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Digital Photography Tips and Articles
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Digital Photography Tips: To Stitch or Not To Stitch
It's easy to stitch separate images into one seamless panorama, and doing so helps you work around the scarcity of extremely wide-angle lenses. However, the easy way isn't always the best way. The more difficult art of collaging can produce images that are less realistic but more intriguing.
Photography How-to: Printing Black and White Images
When it comes to processing black and white images, digital has advantages over the darkroom. But can modern printing methods compete with output from the old days?
Digital Photography How-To: The Ins and Outs of Interpolation
Your image editor interpolates photos every time you rotate, enlarge, reduce, or distort them. The results can be bad: aliasing, blurring, edge halos. Yet you can't always avoid interpolation. This tutorial helps you make the right choices to get the best possible results.
Ooohh! Aaahh! Tips on Photographing Fireworks
Shooting fireworks can be daunting. Here's how to prepare yourself and your digital camera so you successfully capture the rockets' red glare.
Sharpen Photos Smartly
What's the best time to sharpen your photos? And what's the best tool -- Camera Raw, Photoshop's Smart Sharpen, or something else? We answer these questions and more.
Framed and Exposed: Keeping Your Camera Clean
When you've got a dust problem that just won't go away, it may be time to clean the camera's sensor. But delving into your camera's guts is not for the faint of heart. Luckily, Ben Long is here to hold your hand through the process.
Digital Photography How-To: The Pros and Cons of Lens Flare
Lens flare -- whether it's in the form of bright streaks, random polygons, or an overall washed-out look -- is a hazard when you're shooting photos near a bright light source. Learn how to avoid it, and even how to exploit it to make stunning imagery.
Framed and Exposed: Out, Damn Spot!
Dust can ruin a perfectly good shot, and removing it in an image editor isn't always possible (and is never fun). Ben Long tells you how to remove dust from your digital SLR, and how to avoid it in the first place.
Creativepro.com Digital Camera Buying Guide
Don't throw away your money on a camera that isn't right for the way you shoot and the photos you want to take. Follow along with this fully updated, five-part guide and you're practically guaranteed to be happy with your choice.
Framed & Exposed: A First Look at the Nikon Capture NX Beta
Aperture, Lightroom, and the rest of you guys, look out: Nikon's Capture NX (now in beta) is a simple, powerful, non-destructive image editor and manager. And as this Canon shooter can prove, it's not just for Nikon users, either.
Advanced Editing in Camera Raw
Go further with Adobe's Camera Raw software. You'll be amazed at the control you can have over white balance, exposure, highlights, shadows, brightness, contrast, and saturation!
Stripping Raw Naked
Apple says that Aperture, its new photo-editing and -management program, is a boon for photographers shooting Raw files. Creativepro.com looks past the hype to the bare truth.
Framed and Exposed: Eine Kleine Nachtphoto
Night photography opens up a whole new world, where the most mundane scenes turn magical. This is your passport to the new world.
Framed and Exposed: Better Living Through Automator
It may not be as handy as the robot maid on "The Jetsons," but Apple's new automation tool can free up hours -- even days -- for the digital photographer. Now if only it would do windows...
Framed and Exposed: Quiet Those Noisy Images
Noise is a trouble that all digital photographers face at one time or another, and though there are many ways to eliminate noise using your image editing program, there are now many good automated noise reduction packages that not only make it easier to eliminate or reduce noise in your images, but that might do a far better job than you could ever do by hand.
Framed and Exposed: Balancing the Lens and Sensor Equation
Small lenses are casting a wide angle on digital photo market. Ben Long takes a look at the advancing technology and what Canon is up to with the EF-S 10-22mm lens.
Framed and Exposed: Notes from Macworld Expo
The iPod cast a long shadow over the most recent gathering of the Mac faithful, but there was plenty to appeal to digital shutterbugs, too. Ben Long looks at new products of interest to both Mac and Windows users.
Framed and Exposed: More Gifts for the Digital Photographer
Gifts for digital photographers aren't limited to hardware accessories. Think about giving software, like image-improvement packages and Photoshop filters. Ben Long offers his short list of ideas
Framed and Exposed: The Digital-Camera Gift Bag
Looking for gifts for the digital photographer in your life? How about some gadgets and gizmos? Here's what to give -- and what to ask for -- this holiday season.
Framed and Exposed: What Film Photographers Already Know
Digital cameras have tossed many novices into the deep end of the photographic pool, with the result that learning how to shoot good pictures has been a sink-or-swim affair. Few have grounded their digital knowledge in traditional film basics, like lens length and light metering. It's time to catch up.
Framed and Exposed: What Else Film Photographers Already Know
After explaining traditional-camera concepts such as lens length and light metering, Ben Long delves into more fundamentals digital camera converts should know: exposure, aperture, shutter speed, and depth of field. Plus, do you know the right way to press the shutter button?
Bit by Bit: On the Road with Digital Storage Devices
Digital cameras mean not having to worry about keeping track of exposed canisters of film. But what happens when you run out of space on your media cards and you're not ready to throw images away to make room for new ones? Brian P. Lawler examines the options.
Review: Nikon D200
This 10-megapixel digital SLR produces excellent images and comes in a sturdy package. But is it worth the $1,700 price tag?
Review: Apple's Aperture 1.0
Apple's first-ever pro photography tool generated a lot of buzz when it was first announced. Ben Long spent weeks putting the shipping version of Aperture through all sorts of tests. In this thorough review, he reveals whether the reality lives up to the buzz.
Review: Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT Camera
The original Rebel, the first sub-$1,000 digital SLR, created a stir because of its relatively low price and high quality. Will the Rebel XT upgrade uphold quality while keeping the price down? Camera expert Ben Long tells you what you need to know to buy wisely.
Canon EOS 20D: Noiseless Images, Loud Shutter in 8.2-Megapixel Camera
Canon's latest digital SLR defines and refines the mid-priced, high-resolution camera line. Offering 8.2 megapixels in a compact body that takes interchangeable lenses, the EOS 20D is gathering momentum as today's "it" camera. Ben Long takes a look.
Canon PowerShot S1 IS: No More Long Lens Longing
Most point-and-shoot digital cameras are designed for general snapshots, not for more detailed work or faraway action. But with a 10x optical zoom, the Canon PowerShot S1 IS aims to get up close and personal with your subjects.
Sony DSC-F828 Cyber-shot: Long Lens, High Quality
The number of pixels keeps rising even as the price of digital cameras keeps falling. Case in point: the 8-megapixel, sub-$1,000 Sony DSC-F828 Cyber-shot. This long-lensed camera produces excellent images, but you'll need both hands to shoot with it. Ben Long takes a look.
Sony Cyber-Shot DSC-T1: Digital Camera with Big Resolution, Small Dimensions
It used to be that buying a small digital camera meant big compromises on quality. The Sony DSC-T1 puts that notion to rest with a pocket-sized digital camera that packs 5-megapixel resolution and a 3x zoom lens into a tiny package.
iPhoto 4: Faster, Smarter Image Catalog for the Mac
The latest version of Apple's photo organizer sports greatly improved performance and more advanced features. But is it enough for professional shutterbugs?
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