Author: Ralph Lee Hopkins Publisher: Lark Photography Books (Sterling Publishing) Review by Conrad J. Obregon Sometimes a book is perfectly fine for its purpose and is worth reading but doesn’t stand out above others in a crowded field. This is the case with Digital Masters: Nature Photography: Documenting the Wild World (A Lark Photography Book). [...]
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It was so fast. I can’t believe it’s already over but Photoshop World Las Vegas 2010 is over. It was a great show. I learned as much as I taught and made some new friends. I was also excited to get to meet many of the Photofocus audience. That was really cool. As for Photoshop [...]
So you bought yourself a SLR camera. What now? You obviously need more lenses. To find out which lenses to suit your specific use is not always easy. There are several abbreviations and specifications you need to find out, and things are not better by the fact that different manufacturers use completely different abbreviations for exactly the same properties. Below I take a review of the important features you can find on a lens, and how the different manufacturers label them. Maximum aperture is something which is stated on all lenses. It tells you how much light the lens can get through to the sensor at its best.
I was privileged to sit on a panel of advisors for one of the lens manufacturers last year. I was allowed to give my input to a design team that was working out the lens of the future. I doubt I’ll live long enough to see most of these recommendations come to life, but I [...]
Another busy 6 months has passed in the digital photography world, and right on cue, the Ricoh CX4 appears as the replacement for the already out-of-date CX3 compact camera. New features include a reworked body, improved image stabilisation sys…
“Above Scotland: Cities” is a new book containing aerial photographs of Scotland’s six cities from the 1920s to the present.
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