Photography: mixing shapes and colours
I want to wish you a Happy New Year to everybody, and lets hope that 2009 will be at least as beautiful as 2008.
See ya guys in the next year. Don’t forget to have fun and photograph some fireworks. 
There is a rumor that Canon it’s going to release an improved version of the Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 L IS USM lens around February next year. The lens will be Canon EF 100-400mm f/4-5.6 L IS USM II. Here are the supposed features:
As long as the price difference is exagerated (although I expect so) it will be a pretty good replacement for the current 100-400mm.
Surfing through the net I came across some negative oppinions, and sadly, I have to agree, even if I am a Canon fan/owner.
For example the new Canon 5D Mark 2 has 2 major problems like Vertical Banding Noise and Black Dot. To this problems it’s added the promise that it will be launched by November and we almost get into yeah 2009 and still Canon hold back the 5D Mark II until it’s if fixed. Although sounds reassuring (they are working to make it better) a lot of people that have back-ordered the camera didn’t had the camera in their arms until the joyful Christmas. You can read more about this here: Canon EOS 5D Mark II: Barely worth it!.
But I have to say they did a lot of good things with the new 5D Mark II, and I still crave to buy it. The only problem is that they rushed to launch an still “beta” camera, without thoroughly testing it and fixing all the problems.
And about that 50D camera, well, it’s way overpriced and a lot of people still choose the 40D which is a bargain. You can read more here: Rebirth of the xxD?
Anyway, I wish Canon a bunch load of good luck, because they will need it, a lot of Canon users started to think that it would be a lot better with Nikon, including me. 
Hello guys/gals, long time no see. Hope you all had a good time this Christmas and Santa was kind and generous.
Today I would like show you a quick tutorial on how to create a Fujifilm Velvia film effect. This one it’s popular through landscape photographers, and gives to the photo a colorful look and having a slight over saturation.
Here is the photo, which in my opinion doesn’t put into value the beautiful colors of the Autumn season.
Merry Christmas!
I would like to wish you all Merry Christmas. I hope that all of you will enjoy your holiday together with your family and friends. Take a lot of photos in this beautiful part of year.
I wish I had the time to write some tips for getting right your Christmas portraits, but unfortunately I was way to busy buying presents grocery, visiting friends, etc. I would like to apologise for this, and I promise to write it. Together with this I plan to talk about some basic things about camera and photography, and share some tips on how to use them efficiently, then as soon as it starts to snow around this parts I will share with you some photographs and some othe tips and tricks on photographing snow filled landscapes and maybe take a deep dive in composition.
By the way you can visit this page called “My way of saying Merry Christmas!” that i shared with my friends, here is the link: Merry Christmas! . I hope you like the idea.
Again Merry Christmas and see after the holidays. (Hopefully i will post something until the end of the year)
Since a few days I’ve talked about ways of backing up your photos, I think it appropriate to talk about organizing your photographs, since keeping your photos organized helps to find your well organized photos.
First of all it’s very useful to use a software that helps keeping you organized and even helps you finding your images much faster. Since there are dozens of software packages for this kind of job it all comes down to personal preference and a few very important features that would help you a lot, like:
I have compiled a list of software packages for your organizational need.
For professional users (has a lot of professional features) :
For regular users (has all the feature you need for our every day family photos) :
Although you have whatever software you need you still have to know some other things. To be more specific here is my work flow when I come from a shoot:
As you can see I am a little paranoid, having three different copies of the photos.
Bottom line is experiment, and use what is better for you and not time consuming. Happy organizing.
Photo by chadh
The worst nightmare of a photographer worst than get his equipment stolen, it’s to lose his photographs. Being in digitized era the risks of losing you photographs and even documents, it’s higher than in the film era. There are a bunch of risks, from accidental deletion to hardware failure, file corruption and the list goes on.
Losing a photograph it’s worst than loosing something you created, which can be recreated the only thing you’re going to lose it’s time. But a photograph, you cannot go back in time and nail the exact same shot (I also consider that a photograph is unique, there aren’t two photos that loo the same even if there where shot at the same time).
So I will try to give you some advices on how to protect your precious photographs.
Every time you copy you photograph from your camera to your hard drive the first this you have to remember to do is to back up onto a DVD or CD. There are so cheap compared to how much trouble can get you out from.
Due to fact that I love shooting landscapes, I am in love of the new Canon 5D Mark II. Talking a lot about it a friend asked me what’s that special with this camera compared to my Canon 40D. And it all came to one major difference: the 5D Mark II has a full frame sensor and the 40D has a crop sensor. So in this article I will try to explain the “Crop factor” notion, and the difference between them.
Full frame notion. A full frame sensor has an area of 36 x 24 mm and it’s close to the area of a 35mm film camera, back in the film days.
Crop factor. Well many of the digital cameras, from compact to DSLR cameras, have different image sensors with different dimensions. Most of the sensors have sizes equal or smaller than 36 x 24 mm. Because of the smaller sensor, the camera tends to capture less than an image giving the effect of cropping. There are a lot of crop factors starting from 1x (the Full Frame) and going all the way to 2x (Olympus), for DSLR’s and going even further than 6x for compact cameras. A 2x crop factor refers to a sensor size 2 times smaller than the full frame meaning a roughly 18 x 12 mm sensor size.
Now let’s see how this translates in the actual size of the image:
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