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This is similar to photographing old photos and matching them with the present. Either way, it’s still fun seeing old records presented in such a manner.
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Tags: Old Records, Photography, Record Cover, Vintage Records
Wanna be Mario (even if only in photos)?
Step 1 : Make an 8 bit or 16 bit question mark box similar to what Mario punches. You can create them out of cardboard and some color paper or use shiny gift wrappers.
Step 2: Hang the box somewhere. Preferably near a brick wall to further add the Super Mario effect on your photo.
Step 3: Jump and Shoot.
Step 4: Share
Source: Be Mario
Tags: DIY, photo, Photography, Shoot, super mario
Photo Credit : [Stephen Wilkes]
Tags: Flat Iron, New York, Photography
Here’s an awesome, direct to the point tutorial about Digital SLR lenses. If you’re having trouble choosing which type of lens to buy, watch this video. It will give you enough/basic information about the different types of lenses and how they affect your photos.
Tags: Aperture, Camera, DLSR, Focus Ring, Lenses, Photography, Zoom Lens
See a photo that you like? Want to know the equipment and setting(s) used to capture a particular photo? Try reading the photos EXIF data and study it to further improve your photography skills. EXIF data is embedded in most photos that you see today, especially if they were taken using a digital device (DLSR, Digicam, Camera Phones, Etc.).
If you have Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom, or Bridge, you can use those to read the EXIF data. You can also start at Deviant art. They usually publish the EXIF data of the submitted photos. Recently, Google just announced that they’ll be adding EXIF data to Google Image Search.
Google’s image search engine started to show additional information about photos after clicking the results. The landing page’s sidebar includes EXIF data: camera, settings, focal length, flash usage and exposure bias.
By reading the EXIF data, you’ll be able to know which kind of lens was used in a photo. You can also learn the shutter speed, ISO, aperture and even the type of camera that the photographer used in a particular photo. You can learn all these and a whole lot more.
This is a great way of learning from the masters if you are a novice photographer. Even pros are using this method in finding out how a particular photo was taken and what settings are used by other photographers. You can try the settings that are used by other photographers and experiment with your own. This will also help you identify the difference in using different types of settings versus the brand of equipment. Even if you use the same settings that you learned using EXIF data, the result may vary depending on the equipment you use. Let the EXIF data be your guide in becoming a better photographer.
Learn more about EXIF data at [How to Geek]
Photo Credit [Casualeye]
Tags: Camera Data, Camera Settings, EXIF, EXIF data, photo, Photo Data, Photography
Lytro aims to revolutionize the entire photography industry by making the first camera to ever capture the entire light field of a photo.
The light field is a core concept in imaging science, representing fundamentally more powerful data than in regular photographs. The light field fully defines how a scene appears. It is the amount of light traveling in every direction through every point in space – it’s all the light rays in a scene. Conventional cameras cannot record the light field.
Conventional cameras will require you to focus on a specific point before taking a shot. Then, they capture the all the lighting for that focused area and count it as one source of light. Capturing the entire light field will enable you to do the shooting first and focus after. This way, you won’t miss a shot by fighting with dials and settings and modes. Simply shoot and not worry about if the photo is out of focus.
The way we communicate visually is evolving rapidly, and people’s expectations are changing in lockstep. Light field cameras offer astonishing capabilities. They allow both the picture taker and the viewer to focus pictures after they’re snapped, shift their perspective of the scene, and even switch seamlessly between 2D and 3D views. With these amazing capabilities, pictures become immersive, interactive visual stories that were never before possible – they become living pictures.
Another feature worth mentioning is that the camera is said to take photos from sleep to snap in under a second. Almost no shutter lag.
See and play with the sample image below. Click the part that you want to focus.
Note: You need to have flash enabled on your browser to see the sample image.
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Tags: Camera, Light Field, photo, Photography
