Other people’s reviews can assist you when making a purchase decision. But once you have your gear, you need to do your own testing. Reading the manuals is only the first step of getting the most from your camera gear, you have to become familiar with how it actual works in practice. This means playing …
Clean images are not always what we want. So let’s dirty up your photography. If you think back to analogue photography, we often made use of very grainy film, soft focus, blur or rough forms of printing to create a particular look. There is no reason not to do the same with digital. There are …
Where people are looking in your images offers you another level of control. We are very sensitive to where people are looking. Consider how disturbing it is when you are talking to someone and they look away from you. We are very keyed into people’s eyes and we can use this in our photography. One …
Optimal growth and development occurs when you are outside your comfort zone. The concept of a comfort zone is a useful one. Your comfort zone encompasses everything you already know, can do readily, people and places you know, and such. When we are within our comfort zone we are, as it goes, comfortable. It is …
While we had the K20D we got the chance to, briefly, see how it handled infrared photography The K20D is a great camera but, in the short time we had it before we needed to send it back, I was very curious to see how it handled IR photography. To this end we went out …
We test the K20D for image noise and general usefulness and find it to be an amazing camera. We were lucky enough to have the Pentax K20D in for review when it was the last opportunity to get down to the beach house for the end of the warm season (in Australia). The Pentax K20D …
Sometimes we are so overwhelmed by choice that we actually do nothing. There is a fix to this. Choice is a wonderful thing, it is the freedom we crave and so many in the world do not have. Yet choice can be a double-edged sword, especially when it comes to creativity. Whether we are a …
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Cliches stand the test of time because they contain some underlying truth, and I’m facing one of those right now. Time flies. Who hasn’t felt the truth of that zinger, usually accompanied by a sense that something wasn’t accomplished on time. Today I’m fortunate enough to savor the flip side … time has slipped by, …
ImageMaker photography tip number 6 Photography, along with other art forms, has so-called rules: rules of composition, color theory, and so on. Rather than being called rules, they really should be called principles. Part of our growth as an artist is to know these principles. Study of composition: ideas of rhythm, mass, line, form, contrast, …
Canon U.S.A., Inc. is proud to announce that Canon Inc. has achieved a new lens-manufacturing milestone as production of the Company’s EF lenses passed the 40-million mark. Press Release Production of interchangeable EF lenses for Canon EOS-series AF (autofocus) single-lens reflex cameras began in 1987 at the Company’s Utsunomiya Plant. Canon commemorated the production of …
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