Living on the 10th floor of a condo, one of the “amenities” that I get to enjoy every year is watching the view of Makati and Manila skyline on new year’s eve, seeing all the fantastic fireworks across metro manila, without having to shell out any money. [Read more..]
Interesting concept for camera. Using off the shelf components, researchers have built an open source camera where anyone can program the features of the camera like doing automatic HDR photography, activate a certain setting when a particular lens is attached or making high quality video using high-resolution pictures.
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Here are some photos I took of the 2009 Cheese Rolling Festival in Whistler. It was a fun event, you see people running downhill trying to win a block of cheese. Whoever goes downhill first wins the cheese that was rolled downhill. The cheese of course is wrapped.
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Here are some photos around Blackcomb Mountain in Whistler, British Columbia.
Do you like fashion? Do you love photography? Do you think the only way you can be a fashion photographer is to shoot supermodels? Think again.
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Remember this famous photo from the June 1985 cover of National Geographic? The photo was taken in the Nasir Bagh refugee camp in Pakistan. She was an Afghan refugee.
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Canon has announced the new Canon EOS 7D DLSR camera. This is the replacement for the Canon EOS 50D.
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This is the final part of my photographic process where I discussed sharpening in part 1, curves in part 2 and color balance in part 3.
As before, I do all of these in Adobe Photoshop.
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Girl doing a flip on the bungee trampoline.
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Jan Oliehoek is a photo manipulator from Leiden, Netherlands. He’s an expert in combining photos and making them into something photorealistic, but impossible.
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This is part 3 of my photographic process where I discussed sharpening in part 1 and curves in part 2.
In this article, I’ll be showing you how I adjust color balance to get the right the color in my photos right to where I remember them.
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This is part two on my photographic process.
After making sure I’m happy with the details of the photo. I move on to adjusting the colors. As you can see from the original photo, it’s a bit dull. There’s a bluish tint which makes the photo too cool for my taste. Basically for me, it feels like there’s a thin veil of gray in front of it.
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Today I’m going to show you my photographic process. Basically, after I have taken a photo and uploaded it to my computer. I check them over for color, sharpness and composition in Photoshop.
Here are the step by step process I use.
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So you’ve bought that expensive camera, you’ve taken photography lessons, you’ve read my blog (I hope). You’ve taken those wonderful photos of your kids or that amazing landscape. Then you upload your photos to your computer and they look horrible. What happened?
One of the things that new photographers forget is to calibrate their monitors.
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Here are some photos I took of my trip to Whistler, British Columbia over the weekend. Whistler is about 2 to 2.5 hours drive from Vancouver. Whistler is the host of the 2010 Winter Olympic Games which will be held from February 12 to 28 and March 12 to 21 for the Paralymic games.
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Canon announced the new Canon Powershot S90 which will be available September 2009.
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Canon announced the release of the Canon Powershot G11 today. It is the replacement for the Canon Powershot G10.
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There’s been several articles I’ve seen on the Internet where a photographer was harrased by police officers or security personnel for taking photos of something. It could be a building, a person or an event saying that taking photos is an act of terrorism or illegal.
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I’ve been trying to expand my photographic skills and I wanted to try to learn portraiture. Since my last attempt didn’t work out so well. I kept my eyes open for another opportunity.
In the meantime, I’ve been researching some photography blogs to give me an idea of what poses would be nice.
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The challenge with photography is sometimes looking for a subject to photograph. I’ve been so busy with work lately that sometimes I’m too tired to think what to photograph.
When that happens, I don’t think about it, I just shoot.
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