March 30 , 2010

In This eNewsletter:

How-To – Macro Vs. Macro Zoom

Industry Perspective – The Passing of a Civil Rights Hero

What's New This Month – Panasonic, Wacom, MemoryKick, Lowel, & Sigma

How-To – Raindrop Reflections

Vote! – Comment on your approach to adding light to low light scenes using flash.

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Macro Vs. Macro Zoom
Know The Difference
by Jon Sienkiewicz Every hobby has its own language, and photography is no different. It can take a while to learn all of the unintuitive abbreviations, unnatural acronyms, and shifting definitions. The term “shifting definition” refers to words like “automatic” which have had different meanings depending on the context and the era. Learning the language is vital to enjoying the hobby but can be a formidable obstacle for some. And misunderstanding the nuances can lead to poor purchasing decisions.

Marketing people compound this communication problem by stretching the limits of words to exaggerate certain functions and features. Most technical terms are unregulated, which means that a given company can legally use a word to mean almost anything they want. A prime example is “macro.” Many macro lenses focus to “life size,” which means that an object 1cm long in reality appears 1cm long on the recording medium. This relationship is expressed as a ratio, and life size is indicated as being 1:1 magnification, exactly the same size as the subject regardless whether it’s on film or a digital imaging sensor.
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Raindrop Reflections
Just Add Water For Close-Up Magic
by Lindsay Adler

Flowers provide endless photographic opportunities and when you add rain into the mix the images become even more beautiful and mysterious. Whenever I show people images of my “raindrop reflections,” they want to know how it was done. In truth, it isn’t very hard to do and just takes practice, a few special tools, and patience. If you are patient and know a few simple tricks, you can come away with stunning raindrop reflection images as well.

It’s often best to make these shots on a windless day. With the narrow depth-of-field of macro shooting and working with raindrops, any wind will create a headache situation.
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Most DSLRs these days come with built-in flash. While not very powerful they are fine for fill. Do you have an auxiliary hot shoe flash or other lighting gear yet?
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The Passing of a Civil Rights Hero
by Ron Leach, Publisher

America lost one of the heroes of the civil rights movement with the recent passing of photographer Charles Moore at the age of 79. Many historians credited Moore's images with shifting public opinion in favor of equality for all Americans as he traveled throughout the south documenting the civil rights movement and used his images to spur passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
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