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Thursday, November 30, 2017
Final Blog Post
I came into this class with very little knowledge regarding photography. Dave has shown me the importance of making the most out of every shot. From proper placement of your photo to camera settings, photography is a much more intricate art that I thought it to be. So much improvement can be made to a photo during post-processing, but this does not replace the importance of having the proper settings, location, and timing that are needed to create a great photograph. The techniques and processes that were emphasized in this course will follow me through all future photographs that I take throughout my life.
Photo Improvement:
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Saturday, November 25, 2017
Yellowstone Falls - Natural Framing
1/200 sec at f/8.0, ISO 100
18 mm (EF-S18- 135 f/3.5-5.6 IS STM)
Saturday, November 18, 2017
Photo Edit
Photo Settings: 1/10 sec, f/3.5, ISO 320, 18mm
A pre dusk shot of the Yellowstone River and Pryor Mountains from Sacrifice Cliffs. Through post-processing I was able to brighten up the shot and add some fall color.
Inside Yellowstone National Park attempting to capture the Milky Way with a long exposure time and a high ISO. The tree and peak in the background add nice spatial reference and framing for the shot.
Thursday, November 9, 2017
This idyllic Italian fishing village popular with tourists has started charging a €1,000 photography fee
This idyllic Italian fishing village popular with tourists has started charging a €1,000 photography fee
The Italian village of Positano, a famous photographic scene on the Tyrrhenian Sea, has decided to create a photographic permit fee of 1,000 Euros. This fee is applicable to all circumstances where a photograph is going to be used for commercial purposes, tourists and journalists are to be exempt from paying it. Because of the high amount of tourism through the town, the mayor proclaimed "Not everyone can be allowed to link their brand to Positano". This new fee is an example of policies that are now being put into place due to the spike in tourism and especially amatur and professional photography. This new policy has a two week application process and a 1000 Euro fee for photographs and a 2000 Euro fee for filming of commercial videos. The town, to be sure that this policy doesn't affect the tourism industry, has made tourists and journalists exempt, as well as any photos or videos that are taken for private, journalistic, of educational purposes; "We are also doing it to control the territory, because improvised film sets were blocking the passage of pedestrian in the town's key arteries".
Thursday, November 2, 2017
Converting Film To Digital
This $207 gadget turns old film cameras into digital shooters
I'm Back is a funded product that attempts to convert older 35 mm digital back cameras into film.
The product is a no in its second KickStarter Campaign after a 3D printed prototype was produced out of Italy. The new design uses a 16 megapixel digital sensor that attaches to many mass-produced cameras. The new design places a focusing screen and digital sensor where a strip of 35 mm film would normally be in a camera; this turns the camera into a digital shooter. This process allows a traditional film camera to shoot video and means that the only physical control you would have over your camera would be the shutter release and aperture control. The new model is only capable to shoot JPEG images and the sensor size is not specified. If the campaign is successful, the starting price would be around $210, with DYI kits for prices around $60.
Photo Enhancement Is Starting To Get Crazy
Photo Enhancement is Starting to Get Crazy
The latest research involving digital photo resolution have led to EnhanceNet-PAT technologies. It was developed by the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Tubingen and allows for the conversion of low-resolution photos to high-resolution. This field is centered around turning small photos into large ones and is known as single-image super resolution (SISR). The more traditional technologies that this has been involved with filling missing pixels and details by calculating what is should look like based on the pixels that surround it. This often results in blurry images. The new SISR technology uses calculations that 'learn' the types of features that low-resolution photos typically have by studying the original high-resolution versions. After being calibrated in this fashion, they can take new low-resolution pictures and make a better guess at what a 'original' or higher resolution version of the photo would look like.
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