Friday 14th March 2008
Dust, for all Nikon DSLR owners, except the D300 ad the new D60, has become a concern for most. How to detect it, the effect, how to get rid of it on images and out of the camera. This week we are looking at this in some depth with a number of articles:-
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Just what are they discussing ? Image taken with Nikon D2H, 80-400VR lens at 195mm, ISO 400, 1/250th F7.6 |
Have you noticed some daffodils out, there are a vast variety of types of daffodil, in fact so many that they are split into 13 classifications depending on their flowering characteristics. They flowerer at slightly different times, and can be seen in the UK countryside from the end of February until the beginning of May. They are one of the national emblems of Wales and have been made famous worldwide by the poet Wordsworth, where he saw them in Cumbria, which inspired this poem, they can still be found today. Our article gives some background information but also covers where you can photograph them on display in large quantities. Read More.......
Newsletter Review. We have now produced a weekly edition of this newsletter for 3 months, the equivalent in volumes to over a year if it had been a monthly publication. Like many projects it has both grown and is taking up more time than expected. We would like to offer you the chance to have your say on where you think the newsletter should go from here. To find out how you might do this read more .......
Location Guides this week include:
The Daffodil Way, Gloucestershire, a guide to a walk that allows you to see wild daffodils in their natural habitat. Walk all of its 8 miles or a part.
Wallace Monument - Stirling, Scotland. A tower with fantastic views over the town of Stirling and the Forth Valley.
BT Tower - London. Although you can't go up it anymore its still a photographic challenge. This also lists a number of other specialist telecom towers in other parts of the UK.
Harlech Castle - North Wales. Sitting on top of a 200 foot rock, is a solid castle that allows you to not only see how they worked but also offers photographic opportunities.
| NEW Bottletop Covers for Lastolite
HiLite. Lastolite have launched
4 new background covers for their Hilite background system, for both
sizes. The Bottletops are elasticised and slip over the HiLite to
produce an instant change of colour. They also come complete the train.
The four new colours are Black, Grey, Chromakey Blue and Chromakey
Green. They are priced at £54.99 each for the 5ft x 7ft and £64.99 each
for the 6ft x 7ft model. Take a look at our article on Chromakey this week, to find out how you might use one of these. |
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Image 'Modified' or 'Manipulated' - which is the dirtier word. The Sunday Times has recently published an apology within its pages after it used a library photograph to illustrate an article on health problems at Maidstone Hospital. It used a picture of a nurse wearing an unhygienic uniform. They apologised for the fact that they had assumed the person in the picture was a model who had signed a model release, but in fact it was a picture of a senior nurse employed by another NHS trust and who had never worked at Maidstone Hospital. On top of that when she was originally photographed her uniform was clean but to illustrate the article the photograph was 'modified' to make it look unhygienic. Even if it was a model, should the picture still have been altered to suit the purposes of the user. Just goes to show you can't take things at face value today as digital photography allows the image to be more than it should be.
