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Seasonal tips: Shooting snowdrops

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Anonymous, 03 February 2012 18:19

Snowdrops are out now but how do you shoot them? To get the best from this small and low-growing flower you ideally need a macro lens or at least a lens with a macro facility in it. If you don’t have either, just focus as closely as you can with your lens because you’ll still get some lovely images. Get ...

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Seasonal tips: Shooting snowdrops

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Anonymous, 03 February 2012 18:19

Snowdrops are out now but how do you shoot them? To get the best from this small and low-growing flower you ideally need a macro lens or at least a lens with a macro facility in it. If you don’t have either, just focus as closely as you can with your lens because you’ll still get some lovely images. Get ...

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Seasonal tip: Shooting snowdrops

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PA News Team, 03 February 2012 18:00

Snowdrops are out now but how do you shoot them? To get the best from this small and low-growing flower you ideally need a macro lens or at least a lens with a macro facility in it. If you don’t have either, just focus as closely as you can with your lens because you’ll still get some lovely images. Get ...

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Peeling Paint texture

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Anonymous, 07 October 2011 15:55

If you don't have your own texture photo use this photo of peeling paint to give your old toy shots a more interesting twist. The technique you need to follow to blend this shot with another can be found on page 14 in the November issue of Practical Photography. Using blending modes and selective masking you can create a photo ...

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Interpolation

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Anonymous, 31 July 2009 11:18

Interpolation is another name given to the process of image resampling. There are five methods that can be used for calculating the best route for resizing an image – Nearest Neighbor, Bilinear, Bicubic, Bicubic Smoother and Bicubic Sharper. All the Interpolation options are found inside the Image Size Dialog box from the drop-down list. A close-up view of the options ...

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Step Interpolation

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Anonymous, 31 July 2009 11:07

Step Interpolation is a completely different way of increasing the size of your images. Rather than using one of the five Interpolation options from inside the Image Size Dialog box, the step interpolation method involves gradually increasing image size by small percentages. The percentage that’s usually settled for is 10%. Step Interpolation isn’t always the best means of interpolation, as ...

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Paths

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Anonymous, 31 March 2009 16:59

Paths are created when using Photoshop’s Pen Tool. They are very simply vector-based line drawings that can be stretched and shaped around any subject with the use of Anchor points. Anchor points appear on screen as small grey squares and if you’re looking to make a Path around a specific subject, it’s these anchor points that should be positioned around ...

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Top-plate

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Anonymous, 21 November 2008 12:45

If you hold your camera in both hands and look vertically down on top of it you’ll be looking at the top-plate. On a standard D-SLR you’ll find a LCD screen, pop up flash and mode dial on the top-plate. Layout varies from camera to camera and manufacturers often place commonly used buttons like White Balance, ISO and AF, on ...

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Lith

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Anonymous, 13 November 2008 12:57

Lith is a type of extremely high contrast, fine-detail black and white negative film used in the chemical darkroom and printing/graphics industries to create half-tone images and copy line work. It can also be used to add pinkish brown tones in highlights, and a film-grain effect in the shadows in mono images. Lith has such a distinctive look that it’s ...

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Point and shoot

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Anonymous, 29 October 2008 15:48

The term point and shoot refers to a camera that has limited user controls and is mostly automatic. Point and shoot is a name given to compact cameras because they don’t have manual controls that you would find on a SLR. However many SLRs still have a point and shoot or fully automatic mode.

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