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AdoramaTV Presents Digital Photography One on One. In this episode Mark demonstrates some techniques for shooting portraits (and a few other things) in natural light. Mark uses nothing but his camera, no reflectors or fill flash, to get terrific results. Mark also talks about open shade and how you can use it to get different lighting results. Sekonic L-358 Flash Master: www.adorama.com Visit www.adorama.com for more photography videos! Send your questions to: AskMark@Adorama.com
This week on the Digital Photography Cafe show, Trevor Current and Joseph Cristina talk about the talent agency scam, Lightroom 4 and The New iPad.
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Question by Jacquie: How does digital photography differ from traditional photography?
I have taken basic photography and would like to learn digital photography.
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Answer by beachxbabex3
i think traditional (i mean since you learned it…) is like basically like setting up the light meter and etc. for each shot. its more “olden days” while digital is you get to see the shot and its more computerized
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A few nice digital photography images I found:
Dynasty_004
Image by C?Yu
Dynasty is a digital photography project based on portrets of three Westland families (three or four generations) who are involved in the cultivation of grapes. With the portrets a historical and social impression should be given of the past, present and future of grape planters in the Westlands of the Netherlands.
The theme of the photography project is Glory. Glory is about the memory of those glorious days during the golden age of grape industry, and future glory; grape fanatics try to recapture glory by searching for new markets and a top quality product standard.
The project is a part of the 2004 / 2005 European Media Master of Art program (DiP, Digital Photography) on the Utrecht School for the Arts, Faculty Art, Media & Technology. This project is an assignment from Stichting Museum Ontwikkeling and Stichting de Westlandse Druif. The photographs will be presented on the thursday 27th of January 2005 in the hall of the Faculty Art, Media & Technology in Hilversum. After this the photographs will be the current exposition of the Westlands museum, open september 2005 (Monster, Netherlands)
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Dynasty project research website
Oppositely Different
Image by Renato Pequito
Shots taken for Week #9 of Thing a Week
The theme for this week was Opposites, that reminded me of the opposite technology in the photography realm. Whilst Digital Photography came to try and takeover Film Photography it just did the opposite, it divided photography into two great areas of expertise. It did generate a very big interest in it and I am proud to be in the middle of it. Long live both!
Chose this one to be my final entry due to the simplistic portrait style and that it shows the subjects perfectly.
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AdoramaTV Presents Digital Photography One on One. In this week’s episode Mark shows you how to make a light stick and trigger off-camera speedlights. Watch as Mark builds a light stick on set and then takes you to the park for a demonstration. Visit www.adorama.com for more photography videos! Send your questions to: AskMark@Adorama.com Products used in this episode: INDAM14 Induro AM14 Alloy 8M AM-Series 4-Section Monopod, Extends to 57.6″, Supports 17.6 lbs. www.adorama.com BEA48F Benro A48F Classic Monopod – Aluminum Flip Lock Leg www.adorama.com LSEB2462M2 Lastolite 24″ x 24″ Ezybox Hot Shoe Softbox Kit with Mark II Bracket www.adorama.com PWFTT5NK PocketWizard FlexTT5 Transceiver Radio Slave for Nikon i-TTL www.adorama.com PWFTT5CA PocketWizard FlexTT5 Transceiver for Canon DSLR www.adorama.com PWWPT2 Pocket-Wizard Plus II Auto Sensing Smart Transceiver www.adorama.com PWMTT1CA PocketWizard MiniTT1 Transmitter for Canon DSLR www.adorama.com PWMTT1NK PocketWizard MiniTT1 Radio Slave Transmitter for Nikon i-TTL www.adorama.com PWPC5N PocketWizard Locking PC to Miniphone www.adorama.com LTSA38FS Adorama Stud Adapter Set ” Female & Male 1/4X & 3/8″ Stud www.adorama.com PASTR117 Interfit Photographic Umbrella Holder with Hotshoe Adapter www.adorama.com QTTSC Quantum Turbo SC Slim Compact Battery Power Pack www.adorama.com QTMCKE2 Quantum Cable CK-E2 for Turbo Battery www.adorama.com QTMCZ2 Quantum Cable CZ2 Canon Cable for Turbo Battery www.adorama.com CA580EX2U Canon …
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In this episode Mark explains Depth of Field.
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Question by Miss Melanie: What is the difference between photography and digital photography?
Some colleges want to know if I want to major in photography or digital photography. Besides the use of two different cameras, what the real difference?
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Answer by obidane
Photography with film is a lot different from digital. For one thing, it’s done in a dark room. You need the right chemicals, an enlarger, etc. Plus there’s a completely different feel to the way the images are produced after the point and shoot part. Also, because of all the chemicals, film photography is more of a health hazard, especially color film!
Digital photography is all handled on the computer instead of in the dark room. You use a computer, photo editing program, and a printer to produce your photographs. Again it just feels different.
I’d suggest trying out both of them before making a decision. I prefer digital (because I can’t stand the smell of the dark room), but a lot of people really love film. And pinhole cameras only work in the dark room (they’re a lot of fun!).
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AdoramaTV Presents Digital Photography One on One. In this week’s episode Mark discusses the position of light and how it affects the mood of the photograph. Watch as Mark takes you through an in-studio exercise to illustrate how moving the position of your light source can affect the contrast and highlights. Visit www.adorama.com for more photography videos! Send your questions to: AskMark@Adorama.com
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AdoramaTV Presents Digital Photography One on One. In this week’s episode Mark discusses Moiré patterns. Learn what a Moiré pattern is, how to prevent them in your photos and how to fix them in Photoshop if you do get an unexpected Moiré pattern in your photo. Visit www.adorama.com for more photography videos! Send your questions to: AskMark@Adorama.com
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AdoramaTV Presents You Keep Shooting with Bryan Peterson. Join Bryan on location in Paris where he discusses how to use shutter speed to create the Monet effect. Watch as Bryan uses his unique artistic eye to capture a creative photograph. Visit www.adorama.com for more photography videos!
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Digital Corruption – This is what happens to old photos on cheap CDs
Image by rogergordon
The other day I read a film vs digital comparison article, and one of the points in favour of film was its potentially longer life. The article made a point that if a file format (such as .jpg for instance) were to become unreadable or at least uncommon enough to make it very hard to be read, then t … Posted via email from Roger Gordon’s Blog
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A few nice digital photography images I found:
Kelby’s Digital Photography series
Image by tychay
Blogged in The Woodwork: When (to learn more about) dSLR (photography) [The entry kit dSLR Part 7]
Kelby’s Digital Photography series
Costco, South of Market, San Francisco, California
Olympus E-P2, Lumix G Vario HD 1:4.0-5.8/14-140 ASPH. MEGA O.I.S.
Adobe Camera RAW, nik Dfine, nik Color Efex Pro (pro contrast), nik Sharpener Pro (output sharpen)
1/60sec @ ƒ4.7, ISO400, 25mm (50mm)
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Noticed that Scott Kelby’s introductory books on digital photography are for sale at Costco. It might be a good read for beginners—it is, after all, the best selling digital photography books of all time.
Shooting notes: Costco has too many lights creating too many specular highlights. 
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Digital Darkroom: DSLR + Snapseed
Image by jasewong
I’ve been trying out this app by Nik software called Snapseed.
The selective adjustment feature is a standout for photo editing on a touchscreen. What you do is touch the point you want to adjust. The software creates a resizable circular mask anchored around the point you selected and automatically limits the editing area to the object – probably using some sort of colour and luminance matching eg. A symbol or underexposed shadow. You can then adjust the exposure, contrast an saturation of the selected object in quite a natural way without affecting other parts of the photo. It’s like the old darkroom techniques of spotting and dodging, but done with digital precision. It’s hard to explain in words so here’s the demo video
On my last trip I also tried pairing my DSLR with my iPad to backup and process photos on the fly. All I needed was an iPad USB adapter and USB cable to hook it up directly to any digital camera. I usually lug around a MacBook + hard drive.
The workflow from camera to publishing is still a little clunky:
1. Use the standard iOS Photo app to import photos from the camera. It would be really helpful if they made the previews larger so you can actually choose the best shots to import. Instead you get small thumbnails that don’t show you much detail.
2. Open Snapseed and of the photos you did import, try guessing the best one to edit from the small thumbnails. You end up opening and closing photos several times to get the right shot to edit.
3. Use the Snapseed touchscreen editing tools – which are great!
4. Save back to the iOS Gallery.
5. Use whatever it is you do to share photos. With the Flickr app you can tag and upload up to 10 at a time.
It would be great if there was a way to sync all your work back onto a desktop when you finally get home to view and continue editing via a bigger screen so that you can continue on with the editing.
However, I’ve never used a more efficient tool for the editing part. The touchscreen enables me to apply delicate exposure and contrast adjustments and I didn’t have to wait till I got home to get my photos off my DSLR and onto the web. Lookin forward to the next version of this app.
Pros
– selective adjustment for fine and precise image control
– ambience adjustment is a good alternative look to vignette
– great natural adjustments and effects
– brilliant value for AUD.49
Cons
– each edit is burnt in each time you use one of Snapseed’s tools with no undo button
– you can’t batch process
– no end-to-end workflow. It would be greatly improved with better import and export/sharing tools
Comments and links please!
I was keen to try and see if I can do everything I need to on my iPad without having to sit in front of my desktop… seems like we’re not quite there yet. At the moment I can only really use Snapseed for ad-hoc editing but what I’d like to do is pair my camera with my iPad for most of the edits and relegate the Desktop to backups and high detail edits in Photoshop.
If anyone has a better way to process images from their DSLR on their iPad, do tell!
Discussion Thread over on the Snapseed Group
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Question by branD0Nli: What does transformation have to do with digital photography?
I’m doing a project in my Geometry class. My topic is “Transformation and Digital Photography”. I have no idea what the two have in common. Can someone help me out and provide some online links that I can use as further reference?
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Answer by Forlorn Hope
digital photography has transformed a lot over the years… not entirely sure what that has to do with geometry – unless it is to do with the sensors and megapixels… you might want to start searching there…
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