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[5 Jan 2009 | No Comment | ]
Know It Better: Tilt Shift Photography

What is Tilt Shift Photography ?Â
This is the realm of photography that involves tilting the lens with respect to the picture plain and taking photos in that configuration. “Tilt-shift” actually has two movements: the rotation of the lens, called Tilt and movement of the lens parallel to the image plane, the Shift.
Tilt
 On a regular camera, the image plane, lens plane, and object plane are parallel, and objects in sharp focus are all at the same distance from the camera.. When the lens plane is tilted relative to the image plane, the Point …

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[7 Dec 2008 | No Comment | ]
6 Advantages of Bridge cameras over a DSLR and a normal Point & Shoot

Bridge cameras or super zooms or any other name this category is known by includes cameras with a large range lens, meaning it covers from Wide to Telefocal lengths and a lot of settings. Most of them have shooting modes similar to DSLR cameras, this includes modes like aperture priority,ISO priority , fully manual and so on.

The main features that distinguish then from DSLR’s are: they have fixed lens and you cannot change it, they have electronic view finders, they have small sensors, they generally have older processors. These …

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[6 Dec 2008 | No Comment | ]
Know It Better: What is Aspect Ratio?

Aspect ratio is the ratio of length to width of a given image. That is the ratio between the two dimensions of an image. The main importance of aspect ratio is that an image of a given aspect ratio will look different on a medium of different aspect ratio. These images should illustrate this :
16:9
4:3
The above two images are of 16:9 and 4:3 aspect ratios respectively, clearly the amount of the scene shown in the two images are different. The second has little more sky than the first and the …

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[4 Dec 2008 | No Comment | ]
When not to upgrade your camera.

This is a question that most of us ask ourselves and that too with the current rate of change of technology the question has become a lot more frequent. The most important thing to understand is that most highly advertised “new” technology is nothing but a marketing gimmick. This is not so in all cases but it is true in most cases. Digital camera technology is one at its infancy, digital cameras have become a mass market product only in that last ten to five years. This means that the …

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[1 Dec 2008 | No Comment | ]
5 Tips when accepting license agreements on photo sites.

When you upload photos to a site, it is trusting some one with your precious material. Material which can make money, or if not ear money means a lot to you. There also the aspect of privacy, these photograph might be of your loved ones which you don’t want to appear on public areas. For all these reasons reading the License agreement is of great importance.
1. Read Read and Read
When you are signing up on a site usually the license agreement is showing to you, and you are asked to …

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[28 Nov 2008 | No Comment | ]
Tricks to good Photos:5 Tips for Insect Photography

Insects can vary in size to a large extent, this means that insect photography too can vary from macro to close ups. The most important thing to remember is that we are dealing with relatively small animals here so we have to be careful not to intimidate them. Insects have very fine detail and if captured properly they can make beautiful photographic subjects. As they are so small we don’t see them in thier complete beauty on the normal course, therefore a photograph which shows lots details will be very …

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[27 Nov 2008 | No Comment | ]
Tricks to good Photos:6 Tips to get better Photos on you mobile phones camera.

Today most mobile phones have cameras built into them. The most important advantage of these are that they are very portable and available when ever you need them as most people carry their phones along with them where ever they go. The mobile cameras however have some limitations. They are made so as to be very low on power consumption. Their sensors are very small so as to keep the phones compact. The image processors that they have are very basic. They also have high noise and low frame rates.

These …

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[26 Nov 2008 | One Comment | ]
Tricks to good Photos:Avoiding BackLight

Let us understand what backlight is first, you have a subject in the fore ground and there is a bright light source in the background this light source is called the backlight and the phenomenon that makes the subject look darker is usually referred to in the photography sphere as backlight. This article is meant for the crowd that is new to photography.
Why does the subject become darker when there is  backlight?
The light from the backlight is not falling on the subject, but it is very high in intensity. …

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[25 Nov 2008 | One Comment | ]
Know It Better : What and why of a lenses Angle of view

The angle-of-view is how wide an area is seen by a given lens.
Angle-of-view is determined by two factors, the focal length of the lens, and the area of light sensitive material used to capture your image. That means, when your lens becomes longer the angle of view is reducing and the final image will contain lesser area of the image plain. This is what gives the effect of zooming in or enlarging what is being seen to a particular area of interest.

As a general case when the focal length …

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[21 Nov 2008 | No Comment | ]
5 Top priorities for selecting a Safe Storage of your photographs.

Lets see the basic options one have for digital photograph storage. Like any digital data photographs also can be stored in any digital storage device. The basic division would be physical devices and virtual storage. Now physical devices can have large storage devices and small capacity. Also we can have permanent storage and erasable storage. Some examples would be storage cards, external hard drives, optical storage like blue ray discs or DVDs, online storage.
Top priorities when selecting the storage option:-

Capacity:- It is possible to take tens to hundreds of GB …