Studio Lighting Tips, Techniques, Tutorials and Equipment Information
Here’s a primer about optical filters from Photo-Mentor.com, describing what they are, why we use them and when. An optical filter is a piece of glass attached to a camera lens to selectively transmit light of a particular wavelength while blocking the others. It conditions the light entering the camera in favorable ways – often …
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I didn’t know that you can actually create and view 3D photos without special equipment until I came across this post. Here’s a fun post that describes how to do just that – create your very own 3D images using only your camera and view the images in 3D using only your eyes, no equipment …
The American Writers & Artists Inc. has published a concise guide, The Beginner’s Guide to Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop, and it’s downloadable as a free booklet in PDF form. It’s quite useful if you’re a novice photographer trying to dig in to Lightroom and Photoshop and wondering when to use one or the other. The …
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The new Carl Zeiss C Biogon T* 2.8/35 ZM lens is primarily for the Zeiss Ikon rangefinder camera using the 24x36mm format on 35mm film. The company touts its perfect images even at full aperture. The new lens complements the compact C Biogon T* 4.5/21 ZM lens to create the ideal equipment for a wide …
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New from publisher Rocky Nook is this book by Juergen Gulbins, Digital Photography from the Ground Up, A Comprehensive Course. It aims to help the novice photographer get started with a firm foundation in understanding the principles and techniques of modern photography. The book deals primarily with the photographic workflow, from capture to print and …
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Ovolab of Torino, Italy today released Ovolab Geophoto 2.0, a major upgrade to its Macintosh application for browsing photos by location. The application organizes photos by location through a three-dimensional representation of the Earth. The user can pan, zoom and fly through the photos using high-resolution satellite images of the planet. The upgrade adds powerful …
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AlienBees has announced the CyberSync 2.4GHz trigger-transmitter and companion CyberSync trigger-receiver for remote control lighting. These products, designed by Paul C. Buff, are now undergoing FCC testing and are expected to ship in May 2008. Paul said the CyberSync system is an advanced binary encoded system with a high degree of error security to assure …
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Apple has released Digital Camera RAW Compatibility Update 2.0 for Aperture 2.0 or iPhoto 7.1.2 adding support for the latest models of digital cameras. The update is downloadable for free at the Apple website. It adds support for the following new cameras: • Hasselblad CFV-16 • Hasselblad H3D-31 • Hasselblad H3D-31II • Leaf Aptus 54S …
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Leaf America is giving away the Mamiya 645 AFDII medium format camera free of charge (a $2,990 value) to buyers of the new Leaf Aptus 75, 65, or 22 back, or the Aptus S equivalent in Mamiya AFD mount. That’s right, you buy the digital back and the camera is free. You will also be …
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Nikon is celebrating the 75th anniversary of NIKKOR camera lenses. First introduced in 1933, it debuted as Aero-NIKKOR, a camera lens for aerial photography made by Nippon Kogaku K.K., the original company name of Nikon Corporation. Since then, NIKKOR has developed extensively into both consumer and industrial markets, becoming a synonym for Japan’s leading high-performance …