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Thursday, December 20th, 2012
PhotoTube.info is a website dedicated to photography videos containing tips for producing HDR, infrared, landscape, portrait, flash, macro, night, and product photographs. It is a relatively new website but already contains hundreds of instructional videos. Here is a list of some of the most viewed videos:
DSLR Tips: Night Photography- Strobist Preliminaries
- DSLR Tips: How to blur backgrounds on portraits
- DSLR Tips: How to blur water for a dreamy effect
- Merge to HDR in Photoshop
- Long Exposure Turorial
- DSLR Tips: Using polarizing filters
- Secrets of Amazing HDR Photography
- Night Photography: Finding Your Way in the Dark
- HDR Photography
- Strobist Softbox Technique Tutorial
- In-Camera HDR Using Multiple Exposure
- Photoshop Tutorial: Creating an HDR Image from a Single RAW File
- Canon T2i 550D HDR Tutorial
- Shooting the Moon
- Landscape Photography Tips: Creative Composition
- 20 Essential Things for Landscape Photography
It is easy to see which videos have been Recently Added, Most Viewed, and Top Rated as well as many categories. PhotoTube is definitely worth checking out! Oh, by the way, it is completely free!
Posted in Advanced, Beginner, Black and White Photography, DIY, Equipment, Flash Photography, HDR Photography, Infrared Photography, Intermediate, Landscape Photography, Macro Photography, Night Photography, Panorama, Photo Editing, Portrait Photography, Product Photography | No Responses »
Tags: digital photography, HDR, infrared photography, learning about photography, night photography, panorama, photography tips and tricks, review, tips and tricks for photography, video
Friday, November 2nd, 2012
Join Panomonkey.com and stitch 360×180-degree panoramas for free. Well, mostly for free:
Creating panoramas can be absolutely FREE on Panomonkey. Every successfully stitched panorama can be downloaded and shared to Twitter and Facebook or embedded to your website. The FREE version of the panorama is 3000 x 1500 pixels and can be viewed up to 100 times.
Hign-resolution panoramas of up to 6000 x 3000 pixels can be purchased for $2.50 / €1.80 (that’s “one banana” in Panomonkey language) and can be viewed up to 1,000 times.
Additional views of the hign-resolution panorama can be purchased in bundles of 10,000 views for one banana ($2.50 / €1.80).
The free version of your panorama will display a watermark along the bottom of the image. I’m assuming that you have to purchase the stitched image to get rid of the watermark. I haven’t purchased an image, yet, because my tests didn’t stitch properly.
For my tests, I uploaded photographs that I had successfully stitched together using Hugin or PanoramaPlus. The results were less than stellar. To be fair, PanoramaPlus also had problems with one of the sets of images, too. Neither Panomonkey.com nor PanoramaPlus have the ability to manually add control points, Hugin does. Click to continue »
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Tags: panomonkey.com, panorama, review
Saturday, June 30th, 2012
Summary: I highly recommend Digital Landscape Photography by John and Barbara Gerlach. If you are at all interested in landscape photography, get this book! Digital Landscape Photography covers cameras, lenses, exposure, composition, HDR, and panoramas.
Table of Contents
- Chapter 1. Landscapes are Everywhere
- Chapter 2. Cameras and Accessories
- Chapter 3. Choosing and Using Lenses
- Chapter 4. Mastering Exposure
- Chapter 5. Techniques for Sharp Images
- Chapter 6. Light on the Landscape
- Chapter 7. Composing Pleasing Images
- Chapter 8. Special Subjects
- Chapter 9. High Dynamic Range Images
- Chapter 10. Panoramas
Review: The chapter on cameras and accessories emphasizes investing in a camera system not just the camera. The authors recommend Canon and Nikon cameras because both brands have an excellent selection of lenses and accessories. This is the same advice that I give my students. The book is filled with excellent tips such as how to use a back button to auto-focus rather than having the shutter button initiate the auto-focus function. 34 out of 36 customer reviews on Amazon, give Digital Landscape Photography 4 stars and above with 26 5 star reviews. This is an outstanding book that is clearly written and informative. Click to continue »
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Tags: digital landscape photography, digital photography, eguipment, landscape photographers, learning about photography, learning photography, panorama, photography, photography for beginners, photography learning, photography tips and tricks, review, tips and tricks for photography
Monday, January 16th, 2012
Summary: I can’t recommend this head unless you have lightweight equipment. I really like the compact style but it droops too much with a long lens.
Review: I have used the Manfrotto 460MG Magnesium Camera Head with a variety of lenses and the head doesn’t tighten enough to prevent droop with a long lens. I really wanted to like this head because it is light and compact. I intended to use it for landscape and architectural work. On a positive note, it does use the same quick release plate as my other Manfrotto heads and works well with a wide angle lens. This head can also be twisted into some unusual positions.
Manufacturer’s Description: An innovative 3D Head unlike any other! Cast from lightweight magnesium, the head can be positioned in virtually any position to get the exact framing of the image. The lock-system using spring-loaded conical joints allows greater flexibility than any other 3D head whether mounted on a tripod centre column or lateral arm. The rubber grip knobs provide finger tip control and won’t poke you in the eye like conventional handles do. The 460Mg is the ideal head in combination with the Carbon Number One line for 35mm SLRs and medium format cameras. This replaces the Bogen Manfrotto 3437.
I am still searching for the best head to use for landscape and architectural work. If you have any suggestions, feel free to leave a comment.
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Tags: eguipment, landscape photographers, Manfrotto, panorama, review, tripod head
Saturday, November 26th, 2011
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Tags: digital photography, eguipment, panorama, Panosaurus, photography tips and tricks, tips and tricks for photography, tripod, tripod head
Tuesday, November 1st, 2011
Required Equipment: Panosaurus
Shooting 360×180 degree panoramas usually requires a special tripod head. Trying to shoot this kind of panorama hand held would not be an easy task. Each picture has to overlap by 25-30% not to mention the likelihood of seeing parallax errors in the final image. Parallax errors occur when the camera rotates around a point other than the no parallax point of the lens. The bottom line is that the shots can’t line up properly if there are parallax errors. I have gotten great results with an inexpensive Panosaurus panoramic tripod head. Click here to read my review of the Panosaurus.
Software
To stitch the images together I rely on two programs. Hugin is free software and does a great job with a 360×180 panoramas shot with a fisheye lens such as the Rokinon 8mm Fisheye Lens. If you use an 18mm lens, then Serif PanoramaPlus X4 is a better choice. Each program has its strengths; what one can’t stitch together the other can. Click here to read my review of PanoramaPlus. Your camera may have come with software that can stitch together panoramas but don’t expect it to work with a 360×180 degree panorama. Click to continue »
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Tags: digital photography, digital photography lessons, eguipment, Hugin, learning about photography, learning photography, panorama, Panosaurus, photography tips and tricks, photography trick, photography tutorials, Photoshop, tips and tricks for photography, tricks, tricks photography, tripod, tripod head
Monday, October 24th, 2011
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Posted in Infrared Photography, Landscape Photography, Newsletter, Night Photography, Panorama | No Responses »
Tags: artwork for sale, digital photography, landscape photographers, learning about photography, learning photography, night photography, painting with light, panorama, photographs for sale, photography, photography for sale
Friday, June 17th, 2011
Vizcaya was built by agricultural industrialist James Deering in 1916. Vizcaya Museum & Gardens features a Main House, ten acres of formal gardens, and a rockland hammock (native forest).
I used the Panosaurus panoramic head and a Canon T1i to take all the examples in this post. Since I have also become obsessed with infrared, all of the photographs were taken with a Hoya 58mm RM-72 Infrared Filter.
Click on the thumbnail to see the full photograph.
Follow this link to find out more about taking panoramas and infared photographs.
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Tags: digital photography, effects, Hoya R72, infrared, infrared filter, infrared photography, landscape photographers, learning about photography, learning photography, panorama, photography, photography learning, photography tips and tricks, trick pictures, tricks, tricks photography, tripod head
Wednesday, June 15th, 2011
Summary: OK, so I feel a little dorky having the Hoodloupe hanging around by neck but I don’t care because it makes it possible to see my LCD in the brightest sunlight. Click to continue »
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Tags: digital photography, digital photography lessons, effects, eguipment, landscape photographers, learning about photography, learning photography, panorama, photography, photography for beginners, photography learning, photography tips and tricks, photography tutorials, review, tips and tricks for photography, trick pictures, tricks, tricks photography
