http://digitalphotographyhints.com Helpful tips & advice on using your digital camera. Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:35:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Innovative photo storage site Photoshelter has just announced that they no longer sell stock photography, instead they are focussing on storage of photographers photos online. Their decision is based upon the dominance of Getty, amongst others, in the stock photography field and although Photoshelter hoped to create their own niche ... http://digitalphotographyhints.com/blog/2008/09/16/update-photoshelter-no-longer-sells-stock-photos/ A few weeks ago Adobe released Lightroom 2.0 after a length Beta process. Unfortunately it looks like some fairly serious performance issues got introduced for some users. These include massive slow downs and apparent system hangs while the software tries to work things out with larger catalogs. I've experienced these ... http://digitalphotographyhints.com/blog/2008/09/11/lightroom-20-performance-issues-wait-for-next-release/ Raw is an uncompressed digital image format used in professional and semi-professional digital cameras. Saving your images in raw format is the nearest equivalent in the digital world to shooting with film, maintaining all the information received by your camera's sensor in digital format. The main advantage of saving in raw ... http://digitalphotographyhints.com/blog/2008/09/10/tip-save-your-photos-in-raw-format/ Underwater at Silver Springs - by Bruce Mozert These days it's relatively easy for anyone to buy an underwater housing for their digital camera, and head down to the depths to capture amazing, other worldy images. So spare a thought for Bruce Mozert, who back in 1938 took innovative, underwater ... http://digitalphotographyhints.com/blog/2008/09/05/photo-inspiration-the-underwater-photography-of-bruce-mozert/ For those of you using digital SLRs, you're probably already aware of the problem of dust spots on your photos. Simply put, this is where dust gets onto your camera CCD (the sensor that takes the photo) causing spots to appear on your photos - especially when you take long ... http://digitalphotographyhints.com/blog/2008/09/04/canon-slr-dust-prevention-eos-integrated-cleaning-system/ Photosynth, Microsoft's revolutionary piece of software for making '3D' style images out of flat photos, is now up and ready for use. Photosynth works by taking a set of images of the same thing - a place or object - and using pattern matching to work out corresponding areas on ... http://digitalphotographyhints.com/blog/2008/09/01/photosynth-out-of-beta/ Breast shaped clouds? That's mammatus clouds to you! [From the BBC] The BBC reported on some interesting cloud formations that occurred over England a few days ago. Mammatus clouds, so named because they look like breasts, form underneath cloud formations under the right conditions. The picture above is particularly nice as ... http://digitalphotographyhints.com/blog/2008/08/21/photo-opportunities-breast-shaped-clouds/ Toy Eiffel Tower by Michael Hughes Photographer Michael Hughes has a great idea for what to do with your camera when you go on holiday. Pick up some tourist toys or postcards of the local landmarks, then go take a photo of yourself holding the tourist object in front of the ... http://digitalphotographyhints.com/blog/2008/08/13/photo-inspiration-tourist-toy-photos/ Obviously this isn't a static photo, but it was such a beautiful example of how a lightning strike builds up that we had to show it. You can see how the electrostatic charge spiders down from the top left, with many small tendrils each searching for an earthing point. Then, ... http://digitalphotographyhints.com/blog/2008/08/08/lightning-in-slow-motion/ UPDATE 2008-09-11: As of this time there have been some serious performance issues observed with the first release of Lightroom 2.0. Mostly these are extreme slow downs with large-ish catalogs as the software struggles to get out of its own way working with large numbers of photos (1000s+). A lot ... http://digitalphotographyhints.com/blog/2008/07/30/adobe-release-lightroom-20/