Photography 101
[Notice the byline? Please welcome Elizabeth West to Photodoto. Elizabeth is a writer by profession and a collector of historic images of women. She's also recently jumped into the digital camera market with both feet and currently shoots a Canon EOS 30d, Olympus 740 UZ, and a Canon Digital Elph [...]
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Photography 101
I was reading a discussion over at Flickr the other day about how shooting in RAW mode saved some under-exposed shots. Accepted wisdom seems to be that correcting under and over exposure is much easier/better with RAW than JPG. Without making any judgments, I decided to try it out and [...]
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Photography 101
I love making portraits. People, especially faces, to me, are a fascinating subject. So expressive and varied---there is emotion and character and life in every subject.
First, what is a portrait? The extremely open-minded among us will argue that any photo can be a portrait---face not required. A hand, a wisp [...]
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Photography 101
A brief history lesson about an image sharpening method called "unsharp mask." Photoshop and other image manipulation software all have a feature with this name that will sharpen an image. So, why is it called unsharp mask?
The name comes from the original photographic procedure used to increase the apparent sharpness [...]
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Photography 101
Still life photography is the photography of inanimate objects purposefully arranged and lit. There's something very satisfying about capturing something exactly as you pictured it in your mind. The items themselves, their arrangement, lighting, and camera settings are all meticulously controlled to produce the desired result. Still life photography is [...]
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