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What else changes with zoom?
Let me start with the general question:
Consider the following situation. I want to take a picture of a particular object (that is, not a scenic shot). I can alter my distance from the subject and I can use the zoom on my camera. By altering…
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What is an ultra-wide lens?
What is the point at which a lens is considered "ultra-wide angle" vs just wide angle?
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If my photo is "copied" through a painting, is that a legal?
Are both scenarios legal?
I own a photo, and someone painted a
replica (using canvas and paints) and
sold prints.
Someone altered it using
Photoshop to look like a painting and
sold prints.
Do I need to copyright my pictures to prevent this?
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Why do digital cameras need an exposure time at all?
From what I understand of digital cameras, they are basically a lens plus a tiny two-dimensional array of millions of photo-diodes. And from what I understand of photo-diodes, they create a voltage when in the light, with higher-intensity light…
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What are the disadvantages of using a diffuser on a flash?
I am thinking of using a diffuser on my canon speedlight flash to soften harsh shadows when shooting indoors. I was wondering what the disadvantages of this might be.
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What is focus throw?
This answer to an earlier question of mine about manual focus lenses uses the term "focus throw". Exactly what does that mean? Why do manual focus lenses have more of it than auto focus lenses?
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How can a high resolution camera matter when the output is low resolution?
The question is inspired by this question showing these pictures.
The accepted answer suggests that these pictures were taken by a 8x10 view camera, and the use of a 8x10 camera was confirmed in the comments.
My question is: How can you tell?
When…
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Tips for shooting in an aquarium?
What would be your advises when taking shoot in an aquarium?
What are your preferred lenses? How do you deal with the low light? What about the aquarium glass which bring some deformation? The fact that fishes are moving and hiding?
A zoo style is…
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What does the term "sneaker zoom" mean?
I saw the term used when describing the Canon 85mm f/1.8. What do they mean?
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Where is it best to meter for sunrise and sunsets?
I can never get nice silhouettes and appropriate exposures for sunrise and sunset. How should I meter for this?
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Questions to ask when using a professional printing service
I do lots of landscape photography. A friend of mine wants one of my photographs printed; I've never done this before! All of my photos are post-processed in Photoshop, and I only generate JPEG's for web use, never print.
I'll be hitting up a local…
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What should I look for when choosing a stock web sites to sell through?
I was reading Are stock photo sites a viable source of income? and thought I might give it ago.
However what are the things to look for when choosing a stock photo sites to sell on taking in to account:
Range of seller features
Submission…
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What file system are memory cards formatted with?
Is there an industry standard file system cards are formatted with (when you first get them, and/or after a camera formats them)? FAT32, FAT16?
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Why is a DSLR bigger than an SLR?
I was looking at this comparison when I realised the camera on the left had a 2.0 crop in a mirrorless body made in 2012 while the camera on the right was full frame, had a mirror and was made in 1972. Notice the size difference there.
Now if you…
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What is "feathering" a light?
When I read instructions about lighting setups, I often see reference to to "feathering" this or that light.
I have some ideas what that means: for example, I imagine taking a flashlight and instead of holding it perpendicular to a wall to make a…
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