Most of us as photographers have heard the term "Specular Reflection." Certainly all of us have seen examples of it. But just what does "specular reflection" mean in a technical sense, and how does it impact our photographs? Reflections on still water, as in the...
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Once a generation maybe, pressures for change combine with forces for a better, fresher future, and a generational musical event like "The Fox" happens. That vision satisfies better than an image of a stodgy, smoke filled back room of cigar aficionados deciding who the next...
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Uwe Steinmueller | 11-11-2013 The Adjustment Brush in Lightroom is a very powerful tool. Using the Auto Brush mode allows you to get even more precise results. If you select Auto Mask the brush tries to only cover areas of your image that are close in color to...
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Uwe Steinmueller 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, and droplets are a good way to do that. Lightroom is very powerful but...
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IN CELEBRATION OF THE BLACK-AND-WHITE PRINT To many, including some close photographer friends, Black-and-White is the very definition of photography. John Sexton is an iconic master of the Black-and-White photography art. John was born in 1953, and has lived on the Monterey Peninsula in California for more than...
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If you have never seen the Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta, you've never seen hot air balloons. There is, simply put, nothing else on earth like it. Last month, at the first part of October, Albuquerque, New Mexico, held its 42nd annual International Balloon Fiesta, or as...
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The All New Nikon Df The fusion of responsive, intuitive dial operation and "flagship D4 image quality" in the smallest and lightest FX-format body, the Nikon Df PRE-ORDER Your Nikon Df DSLR Camera Kit with AF-S NIKKOR 50mm f/1.8G Special Edition Lens HERE! From the Nikon Df Press...
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I photographed Day of the Dead, or "Dia de los Muertos" as it is more properly called, in Mexico seven of the last ten years. It is always a challenging shoot, but such a magical experience it is a must attend event however difficult the...
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(Video Recorded Entirely With Sony HDR-MV1 Music Video Recorder) Amazon.com Widgets [caption id="attachment_4816" align="aligncenter" width="950"] The New Sony HDR-MV1 Music Video Camcorder[/caption] Sony tries to put old guys like me out of work with the all new Sony HDR-MV1 Music Video Recorder. It's hard enough getting older and having to fight off...
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“The Lion City,” is the latest creation of tilt shift time lapse photographer Keith Loutit an Australian filmmaker based in Singapore. His stated goal? "For 'The Lion City', the idea behind the extension of the tilt shift technique is for focus and distance to be something the...
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EDITORS REPLY: It seems that I have inadvertently offended somebody I had no intention to offend. I apologize and beg forgiveness. Since my inadvertent error has lead to most of you now reading this, I will place my open response to him here as...
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Dubbing, or re-recording, is a post-production process used in filmmaking and video production, in which additional or supplementary recording occurs after the original recording stage. The process includes automated dialogue replacement (ADR), also known as "additional dialogue recording," in which the original actors re-record and synchronize audio segments in a studio long after the...
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Fujifilm Announces The All New FUJIFILM X-E2 It is no secret that most of the team here at TheCameraForum.Com are big fans of the Fuji X-Trans sensor based cameras. In fact, all of us own at least one. Mine is the X-E1, a camera that I...
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Far more than most still photographers realize, the quality of the audio track in moving pictures is one of the most important storytelling techniques. Second only to moving the camera itself, the soundtrack can add just the right elements of "sonic movement" in all the...
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Rumors have been flying around the internet "buzz" sites for several months about Sony being in development on the A7R, a full frame interchangeable lens NEX size camera body. The rumors, as is often the case, were wrong. Sony was in development on two bodies,...
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Uwe Steinmueller | 10-12-2013 From Digital OutbackPhoto.Net Using the Lightroom 4 Selective Noise Brush, because the noise is mostly in the shadows it is often advised to remove the noise selectively. The Lightroom Adjustment Brush is a very powerful tool for this task. The following article is taken from our...
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