Occasional Musings

Recently, I pulled the trigger and upgraded from my kit lens 18-55mm IS II to 24-105mm L lens. Here is some initial comparison in semi-controlled environment. In all of these pics, the kit lens under exposed the pics compared to 24-105mm. Already a good start..

A more thorough comparison can be found here at the digital picture.

[Iso chart comparison @digital picture]

[distortion chart comparison @digital picture]

the sm color tutorial // part one color in camera from stillmotion on Vimeo.

An excellent tutorial from Phototuts+ about how to use various light sources to paint a landscape with light in photography. The article gives tips about various light sources to use (flash, gels, torch…etc) and also about color temperatures.

More info here: [The Link]

My own attempt at light painting using a flashlight/torch, candle and a laser pointer.

Pixiq

via Why you should take photos in RAW.

You can say a lot about whether you should be shooting in JPG or TIFF or RAW, but ultimately, for most photographers, the argument is very simple indeed:

Film rolls are now gone into pages of history of photography. Photographer Steve McCurry was given the last production film roll and he took some iconic photographs to mark the end of film rolls.

This is the last image that he took from this roll.

A statue in a cemetery in Parsons, home to the last photographic lab in the world that developed Kodachrome film, July 2010. [image source: Steve’s Blog]

Read more about this in his blog here: [Steve’s Blog]

View all the images from that roll @vanityfair mag: [Slide Show]