Homeowners and realtors rely on the pictures that accompany their real estate listings to sell their home or property. A poor quality picture can turn away a potential buyer. It is therefore, an absolute necessity for the pictures to be of high-quality. Here are some tips that can help you get the best out of [...]
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Modern Photography
April 19th, 2012
Andrei The digital takeover in photography is hardly a new thing, but with film companies folding and going into administration it’s important for any budding, amateur, hobbyist and professional photographers alike to think about the impact it is having on the industry. Before we used to develop our films and physically print our photos, or get [...]
10 Tips To Make Your Food Photography Look Natural
March 27th, 2012
Andrei Food photography is an interesting aspect of photography which deals with food items whether shot in the studio or in natural locations. For most food photographers, they use several elements to make their photography appear very natural. People generally expect to see their food from a specific point of view, which means that food photographers [...]
Fresh Ideas for Displaying Your Photographs
March 22nd, 2012
Andrei You work hard on you photographs, setting up shots, waiting for the right moment, taking hundreds of shots to get the perfect one. And when you are done, you probably put it in your portfolio and make a print, maybe frame it, and hang it on a wall. While there is nothing wrong with displaying [...]
Portrait Photography Tips
February 4th, 2012
Andrei Capturing an image of a person’s face, their entire body, or even a group of people is most commonly referred to as a portrait photo, or portraiture. There are different ways a portrait photo can be shot, whether it is at setup shot with the subject looking into the camera, or in a more documentary [...]
Magnetic Storage Devices
January 28th, 2012
Andrei The building blocks of digital images are bits. These can either be zero or one. Magnetic storage devices such as hard disks distinguish a one from a zero by changing the magnetic properties of the disk in that location. The great thing about hard disks is that their capacities are constantly increasing while prices are [...]
Lens Vignetting
January 25th, 2012
Andrei In photography, lens vignetting is a reduction of an image’s brightness or saturation at the corners compared to the image center. The word vignette originally referred to a decorative border in a book. Later, the word came to be used for a photographic portrait which is clear in the center, and fades off at the edges. [...]
Camera Field of View
January 10th, 2012
Andrei The camera field of view is determined by the angle of view from the lens out to the scene and can be measured vertically or horizontally. Because the aspect ratio differs between formats, the more universal camera field of view is calculated along the diagonal of the scene. A shorter focal length (such as a [...]
Perspective In Photography
January 7th, 2012
Andrei If you photograph a subject with a tele lens and want it to have the same size on the sensor when photographing it with a wide angle lens, you would have to move closer to the subject. Because this would cause the perspective to change, lenses with different focal lengths are said to have a [...]
Macro
December 18th, 2011
Andrei In photographic terms, “macro” means the optical ability to produce a 1:1 or higher magnification of an object on the sensor. For instance if you photograph a aquarium shrimp with an actual size of 21.6 mm so that it fills the 35mm sensor (43.3mm diagonal), the shrimp gets magnified with a ratio of 43.3 to [...]



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