Archive for Tag : photography

DIY: Pringles Can Strip Light

Categories: DIY, Photography
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Published on: April 17, 2013

Inspired by another Flickr member’s project (which is a very cheap, homemade version of the expensive Saberstrip), I took a few minutes and made this Pringles can strip light. (Copyright © 2013 by Wil C. Fry. All rights reserved.)

My Best Images: Girls’ Basketball

Categories: Photography, Sports
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Published on: March 9, 2013

Between 2001 and 2009, I recorded many thousands of sports images, mostly as part of my job for The Seminole Producer, a daily newspaper that covered Seminole County, Oklahoma. Over the years, I’m more able to see the faults in many of those images, but some of them stand out as really good, at least[...]

Keeper Ratio

Categories: Photography
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Published on: March 8, 2013

One concern of beginning photographers is their “keeper ratio” — the ratio of “keepers” versus total number of images recorded. This phase usually happens after they feel fairly comfortable with their cameras and after they’ve begun to settle into a photographic niche. I saw this question in a Canon forum recently: “I have owned my[...]

ISO, Just For Curiosity

Categories: Photography
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Published on: March 3, 2013

My curiosity was piqued by this thread in a Canon 60D group on Flickr, where the thread originator said: ” In the 2500 through 6400 ISO setting, the camera’s light sensitive [sic] changes very little”. He meant sensitivity. He included a chart showing how his shutter speed changed with each change of the ISO setting.[...]

Tweaking Digital To Look Like Film

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Published on: February 24, 2013

“One of the things I like to do in my spare time is trying to capture a specific film look.” (Source) What the author meant is: I like to use software to force an otherwise decent digital photo to resemble a photo taken with a specific type of film.

Composite / Stitched Images

Categories: Photography
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Published on: January 29, 2013

(Copyright © 2013 by Wil C. Fry. All rights reserved.) Some moments are fleeting — like sunsets. As a strong wind moved these clouds quickly northward, I found myself on the back porch with a 50mm lens on my Canon EOS 60D — effectively the field of view of an 80mm lens. That focal length[...]

How Durable Is Your DSLR?

Categories: Photography, TechReview
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Published on: December 9, 2012

In this YouTube video (be warned; it’s 16 minutes long), Kai Wong of Digital Rev pits the Nikon D70 and Canon 400D against a series of mishaps to show how durable they are (the video is mistitled regarding which cameras are tested). He drops them, bumps them into walls, lets elevator doors close on them,[...]

Leaving Your Camera’s Power Switch ‘ON’

Categories: Photography
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Published on: November 13, 2012

Will your DLSR’s battery drain quickly if you use the auto power-off (“sleep”) function instead of switching off the power manually? In my non-scientific study, I say it doesn’t matter. The issue came up when I answered an unrelated question (here) and I made the statement that I haven’t turned off a camera’s power switch[...]

Windows 8: Viewing Raw Image Files

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Published on: November 4, 2012

In order to view raw file thumbnails from newer DSLRs in normal Windows 8 directories, you’ll need the Codec update found here: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=34871

DIY Sliding Camera Strap

Categories: DIY, How To, Photography
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Published on: November 1, 2012

Your DSLR came with a camera strap. But it was the uncomfortable kind that camera-makers always include in the box. So you bought a more comfortable strap with padding around the neck area and perhaps some elasticity. That’s better, right? And it’s probably enough if you’re a casual shooter who rarely wears the camera for[...]

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