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Archive for December, 2008

SLIDE SCANNING TIPS

 from Bob Brace If you scan the slides or have them scanned, the final image should be 1600 x 1200 pixels and it can be in TIFF, JPG (highest resolution, lowest compression), or PSD formats. Note that there are 2 basic types of scanners: one allows specification of images size ...

The Frugal Photographer

  by Steve Tietsworth If you're like me you burn up quite a few rolls of film every month. Unfortunately the film you probably use also happens to be one of the most expensive types you can buy; E-6 slide film ! Fujichrome Velvia and ...

5 Steps to a Better Slide Show Presentation

by Judith Garfield   10/00 Creating a slide show demands the wearing of many hats. Focusing a little extra effort on each aspect will in the end mean a presentation that goes beyond just okay to one that's really great and memorable: 1. Speaking: ...

Ansel Adams: Insight From A Master

by Randy Morse   7/94 While being interviewed for his autobiography, Ansel Adams was asked this question. After so many others have spent years photographing Yosemite, what is it that has made your work the standard by which all others are measured? He replied, I feel that I am good at capturing ...

Surface Interval – Marine Mammals Topside

by Phil Colla   5/96 Over the past few years I have had the good fortune of photographing topside marine mammals often, usually in situations where I expected a particular animal and was prepared to shoot it as well as I know how. Occasionally, though, surprise opportunities aboard large dive boats have ...

Wide Angle with Sea&Sea 12mm Lens

BY: Robert Yin   01/97 11/21/96 Monthly Meeting Presentation: I showed 30 slides to demonstrate the use of a Sea&Sea 12mm on a Nikonos V camera body -- for both side-angle close-focus and regular wide-angle shots. During my recent trip to the Philippines and Malaysia, I ...

The Big Picture

by Randy Morse  5/97 As this year's photographer of the year, I would like to bring back a club tradition, the Photo-Tip of the Month, published monthly right here in The Goby. As part of each column, I would like to include your questions and comments. Here's how ...

Practicing U/W Photography in the Pool

by Herb Gruenhagen, pool pictures by Sherri Behar.   5/97 To be good at anything...your mother was right, eating your vegetables and practicing your art...you will improve and learn. Almost everyone has learned scuba diving in a pool. Why? Because it is a quiet, warm and controlled place ...

Use a Mental Checklist

by Randy Morse 6/97 One of the keys to getting consistent results is always to start a photograph from a known point. By this I mean have a well defined mental checklist that gets every control on your camera to a preset point well before you begin the process of taking ...

Strobes – Big or Small?

 by Randy Morse  9/97 Over the years, I have tried many strobe configurations and from this developed a few opinions about what I feel works best. Large strobes or small strobes, which works best? I prefer a medium to small strobe over a large high output strobe. My experience has been that ...