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How does background blur (bokeh) relate to sensor size?
This is a somewhat theoretical question.
Suppose I first take a photo of a subject using a full frame sensor DSLR, with a given lens (say 50mm prime lens at f/3.5).
Now suppose I exchange the camera for an APS-C sensor DSLR (with a 1.6× crop…
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Do the same camera settings lead to the same exposure across different sensor sizes?
Let's say I have a micro-4/3rd camera and a full frame camera, both set to 1/60 at f/2.8, taking a picture of the same scene in the same lighting. Will the exposure be the same across both cameras despite the different sensor sizes?
The reason why…
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What are the practical advantages of fast lenses when shooting landscapes?
I'm still using my 18-105 kit lens on my Nikon D5300, and the (lower) quality of the photo on edges is bothering me, so I want to get some lens that produces good quality through the whole photo. Still deciding between prime vs zoom for quality vs…
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Which photographer do you find inspirational?
As a change from the technical flavour of our questions I would like to turn to photography as an art, so I am afraid this is inevitably subjective.
Which photographer, in your mind, is especially inspirational, why and if possible give an example…
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Where can I find the maximum lens weight for my camera?
Where can I find information about maximum allowed lens weight for my camera?
I'm asking because I have an opportunity to get an old Soviet-built 80-200mm lens for my Nikon D3100 for a very attractive price. But then it occurred to me: the lens…
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What is ISO and how does it affect my photos
What is the ISO setting on my camera? What does it represent? What should I be aware of with regards to ISO when taking photographs
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How can I identify duplicate image files?
Over the years, I've accumulated a lot of pictures, across a bunch of different machines.
I think I've mostly kept them in a yyyy/mm/ directory structure, but especially with some of the older pictures, there seem to be a lot of duplicates.
What's…
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How to determine when I've lost interest in photography?
I'm an amateur in photography (as hobby), but I have a lot of stuff: $1000 DSLR Camera, 4 lens, cool external flash, two tripods and umbrella. My friends and people who subscribed to my blog says I'm a good photographer (That I have my own taste and…
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Hour long exposure of the sun
I'm attempting to do a shot without causing damage to my camera...A hour long exposure of a sunset. I've have used two pieces of welder's glass and got this shot. It caused a purple haze over a good portion of the image. I'm assuming it's…
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What techniques do you employ to control contrast in your landscape shots?
Or to put it differently - how to keep the highlights from blowing and shadows losing details? I'm mostly interested in what can be done in the field to get me the optimal data to begin with, not during post-processing.
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When were white seamless backgrounds and platforms first used in studio lighting?
Amazon has just been granted a patent on the method for using:
A white seamless background
An elevated platform
Rear-facing lights
...in order to make the entire background and platform disappear without the use of green-screen techniques.
That's…
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How does a teleconverter affect depth of field?
I'm aware that a teleconverter will reduce the amount of light reaching the film or sensor in a camera, and as such you hear people banding around things like "With a 2x teleconverter this 300mm f/2.8 becomes a 600mm f/5.6".
Given the aperture…
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List of Adobe Lightroom resources
I'd like to make a list of Adobe Lightroom resources: Blogs, sites, tutorials, and so on...
Anything worth taking a look at.
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Do the infrared photographs really contain infrared colors?
In school, we all learned that from white light we can only perceive the visible spectrum but we can't see UV or the IR portions.
If this is the case, then how come we can do infrared photography?. OK fine, the lens can do it but how can we see the…
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What are the Yongnuo flash naming conventions?
I'm trying to get an idea of which Yongnuo flash will fit my requirements. I'd like to have a flash to pair with my SB-900 with TTL support for use both on and off camera (Nikon CLS-compatible). My camera is the Nikon D7000.
Power and flash zooming…
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