Category: Use your D-SLR
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Miracle cure to clean up your photos
It’s a bane for photographers: There is always a little detail in the picture that we would like to remove. If it is an ugly little spot your best graphics suite will do. If it is something much more annoying (a fence, people, etc.), it may be a near to impossible task. Now, if you…
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Automatic correction of your photos
Removing an annoying front element, adding a few people to fill a too empty street, replacing an ugly part of an image. And do it automagically! This is what is offered by Carnegie Mellon University with its Clip Art and Scene Completion highly innovating tools just presented by their Graphics Labs. Carnegie Mellon, Graphics Labs
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90+ online photography tools and resources
Mashable published a list of Internet resources particularyl useful to photographers. The list is organised aroudn the following categories: Online photo Editors – Editeurs de photo en ligne Photo sharing – Partage de photographies Free photo hosting – Hébergement gratuit de photographies en ligne Photography blogs – Blogs photographiques Mashups – Combinaisons Mobile Photo mixing…
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The Ten Most Common Photographic Mistakes
André Gunther has a very nice article titled “The Ten Most Common Photographic Mistakes” that is a good starting point for novice photographers self-improvement (it is quite common that the best way to become better is to learn what are the errors you’d want to avoid, listening to others).
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Yosemite, Grand Canyon, Yellowstone with free photo lessons from Canon
Canon is going to organize great opportunities to learn how to make better photographs in great outdoor locations like the major US National Parks (Yosemite National Park, Grand Canyon National Park, or Yellowstone National Park ). They are opening free events named “Canon™ Photography in the Parks workshops”. Do not miss these exceptional opportunities if…
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How to disassemble your Minolta 50mm/1.7 lens
The 50mm f/1.7 lens from Minolta has the bad reputation of sometimes seeing its diaphragm iris locking itslef open (along with the excellent opticla quality of the glass – even better than for the bigger brother the 50mm f/1.4). Knowing that the repair services are expensive and remembering Minolta’s demise, here comes Internet and one…
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Inkjet impressions will be dead soon
Previous articles about inkjet printing 2005 highlights about inkjet printing (including prints longevity). Canada’s National Archive experts are worried that we don’t have enough knowledge about how inkjet prints age. They fear that most of them will die early because the dried ink is much more exposed to external stresses than the pigments of traditional…
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Rent your lenses
PopPhoto has a nice short article about renting your lenses in the US.
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Sensor cleaning – My experience
After my recent trip to South Africa, my Konica Minolta Dynax 7D digital SLR camera had a significant problem with dust on the sensor (5 or 6 spots very visible on clear skies or plain surfaces). I decided to go for the Sensor Swabs from Photographic Solutions Inc. All in all, this is a very…