Hello everyone, today I would like to talk about my favorite subject, and that is light. Before we started to take photography seriously, we took lighting for granted. We never thought about where it came from, the intensity, or even the color of it. Well, I’m a little crazy about light and I believe it’s…
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Category Archives: Techie Guest Posts Alright, so last week I wrote about your camera’s sensor technologies. Today, I cover another important sensor topic, color. Natively, your image sensor is “color blind”, it can only “see” grayscale. To remedy this, the sensor has to be fashioned with a pair of shades. Let’s call it a filter. In my previous post I described each…  Hello everyone! Today I thought you might want to know a little about your image sensor. I don’t know about you; but I find it humorous to find my electronics covered with stickers showing off the manufacturer’s technology in acronyms and quirky names. When you were shopping for a digital camera, did you read the… Pin It Hello and welcome back. Today’s post is the end of a trilogy about lens distortions. I hope you have found the previous posts about barrel and pincushion distortion helpful. Chromatic Aberrations, what nice big words they are? You may have seen this topic referred to as CA or purple fringe. It haunts our images by appearing on our…  It can be pretty daunting to browse lenses online. Let alone try to choose one! All those letters and numbers can just look like a huge, confusing jumble of techno babble. So here’s some info I figured out in these past couple years. Now, when I look at lenses, I know exactly what they’re talking…  So, I thought I would break away from the pixel game and talk about white balance. White balance is the act of removing unwanted color casts, so that a white object that appears in person appears the same in your photo. Have you ever taken a photo that looks a little yellow or even full on orange,…  So, you’re on vacation in a city with great architecture, you snap a photo of grand design and glance at your camera’s screen without paying too much attention. After uploading the photos to the computer you decide to review your images. You notice that every building is starting to resemble the leaning tower of Pisa. The vertical and…  This week is a continuation on the topic of radial distortion. Last Tuesday, I covered the occurrence of barrel distortion on wide angle (prime and zoom) lenses. Pincushion distortion is the second of two main types of radial distortion. Lines that do not go through the center of the image curve inward. On a grid,… |
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