Archive for October, 2006

Best 18 Pictures of Year 2005

October 31st, 2006 by Antoine Khater

For those of you who liked Best 15 National Geographic pictures of 2005 2006 and amazing high speed photography here are, what they say to be, the best 18 pictures of the year 2005.
Is it true? I honestly don’t know but hey, who cares! they sure worth looking at.

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Left eyed or right eyed?

October 31st, 2006 by Antoine Khater

For a long time I thought I was weird to be right handed and left eyed, but I’ve been reading polls in photography forums, and it seems I’m not the only left eyed photographer after all :D what about you?

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See the Canon EF 100 400 L IS pump action

October 30th, 2006 by Antoine Khater

Recently I have built a FAQ for the Canon EF 100 400 L IS and in one of the answers I brought up the subject that the push/pull zoom of the Canon EF 100 400 L IS sucks the dust right into the sensor.
I got some emails from owners confirming that they have had no dust problem with that lens whatsoever which, by the way, was a big relief for me since I am expecting mine to arrive any day now.
Recently a fellow photographer did some scientific tests with his Canon EF 100 400 L and here are the results

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What is so good and what is not about picasa

October 29th, 2006 by Antoine Khater

Picasa is a very popular and free photo organizer software from the internet giant google. I have been using it for about 2 years now to organize and keep track of over 50.000 pictures laying on my hard disk in digital format.
So why what is it that I love so much in Picasa over the other thousands of photo organizing softwares out there ? and what is the feature I miss the most in that great freeware.

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Canon EOS batch file renamer

October 29th, 2006 by Antoine Khater

Introduction

Most of Canon EOS DSLR will not let you easily know the number of your camera’s shutter actuations1, for this reason most of these DSLR owners will rely on the camera’s file numbering to track the number of shots taken with their camera.

However this method has it pitfalls, Canon EOS batch file renamer is a small visual basic script I have wrote for my own use to help overcome one of the continuous file numbering problems and is designed to work with Canon EOS DSLR cameras.


  1. only a visit to canon’s service center can reveal the actual number [back]
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DIY: Pop-up flash diffuser

October 28th, 2006 by Antoine Khater

I have already discussed various techniques for a DIY bounce card for your camera external flash, but what if you haven’t yet invested in an external flash? what if all you have it that “travel light” party is the pop-up flash of your camera do you have to suffer the harsh frontal light?

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Nikon Triple rebates

October 27th, 2006 by Antoine Khater

Just 11 days after the beginning of the Canon Double rebates Nikon, at its turn, announces its Triple rebates.

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Photoshop Tutorial: none destructive high pass sharpening

October 27th, 2006 by Antoine Khater

The Unsharp Mask (USM) filter in Adobe Photoshop is probably the most well known sharpening technique and the most widely used, however this technique1 suffers a major drawback, it cannot be undone.

In this tutorial I’ll try to explain a less popular, but more flexible, technique to sharpen your digital images using the high-pass filter of Adobe Photoshop


  1. as well as most other sharpening techniques [back]
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Free photoshop stock textures site

October 26th, 2006 by Antoine Khater

If you are an adobe photoshop addict, then it is very likely that you have already tried various extracting techniques to change that ugly background or simply went into situations when you wished you had beautiful high resolution textures to use.

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Free Christmas and 2007 calendar templates

October 26th, 2006 by Antoine Khater

Is it Christmas yet?? well maybe not yet but it will soon be here :)
I was thinking that I should get started with my greeting cards and eventually the year 2007 calendar and went on a quest to find free adobe photoshop templates for both.

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