One of the things we'd like to regularly feature on PetaPixel are interviews and guest posts from outside photographers and photobloggers. I have a pretty solid lineup of noteworthy photobloggers that will soon be interviewed for this site, but was wondering if any of you had suggestions for people you'd like to hear from.
Cambridge in Colour is a great photography resource on the web for beginners and advanced photographers alike.
This entry will describe my thought process when editing a portrait, though it could apply to general photos too.
Here's a photograph I took today while hiking with friends on the Bailey Cove Trailhead in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest: …
Here's a useful resource I found a while back that many of you might find helpful. SLRGear.com is a website that conducts comprehensive tests on camera lenses, and publishes them in the form of diagrams and illustrations.
A few times in the past I've had to recover data from memory cards. Once it was a friend who accidentally reformatted the card and deleted hundreds of photographs from a recent vacation. Another time I accidentally deleted precious images from the memory card before I had backed them up. What I've learned though, is that in most cases, you can easily recover the data you fear was lost, even if you do something drastic such as reformat your card.
People often use a shallow depth of field in portraiture to separate a subject from the distracting background, allowing the face (more specifically, the eyes) to be in sharp focus while the background is blurred. Instead of doing this, sometimes I enjoy focusing on something closer towards me, putting the subject's face out of focus instead and drawing the viewers attention to something else. Here are some examples: …
This article is the second part of the previous article titled "Pro Camera Gear on a Student Budget", and contains some advice for what you should do once you find a good deal and have arranged a meeting with the seller. I personally consider purchasing used gear on craigslist to be a much better route than other services (i.e. eBay), since you can check out the gear personally and walk away from the deal if anything doesn't seem right. Here are the tips: …
My first DSLR camera was a Canon 20D that my parents purchased for me as a graduation present back in August of 2005. We went to the store expecting to purchase the camera for $1,599, but found that it was selling for only $1,299. Boy was I excited. Looking back, I consider purchasing that 20D the worst photo-related decision I've ever made.
When browsing around on Flickr, I used to be amazed by how sharp many of the photographs I came across were, and thought that the reason my web-res images weren't as sharp was because I had poor technique or an inferior lens. However, even after I upgraded my camera equipment I still wasn't achieving the same type of sharpness I saw on Flickr.
You've probably heard many of the common arguments people give for whether to shoot in JPEG or RAW. When people discover the power of RAW, they usually never go back to shooting purely in JPEG. Sure, RAW files are enormous compared to JPEGs, the whole process will take you longer, and you'll definitely need much more storage in terms of external hard drives and memory cards, but I definitely feel like the benefits of shooting in RAW outweigh the costs.
This is the first post of what will hopefully be an exciting journey...
