Archive for the ‘Tips and Tricks’ Category

It was my first time to shoot waterfall since after I got serious about photography. I understand some basic now-how, as I have read several tips about it sometimes ago. Weather comes to play an important role in landscape photography, and it is no exception for waterfall photography. Sunny sky is not what you may [...]

Bayon in HDR

Posted: September 6, 2010 in Architecture, Landscape, Tips and Tricks
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I am not a big fan of HDR, partly because I have never been able to make any HRD that I considered good enough. The above HDR came from a single shot. I did some bracketing, but well I could not keep those geese stay still. That why I ended up using a single shot, [...]

Panning

Posted: February 25, 2010 in Tips and Tricks
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In still photography, the panning technique is used to suggest fast motion, and bring out foreground from background. In photographic pictures it is usually noted by a foreground subject in action appearing still (i.e. a runner frozen in mid-stride) while the background is streaked and/or skewed in the apparently opposite direction of the subject’s travel. [...]

Chaos

Posted: January 27, 2010 in Daily Life, Tips and Tricks
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When we see things in several seconds per frame, sometimes it may look confusing, or what Bryan Peterson describes as chaos. The traffic light at the intersection of Monivong Boulevard and Street 310 worked just perfectly at the time the below photo was taken, but here when we see it in 15 seconds per frame, [...]

There is time when your lens is not wide enough to get the whole object as you want; neither the space is enough for feet zoom. That is time when stitching come to your rescue. With Adobe Photoshop CS 3’s photomerge and lens correction, you can leave the costly ultra wide lenses to persons with [...]