So what are the available DIY solutions for DSLR sensor cleaning?
antron said...16-bit RAW mode lets you post-process the picture in order to reveal image data you couldn't get without shooting several pictures with different exposure times
Check it out (16 bit RAW section)
http://www.hdrsoft.com/examples.html
Sigma10-20mm GroupGood review by Thom Hogan and vindicates my choice on buying this lens. Thanks Orb keep up the good work.
by Dirk Metzmacher
Beauty retouching is probably one of the most popular application areas in which Adobe Photoshop is used extensively. There are two simple reasons for that.
First, Photoshop offers a variety of advanced tools to smooth out skin and hair, optimize body proportions and emphasize some beautiful details. And second, if you have some experience with Photoshop it is easy to learn the basics and quickly produce very impressive and beautiful results.
Of course, beauty-retouching is a quite deceptive art. The masters of Photoshop create illusions which are hard to tell apart — unless you have both a genuine photo and the final result in Photoshop and can directly compare them.
In fact, every day we consume perfectly retouched stars and models online and offline which just look different in the real life.
Gil said...That's awsome, thanks for all the info
Well, your pic there makes it look easy!!!
BERKELEY, California -- For most people, photographing something that isn't there might be tough.
Not so for Trevor Paglen.
His shots of 189 secret spy satellites are the subject of a new exhibit -- despite the fact that, officially speaking, the satellites don't exist.
The Other Night Sky, on display at the University of California at Berkeley Art Museum through September 14, is only a small selection from the 1,500 astrophotographs Paglen has taken thus far.
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Click the Filename to Download the Presets, they are zipped for easy transfer. Previews are shown to see the range of effects, but bear in mind that they are a starting point for your own investigations!
The files are divided into sections, please click to navigate directly:
How do you take Portraits that have the ‘Wow’ factor?
Today and tomorrow I want to talk about taking Portraits that are a little out of the box. You see it’s all very well and good to have a portrait that follows all the rules - but it hit me as I was surfing on Flickr today that often the most striking portraits are those that break all the rules.
I want to look at some ways to break out of the mold and take striking portraits by breaking (or at least bending) the rules and adding a little randomness into your portrait photography. I’ll share ten of these tips today and a further ten tomorrow (update: you can see the 2nd part here).
This chart is designed to help you answer this question. We've assembled a list of common digital and film camera sizes and print sizes, then coded them with the dpi you'll be able to print at for each size along with a color coding that tells you the quality you can expect from a print of that size.
To be very clear we hate dust on sensors and even more to clean the sensors. Here is our brief history about dust on sensors. The old favorite (if we ever had one :-) ) method was cleaning the sensor with sensor swabs and some special fluids.
Then a few years ago VisibleDust presented their first Sensor Brush. We had one of the first reviews by Rick Decker on our site. While the sensor brush seemed to work fine there were some inconveniences to overcome:
The canned air was needed to charge the bristles. Later VisibleDust invented the Arctic Butterfly where the fast rotation of the brush were helping to charge the bristles. Also these brushes seemed to work fine but some users felt a bit uncomfortable with the placement of the on/off switch (could be accidentally be hit during cleaning on the sensor).
The new Arctic Butterfly 724 is a way more refined design..Full Article - Here
The Unsharp Mask is an old photography trick that has become available to ‘the common man’ through the introduction of digital editing tools such as Adobe Photoshop.
In this article, I will share with you my knowledge and experience of the Unsharp mask tool in the darkroom, and also a thorough introduction to its digital name brother, the Photoshop USM filter...Full HowTo Here
One term that you’re certain to come across when researching your next DSLR purchase is ‘Crop Factor’.
This is a slightly complex topic and many long article have been written explaining it - but to keep it simple let me attempt a short explanation...Full article Here
Hi, orb9220! The recent activity of my company, Myxer.com, was one of the catalysts for Jim Goldstein's masterful article. As he points out in his post, we immediately disabled our Flickr integration when we learned our service was distributing photos beyond the Creative Commons license.
Myk Willis, Myxer's CEO, recently wrote a post on his personal blog about our Flickr integration, and the creative and philosophical intent powering it. It can be found here: http://tinyurl.com/5bws7f
I encourage you and your audience to read it, if only to learn more about the integration, to understand that Myxer did not sell any of the photos accessed via the Flickr API, and to see what Myxer has learned from this experience. As Myk writes in his post, these are "trying times for a massive number of creative people whose footing has been destabilized in this era of instant, zero-cost distribution of digital content on the internet."
We're all finding our footing here, and we appreciate the insight you and other bloggers are bringing to the conversation. If you or your readers need any further information about Myxer or future iterations of our Flickr integration, please feel free to contact me personally.
Best wishes,
--J.C. Hutchins
Social Media Marketing Manager, Myxer.com
jc.hutchins@myxer.com
Please click this link and fill out the form, then click "Print and Submit" at the bottom. Include a copy of this form with your shipment to service.
Please ship your Nikon product to our factory service center at one of the following addresses. There is no need to call in advance and no "RA" or "RMA" number is required.
Full Info and Addresses....Here
I like the analogy with the music industry and digital vs. analog. I'm a huge music buff and within the last year i started collecting vinyl. I have some albums in digital form, in both mp3 and CD format as well as on vinyl. If you were to blindfold me and play the three different formats one after another, I probably wouldn't be able to tell you which is which.
Back to the photography part of it now. For my shooting purposes, I'm not a professional photographer in the sense that I don't get paid to make pictures, jpg format is sufficient. The only time that I shoot raw is when I want to go in and "digitally remaster" the image (sorry for another music industry reference. i couldn't help myself). After I'm done editing, i save as a TIF and delete the RAW file.
I guess it's just a matter of preference at this point. A good picture is a good picture, no matter what format it's shot in. Vinyl is making a comeback in recent years. Who knows, maybe some day RAW will become a desirable format for "photofiles" of the future, giving them a retro feel to their images.
-brian
thewanderingarchitect
July 23, 2008 6:21 AM