The internet is full of forums about photography, and a recurring discussion is the question ‘Should I use manual focus/exposure, or auto focus/exposure?’. Inevitably, you will see somebody who claims ‘professional photographers use manual focus/exposure’ often followed by ‘because manual is more creative’. Really? What makes manual focus/exposure more creative than automatic focus/exposure? In the […]
A quick tip: A polarizing filter is often used to remove reflections from a water surface. Another use is to increase the contrast between the blue sky and white clouds (although it’s easy to do that in post-processing too). A much lesser known use for a polarizing filter is when you are taking pictures in […]
Panasonic has revealed they are developing a new type of sensor, in which a ‘micro color splitter’ is used to redirect light of a certain color to a particular pixel. The advantage over the Bayer sensor that is used in almost all digital cameras today would be that no light is lost by filtering, so […]
Working with Adobe Photoshop is always a lot of fun. The possibilities are endless and mainly limited by your own imagination. This picture of the trunk of a young elephant immediately reminded me of a snake-line animal, so one day I decided to make that animal ‘real’.
I chose an image of a […]
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