We are always encouraging people to get off of the Auto setting on their camera and use Program. The Program setting allows you to choose the ISO you shoot at, and adjusts the shutter speed and aperture accordingly. But that always raises two questions: Why and How? It’s all about the grain. All cameras add noise or grain when shooting at high ISOs. Here’s
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We recently received a question on the blog about cleaning the dirt off of old photographs before scanning them. The reader wanted to clean off some of the surface dirt before scanning to make the retouching easier later on. Good idea or not? I’m torn. While our reader did go ahead with the suggestions I gave her below, I’m not so sure it was
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All you who’ve taken our digital photography classes know the answer to this one: What resolution setting do you set your camera on? ALWAYS? Right! The HIGHEST setting. Because with camera cards getting cheaper by the minute, you can afford to capture as many pixels as you can, just in case you want to print large, and to get good detail. So WHAT THE
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We came across a fabulous site the other day – snapsort.com. What they do is allow digital scrapbookers and photographers to compare two digital cameras instantly, see differences and similarities, and give advice which is better. It’s brilliant! From their website: Our goal Knowing which camera to buy is a pain. In real time Snapsort closes the knowledge gap and helps you find the
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A basic to understand for any photographer whether still using film or shooting with a digital camera is to understand the relationship of the three components of a good exposure that gets you a good picture. Over the next three Fridays we’ll discuss in depth each aspect of this relationship and how they interact. So let’s set some basic groundwork first. Exposure is letting
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