Archive for January, 2011
App Review: Perfectly Clear HD for the iPad
Open an image in Perfectly Clear HD and it's displayed like this: on the left the original file, on the right the processed image.
- Apple’s iPad
is a great way to display photographs, whether to family and friends or to show to clients, and it’s easy to get images onto the device, either with the Camera Connection Kit (from Apple) or via a connection to your computer and even wirelessly using software such as Shuttersnitch. However, unless you’ve spent time correcting your images on your computer and then transferred them, you’re basically stuck with the images as they were in camera, which isn’t good enough: nearly every digital photograph will benefit from some correction and enhancement. Athentech Imaging has produced Perfectly Clear HD, its image enhancement software, to do just that on the iPad (as well as being a plug-in for PhotoShop, but we’ll deal with that in a later article).
Review: Eye-Fi Pro X2 SDHC Card
Announced almost a year ago, the super powerful Eye-Fi Pro X2 cards have recently been given a boost in the form of mobile sharing. While I haven’t demoed this feature yet, I have been using this card since Photo Plus of last year. It has been tested out in a variety of cameras with different results depending on the manufacturer and build of the camera. For the sake of timeliness, this review should have been completed a while ago but was delayed over and over again to ensure that we tested it correctly. In conclusion, depending on where your brand loyalty lies, you may want to snag one of these highly recommended items.
Field Review: Nikon D3100 (Day 5)
Lens Nikon 55.0-200.0 mm f/4.0-5.6Camera Nikon D3100 Exposure 13 Aperture f/22.0 Focal Length 55 mm ISO Speed 800
The Nikon D3100 is an entry-level DSLR. The most important component next to the body is the lens or lenses it comes with. For this review, we have two lenses to highlight: the Nikon AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G VR and the Nikon 55-200mm VR AF-S f/4-5.6G ED. I recently took them out for some low light photography and achieved decent results. Read the rest of this entry »
The Answers To The Most Common Photography Questions I Hear
I’ve been a photographer/teacher/tech journalist for a while, so I’m used to hearing a multitude of questions. There are some questions that I hear and read all the time that many of you probably don’t want to answer. Take a look at this list and see if your question is here.
We’ve got a huge forum going on this Canon camera posting if you’re interested as well.
Field Review: Olympus E-5 (Day 5)
The art filters of the Olympus E-5 were cool, but they wouldn’t be able to help us in practical shooting situations (at least I couldn’t conclude that they could.) One of the major critiques of the Olympus E-5 is the high ISO abilities. I’m not going to lie, they are fairly horrid and anything beyond 1600 is something that I may not use, ever. This is what many studio or portrait photographers that are just starting out tend to do: in addition to ignoring what wireless strobes can do for you! Using a home made white box that I made over a year and a half ago, the E-5 and Olympus FL-50 flash went to work photographing items.
Shooting Supercross: From Lens to The Monitor
Canon EOS 1D MkIIN, 17-35mm f/2.8, 580EX Flash.
Covering a Supercross event is tough: sports arena lighting seems bright to the spectators, but isn’t actually very bright. Also the lighting is very flat – if you get shadows at all you usually get at least six – and the action is fast a furious, so fast shutter speeds are often required.
