and unless you do macro and detail-specific photography often, the investment seem to be unjustified for pretty limited use.


Luckily for those who don’t have deep pockets, there are cheaper ways to try out macro photography without breaking the bank. The solution is simple, and you merely have to look back before auto-focus lenses were invented. Knowing how light travels and making use of simple contraptions to magnify subjects before it hits the film/sensor plane.


I recommend the using the extension tube and/or reverse mount approaches over any other option if cost is a big factor.
The techniques should apply to any digital or film SLR, but it’s easier with a Canon EF mount than any other digital SLR mount due to the availability of adapters for Canon.


Here are the things that you’ll need, assuming you already have a digital SLR to begin with, for extension tube macro:


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by David Tong


Level: Easy


No, I’m not selling you a toothpaste nor am I a dentist. Not a lot of us live in Hollywood so we probably won’t have magazine worthy pearly-whites. Vanna White-like teeth may be pleasing to look at in glossy ads and magazine spreads, but they’re usually not very natural when implemented on regular folks like us. So when you post-process casual portraits, it’s best not to over whiten your subjects teeth, in my opinion.


Here’s a simple technique to whiten teeth without the ultra-white Hollywood result in Photoshop.


read the tutorial here

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by David Tong
Level: Easy
Software: PhotoShop


How many times have you taken a colorful scene but you feel that the image needs a little bit more “pop”? I have an easy tutorial for you that should solve most of your flat images.


Here’s our original image, a colorful wooden door that I found near the Malay village.

Read the tutorial here

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Review - Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8L USM by David Tong

Image Courtesy of Wikipedia.org



Important: This is the original Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8L USM (released 2001) and has been replaced by a Mark II version last 2007. While there are significant optical differences between the two, they are more similar than different for the most part, so most parts of the review may still be useful to those considering the Mark II version.

From Wikipedia:
Type: Zoom
Focal length: 16-35mm
Frame coverage: Full frame
Aperture (max/min): f/2.8 - f/22
Construction: 10 groups / 14 elements
# Diaphragm blades: 7
Close focus distance: 280mm
Max. magnification: 0.22
Physical
Max. diameter: 83.5mm
Max. length: 103 mm
Weight: 600 g
Filter diameter: 77mm
Accessories
Lens hood: EW-83E
Angle of view
Horizontal: 98° – 54°
Vertical: 74°10′ – 38°
Diagonal: 108°10′ – 63°

The Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8L USM replaced the (even) older EF 17-35mm f/2.8L USM and it was a big upgrade from every standpoint. The 1mm may not sound much but on a full frame camera, wide angle differences are larger than telephoto lenses in field of view.

read the rest of the review

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by David Tong

Today, I bring you another top-of-the-line prime lens from Canon, the EF 50mm f/1.2L USM. Like the previously reviewed (and well-loved) EF 85mm f/1.2L II USM, the EF 50mm f/1.2L USM offers extremely large aperture opening that allows maximum depth-of-field control for low-light, portrait, and creative effects for Canon EOS cameras.

Read the entire review here

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by David Tong

Today, I bring you another top-of-the-line prime lens from Canon, the EF 50mm f/1.2L USM. Like the previously reviewed (and well-loved) EF 85mm f/1.2L II USM, the EF 50mm f/1.2L USM offers extremely large aperture opening that allows maximum depth-of-field control for low-light, portrait, and creative effects for Canon EOS cameras.

Read the entire review here

price ranges from?

TIA david.

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The EF 50mm f/1.2L retails for around US$1400

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http://reviews.davidleetong.com/?p=1569

Level – Advanced

We’ve looked at quickie skin retouching in the past in this article, now let’s take it a bit further and spend more time doing careful skin retouching without the plasticky, no-pores, Barbie skin look that’s plaguing so many portraits out there.
This isn’t an “original” technique but an accumulation of different techniques I’ve learned over the past couple of years from Photoshop masters to retouch skin with much more attention to detail and realism, while still producing a good looking print and a file that still looks good at larger magnifications on screen.

This workflow works for me in a sense that it balances the need for speed and quality at the same time. No large amount of global blurring, haphazard masking, over-sharpening and so forth. Just plain logic-based processing.

It’ll be a looong post (over 30 images), so let’s get started with a photo of a local model I’ve worked with recently, Jen. This is the original captured image.

The image below shows the full crop of the skin, notice the faint scars and blemishes present at this magnification (it’s normally not that visible in real-life or web-sized images).

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The Only Tool You Need To Find Your Stolen Pictures | How To Protect Yourself From Photo Theft

Post Photos Online = Photos Stolen Online

Most seasoned photographers or at least social media veterans agree that once we post a photo online, it is out in the open and it is vulnerable to photo theft and copyright infringement.

While many cases of unauthorized usage of photographs are innocent enough and often out of ignorance of copyright rules, there are many cases where the perpetrators are well aware that they’re stealing photographs for their own personal or commercial gain.

Photographers only find out that their pictures were stolen when the offender’s reproduction gains popularity or visibility on the internet. The irony, however, is that the most stolen photos are pretty viral to begin with, so the artist and the photograph itself has circulated enough that a lot of netizens are aware of who the original photographer was and what they’re seeing is a copy of the original.

If you have an extensive library of images (particularly good, commericially-viable ones), it may take a long time to manually track all your images, but if you only have a handful, or if you’ve already identified that your photo has been stolen at least once, then this single FREE tool will help you uncover more instances of photo theft.

Continue Reading and Find Out About This Free Tool on DSP!

[MaNgo_Crepe]

Nice! meron pala neto sa tsikot..thanks sir theveed...keep them coming.. Welcome back na den..ngayon lang ulit kita nakita nagpost..

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Ice Cream Shot | Behind the Scenes with Ronnel Cuison



See full article for this ice cream photo shoot