February 23, 2012

Not even nostalgia could save Kodak

Not even nostalgia could save Kodak

There is a recent story “Not even nostalgia could save Kodak” at CNN that speaks to all the dramatic advances of technology in the past 20 years or so and specifically focuses on how those advances affected photography and Kodak. In light of recent events regarding Kodak I’ve been thinking about the topic and have [...]

Landscape Photography

Landscape Photography

The most common conception of landscape photography involves shooting natural subjects such a waterfalls, rivers, rapids, deserts, snow, fog, beaches, trees, fields, sunsets, and seasons. It seems the definition of landscape work can easily be expanded to add “cityscapes” including buildings, streets, bridges, statues, parks and so forth. You might even include images with people [...]

Interior Photography and Existing Light

Bus Stop by Robert Ducker

Shooting inside with a flash can yield great results and is an art in itself. Flash photography may be the most popular mode of taking pictures with so many people documenting the activities of their family and even their pets around the house in addition to all the special occasions that happen indoors. There are [...]

Experimenting With Low Cost Photo Editing Software – Picasa

Bloom by Robert Ducker

I like to use the term “image processing” software as an analogy to word processing but I see that most often the term “photo editing” software is used so that is what I’ll call it too. In regard to this entry and the next “photo editing” seems to apply well. I use Corel PaintShop Pro [...]

Motivation

Ferris Wheel by Robert Ducker

During the short daylight of January and  February you may find some time to increase your general understanding of photography. I suggest that this is a good time to do some research and to find out about the people who made photography what it is today. I expect your discoveries will be entertaining, educational and [...]

Image File Formats

Image File Formats - Robert Ducker

Before we continue exploring image processing we should discuss the computer image file formats available to us and consider why there are so many file formats. When you are ready to save an image you will be confronted with a decision of which format to use. The basic trade off you should understand is the [...]

Concepts of Image Processing

Bug On A Disk by Robert Ducker

First There Was Film To prepare for this post I updated myself on the status of film v digital photography. From reading articles at Wikipedia and browsing products at Amazon.com and Walmart.com I can report that film cameras are not extinct. This Wikipedia article is worth review on certain topics such as: Advantages of consumer [...]

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