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How to Use LAB Color in Photoshop to Add Punch to Your Images
A Post By: Jim Hamel Have you ever wished you could stretch out the color palette of your picture? Or that you could separate colors that looked too flat or close together? Well, with Photoshop, you can – by converting your picture to something called LAB colorspace and adjusting the color there. That might sound complicated, but it is actually pretty simple. If you have ever made a levels or curves adjustment, you already know everything you need to know to accomplish this. The left side of the picture is an anadjusted Raw file. The right...
read moreCasio targets golfers with Japan-only Exilim EX-FC500S
Casio Japan has unveiled the Exilim EX-FC500S, a 16.1MP point-and-shoot designed to aid golfers in improving their skills. The EX-FC500S offers this by way of 240fps slow-motion video recording, intelligent automatic video editing to isolate the swing, and Wi-Fi connectivity for analysis on a mobile device. The camera offers gesture-driven control, allowing a golfer to position the device where it can record his or her swing, then trigger the recording with a hand wave. The camera itself will detect when the swing is...
read moreThe photographer’s perfect pick? Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX100 review
I returned this inferior camera. The EVF wheel was stuck not giving adjustment until I rocked it by force. The jpegs are pathetic, not in focus. I took 400 pictures and less than 5 were sharp. And I have not one complain of my other 40 cameras including RX100, RX100III, Fuji X100, D700, D7000, D40, Coolpix A, GR, E-PL7, PL5, PM2, Stylus 1, GM1, etc., not 1 complain. I have heard of a bad batch in the forums, but I just never saw a more pathetic camera. OK I am not a pro, but I have taken 90,000 pictures and only the LX100 was OOF jpegs OOC....
read moreLeica 35mm Lens Cross Section Diagram Tattoo
Photographer Rick Satureyes shares this tattoo he recently had inked onto his forearm. Rather than a standard design featuring a camera or lens, he chose to go with a cross-section diagram of a lens. More specifically, Satureyes chose the diagram of a Leica Summilux-M 35mm f/1.4 ASPH lens. The technical illustration is “99% technically accurate as far as my research has shown,†he tells us. (He did add some black shading on certain elements for aesthetics.) Here’s a clearer look at what the diagram looks like: While the tattoo...
read more‘The Neighbours Project’ Captures the Stories of Denver’s Homeless in Words and Tintypes
Dylan Burr is a full-time artist from Denver, Colorado, but despite his busy schedule and full-time job, Burr recently embarked on a personal photography project on the side. The project, however, wasn’t for him. His goal was to use the raw power of wet plate collodion portraiture to give a name and story to the Denver Area homeless. Titled The Neighbours Project, Burr interview and photographed 30 people who use the local St. Francis Center, which helps supplement them with basic needs as much as possible. By taking down their...
read morePixact.ly: An Online Game That Lets You See How Well You Can Eyeball Pixel Counts
If you do a lot of photo editing, you’ve likely gotten pretty used to making estimates of pixel dimensions. But how good are you, exactly? A new browser-based game called Pixact.ly wants to help you answer that question. It’s based around the simple idea of drawing a box with specific pixel dimensions. The premise is super simple. Just go to Pixact.ly and click Enter. Once you’ve started the ‘game,’ you’ll be given a resolution and asked to drag out a box that matches. There are 5 ’rounds,’ and the closer you get to the...
read moreHere are Portraits of Dogs Flying Through the Air
We’ve featured photos of dogs underwater, mid-shake, during bath time and in the middle of a gratuitous lick… but this is the first set of portraits we’ve seen that capture dogs in-flight. Well, not quite flight… more like ‘falling with style,’ to borrow a line from Toy Story. The series is called Freestyle, and the images were captured by German photographer Julia Christe as a followup to her previous experiment with mid-air canines dubbed Ups and Downs. We caught up with Christe to learn more about the images, and she...
read moreA Cheaper Filter Holder for the Nikon 14-24mm f/2.8 Created with 3D Printing
Need a piece of gear but can’t find a reasonably priced option? Perhaps 3D printing could help. That’s what photographers Patrick Ludolph and Christian Steinkrüger. After not finding an affordable filter solution for his Nikon 14-24mm f/2.8 lens, Ludolph approached Steinkrüger — a 3D printing hobbyist — with the idea of creating a custom filter holder themselves. Steinkrüger had Ludolph send him complete measurements of the lens. Then it became a task of trial and error. Steinkrüger spent 50 hours working and reworking the...
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read moreWriter’s Favorite Lens the Nifty Fifty on a Cropped Sensor Camera
A Post By: Meredith Clark Growing up, the first letter of my last name was towards the end of the alphabet, which meant that I was one of the last kids who got to choose my electives in high school. It was for this reason that I ended up with strange electives such as Physics, Advanced Placement Composition, Metal Shop, and eventually Black and White Photography. I was less than thrilled about taking Photography – I had SATs to take, colleges to get in to, and certainly did not have time for a photography class taught by the Psychology...
read moreHow to Find Great Backgrounds for Portraits
A Post By: Andrew S. Gibson I used a short telephoto lens at a wide aperture to throw the cliff in the background out of focus in this photo. With this technique, the background itself isn’t so important as no-one can tell what it is, but it must still complement the subject. Finding great backgrounds that complement the subject is an essential part of the process of creating beautiful portraits. My article How to Plan the Perfect Portrait Shoot will help you with the other aspects of putting together a portrait shoot, but today I thought...
read moreBlocks Camera features modular design with swappable components
Blocks Camera of California has introduced its Blocks+ multi-functional camera. The Blocks+ features a modular design allowing photographers to swap in components, referred to as ‘blocks’, for various types of recording like 3D and 360-degree video. The blocks also include battery modules that can be added for extra battery life. The camera will be offered as two models: the Blocks+, and the Blocks+ H. The Blocks+ model features up to 2k-resolution recording and 10-megapixel stills with a burst mode up to...
read moreNikon celebrates Df’s first birthday with gold edition
If the gold-adorned Nikon Df from Brikk was a bit much for your taste, Nikon Japan has something slightly more restrained for the discerning Df owner. It has announced a limited edition version of its Df DSLR that uses gold where the standard version uses bare metal. Produced as a limited edition to mark the first anniversary of the launch of the Nikon Df, the gold model will come in two forms – body only, or paired with a gold-ringed AF-S Nikkor 50mm f/1.8G. There will be 600 units of the body-only form, and 1000 of...
read moreSony debuts 21MP stacked CMOS sensor for smartphones
Sony has unveiled a new stacked CMOS image sensor for use in smartphones. Called the IMX230, it features 21 effective megapixels, on-chip phase detection AF and 4K video recording. The chip is a 1/2.4-inch type with square pixels measuring 1.12um x 1.12um each. Video of up to 4K (4096 x 2160) resolution is available with HDR function (also available in stills mode). The sensor uses a backside-illuminated configuration previously introduced by Sony called Exmor RS, with a layer of signal processing circuits below a layer...
read morePentax 645Z added to studio comparison database
In the US, the Pentax 645Z with its normal lens costs $9694, and the camera has a 44x33mm, 40 MP sensor. Mamiya offers (1) the DM kit (including back and lens) for $9990 with a back that has a 48x36mm, 22 MP sensor; and (2) the Leaf kit, which has a back with a 44x33mm, 40 MP sensor for $12,995. So with Mamiya, if what you really want is sensor size, you can get a bigger one for about the same money. If you need 40 MP and will accept the somewhat smaller sensor, it costs you about 34% more. IMO, for someone who needs this gear, those are all...
read moreReaders’ Showcase: Submit your best portraits!
Hey, DPreviewers are doing for themselves — they have to! We’ve got a thread titled:Get your photos on DPR’s homepage! – MORE? http://www.dpreview.com/forums/thread/3753931 This way those that want to submit and participate can. Will DPreview include these photos in consideration for the selection process? Who knows! Doubt they know themselves 🙂 Would’ve been nice if someone at DPreview set this up for us. Hello, anyone out there? And there are some nice photos, on the thread. Some crap ones too, but everyone who...
read moreSupercell Cloud ‘Cinemagraphs’ by a Storm Chasing Photographer
Photographer Mike Hollingshead has gained quite a bit of exposure online for his jaw-dropping photos of storms across the United States. We featured his work here in January of 2014. Recently, Hollingshead has begun to branch out his work into a new direction: cinemagraphs. Here’s one he created recently based on the image above of a supercell storm moving across the landscape near West Point, Nebraska: Hollingshead tells us that he first decided to explore these animated images when he saw examples online that other people had...
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Started out doing photography at the age of 6 using an uncle's old 1940 kodak brownie box camera. At 15 years of age, I decided to buy my very own 1975 Praktica SLR camera. I now shoot with a Nikon D850. I do unpaid TFP and commercial paid work.