In this article, I will review the VR Drive II panoramic system using the practical examples and experience I gained from using it in various situations. Due to space considerations, I will not cover the panoramic composition and the panoramic viewpoint, also I won't spend time on the actual stitching methods. If there is an interest in these subjects, I can address them in … [Read more...]
Gimbal / Monopod Use With Long Lenses
Long lenses are many things, including heavy, expensive, and hard to hand-hold. A tripod and full gimbal head is likely the way to go, as I've written about here before. But, sometimes a tripod isn't the right tool for a particular situation, and one of those is when shooting from the deck of a ship. Funny thing is, I used both full and side-mount gimbal heads … [Read more...]
Practical Considerations For Time-Lapse Photography
What are time-lapses? Since the documentary movies “Baraka” (Ron Fricke, 1992) and “Planet Earth“ (BBC, 2006) the magic of the time-lapses caught the attention of many photographers and filmmakers. The viewer perceives differences by time-lapses, which are otherwise hardly discernible because the movements alter very slowly in real time. Good examples are a … [Read more...]
Scannerless Digital Capture and Processing of Negative Film Photographs
by Mark D Segal & Todd R Shaner Remember the film era? It’s demise began setting-in roughly two decades ago, and about all that’s left is a reduced stable of good scanning hardware and those millions of negatives in countless personal and institutional collections that many people really intend to “do something about” - “one of these days”. The problem is that the truly … [Read more...]
The Optimum Digital Exposure
by Bob DiNatale Concepts from my upcoming book… The Optimum Digital Exposure – “Introducing the OneZoneTM Digital Exposure Method” For too long we have been accepting the “digital look” of our photographs. The compression of tones, especially in the dark areas, seems intrinsic to digital photography, but in reality it is the result of “non-optimum” exposure. With optimum … [Read more...]
