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Through a Lens, Clearly!

Sharing Images (8)–
With still a week to go before the end of June, this column will keep on featuring Father’s Day tributes until next week’s issue. However, since I submit this column to Picture Perfect almost a week ahead of publication, senders have only until tomorrow, the 23rd, to email their images and stories.
And now [...]

The Break of Dawn

Keeping Things in Old Shoe Boxes–
Digital images just aren’t as tangible as a real photo. Regardless of whether a photo was shot with an old Kodak instamatic or a Nikon D3, there’s something special about holding a photo in your hands even if there are things like Flickr, Multiply or even Facebook. Some people have [...]

Photography 101

A Beginner’s Guide to
Flash Photography
Power Management of Your Flash
(Part 50)–
(Author’s note: The Nickel-Cadmium (NiCad) battery has been in use by photographers for a few decades now and yet there has not been a local publication that discussed in detail about the properties of this battery chemistry. To give readers some important information, this author will [...]

Through a Lens, Clearly!

Sharing Images (7)–
Our email inbox continues to receive contributions from new and regular readers. It has always been our practice to give space priority to readers who have not had a chance to be published. Sometimes, this column also adopts a theme/topic for a limited period of time, like this month’s Father’s Day celebration where [...]

The Break of Dawn

Keepings Things Safe (Part 3)-
Some respect is really owed to Murphy’s Law. You know, it goes something like, “If something can go wrong, it will.” It’s really true and you really don’t want to be its victim especially when some precautions will keep you that much safer. Precautions will never give you total safety, nothing [...]

Through a Lens, Clearly!

On 3-D, Father’s Day, and other Images–

Readers familiar with how characters seem to pop out of the screen in a 3-D movie may be interested in checking out a photo exhibit that I chanced upon last week. This is the “Nazareno” series exhibit by Jake Verzosa at the Manila Collective Photospace – Café at the [...]

The Break of Dawn

Keeping Things safe (2)–
Just to recap: DSLR users sometimes forget that with imaging technology the way it is, all of us now are forced to be closer than ever to our computers and those of us who normally abhor our little silicon thingamajigs will simply have to have the moxie to learn how to use [...]

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