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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