It’s been a while since my last post. I’ve been pretty busy but that shouldn’t an excuse for not blogging. As I’m leaving on a trip tomorrow for a week, I thought I’d make a post instead of waiting another whole week.
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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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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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by Patrick Arseneau – I’m finally making the jump to a full frame DSLR. I just ordered the
Canon 5D Mark II. Sure I’m pretty happy with the Canon 40D I have now, but I got a chance to play around with someone’s 5D not long ago and I probably shouldn’t have done that. It convinced me to take a chunk out of my budget to get one.
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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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