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How do I meter for long exposures (10+ minutes)?
One of my longstanding interests is long exposure night photography.
However, many of the situations where I am shooting require exposure lengths on the order of 10 minutes, which is far beyond what the internal meter in my camera (5DII) can…
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Why don't cameras support JPEG 2000 format?
The original JPEG format was updated in 2000 to provide a variety of features including less artifacts, better compression and lossless compression. Why haven't cameras updated to use this new format?
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Do you still bracket your photos?
Do you find that bracketing your photos is still in general a good practice, or has photo editing software greatly reduced the need for this?
How To Bracket
(Why You Should) Bracket Your Important Photos
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What could be the reason for these block-like artefacts in the blue sky?
I'm using the Huawei P10 with its Leica camera.
Recently I noticed very visible large block-like artefacts in the sky. These artefacts are present on some pictures, but not on all, and they are already present in the photos before editing them.
Here…
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When should I use graduated ND filters and when should I use HDR processing?
I'd really like to stop blowing out the sky and/or underexposing the ground in my pictures. The traditional solution would be to use graduated ND filters, but taking multiple exposures and applying HDR postprocessing would also work (and some…
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What exactly is flash sync speed, and should it be a factor in a buying decision?
What exactly is flash sync speed and should it be a factor in a buying decision?
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In Lightroom 3, what is the difference between exposure and brightness?
What's the difference between adjusting a photo's exposure versus its brightness?
I created a virtual copy of a photo. The original's exposure was increased 1 stop. The other got an increase in brightness from 50 to 100.
Flipping back and forth…
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Taken a picture of my monitor while spinning in circles - why is it distorted?
I just found a picture again I took years ago, and I'm wondering what's happened ever since then - I hope this is the right place to ask!
I sat on my swivel chair and spun a few times, while taking this picture of my CRT display at a random…
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How do I properly position a lens hood?
I understand the basic idea of a lens hood, but after looking at mine and contemplating how to use it, I get stuck on the same question every time:
Does the orientation of the hood on the lens matter? Because the hood has peaks and valleys, so how…
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Are Nikon DSLR sensors actually better than Canon's?
I've been a happy Canon user for a while. When I was doing my initial research on what brand to buy several years ago, I came to the conclusion that both Nikon and Canon are equally good (which I think is mostly true too).
However, I spent some…
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Why use higher ISO when using a tripod and the object is static?
Sometimes when I see a photo such as this one, I wonder why the photographer chose such a high ISO (640), despite using a tripod with a static subject.
As far as I know, a lower ISO means less noise, and vice versa. When shooting in low light with a…
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How do I capture the moon and its surrounding context?
I wanted to photograph the full moon against a beautiful deep blue sky. I ended up with blown-out highlights of the moon:
So I switched to spot metering and captured the moon, losing the blue sky in the process:
I want a single photo that shows…
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What tips and advice do you have for photographing the Aurora Borealis?
A friend has been kind enough to lend me a DSLR for a few months. It's my first foray into DSLR photography, or indeed any kind of photography beyond simply aiming my Canon IXUS at something and clicking the button.
Over the last few weeks, I've…
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How do you achieve sharp bokeh circles?
There's an effect I'm looking for and I was wondering if I could get it with just the camera or will I need to open up photoshop to achieve something like it. I'm trying to get shark bokeh circles like in this image:
Here's how my bokeh shots…
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What precautions should I take when taking a camera into humid conditions?
My camera's manual warns about sudden changes in temperature, but there are a few cases when I can't see how to avoid this.
These include entering a reptile house in a zoo, or a trip to tropical house such as in the Eden Project, where the outside…
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