Phaidon’s Themes and Movements series is one of the really great series of art books in the publishing world. This book continues that and does a great job of covering the minimal art movement. MinimalismEdited by James MeyerPhaidon Themes and Movements Series, 2000ISBN 0 7148 3460 2 Phaidon’s Themes and Movements series is one of …
A great introduction to scrapbooking Scrapbooking Your Favorite Family MemoriesBy the Editors of Memory Makers books, distributed by Reader’s DigestMemory Makers Books, 2003ISBN 1 892127 33 4 This interesting book brings together four individual books under one cover:* Michele Gerbrandt’s Scrapbook Basics* Creative Photo Cropping for Scrapbooks* Baby Scrapbooks* School Days Scrapbooks Profusely illustrated, this …
A book that gets photographers to describe for themselves important aspects of the digital process The Advanced Digital Photographer’s WorkbookBy Yvonne J. Butler, EditorFocal Press, 2005ISBN 0 240 80646 8 The idea is a sound one, take a group of great photographers who can also write and get them each to provide a chapter or …
Music and the Visual Arts from Antiquity to the Eighteenth Century That Divine OrderMusic and the Visual Arts from Antiquity to the Eighteenth CenturyBy Peter VergoPhaidon Press, 2005ISBN 0 7148 4351 2 The links between the visual and music arts has always been a strong one. This can be at the inspirational level, the structural …
A musing on what is digital fine art. This is a question that keeps popping up and is usually answered badly, in my opinion, from missing some of the areas of digital or from misunderstandings. Even worse are the endless discussions of ‘Is there a Digital Aesthetic?’. I used to engage with these discussions but …
Infrared test The Nikon D200 is a lovely camera to use and handle. For IR photography, the light meter on the D200 is much more sensitive than the sensor is, and the sensor has a very effective IR blocking filter. This means long exposures, though the results are stunning. Full sun exposure times of 15 …
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Infrared test Below are 100% detail shots showing the noise in infrared shots taken with the Nikon D200 at varying ISO settings. Here I used the green channel as being most indicative of the noise: 100ISO 200ISO 400ISO 800ISO 1600ISO 3200ISO As you can see, noise is very well controlled through 800ISO. In all cases …
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Infrared test The C-7070 is a very nice camera to handle, though a little slow writing RAW files. For IR work it offers the benefit of an optical viewfinder that is unaffected by the mounted IR filter. Initial testing has begun with this camera. Noise is low at 80ISO but the camera’s IR blocking filter …
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Infrared test The Olympus Camedia C-7070 offers only a limited range of sensitivity settings: 80, 100, 200 and 400 ISO. Noise is well controlled at all these settings, especially with noise reduction turned on.ISO80 Red Green Blue ISO100 Red Green Blue ISO200 Red Green Blue ISO400 Red Green Blue
Infrared test. The Canon 350D is my latest camera (owned, rather than on loan for review), so I was very curious to see what its IR performance would be. This RAW shot was taken at 1.6 second and f5.6 at 100ISO Red only Green Blue Noise is reasonably high with this camera and shooting in …
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