A Beginners Guide to Advanced iPhone Camera Features
A few weeks ago, we published a Beginners Guide To Using the iPhone Camera, which explains how to use the default features of the camera app, including the how to frame, expose and focus a shot, as well as how to use the flash, review your photos after taking them, and even how to snap a photo while shooting video. While there are lots of third-party photography apps for the iPhone, for many users the iPhone camera app is about as advanced as they want to get.
Beginners Guide To Using The iPhone Camera
If you haven't used the iPhone Camera app much, or if you’re a new user of the device, you may not realize just how close the app is to literally being a point-and-shoot camera, and it includes enough features for average shooting situations to make it nearly unnecessary to need a separate and dedicated compact camera.
10 Ways Your Smartphone Camera Can Make Life Easier
"Does your phone have a camera on it?" said no one since 2005. Nobody even asks how many megapixels your phone's camera has anymore. With the ubiquity of smartphones today, and the resolution of the cameras they have in them, why does anyone even sell a point-and-shoot digital camera anymore? All you need is a decent smartphone to take your vacation pictures and click a button to upload them to Facebook, Pinterest, Tumblr, wherever.
Hands On With Your DSLR: Best Camera Tips For The Amateur Photographer From Youtube
There are umpteen resources on learning how to photograph. And believe me; it is as easy to get drowned in the quicksand of learning as it is to be buoyant with nuggets of wisdom. Photography ideally follows the “show me how it’s done” model for quick uptake. YouTube does it best. So, which are the best YouTube channels on photography for the kid with the snazzy new camera? Let’s browse…
HDR FX Pro - A Full-Featured Camera Editing Application [iOS, Free For A Limited Time]
One of the best types of iPhone applications are ones for editing photos. There are a lot of them on the App Store, and some of them are fantastic. The really good applications tend to cost money, and a lot of people are not willing to drop the big bucks on apps. Of course, some of those apps really are worth the cost of admission, especially if you are the kind of iOS user who loves to use their device as their primary camera.
Make Your Own DSLR Remote Shutter Release
One accessory you'll no doubt be after is a remote shutter; this allows you to place the camera on a tripod or rest it somewhere and trigger the shutter without the chance of shake that can occur when just holding it, or to use for self portraits without a timer. Today I'll explain the magic of remote shutter releases, how to make one yourself, and how to extend this for high speed photography too.
How To Use a Digital Camera With Linux
The days when working with digital cameras and other common consumer hardware on Linux was a chore that involved fiddling with terminal commands are over. Using a digital camera with modern Linux distributions like Ubuntu is an extremely simple process. In fact, the built-in software on Ubuntu and other Linux distributions is better than Windows for this, as it allows you to easily do basic photo-editing and upload your photos to web services.
5 Things You Didn't Know About The First Digital Cameras
The digital camera has taken more than 35 years of technological advancement to reach its current stage of development. The journey from original concept to the all-singing devices we have access to today has been long, and still new technologies in photography emerge. I’m already excited about what the next 35 years might bring. We now live in an era where it sometimes feels like cameras are slapped onto devices as afterthoughts.
Swap Your PJs For A Camera - Try Taking A Photo A Day And Improve Your Photography
Once, there was this interesting news item about the man with the perfect memory. No…Mr. Gordon Bell wasn’t a freak; as a research scientist he just used modern technology to record every waking moment of his life. That was a Microsoft project. On lower tiers, we use journals and blogs to document our daily lives. Why not a camera? Especially if you love pictures.
The Top 7 Places To Learn The Art Of HDR Photography
Welcome to the art and craft of HDR. High Dynamic Range Imaging is an image-processing technique that allows you to represent a wider and deeper range of colors. The clarity and detail in the photos that comes from the HDR treatment is eye-popping. The good thing is that you can do your own quite easily and enchant the world. These ten websites tell you just how.
9 Blogs That Will Make You Into An Amazing Photographer
There's blogs which try to cover everything related to photography; there's specialized blogs that dive into the niches; there's blogs which only talk about gear, and there's blogs by talented photographers.
Canon Rebel T4i dSLR Review and Giveaway
Canon has just released their new Rebel T4i – their first (of hopefully many) adventures into the touchscreen dSLR world. This camera is a step up from the Canon Rebel T3i (also making it the third dSLR Canon has released with a flip-out LCD). We'll be taking a look at the Canon Rebel T4i digital SLR, plus a giveaway -- yes, we're actually giving a brand new unit away! Find out more after the review.
Some Great Pinhole Camera Projects You Can Try At Home
Can you imagine life without cameras, with no way to record memories of faces and places? Modern photography has been with us since 1839, and in that time has become increasingly sophisticated, moving away from special chemicals and paper in favour of digital technology. We no longer need to carry around Polaroid instant cameras, yet we still try to recreate the look and feel of these images using filter tools for desktop and mobile apps.
Making the Most Of Your Windows Phone Camera
Although the Nokia Lumia devices running Windows Phone have an advantage over other handsets (in the shape of the Carl Zeiss optics) the process of taking a photo on this platform is pretty much identical across all phones. What you do with the photos after this, however, is another matter entirely.
How To Download The Canon EOS Utility If You Lose Your Installation CD [Mac]
Losing the software CD accompanying your brand new camera is way to easy to do. The exhilaration of cracking open that brand new toy tends to overpower the thought of "well, maybe I will need that software later..." Such is the case with Canon cameras, and if you have a Mac, you'll know that you'll need the Canon EOS Utility if you ever want to use your DSLR camera via USB.
Start Shooting With These 4 DSLR Video Tutorial Sites
Recently, I covered a little bit of DSLR video for those of you stepping out to see the low-cost solution to production. My focus has been on helping those who don't necessarily do much video production themselves learn the basics so that they can take advantage of the cheaper cameras. However, we have four dedicated resources to help you venture further into your DSLR studies.
Have You Lost Your Camera? Then Find It Again With IFoundYourCamera
Have you ever lost your camera while on vacation? Has one of your friends? Have you ever found a camera that someone has obviously lost? If only there was a way to reunite lost cameras with their likely distraught owners...actually, there is. IFoundYourCamera is a blog devoted to exactly these types of reunions for people all over the world.
2 Quick Shooting Photo Apps & 2 Similar Videocam Apps [iPhone & iPad]
It seems that every time I search the iTunes App Store for iPhone camera-related apps, I discover tools which yet again make the traditional point-and-shoot or compact cameras nearly obsolete. Most iPhone camera users know how the native app can be rather slow when it comes to moving subjects, or it can be cumbersome when it comes to switching between photo and videocam modes.