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If you're photographing a concert you're going to have to pay very close attention to things like shutter speed. Learn about the best speed for photographing concert with help from a professional photographer in this free video clip.
All photographers should have quick and easy access to a few key lenses. Learn about must-have lenses for a photographer with help from a professional photographer in this free video clip.
Being a photographer will require a number of different things from everyone involved. Learn what being a photographer requires with help from a professional photographer in this free video clip.
Good equipment goes a long way, but it won't help one bit if a good photographer isn't using it. Learn about being a good photographer versus having good equipment with help from a professional photographer in this free video clip.
If you're a wildlife photographer, your camera bag isn't complete without a few key lenses. Learn about lenses that every wildlife photographer needs with help from a professional photographer in this free video clip.
Being a photographer requires a great deal of preparation. Find out about the preparation required to be a photographer with help from a professional photographer in this free video clip.
Photographing rain drops requires you to stop motion in action using only your camera as a tool. Find out how to photograph rain drops with help from a professional photographer in this free video clip.
Light will play a very important role when photographing different types of fabrics. Learn about good light for photographing fabrics with help from a professional photographer in this free video clip.
Photographing sunbeams properly is going to take a lot of care and patience. Learn how to photograph sunbeams with help from a professional photographer in this free video clip.
When photographing wildflowers you want to try to capture their natural beauty on film. Photograph wildflowers with help from a professional photographer in this free video clip.
Saturation is one of the most important aspects of photography that is easy to overlook. Learn about how photographers use saturation with help from a professional photographer in this free video clip.
Apple's iPad is a number of things - including a full fledged digital camera. Find out about how photographers utilize the iPad with help from a professional photographer in this free video clip.
Photographing sparklers will require some specific adjustments to your camera's settings. Learn how to photograph sparklers with help from a professional photographer in this free video clip.
Photographing fruit isn't nearly as easy as it may seem at first glance. Find out the secret to properly photographing fruit with help from a professional photographer in this free video clip.
When it comes to wedding photography, your number one goal should be to make the bride look as good as possible. Get wedding photography tips for brides with help from a wedding photographer in this free video clip.
Just because you're shooting a low light wedding doesn't mean you can't get some really powerful shots. Find out about low light wedding photography tips with help from a wedding photographer in this free video clip.
Shooting a wedding at the beach requires you to keep a few very important things in mind, like lighting. Get beach wedding photography tips with help from a wedding photographer in this free video clip.
Whether you can take a photo and wirelessly put it on an iPad depends on the specifics of your current setup. Learn how to take a photo and wirelessly put it on an iPad with help from an Apple certified technician in this free video clip.
A camera lens hood is used in order to prevent a reflection from the sun from going into the camera lens. Find out how to attach a camera lens hood in order to block the sun with help from a photographer in this free video on photography tips and camera lens hoods.
When taking professional portraits, you're going to want to keep a few particular things in mind. Learn about professional portrait photography tips with help from a photographer in this free video clip.
The first thing you want to do when making photo booth strips in Photoshop is create a new layer on your image. Find out about making photo booth strips in Photoshop with help from a multimedia and post production professional in this free video clip.
The Polaroid PoGo printer is designed to let camera-phone and digital camera users print images while on-the-go. Even though the device connects to cellphones via a Bluetooth connection, it isn't compatible with Apple's Bluetooth-ready iPhone. Instead, to print an image stored on your iPhone using the Polaroid PoGo, you must transfer the image to the computer and then print the image using the computer's default image-viewer application.
Satellite photography consists of several interrelated techniques. The camera is placed in lowly lit conditions and its exact position on the surface of the Earth is determined. After a prediction of the satellite's path is calculated and ambient light conditions are closely monitored, film speed, camera settings and satellite brightness are managed in tandem. Photography time is limited to nights with no moon or a small crescent moon. Approximately 40 percent of attempts to photograph satellites are successful.
Although Polaroid is best known for products in the film industry, the company has manufactured a plethora of other devices like speakers, telephones and TVs. The TLX-04240B is an HD television with a fair offering of settings and connections. Your TV should work well for several years, but if you do encounter a problem with it, you can often correct it without too much trouble.
Cameras with interchangeable lenses offer vastly superior photography options over traditional point-and-shoot cameras. Everything from versatility to photograph quality is an improvement, though all of these benefits do come with a significantly higher price tag. Selecting the best lens for your situation may seem overwhelming initially, but as long as you just consider the most important features and don't get bogged down in details, you can locate the best lens for your situation without much hassle.
A crisp, high-quality photo begins with a high-resolution image. Resolution refers to the number of pixels that an image contains within a given amount of space. A pixel, or picture element, is a tiny unit of color that combines with other pixels to produce an image. Increase the number of pixels in the image you capture, and its quality increases as well. Most modern cameras allow you change their resolution settings. This ability is useful because you may not want to shoot the highest-resolution image possible every time you snap your camera's shutter.
When you have a 3D TV, purchasing a 3D camera or camcorder is a fun way to put that amazing 3D technology to work for your own photos or home movies. Most affordable 3D cameras will work with a 3D TV, provided it has an HDMI connector. Some cameras let you see 3D pictures without glasses; however, this is a difference in the view screen and not the images themselves. If you need glasses to watch 3D movies on your TV, you will need them to view your pictures or videos in 3D, too.
Inserting a photo in Tumblr is a great way to take a memory and share it with the world. Insert a photo in Tumblr with help from a web and graphic specialist in this free video clip.
Displaying photos on a Tumblr dashboard is a great way to fit a variety of photos into a space that is easily accessible. Display photos on a Tumblr dashboard with help from a graphics and web specialist in this free video clip.
As of January 2012, more than 500 million applications are available for download for free or purchase from Apple's App Store. One of them, LightBox, turns your device into a flashlight, magnifying glass, mirror or strobe light. Released Dec. 8, 2011, the 99-cent app has a five-star customer rating at the time of publication.
"Filling" is a very important part of flash photography that deals with the lighting process. Get tips on filling in flash photography with help from a professional photographer in this free video clip.
The lens is one of the most important parts of any camera. Take a photo lens tutorial with help from a professional photographer in this free video clip.
Record the night sky with your Nikon D80 digital camera by attaching a Celestron 90 telescope. Convert the Celestron 90 telescope to a telephoto lens with two accessories: the T-adapter and the T-ring for the Nikon F lens mount. According to the Celestron 90 specifications sheet, this lightweight Maksutov-Cassegrain optical system features a 1,000-mm lens with a f/11 focal ratio and a 90-mm aperture.
One important aspect of portrait photography is the eyes of the subject. Focus on eyes for portrait photography with help from a professional photographer in this free video clip.
Choosing a lens for portrait photography is one of the most important aspects of the process. Learn how to choose a lens for portrait photography with help from a professional photographer in this free video clip.
Preventing shadows in portrait photography is something that every photographer will struggle with at some point in their career. Learn how to prevent shadows in portrait photography with help from a professional photographer in this free video clip.
Professionals photograph headshots under meticulously controlled conditions for maximum effect. Learn how to professionally photograph headshots with help from a professional photographer in this free video clip.
Closed-circuit television or CCTV systems capture security footage for malls, restaurants, stores and parking lots. You can hook up a black and white stereophonic CCTV camera to save the captured footage to a digital video recorder for later review. Most CCTV systems do not capture audio, but stereophonic systems can record both audio and video footage to provide an extra layer of security.
Many photography enthusiasts enjoy playing with different exposure techniques to create interesting photographic art. One way to do this is by using Polaroid film as a contact print. These prints are made when an object is laid on top of the film while it's quickly exposed, leaving an outline of the object on the film. The contact print is usually black and white, or sometimes blue and white, not full color.
Commercial billboards are created by turning high-resolution photographs into multiple printed sheets, which can be aligned and pasted on the billboard to create a jumbo-sized image. Although this kind of large-format printing has been the exclusive preserve of commercial print shops, the speed and quality of today's ink-jet and color laser printers make it possible to print wall- or mural-sized images from a standard photograph. This requires specialized software to scale the photo and smooth the image for large-format printing on multiple pages of standard-sized paper.
Camera lenses come with covers for a reason. The cover protects the lens from nicks, scratches and other potential damage. UV rays do not damage the camera lens glass, but they may affect the lens coating and various elements within the lens, depending on how it was made. While the lens glass may be unaffected when left in the sun, the lens opening exposes the camera’s sensitive internal parts to ultraviolet ray damage. To avoid damaging your camera, or the sensitive electronics inside, you should keep the lens covered when the camera is not in use.
You only use a slit lamp camera if you're working in opthalmology. Slit lamps are a high-intensity light source used during eye examinations to give the doctor a clearer view of patients' eye problems. The ophthalmologist can adjust the slit to generate anything from a narrow focused beam to a wider-angle light. Opthalmologists use cameras to record the results of slit-lamp inspections.
Social apps have been gaining popularity, and learning how to build a Windows Phone mobile app that uses the camera can get you started in creating your first social app. C# is a computer programming language that can be used to build your Windows Phone app. The camera capture task is used to take a photo directly from your mobile application. Use the “ChosenPhoto” property to retrieve the image taken and you can display it using an image control.
The speed of camera film is a measure of the light required to expose the film and create an image. During the film camera era, film manufacturers, light meter manufacturers and photographers used a variety of standards to express film's speed. The first system was set out by German astrophysicist Julius Scheiner in 1894. As film speeds increased over the ensuing decades, his system was replaced by the DIN system and the current ISO system. Some vintage cameras and light meters use the Scheiner system, so it's useful to know how to convert between Scheiner and modern ISO ratings.
The sensor size in a digital camera impacts lens selection and noise reduction. Larger sensors are less susceptible to digital noise -- typically colored pixels that appear in the darkest portions of an image. Full-size sensors are 36 mm by 24 mm, the same size as a 35 mm negative. Many cameras with full-size sensors will accept older lenses designed for 35 mm film, though all the functions may not work. But some digital single lens reflex cameras and all point-and-shoot cameras have smaller sensors. This has the practical effect of increasing the focal length of a lens, if designed…
Dual cameras on your iPhone or iPad give you the option to take photos or shoot video from the front of your device or the back. With FaceTime, video chatting with friends and family becomes even more interactive using the two cameras. Apple, who makes the iPhone and iPad, makes switching between the two cameras easy while you're chatting through FaceTime.
One way to enjoy taking photographs without lugging around a camera bag is to use a neck strap. Neck straps also allow photographers to free up both hands without placing their cameras down and risking theft or damage. You can make a simple DIY camera strap with just a few feet of bungee cord, some rubber bands and shoestrings in as little as 20 minutes.
A seemingly easy assignment can often be more difficult to orchestrate and execute than at first impression. As an amateur, photographing water pouring from a faucet may seem simple enough until you see your first results on screen. The missed details will be obvious, whether the majority of the shot is out of focus or the objects in the background are distracting. A photographer can improve by learning more about the camera and by properly framing the shot.
Giving credit to a photographer for using an original photograph must be completed in accordance with the photographer's terms. When there are no terms established beforehand, you can use a basic attribution. Contact the person when possible and ask whether use of the photo is permissible and how he would like to be credited. For purchased photos, the rights will often be spelled out in the initial sale. Some open-source photos, or photos that are in the public domain, don't require attribution. Check in advance to make certain you don't steal an artist's work.
Most camcorders differ from single lens reflex cameras in that they don't offer lens interchangeability. This means you're stuck with the original lens for the life of the camcorder. For this reason, it's important to know how camcorder makers express the different capabilities lenses offer in terms of aperture and zoom. It's also important to know the difference between optical and digital zoom. This, combined with an understanding of common lens materials, will help you choose the best camcorder for your needs.
