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Archive - 2010-08-16

National Geographic Photo Contest

Jeff Wignall over at Black Star Rising shares some tips at how you can increase your chances of winning in the prestigious National Geographic Photo Contest — or any other photo contest for that matter...

Setting Manual White Balance, From A Satellite

When Auto White Balance (AWB) does not work, photographers resort to manually setting White Balance. The procedure is simple enough: aim the camera at a white sheet of paper, take a color temperature reading and assign...

Scanimation 101

From tlokovic It’s amazing because you don’t have to be restricted to books. Even murals of animated drawings come to life as you simply walk by: From XBLKhadaver Share on Bluesky (Opens in new window)...

EISA Photo Awards 2010-2011

EISA (European Imaging and Sound Association), the association of 50 special interest magazines from 19 European countries, has announced their 2010-2011 Photo Awards. The Nikon D3s tops the Professional Camera category...

The Street Predicts The Demise Of Digital Cameras

The Street, more known for its financial advice than photography know-how, has predicted that with the continued magapixel race in mobile phone cameras that digital cameras as we know it are on the tech endangered list...

Re-Photography of Historic Scenes

We’ve all seen examples of a picture of a scene superimposed on a historic scene or vice versa: an actual photo of a historic scene is held up to superimpose an actual scene and photographed. Rephotographers aim...

Kodak M580 Review @ PhotographyBLOG

“In use proves to be a case of style over substance, with fiddly top plate controls and sluggish response times.” We’ve added another Kodak EasyShare M580 [QuickFact Sheet] Review to our Reviews Matrix...

Nikon D3000 Review @ byThom

“There’s only one group that I can recommend the camera to, and that is sophisticated DSLR users who want to build a small, light prime set.” We have added another Nikon D3000 [Specs] Review to our...