by Patrick Arseneau - The use of a ring flash can be effective when you to want to reduce the hard background shadow of your subjects. When using a regular flash mounted on your camera, the hard shadow is inevitable unless you bounce the light from a wall or ceiling. The ring flash shoots light through a diffuser mounted around the lens. This softens the shadow behind the subject.
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by
Darren Rowse –
In traditional (film) photography ISO (or ASA) was the indication of how sensitive a film was to light. It was measured in numbers (you’ve probably seen them on films – 100, 200, 400, 800 etc). The lower the number the lower the sensitivity of the film and the finer the grain in the shots you’re taking.
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Tomas Ratas – Not wanting to let Jeff and Kris handle all the 2009 Top Ten list fun, I decided to join the list making extravaganza. Today I will be running down the top ten DSLR cameras for 2009. Digital SLR cameras have made some nice advances in the past year with additions such as HD Movie recording, higher resolution LCD view screens, and larger DSLR sensors. These extra features are helping drive increased DSLR sales to the amateur photographer.
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by Patrick Arseneau - In
DSLR Basics Part I, I talked about
focusing and
exposure. Now I’m going to talk about the 4 camera modes you should be using;
P, Av, Tv and M.
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Did you get a DSLR camera for Christmas? Maybe you got one a while ago and you put it away because you found it too overwhelming to learn how to use? A lot of people look at a DSLR camera and say “woah! I would need a course to learn how to use that”. Don’t be intimidated by the number of buttons on your camera. It all comes down to only 2 things that you need to pay attention to;
Focusing and
Exposure. You can ignore the rest for now. At least during the learning stage.
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