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What is a focus limiter?
What is a focus limiter and how does it work? What is the advantage of it? For instance Tamron 90/2.8 Macro has a focus limiter. According to the documentation:
In the limit position, the Tamron 90
will autofocus between 11.4" and
15.75" (290mm…
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How do I keep track of many, many clients in a single shoot (like a school portrait day)?
I am to set up a photo booth at a local fair. I will have a different subject every few minutes. I am to email them their photo afterwards. How would you keep track of each photo to each customer to each email?
I have a form for them to fill out…
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What do I need to consider to choose between dSLR, mirrorless, or a compact as my first "serious" camera?
I am thinking of buying a camera to learn photography. Most of the time I'll be shooting portraits and landscapes. But I am not sure where I should start. Most of my friends tell me that I should get an entry level DSLR, but I am not sure if I have…
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What is split portrait lighting?
Ok, so I got interested enough in the other lighting setups, what is split portrait lighting and when is it appropriate to use?
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How do I predict exposure when using flash?
So I've got the basics down for the exposure triangle, but sometimes you just need to add more light to the room and the flash can be the most convenient way of doing that. The problem is that the exposure on the camera is not taking into account…
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How can you write/convert Picasa's People tags to the EXIF data?
I use Lightroom for my workflow, and I tag photos with people's names so that I can find them faster.
Since Lightroom doesn't have the "Faces" feature, I want to use Picasa's People feature for this purpose, but I don't want to work constantly with…
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My viewfinder is too small — what can I do about it?
I own a 450D, and I am very satisfied with the image quality, features, and so on. The only thing that disturbs me is the viewfinder. I can barely see the whole image when looking through it (black blends in near the edges as my eyes focus the…
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Why are superzoom lenses small but giant telephoto lenses huge?
This week I've read two news stories about two different camera lenses that can magnify things that are very far away.
The first is the Nikon Coolpix P900, which is a point-and-shoot camera that costs $600, has an 83x optical superzoom lens ("the…
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Photographing Lightning Strikes: White Balance
I'm getting the hang of manual white balance and I haven't yet shot lightning strikes in a storm but I may this summer. What would be a safe white balance to deal with the fact that lightning is appears to make the scene/sky so blue (to my…
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How to photograph a partial solar eclipse?
There will be a partial solar eclipse tomorrow visible from Europe, Africa, Asia. I'm looking for photography tips. Looking for ideas for a typical amateur photographer but also for someone having a telescope.
Posting your photos after the eclipse…
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What does it mean when something is "distracting"?
I asked for opinions on a photograph I took, and someone told me that an object in the background is "distracting". I wasn't sure exactly what this means, so I did some searching. I found many articles of advice — for example, Tips for Avoiding…
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Will using a lens at max aperture ("wide open") result in poor images?
I’m looking to add a second lens to my kit lens I got with my Nikon D7000.
I have read several reviews on both the 35 and 50 mm lenses made by Nikon in particular that said using either lens at the max aperture results in less than stellar images.
I…
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What is the correct pronunciation of "bokeh"?
I've had a lot of trouble working out how to pronounce "bokeh".
Amusingly enough, I've thus far been unable to get any of the small handful of photographer friends I have to ever say it out loud, despite setting up a number of lead-ins like "how do…
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Pros and cons of cheap studio strobes vs. hotshoe/speedlight flash for portraits?
Not so long ago, AC-powered studio lights were the only option for serious studio photography, and low-cost starter sets like this Two Monolight Portrait Studio Kit¹ were a fixture in every neighborhood camera shop. With the digital revolution and…
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What camera first made you fall in love with photography?
What camera was it that made you fall in love with photography? Was it a little crappy point and shoot that you still took great photos with? Was it an old film SLR? The magic of polaroid as a kid? Or the DSLR you bought the other day?
To copy the…
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