Digital Photography

purplepurp21 asked:


I have always liked to take pictures but never really wanted a career in photography its more of a hobby. well I just got time to start this hobby. I have taken pictures before. I seem to prefer black and white to color I think it looks better. Well for an amateur photgrapher what type of camera do you reccomend. digital,film, black and white color, fujii, kodak come talk to me.
what do you reccomend for an amateur photographer

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mcmanda asked:


I never took photography classes in High School. But i love doing purfect picture taking for the most weirdest reasons.

I love the idea of Art, since i love to edit my pics all the time that i take of myself and others.

Im planning on going to college for Nursing. But is there a way i can still be in college at the same time for photography (art) ?

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commsltd asked:


Nikon D700 features an FX-format first introduced with the Nikon D3. Highly praised for its outstanding features, the D3 established a new level of professional performance in terms of overall image quality, extraordinarily low noise, ISO sensitivity range, continuous high-speed shooting, color gradation, image crispness, durability, weather-resistant operation, system versatility and more

1 Nikon D700 DSLR Camera

1 EN-EL3e Battery Pack

1 MH-18a Battery Charger

1 UC-E4 Data Cable (USB)

1 EG-D100 AV Cable

1 AN-D700 Strap

1 CD-ROM

1 LCD Protect Cover

For a person who cannot afford Nikon D3, the new Nikon D700 seems to be a piece of gospel because it is just like a D3 fitting into the body of D300, with a price slightly more affordable. It seems a very good deal, isnt it?

Nikons D700s package includes a Battery Pack, a Battery Charger, a Data Cable (USB), a Cable, a Strap, CD-ROM and an LCD Protect Cover.

The design of the D700 is more or less the same with D300, but D700s exterior cover, rear body and mirror box are built with magnesium alloy to reduce its weight and give it rugged durability. So although D700 is packed with the functions of D3, it is only a little heavier than D300. It is easy to hold, with a carefully made ergonomic grip.

The turn dial is especially welcomed - simply press a button with your left thumb and scroll with your right to get the settings just right.

The CMOS 12.1 mega-pixel FX-format and the sensors sensing area is 36 x 23.9 mm with sensitivity from ISO 200 to ISO 6400. It can even be pushed to HI 2 (ISO 25,600) and its noise is just as much as that of ISO 6400. Remarkable!

D700 supports only Type I CF, whereas D300 accepts both Type I and II, it is not really a huge setback though. Its battery lasts approximately 1000 shots which is pretty satisfying.

D700 complies with HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface) that allows you to connect to HD TV. You can also find the video output, USB plug-in and DC plug-in in this slot.

The fact that it is made in Japan ensures the product is in high quality.

The SB-900 flashguns Multi-step auto zoom covers wide 17-200mm zoom range. Together with the AF-S NIKKOR 24-70mm f/2.8G ED lens, it completes the performance of D700.

The LCD monitor is the same as D3s 3-in., approx. 920,000-dot (VGA), 170-degree wide-viewing-angle, 100% frame coverage, low-temperature polysilicon TFT LCD with brightness adjustment. It definitely allows a better composition of the picture than its D300 counterpart.

Users have to make two shots to get the picture they want. The first shot is a test shot for focusing and the resulted picture is blurred. The second shot would be the focused one.

D700s O-ring sealing also renders a better protection against dust and moisture than the square piece of D300. The biggest and most endearing changes is that Electronic Virtual Horizon can now be shown on Live View display, users do not have to especially enter the menu to access it. It makes taking a leveled picture even more convenient D700 has inherited most of the superior performance of D3 except D700s Viewfinder provides merely 95% of frame coverage instead of 100%, but it would not make a really big difference. The speed of continuous high-speed shooting for D700 is 5fps, if it is upgraded with a MB-D10 handle. The Scene Recognition System allows very accurate auto exposure, auto white balance and auto focus. The FX 51-point AF can detect subject with lens aperture as small as f/5.6. The 3-D tracking enables focus to swift seamlessly to track moving subject. Not only does the Picture Control System allow advanced shooters to adjust their own image parameters, but also provides novice with four customized settings (Standard, Vivid, Monochrome and Neutral) to let beginners pick up easily. Seeing the price of Nikon D700, we are still not sure if the age of cheapen full coverage DSLR camera has come yet, but if you cannot wait till the next generation of Canon EOS 5D to come, Nikon 700 can also be a choice.



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Terry Williams asked:


Nowadays, according to psychologists, more and more people are getting visually inclined. In other words, most of us love to use our eyes!

In what ways do we use our eyes for?

We use our eyes to view things in our environment. However, through time, man has devised ways on how to preserve the things we see, whether these are beautiful or not, and one of which is by way of using cameras.

These days, the biggest sellers in the camera market are the so-called digital SLR cameras.

Just what is an SLR camera?

SLR is an acronym for Single Lens Reflex. SLR cameras were the tools made for and used by professional photographers. Cameras such as these, similarly, make use of mirror that reflects light entering the lens up into the eye piece or the viewfinder. Thus, a photographer can gauge how the image or picture will look like. Moreover, a SLR camera uses lenses that are interchangeable. Hence, this camera can be used for long distance telephoto photography or close-up macro photography.

A digital SLR or DSLR camera is dependent on lenses and mirror and their optical capabilities. However a DSLR camera uses light sensor chips and digital memory cards instead of films, basically a computerized version of the abovementioned camera.

The following summarizes the comparison between DSLR and point and shoot cameras (SLRs):

1.DSLRs and SLRs use interchangeable lenses for better resolution.

2.Any picture you take using SLRs and DSLRs is usually crisper, cleaner and fine upon reproduction.

3.DSLRs have a higher speed when it comes to focusing and taking pictures

4.DSLRs perform better at low lighting conditions by using ISO speeds. These cameras have lesser granularity.

5.DSLRS provide more professional power over depth of field, light, and responsiveness.

6.DSLRs provide a more immediate feedback as they use digital chips or light sensing CCDs that translate incoming light rays into digital pictures.

7.DSLRs and SLRs cost more than point and shoot cameras.

8.DSLRs and SLRs are usually heavier than some point and shoot models.

Some sample DSLR models are listed below:

Prosumer models:



Canon EOS 10D

Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT

Nikon D50

Nikon D70s

Pentax *ist DS

Professional Models:



Canon EOS 1D Mark II

Canon EOS 20D

Fuji Finepix S3 Pro

Nikon D2x

Who actually wants DSLRs? Anyone wants to have crisper and clearer picturesbe it a hobbyist or a professional photographer can opt for a DSLR model. Anyone who will not bother carrying bigger cameras on trips in order to bring back topnotch photos can make use of DSLRs.



Like all electronic and computerized gadgets, digital models tend to get cheaper yet better over time. For sure, DSLRs will eventually migrate down to consumer cameras: ability to take bursts of 10 frames in a few seconds, quick response time, higher resolution image sensors, and accurate auto-focus, among others.

The only thing that will remain constant are the laws of opticsyou will not get the same results from a finger-nail sized lens as with larger lenses used by professional users. Also the fact that people do not have enough money all the time remains the same through time.

If you plan to take photography as a profession, practice shooting some shots using prosumers models and consider budget and quality of lenses before you say, Big Cheese!





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Proud parents (or grandparents, god-parents or simply someone who loves babies) or crave photographing babies the way Anne Geddes manages to capture their various moods to make them look anything from cutesy to absolutely angelic to positively precious and innocently mischievous? You sure are in the right place to pick up some cues from professionals right here! Continue reading »

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Jordan Travis asked:


Many collectors of photography are interested in celebrity photography, and it doesnt always matter if its Bobby Jones photos, Robert F Kennedy photos, or Sophia Loren photos. What is important to the person who collects celebrity photography is that the person is or was famous in some way. They want to know that they have something of value and not just another photograph that is worth nothing out of their hands. Collecting celebrity photography is a hobby for many peoplethey enjoy collecting photographs of current or past celebrities regardless of who they might be.



Photographs of famous people are issues of importance with celebrity photography. Whether it involves a Cole Poerter photo or Tina Turner photos is of little importance. The only thing important to the collector of celebrity photography is that the person is well-known. Sometimes it doesnt even have to be someone who is famous in a good waysome people even collect photographs of gangsters and other infamous people from history. The choice of photographs depends on the collector and what they are looking to gain from the photos. Sometimes it may be someone who has a link to the past with that person or just a means of fantasizing. On the other hand, the collector may be someone who just happens to enjoy collecting photographs of anyone famous and will even collect Woody Allen photos because he is famous in the entertainment world.



Collecting celebrity photography can be both rewarding and expensive since some peoples photographs command a very high price among collectors. People have collected photos of famous people for many years, but sometimes they take it to a higher level and go beyond collecting the photos that appear in magazinesthey want real celebrity photography, real photographs to put in an album or hang on their wall. Condenastore.com has photos of many famous people to help indulge you in your hobby of celebrity photograph collecting.



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John Wood asked:


An unabridged version of this article and others can be found at: John’s Blog on ‘One Light’

Portrait photography? No problem! Just find a pretty girl, buy a flashgun, take her picture and hey presto you have a portrait. Butis it any good?

So what makes the difference. Well, a number of things do; the model, the background, the pose, the camera, the space, the camera, the lens and the light. But take away light and you have NOTHING!

So whatis it about light?

There is: hard and soft, bright and dim, small and big, white and white (yes white and white) as well as white and coloured, direct and reflected, fast and slow, front and side and back and high key and low key and last but not least, invisible!

One Light?: The truth is that there is usually more than one light because where there is light there usually is reflected light.

You can use this reflected light if it helps or insert gobos (black go between boards or flags) to stop this. You can increase the reflected light by using reflectors, expensive ones or shirts and white boards.

Hard and Soft: Simply the difference between the light on a sunny day and a cloudy day. Hard light gives dark well-defined shadows. Soft light comes from many different places.

Bright and Dim: A dim light to us can be made to look like daylight, simply by leaving the shutter open for longer. So in this respect there is no such thing as bright or dim light. That is defined by the camera settings. The camera can make the brightest of scenes look like it was taken during an eclipse!

Small and Big: The sun is the biggest light that we can use, however it is called a small light because it is so far away. But put the clouds in between us and the sun and it becomes the biggest light we can use.

Soft boxes turn small lights into big lights and are often 2-3ft across. Alternatives are to shoot through a white sheet or bounce off a wall. An umbrella can achieve a similar effect because it spreads the light all over the place and reflected light can soften the shadows.

White and White: To the human eye, white is clearly white; that is because the eyes is constantly adjusting and interpreting what it sees. Cameras are not able to do that to the same extent. Collect different sheets of white paper and take a close look at them - you will probably find quite a range of whites. The same variations apply to light. We would call them all white (non coloured) but in reality they are coloured or tinted in some small way.

Different lights produce different tints - fluorescent give a greenish light, incandescent give a orange tint, flash guns and strobes will tend not to have a tint; so whites look white to our eyes but some appear coloured to a camera.

White and Coloured: Taking a photograph indoors with flash and incandescent bulbs will give a mixture of white and orange tints.

I was taking an outdoor photo during the day with a deeply overcast day. I place two flashguns with orange gels and the photograph turned from a dull picture to one that looked as though it had been taken late in the evening with a lovely warm glow.

Placing coloured gels overa flashgun colours thelight and will produce different effects. Quality street sweets are famous for providing different colour wrappers that can be used for different effects.

Direct and Reflected: Direct light comes from your source light and usually has an obvious effect. Reflected light will come from any other surface that is not totally black. A coloured wall will give the light a colour tint. A shiny surface will give a hard strong light. A textured surface will give a soft weak light.

The distance from the source to the reflecting surface and then to the subject, compared to the distance from the source light to the subject, will greatly affect the strength of the reflected light.

Fast and Slow: What I am really referring to is the duration of the light, ie how long the light is shining while the photograph is being taken.

Daylight shines 100% of the time the shutter is open and a flashgun can shine for 1% of the time. In most cases though, you will get a combination of two lights; one shining 100% and the other a fraction of the time.

Front, Side and Rear: Choose the position of the main light. Each position will create a very different effect, from fully lit to silhouette. Reflected light can be used to fill in shadows.

Low and High Key: This is were the tones of the photograph are primarily dark or bright. The details of the subject are either blown out or in deepest shadow. Often the form comes from the outline of the subject. This is achieved by under or over exposing the subject.

Invisible: Infra Red is not visible to the ***** eye, but filters can be attached to a camera which allows that light to be picked up on the sensor or film. This can produce a surreal effect. Different surfaces reflect different amounts of infra-red.

So there we have it, a lightening, fast pass over variations with just one light.

All this with just one light; just think of the variations with two or more lights.

Explore my website to see some of these effects in practice in the Galleries. Explore making your own photographs with just one light.Explore, discover and understand.



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Natalie asked:


I know the works of the two and know that Man Ray was considered a modernist and Duchamp was a Dadaist. However, I am finding it hard to put into words how they specifically contributed to surrealism or the Surrealist movement

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Fazal Zubair asked:


Nikon D3X

The Nikon D3X is a 24.5 megapixel professional-grade full frame (35mm) digital single-lens reflex camera (DSLR) announced by the Nikon Corporation on 1 December 2008. The D3X is the third camera in Nikon’s line to offer a full frame sensor, following the D3 and D700. As Nikon’s new flagship model, it augments the Nikon D3, Nikon’s high-speed professional model, and while the D3 retains advantages in terms of high ISO performance and higher frame rate, the D3X offers a dramatic increase in resolution and image detail. It offers the same features, like automatic correction of lateral chromatic aberration, and vignetting (”vignette control”) and lens distortion (”distortion”) correction as well as image rotation (”straighten”) via playback (”retouch”) menu.

The combination of very high resolution with the option of 14-bit per channel recording and a very sharp anti-aliasing filter (which Nikon claims is a unique design, but provides few details about) provides extremely high image quality, with superb dynamic range and color accuracy compared to other cameras.

Reception

Reception of the Nikon D3X by independent reviewers has been very positive, with reservations centered on just a few disadvantages. Imaging Resource concludes that the D3X produces the highest image quality of any camera they have tested to date. Dpreview likewise concludes that that the resolution and image detail is stunning, probably the best of any digital SLR camera on the market, including the closest competitor from Canon, the EOS-1Ds Mark III. Nikon claims the D3x is a competitor to medium-format digital backs, a claim supported both by testing and by many D3x users who report on their experiences online. On the down side, Dpreview notes that the D3X performs worse than the D3 in terms of speed (frame rate) and high ISO performance. Like many reviewers, they also point out the most obvious disadvantage of the D3X - the $8000 initial price tag, but the present market price is much lower.

The Nikon D3X has been tested by many other independent reviewers.

Image Sensor FormatFX Image Sensor TypeCMOS Sensor Size 35.9 x 24.0mm Total Pixels25.72 million Effective Pixels24.5 million Image Area (pixels)FX-format (L) 6,048 x 4,032 (M)4,544 x 3024 (S)3,024 x 2016

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Muna wa Wanjiru asked:


Glamour photography is first and foremost about making one look great in pictures, this is the type of skill that is most appreciated in the high fashion world. Glamour photography is generally handled and distributed by big names in the business that create great shots they afterwards sell to magazines and publications. There are all sorts of tutorials and courses that can teach one the secrets of glamour photography, as any apprentice photographer needs to acquire important knowledge that allows expert picture status. Some people say that shooting glamour photos is like making traditional portraits as it requires following certain lighting setup steps.

The main difference between traditional artistic photography and the more commercial nature of glamour photography is that the latter requires more life and shine than the former. Such a unique touch can only be achieved by someone who truly masters the secrets of photography. There are shooting tricks that are learned and decoded in time starting from the background preparation to the choice of props and backdrops. With glamour photography one is not taking simple pictures, but actually making them sparkle; let’s see how to add this unique touch to one very rewarding kind of work.

Glamour photography requires the use of special light stands, positioned in such as way so that background items be easily attached to the decor easily afterwards. Every light stand you set up will have to be positioned in such a way so as to create the most stable footing possible, not to mention that they need to be perfectly operable during the photo shooting. Background props and supplies are definitely an important issue when preparing the session as such. Glamour photography devices require both precision and a certain liberty of movement in the operation of the camera, so that professional items are the ones that make a great job.

The models one gets to work with in glamour photography sessions are some of the best paid ones in the business; but this photographic sector is not limited to the fashion world. Yes, this is the main tendency to associate glamor with the catwalk, but film stars, musicians and other famous people often take advantage from the great benefits of professional photographic skills. Prices for photo sessions are incredibly high for both parties operating in the transaction; good photographers are paid small fortunes, not to mention the profit model agencies make from honoring glamor contracts.



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