Photograhy: December 2004 Archives

I have recently purchased the book titled "Professional Techniques for Digital Wedding Photographers, 2nd edition". One thing that really frustrates me when reading a book is when there are blatant errors in - and I am not even talking about typo's. I am referring to technical lies.

When I took some pictures of lightning the other day, I detected severe purple fringing around the lightning path itself. This bothered me, so I investigated.

Yesterday evening while we were preparing for dinner, we had the most spectacular sunset I have witnessed in many, many years - right here in Centurion. I took some brilliant photographs, and posted them under various categories on Photudio. Browse around under Nature > Sunset and Other > Lighting Changes. Enjoy!

Ever wondered why a picture taken at say F3.5 on a non-SLR digital camera like the Fujifilm Finepix 602Zoom does not have the same DOF than a SLR camera like the Canon EOS 1D Mark II? In this article I'll explain what causes these differences.

I was absolutely amazed by what people set forth to achieve, especially something so adventurous such as creating a camera that can take an image at a gigapixel resolution (that is a thousand times more resolution than your standard 1 megapixel camera of today). Check it out.

Ever wondered how the relationship between DPI and Image Size works? I found a brilliant article on the web... Definately worth a read.

A few days ago I decided it is time to start another small company called Photudio. I have been interested in photography since I was a little boy running around with my Vivitar 35mm point and shoot film camera.

The web site contains some photos from each portfolio I like to take pictures for. Since I am interested in many different subjects, I have created distinct portfolios. Commercially I prefer doing Weddings, Model Portfolios, Still life and family portraits.

I hope this will become a viable company since I love photographing beauty...