Using his extensive experience with both landscape photography and fractal image creation, Wayne examines the parallels and draws some interesting conclusions. For over 35 years I have taken landscape photographs. For over 20 years I have explored fractal landscapes. Whilst on the surface they appear to be so totally different, I do not believe this …
Mark Alberhasky discusses one to the deepest questions acing most photographers. During a recent workshop, I was approached by a participant who was feeling overwhelmed by the experience. “How do I decide what to shoot?” We happened to be in a crowded urban market, in the rain, and the conditions were intimidating for an inexperienced …
As part of our testing of a Lensbaby 3G, we could not resist putting a Lensbaby on our infrared converted Canon 350D digital SLR camera. The Lensbaby is an interesting tilt lens that many photographers are really enjoying and that solves some real photographic problems in a very inexpensive way. We have been testing a …
We test the K10D at night and for dark field image noise. To look at longer exposure image noise we setup te Pentax K10D on a solid tripod and sot our normal city view with 8 second exposures and aperture varying from f5.6 to f22 as we varied the ISO. PEF raw files for all …
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We test the Pentax K10D for image noise during daylight hours with short exposures. The Pentax K10D digital SLR camera is an impressive camera and takes great images.The Modern Henge – The MCG We were curious to see how it would handle from a noise perspective. Test 1 (base exposure 1/250 second at f7.1 and …
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With amazing difficulty we have chosen the winning entry in February and also the Grand Prize winner of the camera conversion by MaxMax.com Results of the February Competition With great difficult we have chosen the February winner on the IR filter from MaxMax.com The February Winner of the IR filter from MaxMax.com is Mitch Dobrowner …
An email has prompted a follow-up about the competition that triggered the original piece. As a follow-up to my piece on competition terms and conditions, I have some news about the competition that triggered my writing of the article. I received an email from them this morning saying that since many photographers had complained about …
The latest competition email I received prompted me to comment on competition terms in general. If you are like me, you receive a number of emails a month announcing photographic competitions of some sort. The latest one was from a New York travel magazine. And it looks like an interesting competition until you read the …