Tripods, without an iota of doubt, are a photographer’s best friends. Your most expensive super-duper high-end lens, used hand-held, cannot provide the biting sharpness that is possible using a good tripod. Tripods also allow you to frame your subject better, frees you from the nagging worry of fuzzy pic-tures, and lets you concentrate on your shooting.This First Look takes … [Read more...]
In a Flash!-Kenko Flash Meter KFM-2100
The Kenko flash meter KFM-2100, like all flash meters, is basically an incident light meter, but like most flash meters it also reads ambient (avail-able) light. It is designed to measure the very brief duration of electronic flash (normal light meters cannot do that). It can also be used to measure flash reflected off the subject.BasicsBut first, what’s ‘incident’ light? … [Read more...]
Back with a Bang-Epson Stylus Photo R3000
Epson printers have always been at the forefront in terms of image quality. Their earlier model, the Epson Stylus Photo R1900, has been very successful in the professional A3 segment for quite a long time. The printer’s continual success meant that it did not require an improved model to take on the competition. Hence Epson did not launch a new A3+ professional model in … [Read more...]
About Neutral Density
I was going through your article HOW TO in the July 2011 issue of SP. I read an article about the use of linear polarizing filter in front of circular polarizer to make a variable ND filter. I and one of my friend tried this and found it very useful in daylight photography when needing very slow shutter speeds. But some people say that attaching two filters degrade the image … [Read more...]
Wonder Bike
SP reader Deepak K. Pradhan from New Delhi wants to know how this picture of this ‘wonder bike’ could be improved. The ‘chopper’ was shot at the Canon India Showroom at Delhi.Since you had no control over the lighting, I shall not discuss that part. But we certainly can discuss the framing. It seems to me that you have shot the picture at eye level, and the angle you have … [Read more...]
