PHOTOGRAPHY BLOG

I encountered some ideas on web discussions like - you don’t need filters with digital, or the only filter you need is a polarizer, the rest can be done in post processing…. however, the Big Six filters that are useful to most photographers, cannot adequately replace with digital techniques…..

One - The Polarizer
This is so obvious I shouldn’t need to get into “why” you need it, but I’m me, and that means I’m going to talk about it anyway. Any time light moves from air to a transparent substance, some of the light doesn’t penetrate into the transparent substance and is reflected away. Whether the light hits water on a lake, the natural oil on human skin, clear cellulose and wax on plant leaves and flowers, lacquer on a car or a guitar, or glass on a building, there are reflections. The reflections are “white light”; they “fill in” the color and reduce saturation… read Full Article.

I am glad to inform you that the Photos of the Year 2008 contest has been completed, and we have come up with the exciting winners gallery for the Best Photos of the Year 2008.

I have occasionally made A3 prints from my photos but, despite being mildly interested, never really put any effort into optimizing my workflow. Prints cost money, and you need to put them somewhere so why bother?

First of all, prints are cool. A 30×45 print of your photo gives a much richer impression of the scene than a crappy flickr page. Not only is it bigger, allowing your eyes to wander around the image, but the color gamut of a printer (= the displayable spectrum of colors) is much wider than what you typically see on a monitor too.

Second, you can make money with prints. Maybe you actually can’t, maybe only after you die, but there is the slight chance that someone pays you 3.3 million dollars for a c-print diptych of a supermarket interior. Thus it won’t harm if you are at least prepared.

Third, if you have a serious camera fetish such as I have, you simply want to know what can be done with the binary data you collect on your compact flash cards.

Consequently, in order to become smarter, more hoity-toity and richer, I am now going to make some occasional print experiments. First of which I did on the weekend. Read full article.