From Old one to Digital Camera
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You love your point & shoot digital camera but now you yearn for something more. A camera that offers more versatility and interchangeable lenses. A camera that lets you get closer to wildlife than the zoom on your small digital.
Perhaps you want to shoot birds — with a camera, not a gun.
Be forewarned, if you want to get into photographing wildlife, especially birds, you must have have a LONG lens. The very minimum focal length would be a 300mm with a 1.4x tele converter. I have used that with some success in photographing birds.
When I was first starting out as a photographer I was on a nice drive with the ex and children. I really wanted to photograph the great blue herons we saw in the fields outside Davis, Calif. But every time we got even a little close to the birds they would hop/fly off just out of range of my wimpy 200mm lens. Read more »
Best Photo Shoot
Posted in Photography »Tags: accident, all the rage, amazing images, anyone, anything, appreciation, art, Associated, ball, Beauty, bedroom, beholder, black, bride, brides, bullet, camera, camping holiday, case, clip, clock, competition, competition winners, completion, composition, coverage, danger, day, drive, emotional aspects, end, end result, entire gallery, evening, example, executioner, eye, fact, Family, favourite, February, field, film, finger, form, gallery, Good, grainy, gun, hand, havoc, head, holiday, hope, hotel, hotel bedroom, idea, image, inception, judge, lens, light, lighting, Lightroom, look, mile, mind, minute, moment, mother, naturalness, nerves, news, night, nothing, Office, overexposed, photo, photo shoot, photographer, photographers, Photography, Photoshop, Photoshopped, point, post, preference, press, print, processing, pulse, rage, reason, research, rest, rest of the day, result, rock, scene, session, Shoot, short time, shot, shutter, start, state, stock, story, thing, time, video, vignette, wall, water, Wedding, wedding day, week, whole, winner, wreaking havoc, year
In February last year I was looking around an entire gallery of competition winners and one thing that struck me was the fact that I struggled to find an image that hadn’t been heavily Photoshopped. Don’t get me wrong, there were some amazing images there and quite deservedly so but it got me thinking about what makes an image good!
I change my mind from one day to the next as to what makes a photo really good. One day I get annoyed at those heavily manipulated images that seem to be all the rage with many photographers these days and the next day I am loving them, processing and creating them myself! Read more »
Photography in Future
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The Future of Photography – Since its birth and for around 100 years, photography hasn’t really changed that much if you think about it. You had a box with a lens attached which streams light in and records it onto a film plane and now onto a digital sensor.
In Ye Olde days of film cameras, the only things that changed with regards to technology were the lens quality and the mechanics of the camera itself, the shutter, the exposure system, the speed etc, the recording media (film or emulsion) hasn’t really changed too much over time, especially towards the end, not when you compare it to digital and its rapid advances. Read more »
Step by step: How To Improve and Sell it.
Posted in business »Tags: attention, Avoid, background, bat, Below, bookshelf, buyer, camera, center, chains, clock, clock face, close-up, cloth, coffee, Color, counter, course, craftsmanship, cuckoo, cuckoo clock, cuckoo clocks, curtain, day, De-clutter, detail, distance, eBay, effect, example, fabric, face, feature, Fill, focus, frame, Fuzzy, grain, image, Improve, Indoors, intensity, kind, kitchen, lamp, light, lighting, liner, maker, material, money, nylon, overcast, owner, panel, pattern, Pay, photo, photographer, picture, picture frame, plaid, plain background, Price, product, Quality, seller, Set, shade, sheet, Shoot, shot, side, something, Step, sunlight, surroundings, table, tent, thing, three men, toaster, tree, uncluttered background, use, velvet, wall, way, window, wood, wood panelling
A picture is worth a thousand words. Nowhere else is that more true than on eBay! For example, recently two cuckoo clocks sold on eBay. One had a nice clear picture. The other had a fuzzy picture with a dark contrasting background.
The two clocks sold for vastly different prices. Can you guess which one sold for more money? Of course – the one with the nice picture! It sold for nearly double the price of the other clock.
Which clock was the better clock? I’ll never know. All I know is the owner of the clock fetching the higher price had a much better picture! Read more »
Tecnique: Photographing Animals
Posted in Photography »Tags: access, advantage, aid, animal, animal subject, animal subjects, aperture, aren, assistance, bed, big cat, bird, bit, bush, cage, camera, captivity, cat, category, cats and dogs, chair, commonplace, competition, couch, course, determination, difference, difficulty, disadvantage, distinct difference, dog, Domesticated, domesticated animals, elephant, example, exception, exhibit, exotic pets, eye, Family, farm, farm animals, Fast, favourite, fencing, Figure, focus, fox, frame, friend, Frisbee, gorilla, habitat, hamster, happiest, hmmmm, hold, image, imagination, impact, information, lens, lion, man, monkey, movement, muck, natural habitat, opportunity, park, party, party pieces, patience, personality, pet, pet photo, Pets, photo, photograph, Photographing, Photography, picturesque, Pigs, planning, pleasing, Portfolio, portrait, press, proximity, public, reality, record, record images, rodents, Rover, shapes and sizes, Sheep, shot, Shots, show, shutter, somebody, sort, still image, subject, Tecnique, television, time, title, tourist, trick, type, use, variety, view, way, whim, Wild, wild animal, wild animals, wildlife, zoo, zoos
Animals come in all shapes and sizes from rodents like mice to large mammals like elephants. Animals can make very eye catching subjects to photograph whether wild or domesticated. However there is a distinct difference between a wild animal and a domesticated one. This will dictate how the subject will be approached. Read more »