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Black and white photography has still a lot of supporters, in spite of current situation with ultra-modern cameras, automated settings, 3D, HDR... But not everything must be grayscale. There are multiple techniques for the late colouring of black and...
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Well, I write this post against my will... Last Friday, my daughter dropped my EOS 500D to the floor (my fault: she's only one year old, I left the camera on the table over some magazines...) and the display protection glass broke... After recovering...
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Finally Canon made the anouncement for the replacement of their full-frame camera... the people from DPReview has added the press release to their analysis and hands-on report... DPReview - Canon EOS 5D Mark III - press release Unfortunately, I do not...
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In internet, you may find a wide variety of forums and howtos (also here!) on photographic edition, either to increase the dynamic range to produce an HDR image, or to convert it to black and white, or even to tint it to sepia, for example. But one of...
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A usual side effects when using entry-level lenses is the presence of vignetting in the pictures. Vignetting refers to the darkening that happens due to the loss of illumination causes by the lens itself, which is more visible when far from the image...
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The free photo edition application GIMP provides a wide variety of automated tools that can help you in reducing your timing in your designs. In this post, I will review the automated logotypes creation, quite useful, for example, in case you need to...
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(continues from here) OK, it is decided. I will develop a new film. Well, it will not be that new, for I fould one lost roll in my fridge, a lapsed ILFORD PLUS FP4 125... With recommended use date of 2009. In theory, chemicals in the film will degrade...
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One of the most useful ways to convert a picture to black and white is the channel mix technique. This allows for the decision on the importance of each primary colour channel (red, green, blue) to the "weight" of the final image, this is, their influence...
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TTL is te acronym for "Through the lens". It refers to any function that performs some calculation based on "real" information received from the image, as it arrives to the sensor. Film cameras could include built-in light metering, which was indicated...
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OK, so you got your DSLR camera, you make wonderful landscapes or city shots... but you still miss something. Your portraits are not "sound". You need an external flash unit. But, which one? First thing you have to decide is what kind of pictures you...
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Since film development is becoming a fashion again, I decided to write some posts on this topic. But I warn you beforehand: this is a quite complex topic, and it can take many (intense) hours from your time... In this first post I will try to describe...
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Well, after several articles on digital photography and the dawn of traditional or analog one, it seems that sudenly we can see its revival, at least among some groups of youngsters, eager to try "new" things... The posts that I could find in Internet...
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(Original en español) One of the most useful setting mode in DSLR cameras is seldom used by amateurs, mainly due to poor information on its possibilities. This semi-automated mode, indicated by a "S" (for shutter) or "Tv" (in case of Canon, from "Time...
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Great! It seems that the market is moving in 2012... If only a few weeks ago we could read about the proposal of a new memory card format from the CompactFlash assiciation, the new XQD, (updated here) which could mean the new mid-term de-facto standard,...
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(Continues from here...) OK, finally I could have some time to make first tests. As I commented, next to the Pentacon 50mm f1.8 lens and the M42 to Canon EF adapter, I have some macro rings, also with 42mm screw. So I used all three together to begin...
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Navigating in Internet, you may find almost anything. Today, I propose three options for your spare time during the weekend: Caffenol or how to develop analog film with coffee and lemon juice... and it seems to be true. I have to test this, if I can find...
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