I’ve been a Canon user ever since my first DSLR and one of the things that always frustrated me is the uselessness of the LCD to evaluate the sharpness of your pictures.
In fact on the back LCD if you try to zoom while reviewing a picture it will quickly becomes pixelated and blurry. No need to tell you my deception when I was trying a friend’s Nikon and noticed the picture was perfect even after a 10x zoom and he could easily check if it was sharp or not.
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Sensor dust is probably one of the worst nightmares of DSLR owners. Manufactures are trying hard to solve this problem with the introduction of “auto sensor cleaning” features in the newest bodies like the Canon EOS 40D or 450D.
Sensor dust will show in pictures as dark spots that will appear constantly at the same place and will be more pronounced at small apertures.
As of today there is no “dust free” solution for DSLR cameras yet, the sensor will accumulate dust over time and you can either learn to live with it or clean it regularly, however some precautions could considerably reduce this problem.
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By definition a silhouette picture is an image where a dark foreground is outlined against a lighter background.
This type of photography is usually achieved by placing your subject in a bright scene and let your camera meter for the background e.g. A person at sunset. The resulting image will be a black, usually without details, focal point that is outlined in a well exposed scene.
For your inspiration and pleasure here is a collection of 13 of the best silhouette pictures that can be found at flickr under the Creative Common License.
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Time for a new giveaway ! By the end of May I’ll be giving away a 1 year Smugmug pro account
Prize details
1 year free Smugmug Pro account generously offered by Smugmug team.
The benefits of having a Smugmug Pro are too many to list here but here are a few to get you started !
- Unlimited Bandwidth
- Unlimited Storage
- Your own domain name
- Ability to sell your pictures
- And much more you can read about at Smugmug Pro page
How can I win ?
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Finally catching up with my week’s lateness here is the first flickr round for the month of May !
Before I leave you with this week’s selection I’ll urge you to take the time to vote on last week’s that I’ve just posted.
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I’ve missed last week’s Saturday Links and this week won’t be very easy neither, since I really had a had time following up, but I am willing to give it a try! So here it is…
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I’ve been struggling for more than a year to find someone decent to redesign adidap for me. I was never able to seek a professional and reputable wordpress design company for obvious budget constraints, but I found myself spending money and being scammed by 4 “cheap” designers that stop answering emails as soon as they get their part of the money.
What I need
I am not here to bother you guys with my problems but to seek help, I need someone to
- Upgrade ADIDAP from wordpress 2.1 to 2.5 importing to tags from UTW to the native tagging system of wordpress
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I’ve been away for nearly a full week I hope you guys are still around! I am sorry for that but we had an urgent migration to deal with at work and it was an overwhelming experience, but I’m back on track.
Today I present to you Arcak Askin the photographer that signs under the name of Eastanbul at flickr.
If you like simple compositions, outstanding lighting, colors that feels coming right out of a cinema moving and, above all, delicious depth of field play and bokeh then I can assure you you will be love Eastanbul’s work.
I will leave you now with a handpicked collection of Arcak’s best pictures
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Oh my God, I missed Saturday Links fever and the flickr round by a few days!
This lag is due to a project at work that is keeping me sleepless but I promise I would have caught up by Wednesday.
In the meantime I want to let you know that Canon Digital Photo Professional ”” 3.3.1.1 is now available for download with some real nice improvements.
This download is NOT yet an official Canon release and available only for Microsoft Windows OS.
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Here it is, one week late, the last round up for March 2008.
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