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  1. The forgotten orange glow of night…
    Genoa, Italy • January 2007
    Canon EOS 30D

    Sometimes I miss the sodium vapor glow that the world was suffused in before LED lights…

    #Photography #DigitalCamera #ColorPhotography #Photo #NightPhotography #Cityscape #CityNights #SodiumVapor #Canon #CanonEOSRebel #CanonEOS300D #DSLR

  2. Interesting video from Caltech (where I went to college) and JPL about the invention of CMOS image sensors (though Wikipedia makes me think lots of others were working in this area at the time) in the 1990s.

    youtu.be/LqSLD4LBEIU

    Amazingly I bought my first digital camera, a $600 Olympus with 640x480 resolution and non-removable memory for only 20 such images (I think it was the D-200L) in time for my cross country bicycle trip in 1997.

    #Caltech #JPL #CMOS #DigitalCamera #1990s #Olympus

  3. Dear Fediverse #HiveMind, my grandson needs some advice for a (used) #DigitalCamera. He is 11 & interested in birds, which he'd like to take photos of. He's not particularly interested in #Photography per se, just as a means to an end, and probably not particularly careful. I'm thinking a #CompactCamera like some of the Panasonics; his father was wondering about a #BridgeCamera. We have a XQ2 he can use (24-100e zoom) but I suspect he'd be better with longer reach. Maybe £200 budget. Any ideas?

  4. Burnt highlights and bricks

    There’s a common view that blowing out or burning highlights is a bad practice. There are times when a lack of detail in areas of a photo due to burnt highlights is problematic if the details in those areas are integral to the feel and story the photo communicates. There are also times when it doesn’t matter at all. For example, is it really vital to be able to see the filament in a light bulb? And forget about any detail in a bright light source like the sun – that’s not going to happen without special expensive filters.

    Sunset glow on wood chairs and bricks – Finepix S200 EXR

    Consider the above photo. To reveal some of the detail on the leftmost chair, I bumped up the exposure a touch and allowed more light to hit the sensor. Doing this also burnt the highlights on the edge of some of the bricks. The tradeoff was worth it because it was more important to reveal detail on the chair than to preserve the texture on those small sections of the bricks. The other benefit is that the slightly overexposed highlights also communicate the glow of the sun at the time.

    #digitalCamera #photoEditing #Photography