THE CONCEPT OF VARIABILITY

Photographers are by necessity experimenters. Although they are not thought of as scientists operating in a research atmosphere, they most certainly are experimenters: Every time an exposure is made, and the negative is processed, a genuine experiment has been made. There is no way the photographer...

Turn Off Vibration Reduction (or IS)

The big rage in digital lenses these days are the Vibration Reduction (VR) lens from Nikon and the Image Stabilization (IS) lens from Canon, which help you get sharper images while hand-holding your camera in low-light situations. Basically, they let you hand-hold in more low-light situations by...

Tripod

The importance of a robust, sturdy tripod cannot be overstated. Interior photography inevitably necessitates long exposures – for which a heavy-duty professional tripod is essential. Both the changing of film backs and pulling out exposed sheets of instant-print film are substantial, jerky movements...

GETTING STARTED WITH RAW

I’ve been shooting with digital SLRs and digicams with RAW capture capability for some time, but only occasionally used that format when making photographs. Why? At the time, most of the software provided or sold to you by the camera manufacturers for the explicit purpose of working with RAW files were...

What is Camera Raw?

The fi rst thing to understand about camera Raw is that it is not one fi le format, but many. Camera Raw formats are proprietary, developed by camera manufacturers to best handle the data produced by individual models. Hence, the Raw file format produced by Canon’s EOS 5D will diff er from that produced...