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Six Tips to Make your Holiday Pictures Sing

December 10, 2015 By David Newton

6 Tips to Make Your Holiday Pictures Sing

As the well-known advertising jingle says, the holidays are coming. A time when families get together, eat, drink, be merry and generally have a whale of a time. So there’s no better time to whip out the phone and start capturing images of the frivolity.

If you want to get great pictures though, there are a couple of things you should think about first – just because your camera is a phone, doesn’t mean it can’t capture great images – far from it, you just need to start treating it like a camera. So here are six tips to take your phone pictures from bluegh to wow! [Read more…]

Filed Under: Learn Tagged With: christmas, depth of field, flash, focus, holidays, how to, Learn, Mobile, perspective, rule of thirds, tips, tutorial

 

35mm Full Frame, APS-C, and 1.0-Type Sensor Depth of Field Comparison

September 9, 2015 By Eric Reagan

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGcB38ZiMQI&w=700&showinfo=0&rel=0]

In this short video, Gary Fong takes a look at full frame, APS-C and 1.0-type cameras to see how the depth of field is affected at the same effective focal lengths.

The challenge, of course, is that you must change the actual focal length of your lens to accommodate the same field of view on cameras with different sensor sizes. Invariably, this changes the depth of field so that the camera with the smaller sensor appears to have a much greater depth of field, while the full frame camera has a much shallower depth of field.

Gary’s demo is a nice practical demonstration of how these different camera sensors provide different images when shooting the same scene from the same position.

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Filed Under: Learn Tagged With: 1-inch sensor, 1.0-type sensor, APS-C, depth of field, full frame, Image Sensor, sensor type

Topaz Lens Effects

May 11, 2011 By Eric Reagan

Topaz Labs recently unveiled its new Lens Effects plug-in for Photoshop.  Lens Effects allows you to apply depth of field effects and other effects to your images during post processing.  Lens Effects uses a depth map for fine tuning out of focus areas, which helps make the depth of field look more natural and optical-based. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Photoshop Tagged With: bokeh, depth of field, Lens Effects, photography, Photoshop, plug-in, topaz labs, Topaz Lens Effects

Depth of Field Tutorial

April 24, 2007 By Eric Reagan

Filed Under: Learn Tagged With: depth of field, faq, howto, Learn, photography, tutorial, video

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