Studio Lighting Tips, Techniques, Tutorials and Equipment Information
The new PhotoVu digital picture frame simply exudes power. Consider some of its features: 1. It can display high resolution images, including those from the new 21.1-megapixel Canon EOS-1DS Mark III. Whatever the sizes of your pictures, you don’t have to do any cropping or resizing, it will display right everytime. 2. Its software supports …
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JP Distribution in the UK is offering a free flash head – worth about £300 – with the purchase of either the Lumen8 F200 or F400 lighting kit by Lastolite. This offer is good until March 2008. The Lumen8 flash kit is designed for photographers who need to be mobile. The two-head kit is supplied …
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Canon is reportedly recalling the 12-megapixel PowerShot A650 compact camera due to some defect. According to Pictureline.com early production models of the A650 show unacceptable levels of image distortion due to light leaking when shooting with the Vari-Angle LCD monitor open under sunny skies, where light shines on the back of the camera. Canon is …
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Trek-Tech has released the new TrekPod Go! tripod, monopod, and hiking staff with a number of customer-requested enhancements, including the ability to pack into its included travel case and fit in an overhead carry-on. The TrekPod Go! fits in airline-approved carry-on luggage that’s only 23 inches long. The included travel case has a padded shoulder …
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At 26, Peter van Agtmael is already a veteran of two wars, Iraq and Afghanistan, photographing its pathos and horrors. Peter took the photo above showing 23-year-old Jeff Reffner of Altoona, PA, in an emergency room in Baghdad after his Humvee was hit by an improvised explosive device. The soldier has since gone back home …
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John Short writes, “Why do we read so often that it is best to shoot your images in RAW and not as JPEGs?†To answer the question, John posted a tutorial showing the basic steps in processing RAW files with Adobe Lightroom to demonstrate the benefits of shooting in RAW mode. By opening the photo …
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JAlbum is offering a paltry 30MB of free hosting for your photos, enough they say for 200 photos, maybe itty-bitty tiny photos. But, hey, it’s for free. “With 8 million published albums, the free JAlbum software is one of the most popular tools in the world for producing web photo albums,†says the Stockholm-based company. …
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ACD Systems International Inc. today unveiled ACDSee 10 Photo Manager, the latest update to its photo organization and sharing software. It features integration with photo sharing sites such as Flickr and SmugMug, as well as cameras and other devices. Additional features include real-time viewing, management and editing of multiple image files, even in large albums …
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Fujifilm wants to keep the use of celluloid alive through its affiliated site Choose-Film.com. It is also making a unilateral declaration for a World Film Photography Day on March 20, 2008 to celebrate the use of film. Choose-Film.com wants you to join the fun by becoming a member of their community. People who love shooting …
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The Lacie 2Big Network-Attached Storage device is now shipping, offering a Gigabit Ethernet interface and two disks (up to 2TB) that can be “mirrored†(RAID 1) to ensure data integrity, or “merged†(RAID 0) to allow maximum capacity. The 2big Network ships with the new LaCie Ethernet Agent for easy configuration and simple data access. …
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