If you mount it on the D800, stopped at f/1.8 (to sharp the picture and avoid too thin focal depth), will you ever need a macro lens with you? This post pictures are 100% cropped from the relative framed images. Click on each picture to zoom: find the snail in the first picture …
Just buy the Olympus Tough TG-1, set it on “iAuto” and shoot. The A.I. of this small camera works very well underwater. The fast f/2 lens let you have sharp pictures even in low light conditions, at least with static/slow subjects. The additional white LED gives macros brilliant colours.
Among the very few defects, colour vibrance quickly decreases in low lights, like probably with other underwater compact cameras. Big temperature differences (hot to cold) caused condensation on lens and LCD, however both disappearing in a few minutes. Last but not least, the three screws of the protective lens are not tough at all, being already rusty after a few weeks of use.
Judge the pictures we shot in Greece (Poros and Serifos) this summer holidays by clicking on this new portfolio gallery: deep blue!
“Perseids 2012: 100 shooting stars / minute”, so they said. Three intrepid photographer went to shoot such abundance of shooting stars from midnight on. One Nikonist and two Canonists plus a model. They all came back with a catch. Some the Milky Way, some the trees and the stars, all the airplanes flying over the dark Swiss nights, one the model with the rising moon.
And, by mere chance, the last flare of a very bright shooting star! Can you find the weak one, too?
Recognize the subjects in the pictures below! Picture specs: minute-long exposure, f/2.8, ISO 800-1600, 17-55 mm, remote control, tripod.
Whenever you like it or not, most of the models published on magazines are strongly retouched. Retouching is much easier when the model is properly maked up, although as you can see from this example, with digital retouching we have no limits. So, no studio needed, just a camera and a model!
Now, about the contest:
1. it’s not about models, it’s about retouching!
2. whatever gender accepted
3. compose a before / after retouching panel in .jpg format (max width: 960px)
4. send it to artborghi@gmail.com with subject “Photo beauty-retouch contest”
5. on 31st of July 11:59pm the contest closes
The picture panels will be then published in a “Photo beauty-retouch contest” gallery on artborghi.wordpress.com to be visualized and voted. Aim of this contest is let you showing off and improve your retouching abilities. The winner photographer and the model of course will be prized with eternal glory !
P.S.
Here is a common/quick procedure to obtain results like the one of this post:
– with the spot healing brush tool remove small skin imperfections
– create masks for face skin, eyes, lips, additional body skin, hair, face hairs
– use the dust & scratches filter to obtain that porcelain skin effect so much loved today
– superimpose warm or cooling photo filters to obtain the desired light
– make eyes as brilliant as ever
– use the unsharp mask on hair and hairs
Share the logo! (logo address: http://tinyurl.com/cjady7w)
Two cameras (450D and 60D) mounting two different objectives (70-300mm and 17-55mm), battery backups for each camera and 32 GB total SD card space.
Ready for another Russian folklore event in Zürich!
This time I was asked to shoot the 10th jubilee of the Russian school Matrjoschka. I know what you could have in mind: shows good only for kids … but it was absolutely not the case. Music and costumes and dancers and singer and players and actors made the big difference! I got quite crazy shooting with two cameras at the same moment for 2h and a half, the 450D got stuck in guru meditation (aka busy) several times for the amount of saved data but everything went smooth. Judge it for yourself by clicking on the post picture or here. My favorite ones are kids waiting to perform on the stage.
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