Frank Düpmann: A tutorial on High Dynamic Range images.

Ruins of former Russian sanatoriums (near Berlin) – „natural“ settings The Dynamic Range (DR) of your favourite camera is limited – that‘s the bad news. It means that in „challenging“ light situations, either the higlights are blown or there are no details in shadows, all black. In the example above, either the windows would be [...]

Michael Freeman – How Gray Will a Color Be?

November 15, 2011 by  
Filed under Beyond the Basics, Black & White

Several weeks ago I wrote about the relatively new and excellent ways of converting a color image digitally into black and white. The original doesn’t even need to be digital – a scanned transparency will do fine. There’s quite a bit of technical stuff to go into, and at the end of that article, Save [...]

Jose Antunes: Make your photobook at home

September 28, 2011 by  
Filed under Photography Basics, Tips & Tricks

There is a lot of software, these days, to do books and ebooks, but have you ever though about Lightroom? Until Lightroom 3 arrived, the only way to be able to use the software to make book pages was through a little change made possible through the hack from an enthusiast. Then Adobe decided to [...]

Michael Freeman: Easy-to-go Post-production in 11 steps

June 21, 2011 by  
Filed under Photography Basics, Post Production

This is a longer-than-usual one, inevitably. Let’s start by being clear what post-production (aka ‘post’) is. It’s a term long used in the professional world of imaging, especially in the motion picture industry, and it means what is says on the label – work done to an image (or film or video) after it has [...]

Michael Freeman – How Did You Shoot That? – A Bulang house on the border

As the saying goes, it was that old déja vu again. I was in China, three years ago, starting work on my latest book,Tea Horse Road, and almost the first trip was to one of the southe soft cialis rn tea mountains, west of the Mekong, in the area of Yunnan known as Xishuangbanna, bordering [...]

Photofarm presents: Photo Stitching

March 22, 2011 by  
Filed under Events

REGISTRATI QUI IN ITALIANO This webinar program will cover the analysis and the explanation of the most commonly used techniques to obtain a horizontal or vertical panoramic image, starting from the choices we need to make during the capture phase. It’s important to understand prospective problems and to be able to visualize the final result [...]