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The issue: I will be using photoshop to create a photo of my friends Mike and Jim with their favorite drinks sitting at the same table. Jim is visiting this week and has an expensive bottle of sc...
Welcome to the new Codidact Photography & Video community! We're glad you're here and excited to see what you will build in our first "from-scratch" Codidact community. Please ask questions a...
I've recently acquired a set of mobile phone camera lenses - the sort that screw into a clip, and clip over the top of your phone's camera. These are the lenses: From left to right, they are (a)...
Rules that are always applicable are as follows: One photo per answer, and no more than 5 answers per user per contest. Post only photos taken by yourself/person with you. All entries should incl...
Do the math. Let's say the bullet in question is travelling at about the speed of sound, around 330 m/s. That means it moves 1 meter in 3 ms, or about a foot in 1 ms. Now look at the speed of "p...
Because of compression and different sizes. The original JPG image you are referring to is 1080 x 790 pixels in size, for a total of 777k pixels. Since the image is true color, there would be 3 b...
El Hondo Natural Park, Alicante; sunset with flamingos; September 2019. Nikon D5300, 18-55mm AF-S @ 18mm, f/3.5, ISO 640, 1/160s. At quarter of an hour before this photo was taken, I was surroun...
I'm looking to attempt some artistic shots of a competition rifle shooter doing what they do best. My first thought was to attempt to capture something like a perfect golf shot, where you capture t...
As with much of photography, great technique (and composition) with mediocre gear produces better results than mediocre technique with great gear. The macro lens will probably require the most wor...
I'm a new photographer. Until recently, my only experience with pictures came from cheap digital cameras and phones -- until I discovered a nice SLR camera* lying around at home. I found some rolls...
No, not on this site (though the option remains open, if it becomes apparent that it'd be useful later on). Have a look at the proposal for this site. The folks there opted while we were hammering...
Taken over Upper and Lower Whitefish Lakes, Minnesota. September 1, 2013. Shot with a Nikon D800E with 28-300mm ƒ/3.5-5.6G ED VR at 28mm, ƒ/20, 1/30 sec, ISO 2500, using a soft graduated ND filter...
Rules that are always applicable are as follows: One photo per answer, and no more than 5 answers per user per contest. Post only photos taken by yourself/person with you. All entries should inclu...
Dots and pixels can be the same or different, depending on context. In a computer file, an image is usually made up of a rectangular array of color (or gray) values. We call those pixels, for "pi...
Unfortunately, activity on Photography & Video Codidact is very low. Outside of Meta, the community has attracted a total of 41 top-level posts across 4 different categories since being started...
I'll focus (pun intended, of course) on the title: Should near future smartphones replace professional cameras? No. The reason is that a digital camera really has three components: Sensor ...
In either a print job or a digital picture at the smallest level there are individual color markers, in print that is called a dot, and on a computer, it's called a pixel. The difference between th...
For sharpening photos out of a DSLR, where the final result will be at a lower size compared to the DSLR's output (for example, for publishing on the web), is it better to: apply (possibly slightl...
exiftool It's available as a standalone application for Windows, and in package distributions for Linux. You can remove all EXIF data from a JPEG with exiftool -all= path/to/file.jpg or you ca...
Meerkat on sentry duty, Bioparc Valencia, August 2017. Taken with my Nikon D5300 and 70-300mm AF-S @ 300mm, f/5.6, ISO 800, 1/1600 sec.
There was some years ago announcements of new developments in cameras that were able to record the intensity and time lag of light that they detected to be able to view the range topology and refle...
My first response is that a really like this picture. However, there are some details I'd probably change, or at least experiment with. Here is a scaled down original for comparison with subsequent...
Please critique my work below. A higher res link will be provided for a short while here. I am decently new to shooting landscape work, having most of my inspiration come from Arizona Highways or ...
I'm trying to take a photo of a white paper heart in UV light, to make the heart look like it's glowing. I expect that the heart is going to look, well, purple, rather than white. I'm taking this p...
After reeling a fish in, sometimes I want to take a picture before I let it go. So I unhook the fish and hold it in one hand while I take the picture with my other. I am usually in a hurry to get t...