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This article was written by Andrew S Gibson, the author of Understanding Lenses: Part II, and is part of a series of lessons about camera lenses. Links to the others are at the bottom of the article.
Buying a new lens is a bit like meeting new people. It takes time to get to know someone well, to gain an understanding of their character and outlook on life.
It’s the same with lenses. It takes time to understand the optical qualities of a new piece of glass. These include perspective, bokeh and focal length, all of which affect the look of the photo.
That’s why I spend a lot of time taking photos whenever I buy a new lens. They don’t have to be great images. The aim is to get a feel for how things look through the viewfinder with that particular lens. As my understanding of its optics improves, so do my photos.
Here are some suggestions for getting to know your lenses better. They apply to lenses you already own as well as new ones:
1. What is the minimum focusing distance of your lens? Get as close to your subject as you can and take some photos. Then move further away and repeat. How does the camera to subject distance affect the images?
If you have a close-up lens or extension tubes, try fitting them to the lens and see how close you can get now. How good is the lens for close-up photography?
2. Is your lens a zoom? If so, then it is possible that you skip from focal length to focal length as you shoot, never really getting to know any of the settings well.
Instead, lock your lens to a specific focal length and shooting with nothing but that for a while. Some lenses have a zoom lock, if not you can use masking tape to hold the zoom ring in place.
If the subject is too small in the frame, walk towards it (where possible), or further back if it is too large. This will teach you how the perspective of that focal length changes with distance.
3. Change the aperture. Aperture has a dramatic effect on the appearance of the photo. Try using the widest aperture of your lens to see how your photos look.
Repeat with smaller apertures (f5.6, f8, f11 etc). How does aperture affect the look of the photo? How is depth-of-field affected as you get closer to your subject? (hint: it gets smaller).
4. Shoot a variety of subjects, including ones that you may not immediately think of. If you have a wide-angle lens, take some portraits. How close to your sitter can you get before the distortion is too great?
If you have a telephoto lens, try taking some landscape photos. How does the ability to crop in on a small part of the landscape affect the way you take photos? What happens if you use the widest aperture setting of the lens? What does the background look like?
5. How does your position affect the perspective of the lens? What happens if you get down on the ground and shoot? Or up above your subject? Practise taking photos from different heights and angles to see the affect the changes have on your images.
6. How good is the autofocus performance of the lens? Some lenses have better autofocus motors than others. This affects autofocus performance, regardless of which camera you have.
If you take photos of moving subjects, it is a good idea to test your particular camera and lens combination in AI Servo mode so that you can get a feel for how accurately it tracks a moving subject.
Here are some photos taken with my most recent purchase, the Canon EF 40mm f2.8 STM pancake lens. They cover a variety of subjects, techniques and aperture settings (close-ups taken with an extension tube fitted).
Taking photos like this has helped me familiarise myself with the lens. I’m using it mainly for portraits, and the more I take more I understand how to get the best out of this particular focal length.
Here are some photos taken in China with my 85mm f1.8 lens. There are a variety of images taken at different focusing distances and aperture settings (I used an additional close-up lens for the close-up photos).
And here is a set of portraits taken with the same 85mm lens. The variety is created by varying the focusing distance, background, point of view, aperture and post-processing.
These are the previous articles in the series:
If you liked this article then take a look at my latest eBook, Understanding Lenses: Part II – A guide to Canon normal and telephoto lenses.
My next lesson in this series will explore ways of using aperture creatively to create dramatic images.
Post originally from: Digital Photography Tips.
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Getting to Know Your Lenses
Macha is a nomad man and madly in love with Laali from his own tribe. Vicky a photographer is overwhelmed by her beauty and wants to take her to the city for an modeling assignment. Macha is blessed with a melodious voice and so is taken to the city to become an established singer by Rupa a businesswoman. After several years Macha has to choose between his old love Laali and his new love Rupa. Whom would he choose?
When you install a new version of Photoshop the first thing you’ll need to do is to set things up so that they work properly for you. Here are settings I make in the Preferences panel every time I upgrade.
Choose Edit > Preferences > Performance or Photoshop Preferences > Performance on a Mac and set the number of History States. Having a high setting for History States ensures that you can undo changes that you make to your image. By default it’s set to a paltry 20 so this is the first change to make.
I set my History States to the maximum value 1,000 – but even a quarter of this would be a good setting.
Here too I ensure that Photoshop can use plenty of the available RAM so I’ll crank that up to a large value – what you use will be dependent on the amount of memory you have installed.
Still in the Preferences panel I like to use a Normal Brush Tip for my Painting Cursor and Precise for my Other Cursors. This can be set in the Cursors area.
You may want to use something different but it pays to look at these options and decide how you want your cursors to look as you work with them.
I dislike that Photoshop opens documents as tabs and that they are docked to the toolbar. This behavior really grates on me. If you’re like me and you prefer your documents to float you can set this in the Preferences Panel.
Choose Interface and disable Enable Floating Document Window Docking and disable Open Documents as Tabs.
In this panel you will also find the new Photoshop Color Themes in Photoshop CS6 so if the dark gray look is not to your liking you can return to a more “CS5″ look by selecting the lighter gray color.
Photoshop can be set either to save images back into the original folder when you choose File, Save As or to the folder that was last used for saving files. You can choose which of these behaviors you prefer Photoshop to default to in the File Handling area of the Preferences panel.
To save back to the original folder, enable the Save As to Original Folder option. To default to the last folder you saved to disable this checkbox.
So I can go back and retrace my steps in a large project I like to store a History of all that I do in Photoshop. To do this, click the General tab and enable the History Log checkbox. I save to a Text file (rather than inside the file itself) and I save a Detailed history as that stores the richest data. Choose a filename and place to save it and Photoshop will keep a log file of everything you do to every file.
So, now it is over to you. What preferences do you set up when you first install a new version of Photoshop?
Post originally from: Digital Photography Tips.
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5 Photoshop Setup Tips
This Adobe Bridge CS5 tutorial discusses how to use the Gallery to review, sort, and evaluate your photographs. Watch more at www.lynda.com This specific tutorial is just a single movie from chapter two of the Photoshop CS5 for Photographers course presented by lynda.com author Chris Orwig. The complete Photoshop for Photographers course has a total duration of 12 hours and 24 minutes, and demonstrates the fundamental skills used to enhance digital photos, manage and correct color, make selections and adjustments, retouch, and print from Photoshop. Photoshop CS5 for Photographers table of contents: Introduction 1. Strategies and Resources for Learning 2. Getting Started with Bridge and Mini Bridge 3. Color Settings and Preferences 4. The Foundations of Color Management 5. Getting Started with Photoshop 6. Understanding Digital Images 7. Camera Raw 8. Layers 9. Making Selections 10. The Masking Panel 11. Custom Borders 12. The Adjustments Panel 13. Levels 14. Curves 15. Blending Modes 16. Color Correction 17. Enhancing Colors 18. Burning and Dodging 19. Black-and-White Conversion 20. Filters 21. Removing Noise 22. Image Cleanup 23. Retouching Essentials 24. Correcting Distortion and Perspective 25. Sharpening 26. Getting Images Online 27. Printing Conclusion
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Apple has announced an updated iPad but its low-resolution iPad Mini is likely to be a disappointment for photographers looking to do precision work. While the fourth-generation iPad features a 263 pixel-per-inch ‘Retina’ display, the 7.9″ (20cm) iPad Mini makes do with a 163 pixel-per-inch panel with a quarter of the pixel count (just 1024 x 768, rather than its big brother’s 2048 x 1536 pixels). The iPad Mini’s screen is step behind the latest panels, such as the 217ppi, 1280 x 800 pixel display in the less expensive Nexus 7. The fourth-gen iPad also features a faster A6X processor that is claimed to offer twice the performance, plus an HD (720p) front-facing camera.
DVD Available and Download to Own at: www.CreativeSpirit.LongtailDVD.com How do they happen — art, ideas, inventions, solutions, music, poetry? The Creative Sprit, a four part series, is an inspiring and entertaining look at creativity. Each episode blends animation, cartoons, humorous sketches, original music and vivid on-location shooting to capture this emerging spirit of innovation and creativity. Through observation of creative people and places, we discover that creative solutions to problems begin with basic human qualities passion, persistence, vision, caring and trust in oneself and others. Creativity is not the exclusive domain of genius … it belongs to all of us. With: Marlee Matlin, Patty Duke, Bernadette Peters, James Earl Jones, Ally Sheedy, Wile E. Coyote, Jane Curtin and more. Episode One: Inside Creativity The first episode takes us inside the creative mind to explore what creativity really is and what causes it. Original animation helps us discover the secrets of intuition. Jazz great Benny Golson composes the score for the series and discusses the nature and power of creative collaboration. Animator Chuck Jones (creator of Bugs Bunny and the Roadrunner cartoons), a master calligrapher in Kyoto, a professor at Stanford’s Business School, a designer and a pediatric neurosurgeon all demonstrated and share their creative “secrets.” Executive Producer: Alvin H. Perlmutter Original Score: Benny Golson Senior Producer & Writer: Paul Kaufman Series Producer …
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