Photography Tips: Mastering Depth Of Field for Macro Shots
Dept of field is a powerful tool when taking macro images, and it’s a technique you’ll need to understand in order to work true macro magic. You’ll generally be using very shallow depth of field settings when getting up close to the subjects, and the closer you get, the shallower depth of field becomes.
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Photoshop Tips: Getting the Right PPI (Pixels per Inch)
I want to print photos large. How do I find the Pixels Per Inch figure so I don’t make it too low?
1. If you want a high-quality image, don’t print at less than 200PPI.
Open your Photoshop, load a photo, go image>image size. Pixel dimension shows how big the image on the screen but this isn’t the PPI
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Photography Tips: Macro with Minolta DiMAGE A1
John from Adelaide, Australia has been doing some impressive macro shots with his Minolta DiMAGE A1.
The best part is he also has the ‘behind the scene’ of some of his best shots.
Macro basically refers to being able to focus on subjects quite close to the lens, so you can photograph small subjects in reasonable detail.
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Digital Photography Tip: Print your Photos
Each device you use: scanner, monitor and printer handle color in its own slighty different way. It’s a by product of the manufacturing process, design, electronic circuity, processing and other factors. The result is that the same color (eg. blue) might be assigned slightly different blue to the one captured by your scanner, and your printer may also produce an alternative shade.
So How can I make colors match ?
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Printing Tips: How Much Pixels Do You Need
This table shows different image sizes in pixels and megapixles, and the size of printouts at 200dpi (adequate quality) and 300dpi (high quality). You can use it to help you decide what digital camera to buy, how big to print your photos and the best scanner settings to use. If you want really big enlargements, you’re likely to be better off using a good 35mm film camera and a special film scanner, or transparancy adaptor if your scanner has one
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Photography Tip: Color Tips
Everyone take colors for granted so much that it can be a challenging subject to understand. However with a focused mindset, colors can be magnifivently easy to achieve.
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Instructions for High Speed Photography
Download this .zip file if you want to know more about High Speed Photography (IOTD21.04.05)
Manual for High Speed Photography (.zip)
More photographs and information on High Speed Photography are available at http://www.hiviz.com
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Getting the most from your printer
- Use photo quality paper: cheap paper will let the ink droplets spread out too much during the printing process, resulting in an image with dull colours and mushy detail. In contrast, photo-paper is specially coated to provide you with you the colours and definition that top photos need
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Digital Photography Jargon
Is digital camera tech-talk making you crazed ?
New technology can initially seem somewhat daunting, but fear not – help is at hand.
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Is NI-MH Batteries Dangerous ?
You may not know this but NI-MH batteries used in may digital cameras can be dangerous if not handled correctly.
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