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Getting the Best Possible Audio from a Camcorder

When you move from photography to videography as your means of capturing moments either personally or as part of your profession, you enter into a much bigger world with greater challenges as well. For one thing, you now have to deal with issues of movement. The problems of lighting and surface noise are just as [...]

White Balance and Color Cast

Light has color. Most people don’t realize what difference light sources make in photography until they see the results–and then wonder why the picture looks absolutely nothing like what they remember pointing the camera at. Light of various temperatures is associated with a temperature in Kelvin. For example, a candle is about 1500 K, a [...]

The Basics of Photography

If you are a sports fan, you know what it means when a team goes into a “rebuilding year”. It is just when the owners or coaches decide its time to train new members and correct bad habits in others. And invariably, what team leadership says when they go into such a time is that [...]

Photochopping

Photochopping involves using a photo editing program to edit a picture. It’s regarded by many as a visual parody, though some people feel it isn’t much better than copyright infringement. Photochopping is photo fakery, but the goal is humor, and not outright fraud. In general, the goal of photochopping is to produce a visual joke [...]

Ethics of Photo Editing

In the past, photo editing was time consuming and tedious. Anything beyond simply lightening or darkening a picture meant hours of painstaking work. Something as simple as painting away a feature involved creating an entirely new picture, with the object being replaced by tiny bits cut out of other parts of the picture. The extensive [...]