| Photography Tip: Handling Non-Raw Files |
 A raw file is a digital cameras raw response to light, with no further processing, colour encoding, sharpening, noise reduction or tone compensation. So the only camera settings that affect the Raw file are Shutter Speed, Aperture and ISO. A Jpeg or Tiff file from a digital camera is a rendered RGB file that has been produced from a raw file at some stage. Either in camera if it was set to jpeg or tiff or on the... |
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| Photography Tip: Working In Bright Sunlight |
 Sometimes it is the simplicity of an image that grabs our attention, just like this one. At first glance it is a simple portrait of an African man with a blue baseball cap leaning on a white wall. But for some reason, it got your attention. Such are the benefits of disassembling an image to see why they work. Usually, it is all in the details, the nuances, the small things. So, let’s have a look... |
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| Photography Tip: Understanding Adobe Lightroom Part 5 |
 The engine room of Lightroom is the develop module, this is where you make all your tonal and colour adjustments, apply capture and creative sharpening, address lens distortion issues and calibration. Lightroom’s Develop module is not just like Camera Raw, it actually is Camera Raw. Why would Adobe build a new raw processor when they already have a perfectly good one? So if deciding between a Lightroom or Camera... |
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| Photography Tip: Understanding Adobe Lightroom Part 4 |
 Once you have imported your images into Lightroom, which we discussed in the last article, it’s time to make some adjustments. However, if you have just imported hundreds of images you probably want to find a way to speed up this application, at least the images that require similar to same treatment. Well, you’re in luck; because this is exactly the sort of thing that Lightroom was designed to do. Because Lightroom is... |
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| Photography Tip: A Malaysian Experience |
 At an altitude of between 1500 and 1800 meters the Cameron Highlands are Malaysia's largest and most impressive hill station. In addition to its agricultural base, the region has become a popular tourist destination offering a cool, calm and picturesque alternative to the heat, hustle and modernity of the countries larger cities. Indeed the highlands are marked as much by their splendid scenery as by the line of villages... |
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| Photography Tip: Understanding Adobe Lightroom Part 3 |
 Managing your Catalogues. When you first launch Lightroom it automatically creates your first Catalogue in its preferred default location. You are given the option to save it somewhere else otherwise you will end up with the following file paths and names. This Catalogue will serve you well indefinitely and all the photos you import will end up in there in the folders structure you imported them with. To browse... |
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| Photography Tip: The Benefits of Disassembling Images |
 With this editorial, we introduce a new photo-educational segment to Buy-n-Shoot.com. Each editorial will contain an image by Shelton Muller and a breakdown of how it was achieved…This image was part of a two-day wedding photography workshop run by Creative Photo Workshops. While a dynamic image, it is not difficult to set up or achieve. But certain simple steps need to... |
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| Photography Tip: Understanding Adobe Lightroom Part 2 |
 The Library module is where you will spend most of your time in Lightroom; this is where you can browse your images, rate and rank, add metadata and keywords, even make some quick, basic adjustments from the Quick Develop menu on the right. Across the bottom is your filmstrip view and in the centre is your viewing area This viewing area can be set to Grid view (G) or Loupe view (E) simply by hitting the... |
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| Photography Tip: What is Adobe Lightroom? Part 1 |
 Lightroom is a database driven, asset management system with an inbuilt raw processor. Unlike Bridge, which is a browser, Lightroom is a database, so everything needs to be imported before it can be viewed. However, once your images are imported they become incredibly quick and easy to work with. Like the Camera Raw/Bridge workflow, Lightroom is a non-destructive metadata editor, so pixels are never altered, they... |
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| Photography Tips For Composing Better Pictures |
 Ok, you don’t want to be professional but you want your pictures to be as good as they can be, right? Well, it’s really not that hard! The key to successful pictures is often in the composition. Here are some really easy tips to making your photos successful. We should never have to explain why we took a picture or what the interesting thing about it. If we find ourselves having to do that all the time, we are not faring too well at our picture taking... |
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| Free Software Alternatives |
 Every day here at Buy-n-Shoot.com we search the net constantly for the latest news items. However, in our day-to-day surfing we quite often come across links to various free software that could be quite useful to our visitors. So we've decided to create a quick list of them... |
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| Photography Tip - Using Circular Polarizers |
 There is the temptation to believe that you don’t need any filters for your digital camera, that you can do it all in Photoshop. But at least one is, in my view, essential for digitals, the circular polarizing filter. Site contributor Wayne Cosshall writes: In my film days my camera bag was filled with filters, and filter systems, such as the Cokin one. When you first switch to digital, or for all the photographers who are coming to it without a film history, there is a reasonable tendency to ignore filters. After all... |
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| Photography Tip - Understanding Depth of Field |
 Depth of field is one of the least well-used aspects of photographic control. Yet it really is very simple to get your head around. A camera lens will actually only focus one single, flat (if it is a good lens) plane perfectly. As you move away from the plane of sharp focus, objects become gradually more blurred. In practice we can tolerate a small amount of blur (called a circle of confusion, from the blurred circle of light you get if you focus a point... |
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| Photography Tips To Get The Best Results From Your Inkjet Printer |
| 1. Shoot at your camera's highest resolution and quality settings. Most digital labs will be able to print your images directly from your camera's memory card. Note: if you decide to capture images with the RAW file format, you will have to convert them into JPEG or TIFF files before they can be printed. This can be done with the software supplied with your camera... |
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| Photography Tips For Travelling With Unprocessed Film |
| The last five years or so have seen a gradual increase in security scanning at airports and other departure points in most countries, with the introduction of new scanning equipment that has been designed to detect explosives and weapons in checked-in and hand-carried baggage. Security precautions in airports worldwide have been further tightened since the tragic events of 11 September 2001 and last October"s bomb attacks in Bali... |
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| Photography Tips For Digital Camera Buying |
| Digital cameras and camcorders are hot products this year, but if you make the wrong purchasing choices you can end up with an expensive camera that doesn’t meet your needs. The following ‘mistake’ list outlines the most common mistakes buyers make and how to avoid them... |
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| Photography Tips For File Formats & Digital Photos |
| When you save a digital image, you normally have to choose what format you want to save it in, regardless of whether you're saving the shot in the camera's memory card or to a computer. Most digital cameras provide between one and three file format options plus a range of 'quality' settings. And while all cameras allow you to save images in a compressed file format (which reduces the file size), top quality digital cameras also offer an uncompressed file format that delivers the best possible quality... |
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| Photography Tips For When Your Camera Stops Working |
| Although most cameras today are well built and reliable, occasionally a camera will stop working unexpectedly or start to display a few minor operational faults. You can actually do quite a lot to eliminate possible problems before you take the camera to your local camera store for repair... |
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| Photography Tips For Producing Digital Photos For Publication |
| Over the past few years Internet chat rooms that cover photography have often discussed whether digital images are acceptable for magazine reproduction or turning into large, fine art prints. It seems certain overseas travel and ‘fine art’ magazines are still refusing to accept digital images for publication on claims their quality isn’t good enough. Australian publications are, usually, happy to accept digital image files and many even prefer them because they integrate more readily into the production workflow. But only files that are ‘good enough’ will be accepted.... |
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| Photography Tips Explaining Color Fringing |
| Expect to hear a lot more about colour fringing in digital photos as the pixel counts for compact digicams continue to rise, while sensors become smaller. At the same time, expect to see the true reasons for colour fringing misattributed more often than not. To ‘put you in the picture’ (so to speak), if you see coloured fringes along edges in a photograph it can be attributed to one of two effects: chromatic aberration or blooming. The problem is deciding which one is the cause... |
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Photography Tips
Through The Viewfinder (TTV) is a technique which marries a DSLR with an old viewfinder camera, allowing the DSLR to capture the image shown through the viewfinder screen. The end result is an image with a retro or nostalgic mood. This tutorial will show you how to create unique images without spending a ridiculous amount of money on new equipment. The first thing you need is an old viewfinder camera....
