Archive for June, 2008
Monday, June 23rd, 2008
The Rule of Thirds
The Rule of Thirds
Basis for well-balanced and interesting shots
The Rule of Thirds is perhaps one of the first things a budding photographer should know (aside from camera parts and principles). It serves as the foundation of knowledge of every photographer, novice and experts alike.
The Rule of Thirds in photography is about creating imaginary lines, drawn [...]
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Friday, June 20th, 2008
Nikon D40
Nikon has surprised everyone with the introduction of D40. This DSLR camera not only gives consumers everything they need from its small and light body to high quality imaging, but also exceeded their expectations as it comes at a price that’s hard to resist.
Nikon’s lightest and most compact [...]
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Monday, June 16th, 2008
Converting a Color Image to Black-and-White through Channel Option
Every RGB image in Photoshop consists of three 8-bit or 12-bit (grayscale) color channers: red, green, and blue. One way of converting a color image to Black-and-white is to extract one of the color channels-the one with the best B&W contrast-into separte B&W file.
1. Open the image you want to convert into B&W.
2. Go to [...]
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Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
Creating Panorama Shot through Stitching
Technique used: Stitching
Photographers put multiple images together to create panoramic panels to come up with an extremely wide field of view. This method is often called stitching.
Here are the steps on how to create panorama images through stitching:
Keep ‘em leveled. Mount your camera on a tripod. Place them on a [...]
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Saturday, June 7th, 2008
Sony Cybershot DSC T70
SONY CYBERSHOT DSC T70
The T70 is an 8.1-megapixel sleek and compact digital camera that fits solidly into the “posh camera” type. It is very slim and handy and light, measuring only 90 x 56.4 x 20.7mm, and weighing 128g. Its physical features include an all-metal body, a slide -down cover over the lens and flash [...]
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Saturday, June 7th, 2008
Trivia: Photography as Predicted by de la Roche
There is one amazing, quite uncanny prediction made by a man called de la Roche (1729- 1774) in a work called Giphantie. In this imaginary tale, it was possible to capture images from nature, on a canvas which had been coated with a sticky substance. This surface, so the tale goes, would not only provide [...]
