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These are the latest photography videos from the Jason Row Photography YouTube Channel. Fujifilm vs Weston, Fujifilm GFX vs X-H2 and our new city guides to Berlin, Paris and Budapest.
The most common use for focus stacking is in landscapes and macro work. In either case the shooting technique is the same, you will need to shoot several images with the focus points overlapping. The most important elements that you will need are a tripod and consistent light. If the lighting is constantly changing, it will be difficult to efficiently blend the shots together. The use of a tripod is required because the position of each individual shot needs to be identical, it is only the focus we are changing.
There are many reasons to use auto-bracketing, even given today's advanced metering systems. Shooting outdoors when there is a high contrast range, for example. Perhaps a street scene with deep dark shadows. Here your camera might expose the shadows so dark that it is impossible to see anything in them.
The idea of a neutral density filter is to reduce the exposure. Usually, this is because the photographer wants to reduce the shutter speed to introduce motion blur into an image. Big Stopper filters reduce the shutter speeds dramatically and so require some special considerations when shooting.
Interestingly and as aside note, the origin of the word Silhouette, has nothing to do with light, it comes from an old French political term but these days it is universally accepted to mean a dark outline of a subject lit from behind.
It is the most isolated, inhospitable yet most beautiful place on Earth. Antarctica is a photographer’s Nirvana, a place where it is impossible not to get great shots, whatever the weather, yet, it’s very isolation suggests a place that is impossible to get to for us mere mortals. Well, Antarctica is accessible, perhaps not to all, but to those with the motivation you can get there.
If you follow me on social media, you will know that recently Tania and I did an epic journey. It was part road trip, part photography shoot and part cat rescue. This is the story of that adventure
So, let’s get on to the use of perspective in photography and first things first, lets dispel one misnomer that many a novice photographer has been told by an uninformed peer. Perspective does not change when you change your lens from a wide angle to a telephoto. If you take a photograph with a 200mm lens, do not move, then take exactly the same photo with a 14mm lens, the perspective within that image will be exactly the same, the only thing that has changed is the field of view.
Sadly when newcomers to photography do get round to purchasing a tripod, they tend to go for the cheaper option, believing that there is little or no difference buying a cheap tripod than a more expensive one.
This unfortunately is not the case and many a photographer has abandoned the idea of using tripods due to poor experiences when they started out. In this article we are going to look at why you need one and what to buy.
The big advantages of RAW files include, an often significantly wider dynamic range, in other words you can squeeze more tones in-between the pure white and pure black, you can set the color temperature in post production. This gives you the advantage of recreating the color exactly in the scene or changing it to suit and to apply your own levels and sharpening to the image.
If you look through the portfolios of any of the world's most renowned photographers, one thing will strike you the most. All of them have a unique look, the images may be very different in appearance but through all of them you will see some form of identifying theme, a photographic style.
That photographic style can be seen from the gritty and bloody realism of a war photographer through to the surrealistic, dreamlike images of top fashion photographers.
Until a few short years ago, the ultra wide lenses were the preserve of professional full frame photographers, the choice for enthusiasts using APS-C sensors was fairly limited. Lens manufacturers however saw there was a niche in this market that could be exploited and in recent times there has been a plethora of good value ultra wide lenses for the smaller sensor camera.
There is a saying that a bad workman always blames his tools. However a good workman is nothing without the right tools. This is very true in photography. Our creative vision can only be translated to beautiful images if we use the right tools of the trade.
There are perhaps three main areas of expertise required in photography. Technical ability, creativity and editing proficiency. A good critique will take all of these factors into consideration along with the environmental aspect of the shot. It will explain how your technical settings could have altered the shot's appearance.
Mentoring is the very best way to take your photographic ability to the next level. In this article we will look at the different forms mentoring can take and how you can find the ideal photographic mentor for you
Depth of field is a term that can seem quite mysterious to new photographers. Anyone researching it might come up with lots of confusing phrases such as circle of confusion, hyperfocal distance, plane of focus and acceptably sharp. But what does all this mean?
So what is the Exposure Triangle?
Well, it is a way of describing how to get the correct exposure for every shot we take. At the bottom of the triangle we have our aperture and shutter speed, at the very top we have ISO
Before we look at ND filters, lets take a look at some scenarios where you might need to use one. The most obvious usage is in landscape and seascape photography where you get that ethereal looking blurred water, caused by its motion.Â
In the week that I have been using the Fujifilm 10-24, I have been impressed. It seems to be up there with the Fujifilm 14mm f2.8 for sharpness especially in the sweet spot apertures around f5.6-8.
Image sharpening should be the very last thing you do to a digital photograph before outputting it for it’s final use. You should make all adjustments, exposure, color, curves etc, first, then save the image. Next you need to resize it to the output size and save a new version of it. Finally once the image is fully ready to go, only then do we apply the sharpening.Â
Tania and I had some specific plans for photography this year. Netherlands for the tulip season, a drive through Northern Europe and tour of the UK shooting landscapes. Sadly, one man’s megalomaniac dreams have put paid to some of that, for the time being.
Since that Zenit I have owned and used more cameras than I care to remember. Some great, some awful, some completely nondescript. However amongst that motley collection lie some absolute gems, so cameras that help define me as a photographer. So without further ado, here are the five best cameras I ever owned.
Eventually I added the Fujifilm X-Pro1 to my kit bag, added a couple of lenses and sold the Nikon gear. At first I was worried that I had made a big mistake. Then on a stock photo shoot of London, I realised that the two Fuji’s were perfect for my needs. Since then I have stayed with the Fujifilm X system, my current set up is as follows.
Newcomers to photography will often stick their cameras on program mode. Many will be happy with this because they are getting technically great looking photos. Indeed, modern cameras with their incredible computing power and advanced algorithms will often flatter us.Â