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So you shoot landscapes, right? And you want a scene like the one above to be sharp from the leaves in the foreground to the distant hills, right? Now, if you’ve been shooting landscapes seriously for a while, you’ve probably heard about this thing called hyperfocal distance and might have used it in the past. You might have a handy printed reference …
This panorama was obtained by stitching together six photos in Lightroom 6, using the new “Photo Merge” feature. The best thing about this feature is that it very quickly gives you a preview, built using its internal preview images, so you can check whether the stitching will be successful. Then, when you click “Merge”, it processes the images in the …
These days, I am helping with an online mentorship where we teach some beginners about the technical foundations of photography (aperture, shutter speed, ISO, that kind of stuff) and how to get their cameras out of Auto mode. Each week, to let the students exercise their newly acquired knowledge we give out an assignment that involves taking some photos. This week, the …
I went out this morning to shoot the eclipse and all I got was this. Someone might see some symbolism here, but it’s unintentional. I heard people planning to use all sorts of weird contraptions in order to shoot the eclipse, but I used none of them. This is a hand-held shot at 1/4000s, f/22, ISO 200. Focal length was …
Give us something new. Give us something to be jealous of. Create your photograph based on the situation you are being presented with at that moment in time. Put emotion and feeling into it, instead of some stupid rule. – Jay Goodrich The so-called Rule of Thirds is a crutch and the sooner you get rid, the better your photography …
I got up early last tuesday to reach this location, because I had an image in my mind, with the castle lit by the rising sun against the backdrop of the distant Alps and I knew conditions were likely favorable. What I hadn’t foreseen is that the full moon would be setting right behind the castle, as seen from my position, …
High Dynamic Range imaging (HDR) has a bit of a bad rap, as it’s been widely abused to create surreal, overprocessed, highly saturated images that do not resemble reality at all. This bad rap is undeserved, though, as HDR can be used to effectively capture a larger dynamic range that would be possible without using it. I don’t refrain from …
You’ve seen them. Those places that everybody goes to because one just has to have a photograph of that location, at a certain time of day. They are also beautiful. The real problem is that everybody goes there and a few million other photographers have taken that same image already and it’s very hard for yours to stand out from …
You might recall that some time ago I got myself a Samyang/Rokinon 12mm f/2.0 NCS CS lens for the specific purpose of doing some night sky photography. My first attempts were thwarted by light pollution, but having scheduled a trip to the Greek islands at the end of August, I knew that I would have had better chances there, especially considering that …
This is a little story on how being prepared and ready to do some planning, even at the last minute, allows you to grab opportunities in photography that might escape those that are not prepared. A few days ago, while I was vacationing on the island of Kos, Greece, with family and friends, I checked the calendar and noticed that …
