Every now and then I write about photography. I'll try to include some valuable and educational information into each post and I'll do my best to avoid nonsense. I'll always publish photos or pictures to support my writing. I write for example about photographic composition, photography equipment and Photoshop. http://www.secondpicture.com/photography_blog.html http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Mon, 7 Apr 2008 16:42:50 +0300 Mon, 7 Apr 2008 16:42:44 +0300 FeedForAll v2.0 (2.0.2.9) http://www.feedforall.com I was recently browsing through my collection of family photos. Unfortunately far too many of them exist only in a digital format on a DVD disc. I should definitely print more. Browsing through my family photos made me recall why I enjoy them so... http://www.secondpicture.com/blog/family_photos.html 40C6A22C-96CF-44AF-B1AB-A377134FC292 Mon, 7 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0200 Picture 1 was taken in Greece on the Island of Lesbos in the town of Molyvos. It was late and me and my wife were heading back to our hotel. It was very dark and the harbor was... http://www.secondpicture.com/blog/bad_photos.html 8FF3818F-B025-4576-B4C7-B1F7464CE8F5 Sat, 12 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0200 When I started using a digital entry level SLR camera I was shocked when my camera refused to use flash with higher shutter speeds than 1/200 sec. At first I thought there was something wrong with my camera. I went through the manual and online information and I found an answer that there is no... http://www.secondpicture.com/blog/high_speed_sync_for_flash.html 35639AB4-202D-4F6A-B84C-7FDDAE14529E Thu, 3 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0200 About four years ago there was a debate in Digital Photography Review (among other places) about whether Canon EOS 300D is a better camera than Sony DSC-F828. The essential... http://www.secondpicture.com/blog/slr_camera_or_bridge_camera.html CC892273-3733-4807-8F3D-3AC31C364C98 Tue, 18 Dec 2007 00:00:00 +0200 Not long ago I found myself out of ideas when it comes to photography. I couldn't find anything interesting to photograph. I had this one idea of a... http://www.secondpicture.com/blog/radial_blur_in_photoshop.html 0D06DDF5-212F-4F20-A768-EA16B5CF33F9 Sat, 3 Nov 2007 00:00:00 +0200 Here I discuss about digital photo processing in Adobe Camera Raw 4.0 and Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended. I will discuss my typical digital photo... http://www.secondpicture.com/blog/photo_processing_in_photoshop_and_camera_raw.html 9C43D33A-8F46-47C9-BD93-54FAF1D3C2F1 Sat, 6 Oct 2007 00:00:00 +0200 Exposure means the total amount of light that the sensor of a digital camera receives. Exposure can be controlled with sensitivity of the sensor (ISO), aperture of the lens (f-number) and... http://www.secondpicture.com/blog/long_exposure_photos.html DD6870BC-E039-4EAF-9563-A25487991613 Fri, 14 Sep 2007 00:00:00 +0200 Camera Raw is Adobe's Plug-In software for Photoshop which provides capability to open raw files. Raw image provides flexible processing possibilities due to its great color depth. In Camera Raw there is... http://www.secondpicture.com/blog/camera_raw_fill_light_saves_the_photo.html BD4EB19A-FDC5-4936-8932-6F50A5BF7892 Tue, 28 Aug 2007 00:00:00 +0200 When I am on holiday I like to carry my camera everywhere but I don't always feel like carrying my tripod with me because of its weight and size. However, I still like to be prepared to photograph with slow shutter... http://www.secondpicture.com/blog/table_top_tripod_manfrotto_709b.html AAC17B60-E390-4914-ADE3-F912EE1A7AD6 Fri, 17 Aug 2007 00:00:00 +0200 While I was on holiday in Greece, after photographing multiple sunsets I decided to try, for the first time, to create a silhouette picture with a digital camera. I have never before taken silhouette photos on purpose... http://www.secondpicture.com/blog/silhouette_photos_with_digital_camera.html B3C92A0D-71B9-4A98-A989-564866BBE0B8 Fri, 10 Aug 2007 00:00:00 +0200 While on holiday in Greece I decided to try for the first time to create a panorama photo which consists of several photos. I had read about the subject so I knew the basic principles about photographing panoramas: To make post processing easier one should keep settings of the camera the... http://www.secondpicture.com/blog/panorama_photo_of_castle_of_molyvos.html 05AEF2E6-B263-457D-9428-110D1AB3BD4E Sun, 29 Jul 2007 00:00:00 +0200 Unprocessed photos taken with small apertures tend to sometimes look a little smooth compared to photos taken with larger apertures. The smoothness in photos taken with small apertures can be caused by diffraction. Diffraction means bending of wave as it passes an edge. In this article I observe the effect of diffraction in... http://www.secondpicture.com/blog/diffraction_with_small_apertures.html 48DAC4F7-316F-4B7A-B49D-C936CF5A1FA3 Thu, 19 Jul 2007 00:00:00 +0200 I was celebrating Midsummer at my mother's and I had dragged some photography gear along:, Camera: Canon EOS 400D, Lens: Canon EF 70-200mm f/4L USM, Lens: Canon EF-S... http://www.secondpicture.com/blog/large-leaved_lupine_lupinus_polyphyllus.html 3467EEDA-142A-4DA0-A657-22E53B52F00E Mon, 2 Jul 2007 00:00:00 +0200 Picture 1 was taken on the Phuket island in Thailand. The sunset seemed promising and I stayed on the beach with my camera waiting for that most favorable moment. The sun was just... http://www.secondpicture.com/blog/sunset_in_phuket.html FCE1B5BD-0C55-4CD2-9D1B-BA2BE99DAE7C Tue, 19 Jun 2007 00:00:00 +0200 Picture 1 is a photo about the cathedral of Palma in Majorca. The construction of the cathedral began already in 1230 and continued for hundreds of years. How such a sight... http://www.secondpicture.com/blog/cathedral_of_palma.html A051D4A1-7112-4A3C-82E5-0BB9815AF9A1 Tue, 12 Jun 2007 00:00:00 +0200