Photography tutorial

Canon UK created a tutorial on photography especially on DSLR, go to the link below for the tutorial.

http://www.canon.co.uk/eflenses/index.aspx?WT.mc_id=147Lenses004Can_151110
This is a commercial website, so do expect Canon's product being introduce here. :)

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Digital photo for the future

Someone at lytro created this technology, you can change the focus to any place of the photo. So called life photo, because for conventional photography (either film or digital), the photo is fixed once it is being capture on film or memory card (well, unless you photoshop it).



There is another one for you to play with after the jump. Click read more.





To summaries, it is like manipulating the light field and make the photo become alive. Well, sort of, go to link below to find out in detail. :)

For more example, go to http://www.lytro.com/picture_gallery


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Find your stolen camera

First of all, camera in nowadays is refer to digital camera. Second, always make sure you have bring everything with you whenever and where ever you go, then you don't need to use this website that I am going to introduce after the jump, the stolencamerafinder website.

By detecting the serial numbers in the exif data on the photos posted on WWW, this website supposedly help you to locate your stolen camera.

The website:
http://www.stolencamerafinder.com/

Just drag and drop your sample photo from your stolen camera and it will do the job, I hope.

Unfortunately not all camera store serial number in the exif data, example non of Sony camera is in the list!

Here is the summary of camera that store serial number in exif data
1. Only Canon EOS cameras, non-EOS? sorry.
2. Many Koday cameras supports this function
3. Many Fujifilm cameras supports this function
4. Many Leica cameras supports this function
5. Nikon DSLR cameras supports this function, others? sorry
6. Many Olympus cameras supports this function
7. Many Panasonic cameras supports this function
8. A few Pentax cameras supports this function
9. Some Ricoh cameras supports this function
10. Some Samsung cameras supports this function
11. Some Sigma cameras supports this function



The full list of camera that store serial number in exif data:
http://www.stolencamerafinder.com/listmodels



Summary, keep your eyes on your camera, and make sure you bring it together with you all the time! :)

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Quality snapshot with your webcam

I was trying to capture a photo of me using the build-in webcam on my laptop when I google and found this software. The company that wrote this software claim that this software will improve the quality of the photo captured using webcam. Read more after the jump......

Here is what is claim by the company:
See the difference between Quality Capture and others
Simple to use program used to increase webcam photo quality.
Compatible with any web camera.
Adjustable resolution and frame rate.
Reduces noise by merging photos.
Take snapshots and measure frame rate.
Access your webcam from other computers via website.
Periodic snapshot saving to folder.
Use camera for surveillance with motion detection (new)
Save your photos as JPG image files and enjoy.


You will need to have .NET 3.0 installed and of course a webcam. :D

See the different that without and with using the software:

To download, go to here

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Edit EXIF info and file's date and time

What is EXIF info? It is additional information added to the photo (jpeg/jpg/raw) by digital camera. Depend on your camera, the EXIF will cover info such as camera manufacturer, model number, data and time, exposure, etc etc.

My mum got a new digital camera from Panasonic, not sure either the shop that sell the camera or the friend who help my wife to set it up, he/she set the time to be 12 hours slower. Obviously he/she didn't notice the AM/PM or 24 hours setting. Anyway, after getting the camera, I also didn't check, and start away taking photos. Until I copy the pictures into my computer, then I notice that the time are incorrect, because all 12 hours slower. Not only the file's time and date, but the EXIF info as well. I don't like this happen, because usually I sort my photos during the time and date they taken. So I went to google around. And I found 2 useful software and they are freeware.

1. Microsoft Pro Photo Tools 2
Not only you can edit the date and time of your photos' EXIF info, you can do it in bulk. The best feature that I like about this software is all I need to do is to adjust the time different I want to change. Example, all the photos I took on my mum's camera was 12 hours late, so I use the "Adjust the date(s) by:" to add in 12 hours.



2. SetFileDate 2.0
Although Microsoft Pro Photo Tools 2 able to edit the EXIF, once I save them, the date and time changed to current date and time, which I don't want. So I found this piece of software to change the create/modified/accessed date of the pictures to the exact date and time you want. Also you can do it in bulk. It can modify for any file, not only pictures. Yes, it is free. However it is lack of the feature like MS Pro Photo Tools 2 to adjust the date and time by adding the days/hours. But good enough for me, because I have a small bunch of them to edit only.



See other post regarding life saver for PC:
http://outdatedpenanguncle.blogspot.com/search/label/life%20saver
See other post regarding freeware:
http://outdatedpenanguncle.blogspot.com/search/label/freeware

See more detail about EXIF:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exchangeable_image_file_format


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Sketch2Photo: Real or not? Byebye photoshop

According to the website link below, they claim they can let user to sketch a picture and the software(?) will search the internet for related images and put them into one single nice photos.

http://cg.cs.tsinghua.edu.cn/montage/home.htm

Does this mean good bye photoshop? Go to the link and see the video for yourself.