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Apartment Therapy says; Los Angeles street photographer Eric Kim’s 100 tips and observation about photography is a fun read for anyone who likes to get behind a lens, whether beginner or pro. Recently republished via the Times Photo Journal Facebook page, there’s a lot of sage advice here for just about any situation (example: “Alcohol [...]
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Pixiq published this diverse collection of photography-related links from the past week. Read the post
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When we project images at club meetings, the screen around the image appears black. or near-black. If your image has large dark areas running to the edge of the image these tend to blend into the background and viewers’ eyes can wander out of the frame. The same is true in inverse when images are [...]
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On the Digital Photography School blog, Gavin Phillips writes, What is High Dynamic Range Imaging? (HDR) HDR is when you take 3-5 or 7 photos at different exposure settings, and then merge them into a single image using speciality software. What you get are beautiful photos with incredible detail, controlled lighting and accurate colour. You [...]
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This might be a good time to turn your cameras towards the night sky, with Jupiter, Venus and the moon converging on one another. Here’s a photo I took of a previous convergence, or conjunction as I believe the phenomenon is also known. Dr. Tony Phillips writes on physorg.com, The brightest planets in the solar [...]
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No text on this page, just a collection of excellent photographs, many of them iconic ones that you will recognise. View the photos
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Calibrating our monitors and printers is something that we, as photographers, should be particularly concerned with. Lifehacker recently made a blog post that talks about this, covering some of the options available. Read the article
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On her blog, our member Noleen has posted about Stephan Cooper, accomplished car photographer. There are a number of photographs covering motor racing as well as some more personal work in the form of landscapes and portraits. She begins, Famed photographer and author Scott Kelby listed Stephan Cooper as one of “The Best five photographers [...]
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Chris, one of our members, sent me this link to a beautiful time lapse video of the Milky Way. The picture about is a grab of one frame and gives some idea of what the video is like. Terje Sorgjerd, the photographer behind the viral video The Aurora, has done it again. Here, Sogjerd captures [...]
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Florian, one of our members, sent in this article that he thought others might find interesting. It begins, For years, lens makers have fought hard to market lenses of wider and wider aperture. Wide apertures (e.g., f /1.4 instead of f /2) but a series of measurement published on dxomark.com cast some doubts on the [...]
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