Studio Lighting Tips, Techniques, Tutorials and Equipment Information
Cliff Smith at TrustedReviews.com has just taken a good look at Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo X2, took note about how it installs and how it performs, and came up with a Recommended rating for the image editing software, a very good 9 out of 10 score. He writes, “Corel Paint Shop Pro keeps getting …
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Filipino photographer Marc Aviles shoots not with the most expensive Hasselblads nor the top of the line Nikon or Canon DSLRs. His humble Canon EOS 400D is definitely consumer-grade, but he shoots with the keen eye of a true artist. That’s why he wins photo contests like the recent one by Pop Photo. He came …
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Nikon today announced its sponsorship of America at Home – one of the most ambitious projects ever undertaken to document and photograph the everyday lives of Americans at their homes. Starting this week, 100 of the world’s top photojournalists will fan out across the United States to capture pictures of people at home. They will …
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Akvis LLC has updated its Frame Suite to version 2.5 adding a new texture effect of drawing on an uneven surface among its frames and edge effects to pictures. The new texture effect imitates an image drawn on different surfaces, for example, canvas, brick wall, corrugated paper, etc. Akvis says they have also updated the …
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How much can you learn about lighting in about 3 hours? How about how to get stellar light with a less than stellar budget (my favorite topic), diffusion, aperture, shutter, how to build light panels, scrims, diffusion, the “Inverse Square” Law, photograph 2 live models, build cheap reflector boards, beat the 12 O’clock sun, hard …
In this episode of Digital Photography One on One, Mark Wallace [SnapFactory.com] discusses purchasing the right lighting equipment by focusing on what equipment is needed for the basic three light setup. Question Answered: 1) What kind of studio lighting equipment should I buy? Books: Photographing People: Portraits, Fashion, Glamour Lighting for Portrait: Photography Rotovision Books …
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In the Philippines, a national photo club is collaborating with a singing institution to hold a photo contest that would best express the sentiments of songs. The Federation of Philippine Photographers Foundation has launched the photo competition in partnership with the Philippine Madrigal Singers, a world-renowned singing group which had been in existence for about …
Camera shipments are rising but prices are falling; good for the consumers, bad for the manufacturers. No, wait. Cameras are selling more because they’re more affordable now; good for the consumer, good too for the manufacturer. That appears to be the gist of a report by InfoTrends, which said that the average digital camera price …
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Seventy-five percent of professional photographers in the U.S. would still go for film even as they embrace digital, according to a survey by Kodak. The company said they also did a similar survey in Europe and got the same response, with more than two-thirds of professional photographers saying they still plan to continue using film. …
Hasselblad has launched the latest line of its high-end H3D-II digital SLR full frame camera, headlined by a 39-megapixel model, the H3D-39II. Also debuting are the H3D-31II and the H3D-22II with 31 and 22 megapixels, respectively. The new high-end cameras tout supersized 48x36mm CCD image sensors, which Hasselblad says are twice the size of the …