The GigaPan Epic is designed for small, compact digital point and shoot cameras. Yet a half hours work with some aluminum, a drill and a thread-tapping device will remove many of the limitations and allow you to take panoramas with larger cameras, including dSLRs.
The GigaPan Epic automates the shooting of panoramas and photo mosaics. In this review we cover the unit itself and the free stitching and uploading software that is provided. A panorama allows you to capture a much wider field of view than your camera and lens can do in one image. A photo mosaic uses …
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The next installment in my coverage of photo books (increasingly known as photobooks) has been published on the HP professional photography blog.
The July competition is now open. July 09 ThinkTank Photo – Happiness Prize – Digital Holster 10, value US$45 See the competition page for details. Please note that I have changed the upload process to stop people affecting others.
Kodachrome was my film of choice for so many years of my photography. At least when I wanted to shoot color film. The color was stunning when well shot. I loved both Kodachrome 25 and 64 and used it as my main color film for some 10 to 15 years. This was basically my middle …
The June Thinktank Photo competition is on the theme of Flowers. It is open to photography and digital art. Entry details on the photography and art competition page. The prize is an Urban Disguise 30 camera bag.
Retouching photos to remove skin blemishes and wrinkles is a common task. For faces with only a few wrinkles the Rubber Stamp Cloning Tool works well. But for other images you need another approach. This technique uses the blur filter.
Canon, Nikon, Sony and most of the rest of the camera companies, plus the third party lens makers, like Tamron, Sigma, etc., all make two series of lenses, on designed for full frame digital SLRs and 35mm film cameras, and another range designed for use on their smaller sensor digital SLRs. But there is a …
Canon’s 5D Mark II digital camera has picked up Japan’s top camera award for 2009. It also picked upa TIPA camera award earlier this year.
Following comments about our After the Fires in Infrared Photography first article (the second will go up shortly), I am also putting up a series on the fire locations that I am shooting in color.