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Photography for your Left Brain
You’ve got your subject in the viewfinder and the frame is composed. As you press the shutter button, a suprisingly complex process ensues. First, light energy which spent its last eight minutes traveling from the Sun hits its Earthly target and reflects into your lens. Then photons channel their way through the glass and smack [...]
For everyone who is busily scanning holiday sale promotions and wondering when is the best time to purchase a new camera, here is one more resource at your disposal. A new website called Decide.com will give recommendations on whether to buy or wait for a better price based on complex price prediction algorithms. The website [...]
If you’re like many photographers with new Windows PCs, the first time you download Raw photos onto your computer you will see a discouraging screen similar to the one below. When you attempt to view your Raw files in Windows Explorer, a bunch of sad little rectangles stare sappily back at you like lost puppy [...]
If you begin to dabble in DSLR videography, one of the first controversies you run into is the optimal frame rate for video capture and playback. Legend has it that you should capture the video using a shutter speed twice as fast as the frame rate you desire for the final playback (e.g. 1/50th for [...]
So you think you’re a photo editing master. You can optimize exposure without batting an eye. You can apply an unsharp mask with the best of them. You even brushed out that clueless tourist from your Washington Monument photo so that no one could notice. Well, here’s a skill that you may be adding to [...]
Maybe you’ve heard. There is a one-million pound tinker toy floating 200 miles above the surface of the Earth. The International Space Station zips around the Earth at 17,000 miles per hour and witnesses 17 sunrises and sunsets every day. What you may not know is that in addition to all their other duties, the [...]
In the early 1990′s, while you were busy watching a new show called Seinfeld, Eric Fossum was busy inventing something revolutionary. Fossum had recently joined the NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and was asked to come up with a new type of image sensor. Solid-state sensors up to that point had been CCD sensors which suffered [...]
In a Hollywood event that included Martin Scorcese and many other filmmakers, Canon unveiled its foray into digital film making – the C300 Cinema EOS camera. Film makers have been infatuated with Canon’s HD DSLR cameras ever since Canon introduced HD video capability in its 5D Mark II. But the 5D Mark II was [...]
Say what you want about Internet Explorer 6 or Windows Vista, Microsoft still has the ability to innovate when they want to. Cameras have become so easy that all you have to in some cases is press a button. Now it seems that humans are not even required to do that. Microsoft combined one part [...]
