What exactly is Live View? Why do we need Live View, especially when we have lived without it for so many years? Is it just one of the newfangled features that puts some more pressure on our learning curve? Or, is it really a useful feature that could enhance our photography? Read on... Live View is a function of a digital camera that allows us to ‘pre-view’ a subject/scene … [Read more...]
Pin-up Photography
Pic A Having crossed over 20 active years in commercial photography, Dilip Yande says his forte is Fashion and Portrait photography. He believes variety is the spice of life, and to keep himself motivated he does a lot of tabletop as well. For Dilip, names like Rembrandt, Renoir, Gauguin, Picasso, Turner, Monet are household names because of his childhood that was spent in a … [Read more...]
10 How to Tips
1. The camera LCD Monitor is much brighter 1 How to adjust your camera’s LCD brightness I have yet to come across a digital camera’s LCD that is not overly bright. May be this is a marketing decision (so that even your underexposed images look fairly okay on the LCD). When images are transferred to a computer, they almost always look darker. So how do you adjust the … [Read more...]
Canon PIXMA PRO-10-The Middleweight!
Professional photo printers come in various sizes, specifications, and prices. Canon has printers ranging from A4 to large format commercial models. The company recently launched three A3+ professional photo printers in the PIXMA range — the PRO-1 (12-colour), PRO-10 (10-colour), and PRO-100 (8-colour). Here we are reviewing the PIXMA PRO-10, the ‘middleweight’ in this … [Read more...]
Weekend Project: Create Psychedelic Art!
Smart Photography has been continually receiving requests to start a basic course for beginners. With this in mind, we have asked a very knowledgeable photographer from Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, to take over writing these articles. We have also requested him to be as jargon-free as it is possible, so that newcomers to photography feel comfortable to pursue the hobby.The … [Read more...]
