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 [...]

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