Helpful and interesting links

[Graham 0]

A webite I like to use before taking a trip is the US Navy sun/moon rise and set calculator.

 

http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/RS_OneYear.html

[Graham 0]

Another great photography website is the Luminous Landscape tutorials

 

http://www.luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/

 

[Graham 0]

Here's another site with a list of tutorials...

 

http://darwinwiggett.com/articles.html

[Frogfish 0]

The luminous-landscape site is very helpful! I bookmarked these links!

 

Thanks Graham!

[Graham 0]

Your welcome Frogfish, these are site's I have bookmarked as well.

 

This site has some great tutorials, with a lot of emphasis on inovative lighting techniques

 

http://www.daveblackphotography.com/workshop/index.htm

 

 

[Will Milne 0]

Some great links -ty

 

here is an off-cam flsh site with some handy info.-

 

http://strobist.blogspot.com/2006/02/welco...o-strobist.html

 

Will

 

 

[Frogfish 0]

Do you guys have any good sites on how to process RAW images with programs like Adobe Camera Raw 3.7? I have CS2, so I can't use ACR 4.0 or higher...

[Isonychia 0]

Thanks for the links, Graham! Here's one of my favorites:

 

http://www.moosepeterson.com

 

Lots of good photo/equipment info, and some great digital imaging tips too!

 

John

[Will Milne 0]

Hi Frogfish-

 

Are you looking for step by step tuts/detailed raw processing info specific to that prog?

 

If not- I,ve been using raw exclusively for a while now and Silkpix has been the prog of choice here. Very nice color/reasonably fast on my ancient machine and a well implemented interface.

 

I have processed Sony R1 and Nikon D200 raw files with it and both have been handled very well. I have seen some complaints about shadow posterization but I can honestly say I have not seen that issue arise , so it may be a non Sony/Nikon raw file type issue?

 

Basically with raw the in-camera processing- sharpening/WB etc etc is ignored and you do that in the raw processer.Typically with far more control.

 

I,m sure other progs do the same but in Silkypix- when I have a tweak done for an image WB/Tone Curve/etc etc - I save it as a parameter and simply apply that to each image in that sequence.

 

The big advantage is that you are working with the full dataset from the sensor- whereas with jpeg there is loss from the compression. Typically tone sublty and detail.

 

If you are working towards print use this is a big advantage, more bitdepth , more info, richer images.

 

I save the raw from Silkypix with it's paramaters then output to tiff . That tiff goos down the pipleline and ends up on the web as a jpeg, with appropriate format etc versions saved along the way.

 

hope that helps

Will

 

 

 

 

 

 

[KVRNut 0]

Here's a website that I go to a lot. http://macroartinnature.wordpress.com/auth...croartinnature/

I enjoy Michael Brown's style of photography.

 

Ernie

 

 

[Frogfish 0]

Yes Will, I'm looking for specific info/tutorials about that prog!

[Graham 0]

I think this tripod vibration article is interesting.

 

http://www.benro.cn/news/news33.html

[Peterjay 0]

If you like portraits of African wildlife, check this guy out. If there's anybody out there who's better, I've yet to see him.

 

http://www.nickbrandt.com/

 

Brandt's methods are very mysterious and he refuses to discuss them, but rumor has it that he uses a Pentax 6X7 without a telephoto lens.

[KVRNut 0]

For those of you who are still into film and have a camera or cameras that you don't have owner's manuals for, this site has been a real big help to me. http://www.butkus.org/chinon/ This site has helped me immensely with some of my "orphan" cameras.

Just need to find a manual for my Walz 35.

Ernie

[Graham 0]

Thanks for the link Peter. I'll be spending a while on Nick Brand's website. That is insanely incredible photography!!!!!!! I've never seen anything like it before.