Canon PowerShot SX40 HS Review

Looking for a great, high megapixel camera that will meet practically all of your everyday photography needs? Well, look no further than the Canon PowerShot SX40 HS. This camera looks great and you could mistake it for a D-SLR camera. What's really incredible about the SX40 HS is its long 35x zoom range, coupled with that 12-megapixel camera resolution. Yes, you read that right - a 35x zoom range - which translates to a very powerful camera with telephoto reach. Read on and find out more about it.

Black and white

Think about Laurel and Hardy for a moment, or Charlie Chaplin, and even Harold Lloyd. All true examples of early cinema genius. Today's DVDs offer the opportunity of not only watching these classics in their pure black and white format but also in the DVD provides a colorized version. Essentially though the colorized version never quite looks right, even though it's meant to look more modern and more realistic to latter day cinema.

The point is this; these films were meant to be black and white because that was the level of technology of its day. But when you stand back and look at these films you can see that because the 'life' colour is stripped away they have in a sense become timeless and when viewed there is always something a bit special and different about them.

The same is true of a black and white painting, poster or photograph. A black and white photograph of an old wrinkly woman sitting by her doorstep is timeless, powerful and extremely though provoking. A picture of an old building or a city view in black and white has the same affect. Without colour you tend to look more closely at the subject and see a level of detail and arguably emotion that you may never spot with full colour. As mentioned before depending on the subject a black and white piece of art is essentially timeless.

Lightroom Tips

I'm going to share with you 5 tips about Lightroom that I feel you must know to improve your image workflow and also your editing capabilities. These are tips that I have accumulated over the couple of years that I have been using Lightroom and they help me tremendously. So, without further delay, let's get to it!

1. Control Your Use of the Clarity Slider

The clarity slider can really make the details in an image stand out and also help out with inherent blur from the camera. What the clarity slider does is look for contrast in the middle of the tonal range and boost the contrast. In images with a lot of detail this can really make a huge difference. I usually set mine to +30 for starters and then gauge it from there. Now, there are times when you will not want to bump the clarity slider up because it can counterproductive. If you are editing a portrait, you will more than likely not want to bump your clarity slider up. As we know, every person has pores and those pores just happen to be in the middle to upper tonal range, which the clarity slider affects. When you are trying to get nice, smooth skin, you should try backing off of the clarity slider and seeing what it does to the skin. I usually start with -15 and make changes from there. The good thing is that you will not lose detail overall in the image, unless you make a dramatic adjustment, but you will start to see the skin smooth out quite nicely. With a few more adjustments, you will have some really smooth skin that look very pleasing. This brings us to our next tip..

Underwater photograph

The underwater world is breathtaking to say the least. The turquoise blue and stupendous corals do indeed take your breath away. Diving underwater to take a look at sea life can be a defining moment in many lives. It allows for soothing your tensions and anxieties helping you experience complete surrenderfulness.

The beauty of underwater diving compares to none other. Often times we only have a few precious opportunities in our lives to dive underwater to look at a totally different world, especially if you don't live near a sea/ocean that provides underwater diving and exploration. When you are offered a once in a lifetime opportunity then, wouldn't you want to keep memories of this experience with you forever? That is why you need to consider taking underwater photographs. We help you understand what is important when considering taking underwater photographs and how to take them.

Butterflies photography

Butterflies photography

Camera:

Although any point and shoot camera can take decent pictures of landscape along with your friends and family portraits, for capturing good photographs of butterflies you will have to invest in a DSLR (Digital Single Lens Reflex) camera. An entry-level SLR camera will also suffice, it is the lens mounted on your camera that will make the difference. It is always better to use a SLR which has a field crop of 1.5 or 1.6, as compared to a full frame camera.

Lens:

The kit lens accompanying your camera is just no enough, due to the lack of zoom range. Average kit lens of 18mm-55mm is good for normal daily photography but even at its extended zoom end of 55mm, you will have to get really close to the butterfly to compose a good shot. But during butterfly photography, you just cannot get near physically as the butterfly will just fly away.

Take picture of your pets

Pet photography can be fun and rewarding. Maybe the best thing about pets, when compared to kids, is their attitude, or lack of attitude. Many people consider Canon DSLR cameras excellence for nature photography, including all kinds of wildlife. Maybe your pet does not qualify as wildlife, or maybe she does, but the same cameras and take better pictures of your pets.



Start with the plan.

In photography, as in most other endeavors, it is best to have a goal in mind before you start. Know what you want to do with your pet. Are you after a comical picture? Does your pet have a melancholy look that you want to capture? Perhaps you would like to get some personal photos of your Or dog with one of your kids, or even all your kids.

Food Photography

If you want to take some high quality food photographs for your business, or you just want some pics for your blog, here are some tips to help you get better food photos.

Style the food

This may seem like a bit much, but arranging your food carefully can make a dramatic difference to your food photographs. On professional food photography shoots a food stylist will often be employed just to get the food looking at its best. And many parts of the food may not even be real!

Photojournalism

Photojournalism can fall under all subjects of photography but the image needs to be news worthy to end up being published.

There are two types of photojournalism :
The first type is where an image is used to illustrate a story. Many feature journalists work closely with photographers and commission them to produce images that will be published with their articles. There is no limit to how many images can be used. This is usually the photo editors decision.

Abstrac photography

The invention of the camera liberated painting from its reportage role. Gone was the need to produce a likeness, detail the events of the story, painting was free to express emotions. True what had gone before contained an emotional content but now painting could experiment and through imaginative interpretation allow the emotional content to predominate.

As the 19th century evolved and throughout the 20th century painters from the impressionists through the cubists and expressionists to the minimalists could to use colour, line and form to go straight to the emotional content of their work. The representational aspect of the work become coincidental and was pushed to the point that it became akin to lying on the grass making shapes out of clouds. Enjoyable as it may be it is secondary to the nature of clouds.

The introduction of the digital darkroom has given this freedom to photographers. The range of tools to fix and enhance the camera’s capture when pushed to its extremes produces a range of fascinating effects. When added to the filters built into the better software, images can be produced that any comparison to the original photograph is purely coincidental.

Sony 85mm Lens - Review

Sony 85mm is not a standard lens. This lens is based on classic models which were popular among photographers because of their pictorial qualities and speed. The lens is able to offer consistent performance every time even when you are using different imaging ratios. The older models were popular for their sharpness but they were susceptible to flares and this is one of the aspects that have been changed in the Sony 85mm lens.

The Sony 85mm is coated and this has eliminated the flare issues that were present in the older models. The lens is designed for Sony DLSR cameras and it has a 127.5mm focal length in terms of 35mm film equivalent which is impressive for this kind of lens. It is a small lens but it has a solid build. There are nine aperture blades on this lens. The nine blades provide circular apertures and impressive out of focus blur. The close-focusing on this lens is limiting at 85cm and therefore you cannot use it to capture small objects and intricate details.

Celebrity Photography

The idea of using photography to disseminate images of famous men and women is as old as photography itself. From the middle 1850s and onwards almost all of the large portrait studios entered the celebrity picture business. Every photographer had his or her specialty. As competition intensified, each studio was encouraged, within budget, to attract celebrities and, if possible, obtain exclusive rights to them.

Celebrity photography is a sub-specialty of photojournalism and deals entirely with celebrities in a variety of settings and events. Magazines and newspapers typically buy and run four main types of celebrity photographs: celebrity portraits, music photographs, event photographs, and pap, or paparazzi photos. Celebrity photographers typically specialize in one of these types of photography, with paparazzi being the least respected of these.

Marketing Your Photography

Selling photographs online has become big business in recent years... digital SLRs keep getting cheaper and the images they produce keep getting better. It seems everyone on the planet must own a camera by now. Given the recurring financial crises of the last few years, it's no surprise that more and more camera owners are looking to sell photography online for some extra money.

For professional photographers trying to make a living selling photography online all this extra competition from the hobbyists has made life pretty tough. Hundreds of websites have sprung up offering photographers the ability to give their work away for nothing more than small change and the thrill of making a sale. The market has been flooded with cheap images and many photo buyers have come to view stock photography as just another commodity to be sourced at the lowest possible price.

Top 7 Free Photo Editors for Windows

If you can't afford to purchase software, you can still find free software to create and edit images. Some of this software is developed by individuals, and some is feature limited or an earlier version of a more advanced program. In some rare instances, there are no strings attached, but most often you will need to provide information to the company by registering, or endure ads or "nag" screens.

Photographers also a model

A model is not only a pretty girl or handsome man, sometimes the photographer also has an interesting pose ..
Below is a photographer who becomes a model ..

How to make light graffiti

Hello, good morning guys, this morning I will try to share about how to make light graffiti.

There are 3 things that need to be prepared to make light graffiti:

1. Camera (preferably SLR / DSLR to be more flexible shutter speed settings)
2. Tripod / or any object that can keep the camera steady
3. Light source

Mini studio made from cardboard

In this internet era, many people do business via the internet, the term cool online store. The procedure is quite simple and practical. Live display photos / drawings and written description of the product .But many do not show pictures of its products, or already displaying photos but the pictures are not interesting to look at even tend to random origin.

For that I tried sharing about artificial mini studio made ​​of cardboard used. With this mini studio, the resulting image will be better and worth a look. However, the mini studio is devoted to products that are not too large because it adjusts to the dimensions of the box itself.

Kaskus photography regional yogyakarta

  KPRY is a photography hobbyist community who take shelter in online forums or millist largest in Indonesia (kaskus). KPRY or Kaskus Photography Regional Yogyakarta began to form from a thread or topic, written in the forum on the sub forum kaskus photography. Before there KPRY, other regional already formed a sub-thread on the forum. Mochtar Arifin timbulah initiative to open a thread for the Yogyakarta region. Threads formed on January 19, 2010 proved to have many takers.

  And from this realization conversations online offline activity of gathering every Friday night and hunting together. KPRY itself was officially established on July 17, 2010, and until recently a registered member KPRY reached 53 people. Although not all members can be active in the offline activities, but communication between members continues online through the interwoven thread in kaskus

Graphic Design

The truth is that it's not difficult to show good examples of graphic design in photographs. I can present to you countless beautiful images with perfect compositions and with subjects that have striking or compelling shapes. The hard part is to go out in the woods, or the desert, or a city and find graphic designs that are great. The world is, after all, a compositional mess. There are rocks, mountains, buildings, dirt, bushes, branches, and man-made objects all over the place. It's our job as photographers to make sense of it, to find in all the visual chaos a design that is artistic and pleasing. 

How to Shoot Wildlife Photography From a Vehicle

In many cases, a vehicle can gain a closer approach to a wild animal than a person can on foot. For example, most wildlife in national parks have grown accustomed to vehicles, and they know there's no threat.

 
Shooting from a vehicle can be done using a stable platform that attaches firmly to the driver's door when the window is rolled down. (These door mounts are available through various sources.) 

Sony World Photography Awards 2011

The best photos Sony World Photography Awards 2011. The World Photography Organisation (WPO) is an international organization engaged in the field of photography. This organization has always held a photography contest awards each taunan and showcase the works of the winners in each category. One photo on display was the work of Andiyan Lutfi, a photographer from Cibinong, Bogor, West Java. Curious?

Clothing for underwater models

Clothing (or lack thereof) is an integral part of a successful underwater shoot. It depends entirely on your aim or idea but generally try to use clothes that are loose or slightly too big. This allows them to move around underwater and adds a sense of movement and really accentuates that the shoot was taken underwater. An easy way to really emphasize the underwater element of the shoot is to use fabric as a “streamer.”

Solarization in Dark Room

There are two kinds of solarization solarization on photo paper and on film. The second principle is the same solarization, ie expose-expose-develop-develop. Exposé is the process of shooting first or irradiation at the time of printing. Film or photo paper must terexpose image was developed in order to arise. At develop the paper / film is still sensitive to light, if the paper / film that has terdevelop expose us again with some more light and was developed whose names will appear the effect of solarization.
Solarization can not be done if the paper / film is difixer, because the paper / film is no longer light sensitive.

Exposure value

In photography, exposure value (EV) denotes all combinations of a camera's shutter speed and relative aperture that give the same exposure. In an attempt to simplify choosing among combinations of equivalent camera settings, the concept was developed by the German shutter manufacturer Friedrich Deckel (de) in the 1950s (Ray 2000, 318). Exposure value also is used to indicate an interval on the photographic exposure scale, with 1 EV corresponding to a standard power-of-2 exposure step, commonly referred to as a stop.

Fashion photography

Developed along with the fashion world, creating a flow for certain highly evolved as fast as the development of the fashion world itself, and as they give the feel of a no longer be what was originally created, no longer as a reference medium or as a photo product, it becomes a form berefolusi the result of a sense of high. Photos of fashion is no longer shaped product photos, but evolved into a stream of high priority to the artistic design that represents itself to the level of competition in selling ideas, concepts, and not only in terms of fashion design, but also techniques of photography, good makeup and hair, good style , spatial and others who produce a work of art. Many fashion photographers who do not rely solely on the work crew (his assistant) alone, but they desperately need and I think their position with the photographer, is none other than the fashion stylist, who is responsible for the harmony of fashion who wear the concepts, ideas and moods to be built by the photographer, or desired by their clients. One more person who is not less pentinggya is the Make-up artist, she was also very influential in juggling a model who looks normal to be a diva.

Science of Photography

The Science of Photography refers to the areas of science, such as chemistry and physics, that makes photography possible. The mechanics of a camera, the dynamics of the shot and the chemical development of the film must be properly balanced and played out for the photographer to be able to take and develop his pictures. In fact, at every stage of the process of photography, some aspect of science is necessary to carry the process along to the next stage.

Before the photographer takes his shot, he must compose, or set up, the scene. Lighting, lens aperture, shutter speed, focal length and the angle of the shot are all part of the science of setting up the shot. If there is insufficient lighting or the shutter speed and the film speed aren’t aligned, then the resulting shot may be underexposed or blurry.

Taking photos of the show on stage

Taking photos of the show on stage is a unique branch of photography. Knowledge of photography is not enough to do lunch. In addition to need the experience of shooting-shooting earlier, stage photography also need "local experience".

Local experience in question is the understanding of the scenes that will be photographed. In a theater for example, a photographer needs to get a "key scenes", which is a photograph that could represent the overall performance. Here, time or when the camera take a shot is crucial. Two scenes are disputing a second time could be very different appearance.

Cave explorer

Photographing in the caves must be completely dry by hand. Tripod became obligatory to always be there, could also use a table or stool hard, but it's certainly difficult to enter the cave take the table. Using the manual mode is standard, but with knowledge of the standard specification manual cameras used logic can be run again. Tool of the additional lighting besides the flash and boom is needed. Then the tape measure or rope with the right size (5 feet, 3 meters and 1 meter).
Once we find an object, determine exactly where the camera position will be to take the image composition. Attach a sturdy tripod and make sure it is. Do not shake or unbalanced.

Tilt Shift Lens Not Just For Architecture Photos

I want to try to explore and prove that the tilt-shift is not just for architectural photos just using a large format camera but a 35mm SLR or DSLR users can also use it for images other than photos of architecture. Possible for professional photographers already using the camera view to foto2 their product is not new anymore, but the camera view once its use is very limited (ie in the studio only). they do not mind carrying a camera view for the photo session at the site. And limited funds that made me choose a lens which I will use in this article.

Scheimpflug principle

The Scheimpflug principle is a geometric rule that describes the orientation of the plane of focus of an optical system (such as a camera) when the lens plane is not parallel to the image plane. It is commonly applied to the use of camera movements on a view camera. It is also the principle used in corneal pachymetry, the mapping of corneal topography, done prior to refractive eye surgery such as LASIK, and used for early detection of keratoconus. The principle is named after Austrian army Captain Theodor Scheimpflug, who used it in devising a systematic method and apparatus for correcting perspective distortion in aerial photographs.

Objects with blue sky background

When shooting outdoors, sometimes we are tempted to take pictures of people / objects with blue sky background (bright). Usually these conditions can be obtained during the day (over 10 hours). However, usually the desired results are not as expected, for example, objects in the image into a silhouette or the background to white sky (over).
 
This happens because we are fooled by lightmeter difficult lighting conditions, the background is too bright (bright blue sky) while the object is darker than the sky background. So when we do the metering into the sky had become the object silhouette, whereas when we do the metering to the object, the sky becomes white.


These conditions can be overcome by the use of flash. The goal is that the object and background clearly visible (not over or silhouette). Here are the steps shooting:

Marco Polo - A Photographer’s Journey

Marco Polo, the name is certainly not foreign to our ears, whether it's a brand name or the name of the person. The name of this one has its own charm until we can find it everywhere. Although many people have heard this name, few people really know who Marco Polo, the history and origins. I am among those who do not understand this will figure Marco Polo. I only know the Marco Polo as an explorer and trader of European nationals who have an impressive adventure stories.

Wedding photography

Wedding photography is the photography of activities relating to weddings. It encompasses photographs of the couple before marriage (for announcements, portrait displays, or thank you cards) as well as coverage of the wedding and reception (sometimes referred to as the wedding breakfast in non-US countries). It is a major commercial endeavor that supports the bulk of the efforts for many photography studios or independent photographers.

Like the technology of photography itself, the practice of wedding photography has evolved and grown since the invention of the photographic art form in 1826 by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce.In fact, an early photograph, recorded some 14 years after the fact, may be a recreation for the camera of the 1840 wedding of Queen Victoria to Prince Albert. However, in the early days of photography, most couples of more humble means did not hire a photographer to record the actual wedding itself.

Tripod

In photography, a tripod is used to stabilize and elevate a camera, or to support flashes or other photographic equipment. All photographic tripods have three legs and a mounting head to couple with a camera. The mounting head usually includes a 1/4" diameter, 20 threads per inch (1/4-20) thumbscrew which couples to a female receptor located on the vast majority of cameras, as well as a mechanism to be able to rotate and tilt the camera when it is mounted on the tripod. Tripod legs are usually collapsible towards the height axis and telescoping, in order to save space when not in use. Tripods are usually made from aluminum, carbon fiber, steel, wood or plastic.

Halloween photo

Get camera viewfinder straight in front of the model and props. Make sure the
sun is behind you. The best time to shoot is before 10am and after 4pm when the
sun is not so harsh. There you are a great Halloween picture. Buy a large
pumpkin and some hay. Set the hay in your yard where you can see tree
scenery behind where your model will be sitting on the hay bale. Position the
pumpkin on the ground at the left or right side of the hay bale. Take a couple of
shots.
There are plenty of subjects around to photograph at Halloween ranging from the traditional jack-o-lantern through to people in costume, to trick or treat ‘treats’ etc. It’s a time of color, emotion and lots of interesting subjects.

Autofocus modes

Autofocus modes – autofocus can either activate until a lock is found (single, AF-S) or be continuously active (continuous, AF-C, servo). Single mode is especially used for stationary subjects, when focus, once found, should stay fixed, while continuous mode is instead used for moving subjects. Some AF systems also include anticipation of position of moving subjects – Canon calls this "AI servo" (for "artificial intelligence") – or can automatically switch between single and continuous depending on whether the subject is moving – Canon calls this "AI focus".

Infrared photography

In infrared photography, the film or image sensor used is sensitive to infrared light. The part of the spectrum used is referred to as near-infrared to distinguish it from far-infrared, which is the domain of thermal imaging. Wavelengths used for photography range from about 700 nm to about 900 nm. Usually an "infrared filter" is used; this lets infrared (IR) light pass through to the camera, but blocks all or most of the visible light spectrum (the filter thus looks black or deep red).

Digital Single-Lens Reflex (DSLR)

This camera is named for the reflexing mirror that allows you to frame the image
through the lens prior to capturing the image. As light passes through the DSLR
camera’s lens, it falls onto a reflexing mirror and then passes through a prism to the
viewfinder. The viewfinder image corresponds to the actual image area. When the
picture is taken, the mirror reflexes, or moves up and out of the way, allowing the open
shutter to expose the digital image sensor, which captures the image. Most features on
a DSLR are adjustable, allowing for greater control over the captured image.