Tips On What To Carry Into The Great Outdoors

"Geez, Tim, your photo gear alone is heavier than my entire backpack!" This was a fellow backpacker I met in Glacier National Park. She was exaggerating - I hope. But it is certainly true that adding a lot of photography equipment to a loaded camping backpack adds significant weight.

So why do I take on the burden of a richly camera-laden pack when I go backpacking? Because I want my full photographic outfit available so that I can bring home my best possible images of the remote places I visit. A multi-day backpacking trip can take a photographer to locations far beyond the reach of a day's hike. Even if a backcountry camping journey doesn't travel any farther from the trail head than a day hike could, it still lets one shoot during the special dawn and sunset light at the campsite location, whereas a day hiker would need to be on the trail for hours in the dark to get to the same spot at the same time. I could lighten my load by taking just a camera and a minimal set of accessories, but that would severely limit my photographic options.

Timothy Edberg at Shutterbug shares with you his method of packing a full photo rig for maximum comfort and productivity.

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Taking Your Camera on the Road

I just don't understand it. We research and plan our camera purchase, saving up for that $800 lens and $1000 camera body, giving up eating out and other frivolous expenditures to have the perfect camera. Then we rush out to the local department store to spend $19.95 to carry it all. A camera bag is one of the most under-purchased pieces of camera equipment. Remember it is protecting your investment so pick wisely.

Lorelle VanFossen has written an article going into depth about what makes a good camera bag, but here are some specifics to get you started.

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Backpacking for photographers

There are two schools of combining backpacking and photography. One group is out to backpack first and foremost; they may take some photo along the way. For these people the answer is easy: the Yashica T-4. You get a stunningly sharp Zeiss 35mm lens in a package that weighs a couple of ounces and fits in your pocket. The other school is made up of people who want to make photographs, but unfortunately the photos they want are down some distant path on the other side of some high ridge. It is these people who are always asking the question: how can I possibly carry my camping gear and photography equipment without sacrificing either my safety or the quality of my photographs? It is for these people that I offer one particular way that has worked for me.

Makers of camera bags will be of little or no help. There are countless photo backpacks on the market but none are appropriate for more than day hiking. They aren't big enough and they don't offer a suspension system that will support the weight comfortably over the course of a long hike. There is no way around it; you will be carrying a lot of weight. You will be happier if you start with a pack designed for backpacking and find a way to make your camera gear fit.

Read how Mark Meyer is doing it.

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Bad Photos

Many people start taking pictures with a new camera and think, "why are my pictures so bad?" The first reaction is that there's something wrong with the camera. (Of course!) Well, not so fast. There could be many reasons why pictures look bad, and yes, perhaps something's wrong with the camera. But, let's try to rule everything else out first. If you're really new to photography, you may first want to look at Introduction to Learning Photography and also read Why Prints Can Look Bad.

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What makes a photograph rather than a snapshot?

What makes one image a photograph and another merely a snapshot?

Is it entirely composition or subject? Is it technical skill to do with the depth of focus, lens quality and lighting? Does it vary according to whether your image is macro or landscape?

Do enthusiasts have a different perfect image from amateurs? I tend to only loiter around camera sites when I'm in the market to buy one; but on a recent foray, there appeared to be a distinct divide between the amateurs who prefer a sharp, punchy image out of a camera and the pros who prefer the camera to do as little as possible so they can post process. Is this because amateurs can be nervous about over-processing, scared of making their shots look less realistic while pros focus on making the best of it?

Photographs evoke emotion through careful attention to detail, composition and framing of the subject matter; painted carefully with light and shadow.

A snapshot is what an inebriated Uncle Joe shoots at a wedding with his $5 disposable camera.

I'd like to take it a step further and add a few criteria for a snapshot, using a disposable camera for one is a good way to take a snap shot, using a digital camera completely on auto-settings in areas that typically would require other settings, walking down a street for the first time in a city and taking pictures while basically moving is also what i would consider a snapshot.

A photograph I think requires a much longer explanation but basically I think it involves the amount of intent the photographer has to actually compose the shot while taking into account lighting, motion......on and on and on.

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Batch Scanning Tips

This page contains tips to help you do batch scanning - i.e. scanning multiple images, prints, negatives, or slides. It gives tips for saving time and optimizing quality.
There are tips for organizing your work, for using a step by step procedure, for turning off the preview, for making things faster, for choosing file types, for choosing file names, for scanning photographs, and for scanning with a transparency adapter.

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Homemade Backdrops

A backdrop is one of the simplest ways to change the feel of your portrait photography. Changing from a classic painter's drop cloth to bright colored velvet will quickly change the atmosphere from classic to trendy. For this reason, making your own backgrounds is a great way to experiment and find new styles.

Homemade backdrops can be as simple as purchasing a large remnant from a fabric store or as elaborate as sponge-painting your own muslin. The level of complexity depends on the goal of the photo shoot.

In this guide, we will give some hints to consider when purchasing material for backdrops and also provide hints for those that want to try to apply their own paint to create multi-color drops.

studiolighting.net tells you how to do it.

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"The essence of evey picture is the frame"

While I don't think that the frame - in this case, the studio backdrop that frames you - is more important than you are, it certainly has an impact on the mood of the image and on how you look. Do you want to be photographed on classic black, pure white, or something in between? If we're shooting color, should we mirror the colors in your outfit, or do something boldly different? Do you like textured backdrops to add a dreamy, cloudy look, or to make it look more like the backgrounds in the painterly Old Masters? Or would you rather keep it simple on untextured seemless paper?

Don't forget to discuss the backdrop with your photographer before you come in for your shoot.

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How to Make Your Own Backdrop

Buying all the necessary equipment to get started as a photographer, either professionally or just as a serious hobby, is very expensive. So finding a way to save a little money is always of great value.

By making your own photo backdrop, you can both save a little money and express your own creativity.

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Print on Matte or Glossy ?

When printing digital photos you have a choice between matte and glossy photo prints. Glossy photo prints have a shiny finish while matte ones have a more subtle neutral one. So which one should you choose? There is no right answer - there are pros and cons to both.

Matte and glossy are two different finishes to the photo paper digital photos are printed on. Using different chemicals and processes photo paper can have a glossy or a matte finish. Glossy finish looks shiny, reflects light very well and looks vibrant and color rich. Matte finish on the other hand does not reflect much light and looks "darker" and duller.

There are pros and cons to choosing either matter or glossy digital photo prints. Here are some of them:

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Photo printing: When paper ain't paper

In the history of communication materials, paper has definitely proven the most popular in terms of writing or drawing. Since AD 105, not much has changed, except that papermakers have constantly developed more and more types of specialty media, such as coated and dyed paper. Hence, the sheets of cellulose pulp produced by different manufacturers aren't always the same.
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Printing Larger-than-life Photo Posters

Whoever says "size doesn't count" hasn't seen a photo blown up on a home printer using Bob Bedoll's Poster program. Designed for all versions of Windows, Poster can print photographs up to 9 feet by 9 feet. It does this by breaking the image into sections called "tiles" and then printing each tile on its own 8.5" x 11" sheet of paper. When reassembled, the individual printouts form a giant poster-sized image.

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Straighten your Pictures

I often have trouble keeping the horizon level. There's a trick with the Photoshop ruler tool: use it to draw a horizontal line from left to right, or a vertical line from bottom to top, along a line in the picture you want horizontal or vertical. Then Choose Image/Rotate/Arbitrary. The box will come up with the rotation angle necessary to make your line level.
Apple has many more great tips. Check them out. :)

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Scanning your Images

It used to be conventional wisdom to scan at twice the target DPI, so 144 DPI given that web display is nominally 72 DPI. Scanner drivers have improved a lot since then, and scanning at 72 DPI is now OK if you are going to shrink the scanned picture. (The basic idea is that you don't want to try to make more pixels in Photoshop than you got from your input source.) Some scanner drivers have built-in sharpening and color correction: again, it used to be best to turn these off and use Photoshop's more sophisticated features, but now drivers have improved and these features may be acceptable.
Experiment if you can; otherwise, scan at higher resolution and you can shrink things later.
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How I Prepare Pictures for the Web With Photoshop

Adobe Photoshop is an incredible program. It's the tool of choice for many different kinds of image creation. Preparing pictures for the web is just one of its many functions, and for that purpose, most of its hundreds of controls won't help, but will in fact make your picture look worse. To make your picture look better, you need only a few of Photoshop's capabilities.

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The Care and Feeding of Digital Cameras

Most digital camera owners neglect to read their instruction manuals that say their cameras are "delicate optical instruments." And almost no one reads the fine print in the back of the manual, warning against using a camera in rain, salt spray, freezing conditions, or in an explosive atmosphere.

Digital camera manufacturers would prefer to have every owner use their digital camera in an ideal world where nothing is too hot or too cold or can ever be dropped on anything hard. Regrettably, this isn't where the great pictures are always located.
This article will help you take those great pictures while simultaneously protecting your camera and making sure it's ready when you need it.

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Promote Your Photography for Business

Photos-of-the-Year.com now has an Advertisement Classifieds section to provide free listing service to assist members (professionals and keen amateurs) promoting their personal photography and business.
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Understanding Histograms

Possibly the most useful tool available in digital photography is the histogram. It could also well be the least understood. In this article The Luminous Landscape will look at what a camera histogram tells the photographer and how best to utilize that information.

Virtually every digital camera, from the simplest point-and-shoot to the most sophisticated digital SLR has the ability to display a histogram directly, or more usually superimposed upon the image just taken. (The Hasselblad H1, the latest generation of film & digital capable cameras, can display a histogram on the camera grip's LCD while the image is separately displayed on the digital back's LCD.) On most cameras though the histogram display takes place on the rear LCD screen, and most cameras can be programmed to do this both on the image that is displayed immediately after a shot is taken, or later when frames are being reviewed.

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How to photograph buildings technique

We live in them, we work in them, and most of us sleep in them. But what about photographing buildings? Any one who has a camera has probably taking a picture of a castle, local church or tourist monument, but buildings offer much more scope from the intricate details of historical cathedral or the graphical shapes of modern architecture. We take most of the buildings around us for granted and with a little extra perception youll start to see a whole new way at looking at architecture and its many forms.

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reconsidering conceptual photography

With billions of images being made each year, serious photographers have become increasingly challenged to create something different. The market for "fine art" photographs is no longer satisfied with scenes of nature or expressive portraits. In many cases it is necessary to build an entire tableau in the studio and then photograph this to express the innermost thoughts of the artist.

Please read what Robert D Feinman says about it.

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