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<p>I am revising my website. I am not quite sure which way to go. Does anybody have a suggestion?<br /> [ href="http://www.arjen-van-de-merwe.nl/">www.arjen-van-de-merwe.nl]</p>

 

<p>For this type of lighting, it is worth the trouble of checking strobist.com</p>

<p>Where is that photo??<br>

For postmodern photographers you may want to look at Cindy Sherman (turning the camera at herself,not being who she is but playing a role, deconstructing the way the film culture looks at women), Martin Parr (commenting on society, both working class (Brighton) and ruling class (Ascot) without personal involvement). Oh, and check out this thread: http://www.photo.net/philosophy-of-photography-forum/00CTVK</p>

<p>When teaching an elementary photojournalism class, I inevitably get to deal with the question: what makes a good photo in photojournalism? Which standards apply? Does anyone know a (or some) web articles that deal with this question?</p>

<p>These formulas are not what I would recommend. You can test it and try it and then use different values. But it is important to realyse that you can get different values in defferent parts of your image with the amount of light that you apply to these specific sections of your setup. The zone system is a good way to look at it, if you want to go into the theory that deeply. But it is difficult to apply to flash lighting. Read a good book on photographic lighting. For beginners I like "the complete guide to light and lighting in digital photography" by Michael Freeman.</p>

<p>I have a Canon powershot A85. It put files on the card with zpg extension. Does anybody know what this is,and how I open them? (it also wrote jpgs which work fine, btw)</p>

<p>Thanx</p>

<p>A friend of mine dropped his Panasonic digital video camera. The lcd screen is gone. Here in Malawi there is certainly noone who can repair it. South Africa is probably the closest. Does anyone know a good Panasonic repair shop in South Africa, preferably Jo'burg area?</p>

<p>I scan negatives with a Nikon LS-2000 with Nikon scan, opened from Photoshop CS. The preview in Nikonscan has good colours, but once it is in photoshop the colours look yellow-green very unsaturated. Does anybody know how to fix this? (I tried to correct in photoshop but it remains a very unsatisfactory colour rendition)</p>

Thanx

A friend of mine has a Kodak EasyShare DX4330. It makes photos. But the lcd screen on the back is blank. That is

it goes white when the camera is on, but it gives no image or menus or whatever. Does anyone know if this can be

fixed?

The manual recommends ISO300 and above. I always thought you get best image quality at lower iso (less image

noise). The manual states lower contrast on iso 100-160. This is easy to fix, even in camera. I tried it and

found no difference in quality. Does anyone know what the manual is referring to?

Thanx

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I just got a D300. Is there a reason for not compressing raw files, when a lossless compression is available?

Has anybody been able to bring out visible differences with lossless and lossy RAW compression, or with 12-bit

and 14-bit? Even with heavy tweaking I did not get noticeable differences.

Hi, I recently got a D300 with the firmware. This has a raw file converter, but I would prefer to use a plug-in

in PS. I work with CS. Is there a plug-in available (on the web), or do I need to upgrade my PS?

Thanx

The camera is a Fuji S2. I'll probably use a Nikon 50mm f1.4 or if the work turns out to be small a 135 f2.8

I do not know the final size of the prints, but I'll just shoot raw, and convert to tiff at max resolution.

Should I set the white balance using the gray card?

Should I include the gray card in every photo, or include a photo with the gray card in the folder for the printer? I do not know which printer they are going to use, so I cannot ask him.

Yes I'll be shooting raw, which means in the conversion to tiff I can still mess things up...

Colour reproduction in Malawi tends to be less accurate than in the west anywya, but I want to do it as well as possible.

Would it be of any use to print the pure cyan, magenta and yellow ink from a desktop printer on photo paper, or is that totally off?

I am going to use mains flash, which is much, much more consistent in colour temperature than daylight. Yes I do have a grey card. Is that neutral grey enough to balance the colour?

I have a job photographing paintings. Usually you would put a colour chart there. But I live in Malawi, and noone

here sells them. Is there a way of getting realistic colours from the printing house? It is going to be printed

on a calendar. Can I make a useful colour chart by printing pure C-M-Y-K, or something? Should I use the white

balance on the camera?

This is the entire image scaled.

My camera gave a very strange image. Two were like, this. Then 2 OK, and then one more like this. After this I

put in a new formatted card, and fresh batteries and it was OK. Today I had the same problem once. I put in fresh

batteries and it didn't do it again. What is this? Do I need a new camera?

Fuji S2, Sandisk CF, generic AA batteries, no lithium batteries.<div></div>

I have an F90 which serves me OK for the rare cases that I use film. I mainly shoot digital. A friend offers me

an f5. This is a great camera. What will it offer me that the F90 does not? Will this camera keep its value or

will the value go down further, do you think? Is it a good inverstment?

My business is growing. I need to get more professional order in my photos. I work exclusively digital. I store

my photos on dvd's. I now label them with the date (yesterday 080711) and client (yesterday cordaid), and subject

(yesterday: home based care). But I have several hundred dvd's now, and growing steadily. What is a good way of

keeping track? Is there software (pref freeware!) that can help me? Seems storing thumbnails would be good, but

labeling all of them with keywords is a hell of a lot of work. How do I find the right dvd say several years from

now? Any suggestions?