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| See also [[Digital Images]] for more on processing and organizing images. See my [[/Learning Journal]] for goals and progress.
| | Toner is MLT-D105L (about $70 at [http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16828112188 Newegg.com]). |
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| == Techniques ==
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| When you take pictures, there are basically three things you control:
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| * Composition: What's in the frame
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| * Focus: What you're focused on
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| * Lighting: How much light reaches your camera
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| Today's cameras do 90% of the focusing and lighting work for you, which means you can focus on composition.
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| Focusing on story.
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| 10% of the time, your camera does the wrong thing. This is where the quality of your camera comes into play, specifically:
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| * Quality of your camera's lens
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| * Quality of your camera's sensor
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| * Ability to control manual settings ''easily''
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| [http://photography.bastardsbook.com/lessons/big-picture-of-exposure/ "The Big Picture About Exposure"] from the ''The Bastards Book of Photography'' offers a great, simple explanation for how to control the amount of light your camera receives using manual settings. You start with your camera's exposure setting, which essentially manipulates:
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| * [http://digital-photography-school.com/blog/iso-settings/ ISO]
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| * [http://digital-photography-school.com/blog/aperture/ Aperture]
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| * [http://digital-photography-school.com/blog/shutter-speed/ Shutter speed]
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| You can also manipulate these four settings manually.
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| [http://kelbytraining.com/ Kelby Training] a possible source for online courses.
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| === Composition ===
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| Focus:
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| * Focal length and aperture
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| * [http://www.petapixel.com/2013/02/16/dont-zoom-move-a-video-on-treating-your-zoom-as-a-series-of-prime-lenses/ Don’t Zoom, Move: Treating Your Zoom Lens as a Series of Primes]
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| [http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/telephoto-lenses.htm Using telephoto lenses]
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| [http://regex.info/blog/2011-07-19/1824 The Kind Of Shot That Ultra Thin Depth Of Field Was Made For]
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| === Lighting ===
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| * [http://digital-photography-school.com/blog/introduction-to-white-balance/ Introduction to White Balance]. Use an [http://lifehacker.com/5659324/use-an-18-gray-card-for-better-color-balance-in-your-photos 18% gray card] for better color balance.
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| * [http://www.ayton.id.au/wiki/doku.php?id=photo:light_values Light values]
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| * [http://regex.info/blog/2006-06-28/208 Digital Camera “White Balance”]
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| * [http://regex.info/blog/2007-12-01/649 Making the Best of Bright Light in Fall-Color Photography]
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| * [http://regex.info/blog/2009-02-08/1137 Spot On: Camera Metering Basics]
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| Filters:
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| * [http://www.jamesharold.com/blog/2013/3/hoya-variable-density-and-the-om-d Hoya Variable Density ND and the OM-D]
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| * [http://www.flickr.com/groups/om-d_user/discuss/72157632065016198/ Live Time / Live Bulb Lessons Learned]
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| * [http://regex.info/blog/2011-11-07/1880 Heading Out To Photograph The Fall Foliage? Don’t Forget The Polarizer Filter]
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| * [http://regex.info/blog/2008-06-30/852 A Few Polarization-Filter Examples]
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| === Aperture ===
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| A nice [http://forums.steves-digicams.com/990799-post2.html explanation] of apertures and focal lengths, and why you can't get good depth-of-field in point-and-shoot cameras (like mine).
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| In general, to [get shallow depth-of field], especially w/ point-and-shoot cameras:
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| * Lower F-stop numbers (larger apertures)
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| * Longer focal lengths (zoom in)
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| * Get closer to the subject
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| [http://www.dofmaster.com/dofjs.html Online Depth of Field Calculator]
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| === Dynamic Range ===
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| * [http://www.ayton.id.au/wiki/doku.php?id=photo:dynamic_range Dynamic range]
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| * [http://www.flickr.com/groups/l4/discuss/72157594241560739/ The Definitive Guide to Realistic High Dynamic Range Images]
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| * [http://www.flickr.com/groups/gimpusers/discuss/72057594090329325/ HDR in Gimp]
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| === Panoramic ===
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| * [http://gigapan.org/ GigaPan]
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| * [http://digital-photography-school.com/8-guidelines-to-taking-panoramic-photos-with-any-camera 8 Guidelines to Taking Panoramic Photos with any Camera.]
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| == My Camera ==
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| My primary camera is an [[Olympus OM-D E-M5]]. I also have a [[Canon PowerShot S95]].
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| Digital cameras have [http://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/14563/why-is-there-a-limit-restriction-to-the-1080p-film-video-recording-time-duration limitations on video length].
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| Old cameras:
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| * [[Panasonic Lumix DMC-ZS3]]
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| * [[Canon PowerShot SD450]].
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| When I was considering the Lumix, I also considered:
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| * [http://www.digitalcamerareview.com/default.asp?newsID=3901 Four new PowerShot models]
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| * [http://www.trustedreviews.com/digital-cameras/review/2009/01/23/Canon-PowerShot-SX10-IS/p3 Canon PowerShot SX10 IS Review]
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| For my upcoming [[BurdensLanding:Korea]] trip, I'm considering a new camera:
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| {|class="wikitable"
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| !Camera
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| !Thoughts
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| !Links
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| !Examples
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| |Canon G11
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| * [http://laurencekimblog.com/index.php?link=166 Canon G11 Part 3 (portraits)]. Beautiful portrait shots.
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| * [http://www.flickr.com/cameras/canon/powershot_g11/ G11 shots on Flickr]
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| * [http://www.flickr.com/photos/danack/4586801074/in/set-72157623004022169/ Timelapse] (using CHDK) and other awesome pics
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| |Canon S90
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| * [http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/canons90/ Digital Photography Review]
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| * [http://www.flickr.com/photos/mesohungry/4164533630/ Shallow depth-of-field]
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| * [http://www.flickr.com/cameras/canon/powershot_s90/ S90 shots on Flickr]
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| The [http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/27/olympus-e-pl2-camera-gets-reviewed-deemed-worthy-to-carry-on-th/ Olympus E-PL2] seems like a good option for a Micro Four Thirds camera.
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| One day, I'm going to get a Leica M8:
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| * [http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/cameras/leica-m8.shtml Leica M8 Hands-on Field Review]
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| * [http://www.flickr.com/cameras/leica/m8/ Flickr pictures taken with a Leica M8]
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| Other possible equipment:
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| * [http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16830997660 Solica ST500 Tripod]
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| * [http://www.adorama.com/ALC/Article.aspx?alias=15-Low-Light-High-ISO-All-Stars 15 Low-Light High-ISO All-Star Digital Cameras]. My S95 wins the compact category here.
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| == Managing Photos ==
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| Most of my public pictures are on [http://www.flickr.com/photos/eekim/ Flickr]. View analytics via [http://stats.vispillo.org/ flickrstats]. One day, I'll [http://faenwp.blogspot.com/2011/06/mass-uploading-your-flickr-photos-to.html upload some of these to Wikimedia Commons]. I'm intrigued by [[ThisLife]] and [[Everpix]].
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| I'm migrating over to [[Adobe Lightroom]] for editing and photo management.
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| I wrote some of my own tools for cataloging my digital prints, which are now heavily outdated. They were inspired and based heavily on [http://impressive.net/people/gerald/ Gerald Oskoboiny]'s [http://impressive.net/software/photo/ digital photo publishing software].
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| I'm experimenting with [[exiflow]] for managing my digital photography workflow (renaming files, metadata, etc.). F-Spot has an extension that supports an exiflow workflow.
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| I'm constantly disgruntled by F-Spot, but I keep returning to it, because it keeps getting better. I'm not crazy about F-Spot for importing images off of my digital camera, so I'm thinking about [http://akoumjian.blogspot.com/2008/05/dont-like-f-spot-go-back-to-gutsys.html switching the default] to gThumb.
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| I pondered a move to [[Google Picasa]], but decided against it due to lack of development of its Linux client. If I ever do make the move, I'll need to [http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Picasa/thread?tid=272fbccf1252f208&hl=en import my F-Spot albums].
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| And now I've moved to Shotwell, because that's now the default in Ubuntu. I'm thinking about [http://www.lynapp.com/ Lyn] on my Mac.
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| Other tools of interest:
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| * [[DVD-Slideshow]]
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| * [http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec PhotoRec]. Recovering photos from faulty flash memory
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| Services for scanning old photos:
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| * [http://the-gadgeteer.com/2012/09/05/preserve-your-memories-theyre-all-thats-left-you/ ScanDigital.com]
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| * [http://photofocus.com/2013/03/03/lazy-scanning-photoshops-crop-and-straighten-command/ Lazy Scanning — Photoshop’s Crop and Straighten Command]
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| === Notes ===
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| Tags + types. Tags can have types. If I want to get really funky, types can have relationships -- an ontology! For example, the "Eugene Eric Kim" tag could be of type "People." This would allow me to do faceted classification.
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| Collections (or albums) cannot be tags, because you want to be able to do special things, like define cardinality and other metadata within a collection. However, you ought to be able to assign a photo to multiple collections.
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| I'd love to integrate [http://duhblog.com/ Greg Elin]'s [http://www.fotonotes.net/ Fotonotes] for granular annotations.
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| == Favorites from Eugene Chan ==
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| * [http://flickr.com/photos/eugevon/3088932284/ lobsters]
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| * [http://flickr.com/photos/eugevon/2253611822/ under the golden gate]
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| * [http://flickr.com/photos/eugevon/2174555802/ pig pastries]
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| * [http://flickr.com/photos/eugevon/2147925579/ piano]
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| * [http://flickr.com/photos/eugevon/385653843/ leaf]
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| * [http://flickr.com/photos/eugevon/380224315/ underwater calder]
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| * [http://flickr.com/photos/eugevon/379789044/ Bay Bridge]
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| * [http://flickr.com/photos/eugevon/379788960/ sailboat]
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| * [http://flickr.com/photos/eugevon/231611398/ ray]
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| * [http://flickr.com/photos/eugevon/231611344/ jellyfish]
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| * [http://flickr.com/photos/eugevon/61737832/ rays of light]
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| * [http://flickr.com/photos/eugevon/2363591914/ bus]
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| == Photo Mosaics ==
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| The best tool for doing these on Linux seems to be [http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/schani/metapixel/ metapixel]:
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| * [http://www.fsckin.com/2007/12/09/generate-awesome-photomosaics-on-linux-with-metapixel/ Generating Awesome Photomosaics on Linux with Metapixel]
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| * [http://linuxappfinder.com/blog/create_photo_mosaics_with_metapixel Create Photo Mosaics with Metapixel]
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| * [http://www.linux.com/feature/125624 Three photo mosaic apps compared]
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| == See Also ==
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| * [http://photography.bastardsbook.com/toc/ The Bastards Book of Photography: An open-source guide to working with light]
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| * The Ideal Digital Photographer's Workflow, [http://www.oreillynet.com/lpt/a/4439 Part 1], [http://www.oreillynet.com/lpt/a/4536 Part 2]
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| * [http://www.macdevcenter.com/lpt/a/2849 Top Ten Digital Photography Tips]
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| * [http://betterdigitalphotography.blogspot.com/2010/11/top-10-misconceptions-about-photography.html Legal Misconceptions]
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| * [http://curbly.com/bruno/posts/9304-how-to-set-up-a-diy-photo-booth-using-your-computer-free-software-download-included DIY Photo Booth] (on Mac)
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| * [http://www.brokencitylab.org/blog/how-to-make-a-time-lapse-video-from-stills/ How to make a time-lapse video from stills] (using iPhoto and QuickTime)
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| == Photographers ==
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| * [http://www.tomrobinsonphotography.com/ Tom Robinson Photography]. Love this guy's photos.
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| * [http://www.neilta.ca/ Neil Ta]
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| Mentions from my photography class (April-May 2013):
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| * [http://www.toddhido.com/ Todd Hido]. Look at his use of color.
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| * [http://www.macfound.org/fellows/859/ Uta Barth]
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| * [http://www.dougrickard.com/ Doug Rickard]
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