The traditional process of auto focus adjustments is a long drawn out procedure that requires quite a bit of accuracy in the alignment and setup of the targets and some skill and guesswork in reading the results. However, there is an alternative method that works just as well but requires a whole lot less prep work. In addition there is now software that automates this process making it virtually painless.
A short gallery of a Bald Eagle harassing an Osprey for its fish (kleptoparasitism).
Astrophotography is a specialized area of photography that looks more like astronomy than photography. On a lark, with out any serious astronomy gear, I decided to turn my camera and a fast lens towards the heavens to see what I could photograph.
Development defaults are the way Lightroom applies baseline development settings to an image on import or reset. Defaults are the best way to apply common settings that apply to all images from a specific camera, like sharpening and noise reduction, and not for creative styling or effects.
Unlike presets, development defaults change every development setting except …
Photoshop Lightroom offers two mechanisms for quickly applying development settings to images, presets and defaults. In this post, part one of two, covering presets and defaults we’ll look at how to create and apply presets.
Part one of two covering the post production processing I did on my Porject popcorn poster. Including, blending images in Photoshop to address Depth of Field shortcomings and tweaking the image in Lightroom to add punch.
From start to finish it took about 2 hours to get everything setup, designed, groomed, ready to go and shot. Fortunately, I already had my lighting designed so it was a matter of quickly dialing in the power settings. The real chore was herding popcorn where it needed to be.
The setup overview image below, shows …
For faster working with bounce flash, rotate the flash head so that you only have to bend it though one angle when changing from horizontal to vertical.
Good lightning photography is one of the few areas of photography I really admire. The combination of sheer luck, power of nature and inherent danger of being outside in the path of an approaching thunderstorm certainly doesn’t hurt the aesthetics of a well composed lightning bold either.
Last time we looked at focusing using a ground glass and the problems it presents as frame sizes and view finders get smaller. This time we’ll look at how to find the distance to something with out leaving the camera or using a ruler.
Finding the Range
What’s needed is a way to measure the distance …
A look at the early years of focusing cameras, the selective pressures that necessitated focusing aids, and the science behind some of those solutions. This time we cover the most primitive focusing screen, the ground glass.
Canon introduced 2-frame brackets to the EOS 1D Mark 3 and EOS 1Ds Mark 3 but didn’t obviously provide a way to change the bracketed frame from being an under-exposure to an over-exposure. That is until you play with another custom function.
I don’t pretend to be an expert in flower photography but I’ve made a few flower images that I like and I’m going to try and figure out how to make more. This is the first article in a series following my attempt to figure out what does and doesn’t work in flower photography and how I went about making the images. This time we look at a general overview of some conventional wisdom for flower photography as well as some of the basics needed.
This one comes from DTown TV but works equally well on Canon bodes.
If you’re ever in a situation where you want to set the white balance in camera but you don’t have an appropriate target, there’s hope. If your camera has Live View it will show you in real time the affect changing the color …
