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- Canon Vs Nikon
- How to Photograph Landscapes
- Interesting Photo of the Day: Sea of Purple in Utah’s Badlands
- Photographer Explores Sewers Beneath Major Cities
| Posted: 25 Apr 2013 04:48 PM PDT Quick Reminder: Learn how to use a DSLR with the deal ending soon: Trick Photography Guide There is an age old debate over which of the major camera manufacturer–in this case, Nikon and Canon– best represent the needs and desires of the individual photographer. It seems as though each of the companies have a strong and dedicated following, most of whom are ready to defend their brand at a moments notice. While the real answer as to which is best is just as subjective as the art created with them, this infographic may help shed some light on the history of Canon’s and Nikon’s growth. Take a look:  Canon vs Nikon History & Market Share According to the numbers found on the infographic (kindly provided by Digital Picture Zone), Canon has a rather commanding lead as far as sale of digital SLR’s are concerned. Canon claims 44.5% of worldwide sales, whereas Nikon commands 29.8% of all worldwide sales. Canon, who also manufactures binoculars, rangefinders, and an assortment of other products owns a 19.6 share in global sales when figuring in all Canon products sold, not just their camera sales. The global IDC numbers from 2010 indicate that Nikon’s share in sales of all products sold is 6.7 billion. Among their line of digital cameras, Nikon is well known for manufacturing scanners, microscopes, and spotting scopes. Go to full article: Canon Vs Nikon |
| Posted: 25 Apr 2013 02:36 PM PDT You might be wondering how the beautiful landscape photographs shown in magazines are shot. The colors are so vibrant and the compositions are always interesting, the way they guide your view from the foreground to a main subject to the background. Everything is sharp in focus. How do they do that? Let’s assume you want to take a photograph of a mountain range with meadows covered with flowers. Some objects are close to you, in the foreground. Other objects are farther away in the midground and the mountains and the sky are at a distance, serving as background.  “Great Wall At Fall 2″ captured by David Hobcote. (Click image to see more from David Hobcote.) In order to keep all this in focus, you need lots of depth of field. This can be achieved by selecting a small aperture like f16 or f22. At the same time, you want the photograph to have as much detail and as little graininess (with film) or as little noise (with digital) as possible. That’s why you select a low ISO (film) or ISO setting (digital). Low ISO settings will give you the best quality, but at the expense of slow shutter speeds. Your shutter speed will most likely be slow for handheld shots. That’s especially true if you want to take your photographs in early morning or late afternoon light. Using a tripod is highly recommended. Most of us, myself included, take the time on weekends to relax. After getting up at 8 am or later, it takes awhile to get cleaned up. Then we tend to have a nice breakfast. By the time we are ready to go anywhere to take photographs, it is about 10 am or later. Unfortunately, by that time, the light is no longer favorable. Taking photographs at this time will result in average-looking pictures with dull colors. If you want the bright colors, enhanced by interesting lighting, you need to be up and ready with your camera starting right at sunrise. You’ll then have two to three hours to take photographs in the best light. After this time, you can take a break, until two to three hours prior to sunset. At these times,the light is interesting and gives warmth to the colors. Changing the daily routine will give you better opportunities for taking great landscape photographs. That’s why I think an alarm clock is a very useful tool for the landscape photographer.  “Chasing Lights” captured by DMQuiambao. (Click image to see more from DMQuiambao.) Lighting is an important factor, but so is composition. Returning to our project, we have this majestic mountain range in front of us. The mountains are in the distance, making the background. If they were closer, they would not fit in the frame. There is the meadow with the flowers in front of the mountain range. The closest object is a tree, which I will use to frame one side of the image, and it serves as the foreground. Then there is the bright blue sky to think about. What to do with it? Since I want to emphasize the meadow and the mountains, I’ll leave a narrow strip for the sky, approximately one third or less of the top image area. If the sky had interesting cloud formations, I may have chosen to fill two thirds or a little more of the upper area with sky. Avoid having the sky and landscape each take half of your photo. In other words: don’t have the horizon run right through the middle. Imagine your image is divided into nine equal rectangles. It’s as if you are looking at a checkerboard of three rows across, three rows down, resulting in nine rectangles (not squares). Try to place objects of interest into any of the four points where the lines intersect. Avoid placing the main object in the center rectangle. Practice following these guidelines and your images will become better and better. As you practice, you may find yourself making these visual choices naturally. Good luck! About the Author: For Further Training:Learn how to use the full range of light by adding a high dynamic range aspect to your landscape images. Such as in the images above, the photographers combined a few exposures at different light levels in order to capture vibrancy through the image. We were just informed by the publisher that this best-selling instructional eBook is nearly 70% off until the end of the month It can be found here: Photography Tricks (Including HDR) Go to full article: How to Photograph Landscapes |
| Interesting Photo of the Day: Sea of Purple in Utah’s Badlands Posted: 25 Apr 2013 01:31 PM PDT The image you see below was a project that took photographer, Guy Tal, five years to complete. Tal first witnessed the purple blooms while visiting Utah’s Badlands with a group of friends in early 2005. With no time to wait around for the perfect lighting conditions, Tal vowed to come back to the area to capture the gorgeous landscape properly. What he was unaware of at the time is that the scorpionweed bloom occurs once every five years if the conditions just so happen to be perfect:  The bloom found in this region of the Badlands generally occurs only once every five or more years (imgur) After two more fruitless trips to the area in 2007 and 2008, despite finding nothing but a vacant stretch of land where the purple blossoms once captured his eye, Tal began to fall in love the area–even going so far as purchasing a home nearby. Then, in 2010, it finally happened. Tal made his now yearly trek to the area to discover the flowers sprouting from the ground in full bloom. Blessed with a dramatic sky caused by a distant thunderstorm, Tal quickly set up his Canon 5D Mark II outfitted with a 17-40mm lens and began documenting the extremely rare occasion. Over the course of the following two weeks, he watched as the blooms turned from the vibrant violet to various shades of yellow before they, once again, vanished into the barren ground as quickly as they had appeared. Go to full article: Interesting Photo of the Day: Sea of Purple in Utah’s Badlands |
| Photographer Explores Sewers Beneath Major Cities Posted: 25 Apr 2013 10:45 AM PDT For many, the infrastructure beneath cities remain out of sight and out of mind. Photographer Steve Duncan has exposed the world to the hidden systems beneath cities by exploring, photographing and researching the history of the urban underground. In his talk at TedxPhoenixville, he speaks about his experiences discovering these hidden places. Take a look (for those of you reading this by email, the TED talk can be seen here): What began as trespassing for thrill quickly became a creative journey when he discovered the largely unseen underground of New York City. Particularly, the people who live beneath the city in train tunnels. This sparked his passion for new perspectives of the city. He continued photographing the world beneath New York City as well as the views from the tops of bridges.  New York City sewers beneath Williamsburg in Brooklyn After venturing to the worlds beneath other major cities, he discovered the history of the construction of each city through the underground infrastructure. He found that the rivers and streams of the past were put underground. These systems still shape each city, and yet are typically unknown to the people living above them. Steven Duncan suggests that by learning about the way cities have been built in the past, and the way these systems function today, we can begin to construct the cities of the future.
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