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Cam-Toss Anyone?–

During the holidays, I received an e-mail about an unusual way of taking pictures. The article by Steven Leckart, Brian Krans, and Rachel Dovey came out in the December online edition of Wired magazine. It’s called the Cam-Toss Pic. How is it done? Read on.

1. The camera

One with manual controls works best. Start with [...]

What’s Good?–

Photoworld Asia is coming up. It’s the closest thing Filipinos have to a full-blown photography-related event and there are some good bargains to be had sometimes. It really just takes a little effort and patience to make sure that your hard-earned bucks go into something worthwhile. Heck, if you have half a million or [...]

A Beginner’s Guide to
Flash Photography
Power Management of Your Flash
(Part 41)–

As my photo studio, Benjie’s Photography, is presently on its 31st year of operation, I have employed and trained so many photographers that I already lost count on their numbers. Interestingly, these photographers have a trivial but common habit (or behaviour) that our operations department silently [...]

Hello 2010–

Welcome to another year of fun and creative photography.
How about starting the year by designing your own perpetual calendar? The site Photojojo (http://photojojo.com/content/diy/perpetual-photo-calendar/) describes how.

Bring your camera wherever you go and shoot images of numbers between 1 and 31. Take pictures also of letters or words to represent the days of the week. Add [...]

Keeping Things Simple–

There are so many reasons why people should be careful with firecrackers and pyrotechnics but the reason Filipinos are exposed to is the one that says you should try to keep your limbs. It does get a bit tiresome to be always seeing people with whacked off digits or some bigger part of [...]

Basic Editing in LR 2.5–

Basic Panel
The Basic panel contains the main tools for adjusting the photo’s white balance, tonal scale and color saturation. This panel is divided into four panes: the Treatment, where you have an option to work in the original color or in a grayscale version of the file;  the White Balance (WB) [...]

New Year’s Resolution–

With 2010 just around the corner, today’s column starts off with my new year’s resolution that some readers may also like to consider doing. And that is: to shoot a photo every day starting January 1 till December 31. On any theme or subject. It could be a portrait, a social event, a [...]