Monday, May 28, 2007

Digital Photography Tutorial: RAW Usage

Sensor RAW is a special image recording option that is only available on digital SLRs and a few other high-quality semi-professional digital cameras. If your camera has this option, you have access to much higher image quality than the standard JPEG file format. In this article Ill explain what you need to unlock that potential.
First, the name. Im really not sure why RAW is always capitalised, and neither is anyone else Ive asked about it. It isnt an acronym, so really it should be written raw, but for some reason its always written in capitals RAW. However inexplicably silly it may be, Ill continue to use the conventional presentation for this article.
Essentially, RAW is just what it sounds like. Its the raw data straight from the cameras sensor.
In a digital camera the photographic image is, as Im sure youre aware, captured by an electronic image sensor. Read More...

Tuesday, May 1, 2007

Graham Nash doing his best in both music and photography

Graham Nash is well-known throughout the world for the music he's made with the Hollies and Crosby, Stills & Nash. But music isn't his only artistic outlet -- he is also deeply into photography and imaging. That side of his life in on display in the book Nash Editions: Photography And The Art Of Digital Printing, a new book that explores what goes into fine-art digital printing and his company Nash Editions, which he founded in 1991. The work of Nash Editions is so well-regarded that the first printing press he bought for the company is now on display in the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.Nash told us that he's just doing what he can, whether it's in music of photography: "I don't think in terms of magnificent shots, or... I'm just trying to do the best I can. So when people ask me what kind of images I shoot, what kind of music I write, I don't have a clue -- I'm just writing music, and I'm just taking pictures.