Lost or Stolen Camera?

stolencamerafinder.com stolencamerafinder uses the serial number stored in your photo to search the web for photos taken with the same camera http://tinyurl.com/3zeuyy7

SOPA And Photography

  From  APhotoeditor .com You have the DMCA so you don’t need SOPA (or PIPA). Like many have suggested SOPA is like banning cars because bank robbers use them to get away. Overkill basically. And, in the wrong hands, ripe for abuse. Also, there are some serious problems with the way SOPA is written, as Clay Shirky explains in the [...]

HDR Workflow For The Rest Of Us Vegard Bremma

Another voice on HDR Introduction Alexandre Buisse in A Plea for HDR said it all. He speaks for me. One of my favourite photographic subjects is church interiors (no castles in this part of the world), and HDR is indispensable. But I don’t want my pictures to look like HDR. And I also want HDR to be [...]

HDR Time-Lapse Photography

From Picturecorrect via Warren v U Beautiful time-lapse photography is difficult enough to achieve, but attempting it in HDR (high dynamic range) photography adds another layer of complexity as was done here successfully in France (Normandy & Britany). This means the photographer has to take bracketed photos at different exposure levels for each individual frame, [...]

Purchasing a New Lens

Published Wed, 2011-05-18 19:00 on the B&H website. I’m outgrowing the kit lens that came with my camera. What’s a good starting point for figuring out how to choose my next lens? Follow the link. http://tinyurl.com/824hbmx Thanks to Lisa for sharing.

In-Camera Metering from NYIP

We’ve had a lot of questions from students about using their camera’s built-in light meter. Here’s an overview which we hope will give you a basic understanding of the subject. We’re going to cover three aspects of in-camera metering; a General Overview, Metering Modes, and some Tricks and Tips to Use of Your Camera’s Light [...]

How To Add Sunlight To Your Overcast Photographs

Tips from fstoppers.com I’m sure many of you have heard the saying “overcast skies make for amazing photos”. While it’s true that soft overcast light is usually more flattering on people’s faces, it can also make your photos super boring and even gloomy. So what can you do with your bag of tricks to spice [...]

Flower Shots that Flourish in the Rain Courtesy of Penn Camera & Olympus

Flower Shots that Flourish in the Rain Not many people want to trudge outside on a cloud filled, rainy day. Having to carry an umbrella or worrying about getting your camera wet is usually what deters photographers from getting out and shooting. However, there is a beautiful subject that can only be encountered on rainy [...]

Exposure Bracketing – Courtesy of Olympus & Penn Camera

Digital cameras have made exposure accuracy easy and accurate. But sometimes you shoot an image and on the LCD it looks great, then you leave, only to find it is under or over exposed when you get home and download it to your computer. When shooting pictures, it can be difficult to decide what exposure [...]

Frontier Life in the West

John C. H. Grabill’s Photos of Western Frontier Life.. 1887-1892 Between 1887 and 1892, John C.H. Grabill sent 188 photographs to the Library of Congress for copyright protection. Grabill is known as a western photographer, documenting many aspects of frontier life — hunting, mining, western town landscapes and white settlers’ relationships with Native Americans. Most [...]

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