With the release of OS X Yosemite later this year, Apple will cease the development of its professional photo editing application, Aperture. Bummer. Users of Aperture will be transitioned to Photos, a new app that was introduced during the Apple WWDC keynote recently. The new Photos application integrates many...
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Finally, the Fat Lady is warming up her voice. I’ve felt for some time that there were better RAW conversion options on the market than Adobe Camera Raw, which is natively supported by Lightroom. DxO Optics Pro is one of those. However, the round trip out...
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The Art Of A Focus Puller One of the least expensive and most versatile lenses in any filmmaker’s bag of tricks is the 50mm lens. Check around, almost every manufacturer sells a "nifty fifty." Considered by many to be the default "normal" human vision equivalent, there are more 50mm lenses in...
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The Optikos Bench First and foremost, if you aren’t at least a little Geeky, this post is not for you; unless you’re one of those people who thinks "just take some pictures, dammit," when I write some article about resolution testing. In that case, you might...
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What is Decentering and What Does it Do? Strictly speaking, decentering would involve one or more of the lens elements being off of the central axis of the lens. This would prevent the curved surfaces of the lens from bending the light properly. In severe cases...
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When I went to school photography education consisted of a brownie box camera, five rolls of 127 B&W film, five pre-paid Kodak processing mailers, and a teacher/advisor who supervised the yearbook student staff. "Go out and get us some great pictures!" was about the extent of...
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Editors Note: Today we introduce a gentleman who needs little introduction, the Master of Brevity, the Don Juan of Optical Benches, Master researcher of a7r light leak, the Master Myth Buster of Camera Porn himself, President of LensRentals.Com, Mr. Roger Cicala! BAD-A-BOOM! Roger has agreed to...
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The easier we accept critique, the more constructive critique we get, the greater our opportunity for growth in our chosen craft. This is true not only in photography, but in filmmaking, writing, painting, music, and every other art form. Craft skills in the arts...
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Digital Grotesque . Printing Architecture from Digital Grotesque on Vimeo. Digital Grotesque is the first human-scale immersive space entirely constructed out of 3D printed sandstone. Yep, you read that right, it is a human-scale space "printed" as a room. And not just an ordinary room, either....
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Perspective Warp in Photoshop CC 14.2 01-24-2014 Uwe Steinmueller in Photoshop Perspective distortions are hard to avoid if you photograph buildings and some scenery. That is why perspective corrections are a standard part of many raw converters and, of course, Photoshop. • Lightroom: Upright and perspective transformations • Photoshop: Perspective crop...
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by Uwe Steinmueller Originally Posted On OutbackPhoto.Net We are currently working on some new scripts and this reminded us to share the use of Droplets with our readers. We like to streamline our workflow as much as possible. Lightroom is very powerful but yet there are tasks that...
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[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="582"] The SD Deck of Cards. What A Confusing Mess![/caption] Christmas is past but the Grinch left me one more New Years present. I discovered a new 32GB SDXC card bit the dust, and took my whole Happy New Year along with it....
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A7R Shutter Vibration May Be Too Great For Some Uses [caption id="attachment_5665" align="aligncenter" width="518"] Mike's Bronze Weight.A prototype for testing a 24-ounce deadweight attached to camera via the tripod screw thread.[/caption] Unfortunately, Sony has a problem with the A7R which is serious for a significant segment of...
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Cameras today are so smart, why should a photographer need to know how to use a camera in manual mode? Good question, and one with a several part answer. First, to use technology to its fullest you have to know what is going on behind the...
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By Jim Quinn Light modifiers are where you find them. Today I found one in my local Walgreens drug store. My wife, who loves the idea of packing away small umbrellas “just in case,” spotted a display of Totes Skinni Mini umbrellas in a variety of colors....
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We often shoot still photos handheld but find that we need a tripod for our videos. Finding a good video tripod with fluid head is hard and often expensive. If you look for a smaller and reasonable solution for cameras like the Panasonic GH3 it...
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