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How To Sharpen Flesh Tones In CMYK
When you're sharpening CMYK images, one of the toughest areas to sharpen are the flesh tones. Oftentimes, because of the soft nature of skin, you'll need a lot of sharpening, which can introduce noise and color shifts, particularly in flesh tone areas. One tip that's often used to combat this is to apply your sharpening [...]

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New Panasonic has Superwide, Superfast Lens

The new Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX3, successor to the now two-year-old LX2, sports a Leica-branded 5.1–12.8mm (24–60mm-e) ƒ/2–2.8 lens, which as far as we know is the fastest, widest lens yet on a small-sensor camera. The sensor is more or less the same size as the largish (for a compact) 10-MP sensor on the LX2, although Panasonic says it's all new and developed just for the LX3. Better low-light capability and an improved processor are of course claimed, and the new camera has some lovely accessories, including a clip-on optical finder and a cool old-style two-piece case. (The accessories aren't showing up on Panasonic's own website yet, but you can see them elsewhere on the web.)

The big news is so far that Panasonic has declined to increase the pixel count, which in its press release it calls a "bold" move. Maybe from the point of view of marketing it's bold to pull up in the megapixel race, but to us it just makes good sense.

The $500 camera is also available in silver and will ship in August.

Read the press release.

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Mike (Thanks to Stephen Gillette)

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Get The Wheels Turning

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Wichtige Tageszeiten zum Fotografieren
Dies ist ein Gastartikel von Alex Fünfstück. Er ist zurzeit Grundwehrdienstleistender bei der Marine und fotografiert viele Landschaften, vorwiegend in seiner Heimat an der Nordsee. Sein Portfolio wird derzeit noch überarbeitet. Es gibt für Fotografen einige wichtige Tageszeiten zum Fotografieren. Es gilt: nichts überstürzen aber dennoch zügig sein. Denn ein Sonnenuntergang dauert numal keine zwei Stunden [...]
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Random Excellence: Friedlander by Avedon
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// Zandvoort aan Zee ~ 19th June 2008
Dutch Dunes (Zandvoort)

Zandvoort aan Zee

5-way HDR (EV -2.0 / EV +2.0), Zuiko ED 7-14mm 1:4.0 @ 7mm ~ manually combined in Photoshop CS3 (not the automatic HDR function).

Constructive comments welcome...

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© copyright Rick Wezenaar Photography.

© Copyright // Rick Wezenaar Photography ~ All rights reserved

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Paris,ON: River View

There is a striking similarity of the rear views of buildings that back on to rivers or canals. Paris, ON on the banks of the Grand River is no exception.
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Cartier on the Champs-Élysées at Christmas
I was working on this photo this evening with a friend to show him some of the techniques that have evolved since HDR started getting popular. I find my methodology changes and evolves about every two months or so. I look back at my old stuff in horror! Ah yes… the wet streets of [...]
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Hallways
Another shot from the Mercer Museum, looking down a hallway on the second floor. I am posting some old photos at the moment, but am getting ready to leave for Alaska on Friday, and returning August 7th, so I will post many more photos then! Post from: The Work of Daniel Hellerman Hallways
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Castle Silhouette
This is a silhouette of the Mercer Museum taken just after the museum closed for the night. Post from: The Work of Daniel Hellerman Castle Silhouette
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OT: A Little Local Braggin'
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Silver Railings – a Photographic Study – Part II
It was a dark and stormy night… well not really, as I was fortunate that on one evening during the week I was able to get some evening captures of the metal railings series in the 'Garden of Provinces' Park in order to complete the study of light on metal railings during the early morning evening and at night lights.

Please take the time to look at the complete set, which comprises 20 images of the metal railings under different skys and viewpoints and a few other interesting areas of the park. Link provided below.

Silver Railing Study

I would be a pleasure to hear your views on how well this photographic series is able convey the different moods or unique perspectives by looking at just one type of object.

This is the first time I have ever undertaken a photographic study of metal objects under different lighting situations and in fact probably the first time I have ever done such a narrow focus on one theme.

It was good thing that I had driven by the park and observed the railing over many occasions as by the time I had finally decided to undertake this photographic series I was eager to start the project. This made me excited about exploring the railing structure for unique ways to frame them and also how I could use the reflected light to create contrast and form.

f7.1 1/200SEC –1.33EV, @105mm, Nikon 18-200mm f3.5 vr

There is something about the above image that makes this one of my favorites. Not really sure why, but the warm glow of the pot lights with the single railing picking up the up in the cool blue of the sky creates colour contrast and I guess that fact that one of the lights is out is what adds the special charm for me.

While the above image has warmth and softness, the blow image of a section of the railings is made extra hard and sharp in texture by the application of a strong S curve and then ensuring the highlights in the background are nearly blown-out.

f10.0, 1/200. –1.333ev, iso 200, @130mm, Nikon 18-200mm f3.5 vr

Some Thoughts on Taking Photos of Reflective Objects

Most metal at least if not all rusted is highly reflective. It is easy for the camera fooled by some of the over bright specular areas. If these parts are important tones in the image then it is prudent to reduce the exposure setting to ensure that no detail is lost.

For most of the direct sunlight images I applied exposure compensation in the range of -1.75 to -1.0ev.

With chrome I did not need a lot of subtle tones in both ends of the tonal spectrum and therefore except for a few there was not need for bracketing of images.

The Nikon 18-200mm f3.5 lens provided good coverage to be able to capture different fields of view for isolating compositional elements. The 70-200mm f2.8 was useful for limiting DOF for a few of the images.

A tripod is necessary even early in the morning as there was not enough light to hand hold, especially if I needed greater DOF.

f8.0, 4sec, -1 ev, iso200, @200mm, Nikon 70-200mm f2.8 vr

The above image is actually 2 images combined to show both the reelection of the red and green traffic light. I did try to capture an image as the light changed, but it was hard to time right and the colours where more muted as they were on only for have the time. I did cool the tone a bit, as I wanted more blue than a green tone to contrast better with the red.

Visiting a site several times and at different lightening styles really helps to see different compositions that were not apparent during one of the light modes. That was probably the best benefit of going multiple times to the same location. Each time I found something new that I had not seen before, even if I had walked previously by it.

f20.0, 1/400sec, iso200, @70.0mm, Nikon 18-200mm f3.5 vr

I liked how the sun was just highlighting the left edges of these black painted posts, otherwise it would have been a continuous black mass. The shadows almost give them an appearance of marching along.

I had taken several shots of these benches in the early morning light. I preferred the image with the 2 benches as the image of the singular bench had more texture visible in the wood, but the composition seemed a little bland. I left the dark bottom corner in as I wanted to try and create 3 elements for the image and by being dark it also doesn't take your view as much out of the scene.

f7.1, 1/200sec. –1.67ev, @130mm, Nikon 18-200mm f3.5 vr

In the last couple of months I haven't taken as many images as I would have expected during this great time of the year. Deciding to undertake this project did help to get me out and photograph more, but most importantly while taking these images it also got me thinking about other projects that might be interesting.

Any sort of creativity, even viewing other's work, helps to expand your own creative style and mental juices.

I have mentioned before the importance of finding a suitable project. I still encourage you to find something that you travel by almost every day catches your interest and that you could explore in the different moods of light

Niels Henriksen

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Paris, ON: First Telephone Call

There has always been some controversy about where the first telephone call originated. According to this plaque it was from Brantford to Paris Ontario.
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Die Herausforderung - Was soll ich fotografieren?
Dies ist ein Gastartikel von Marco Breier. Er ist IT-Leiter und fotografiert in seiner Freizeit in einer Photo-Gruppe der Künstlervereinigung Auctoris. Er verfolgt aktuell keine Schwerpunkte, momentan hat er noch an allem Spass. Einen Teil seiner fotografischen Arbeiten können auf http://www.marcobreier.com besichtigt werden. “Zu wissen was man genau fotografieren will, ist besser als im Gegensatz alles [...]
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Why Is That?

Is photography the only gift you can give people where half the time they'll ask you for more? Give someone a print as a gift, and they might say something like, "Oh, this is wonderful, can you make one for Myrtle and Squatty too?" Or, "I just love this, can you make me another one, but bigger?" Or how about this: "Would you mind making me one that's exactly eight-by-ten so I don't have to get a custom frame for it?"

Which is a perfectly reasonable request, I suppose. In fact, many times when I give prints away, I make them eight-and-a-quarter by ten-and-a-quarter with a little air at the edges, so they'll fit in storebought frames.

Still, there's just something weird about giving photographs as gifts. I've never given someone a book for Christmas and had them say, "Thank you very much, now would you mind also buying one for my cousin Frank?"

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Mike

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An Inspiration for a Painting
Because my photography is Creative Commons (no commercial use without permission), I open it up to be used by other artists to create derivative works. I get all kinds of emails from all over the world to see amazingly interesting and great things. One such email I got recently from Katey, whose cool [...]
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Should You Love Your Camera?
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An Artist's Hand

Meet Larry (OK, his hand) from Goldhagen Art Glass Studio. He granted me permission to shoot over his shoulder and I did my best not to distract him from his tasks. Once again I kicked myself for not bringing my tripod. Will I ever learn!?!? Low light, bright hot subject, and hand-held just doesn't cut it. I'll see Larry next year with any luck.
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