Since Sharon has shared the view from her office I decided to do the same. (In form of a slideshow: click any image on this post to see it). Luckily, being a free-lance, office means wherever I can bring my notebook to.
Today, I woke up and it was snowing. After a winter with almost no snow, it was nice to see it on the third day of spring and wanted to share some of pictures.
I’m lucky to have a beautiful view from the alps from my window so I actually like to work at home, but when whether allows I also work in the park, in the lake or I could even work in the mountain, but that would be too much effort. Generally when I go to the mountain is just for the view and the exercise.
Yep, I’m working on sunday, but I’m lucky to work with this view!
How about your view? Were do you like to work, or where you’d like to?
Update: Since the light is wonderful this evening, I’ve added some new pictures!
read full post…
This is the 6th and final part of a tutorial about photography basics. So far we’ve seen
Finally, we have seen all the necessary elements to build a camera. The black box, the lens, and the shutter.
Traditionally, there were two kinds of film cameras. Cameras with Direct Viewfinder and SLR (Sinlge Lens Reflex, or just Reflex) cameras.
read full post…
This is the 5th part of a six-part tutorial about photography basics. So far we’ve seen
By now, we have seen that, by changing the ISO value we can change the amount of light needed for a picture, in exchange for quality. We have also seen that, by changing the aperture value, we can change the amount of light actually entering the camera, in exchange for bigger and smaller depth of field.
But increasing the Aperture value is not the only way to increase the amount of light in a picture.
read full post…
The ISO value: Films and CCD sensors
This is the 4th part of a six-part tutorial about photography basics. So far we’ve seen
We have seen how it is possible to project an image on a surface, but we haven’t seen so far how to transform the projected image, into a photography that can be seen further in time.
In this post, we will see basics of how films and digital sensors work and how to use ISO value on your own advantage.
read full post…
Wednesday, 15 August 2007
This is the 3rd part of a six-part tutorial about photography basics. So far we’ve seen
We have seen in the previous post, that by isolating rays of light through a tiny hole, we can separate and project images of objects. The smaller the whole, the sharper and darker the image, and vice-versa.
It would be really great if we could find a way to widen the aperture of the camera and correct the rays of light and project all diverging rays of light the same point, isn’t it? That would provide a sharp image that is also very illuminated.
In this post, I’ll show you the lens basics and how to use focus and aperture to your advantage in pictures.
read full post…
This is the 2nd part of a six-part tutorial about photography basics. So far we’ve seen
In the previous post on this series, we have seen that light incident on a rough object is reflected, also called difused, in many directions and this create so many unordered images that the eye mix them all up and we can’t distinguish them, like in a mirror reflection.
In this post we will see how to isolate and project images to understand the basics of a photographic camera. Principles of all cameras even the most modern digital SLRS and even webcams.
read full post…
This is the 1st part of a six-part tutorial about photography basics.
Visual properties of objects
Every material, has some visual properties like color, brightness and opacity. Visual properties are directly related to what happen to incident rays of light.
Say you are on a room with white walls, illuminated by an light bulb. We see the walls because the light that is emitted by the bulb is made of light rays that, as they hit the walls, are reflected. The ability of reflecting the rays is a property of these walls.
But the wall is a rough surface, even a wall that is smooth to the touch has enough ups and downs to be rough to light dimensions. So, any point of it will reflect light like if there was a mirror, tangent to the wall in the very point of the incident ray.
read full post…
In 2001 I was hired by a government sponsored project to teach a photography course with a very peculiar approach. I had to teach High School teachers so they could use photography as a tool in the regular classes like Physics, Chemistry (it wasn’t digital photography back then), History, Art, and so on.
As a part of the course I wrote a tutorial that was quite handy for some people over the years and now, in a time when film photography is almost extinct I thought it was time to refresh the text and make a handy manual on photography in six parts.
Every three days, on August 9th, 12th, 15th, 18th, 21th and 24th I will publish each one of the six parts of the manual, see the list below.
Sunset taken with my
Nikon D70 after some failed attempts of taking it with my cellphone.
Just wanted to share some pictures I took from the window by my desk at work today.
Yesterday, by the end of the afternoon the sky was amazingly red and I hadn’t my Nikon D70 with me, so I had to take some under-optimal pictures with my mobile.
Today I went to work with most of my equipment hoping for another great sunset.
So this is the outcome, enjoy.
read full post…
It is curious how sometimes either you are so glad with your own learning path that you are terrified with the possibility that it have been different or else, you admire so much someone elese’s knowledge that you anguish yourself for experiences you hadn’t.
Like many other people, I had felt both those feelings before and I am sure I will again.
I think this is much the feeling on this post about digital photography and the learning oportunities being missed by the lack of obstacles, now overcame, of traditional photography (like film prices and a long developping process).
I migh identify myself with the feeling, but I do not share the mixed feelings about technology he describes, at least not from the creative point of view nor the learning experience.
read full post…
Guilherme
is a Web Designer focused on web standards and the web ahead of us.
