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  lighting
I am a beginner with a first studio 2 umbrella lighting kit and 2 paper backgrounds - black and white. When I take the photos, the black is washed out or the lights glare and the white turns grey....
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May 10, 2007
 
  How to make faces focus
I have a canon 30d digital rebel with a tamron XR Di II Aspherical lens. Even when I focus on the face in daylight, the faces tend to blur a little, while the rest is in focus. How can I fix this?...
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March 28, 2007
 
  Flash
I have a Canon 30D and I will be shooting an indoor play soon, and I can't use the flash. I am worried about blurring (even with a tripod). What setting can I use that will help the photos exp...
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June 11, 2007
 
  Photographing Babies/Toddlers Using Natural Light
What settings are recommended for photographing babies/toddlers using natural light? (Equipment: Nikon D70 with Tamron 28-75mm f/2.8 lens) I set my priority to shutter at 1/60 because I REALLY do...
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March 27, 2007
 
  Viewing images on monitors
I have on of those thin monitors, and the pictures look normal from sitting in my chair, but in other angles, they are either under or overexposed. How do I know what they are actually showing to ...
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March 26, 2007
 
  Pano image
It is not a problem with the phot but with the sizing that the BF handles!When I loaded the pano (1223x477 -1.69MB) - included - within the specified size limits, it is displayed in 750x500 mode! W...
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March 24, 2007
 
  Blownout whites
The whites are overexposed. Is there a way in Photoshop to correct this? Or once it is blown out is gone forever?...
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March 20, 2007
 
  How to describe a painting...
This isn't a question about a painting of mine, but I've had good feedback on everything else, I figured I'd give it a shot:Does anyone have any insight on how to describe the painting ...
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March 26, 2007
 
  No PS and have Raw
I have a question about Raw-- I'm not using Photoshop, I am using photofiltre. The only thing is I can't open raw in photofiltre is there any other program besides ps? Thank you Mei.......
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March 20, 2007
 
  PRINTING
I AM USING #2 FILTER AND THE PRINT HAS GOOD HIGHLIGHT DETAIL BUT ONLY MUDDY BLACKS. MOST OF THE IMAGE HAS PREDOMINTELY GRAY APPERANCE. WHICH FILTER I SHOULD USE?THE OTHER QUESTION IS IF THE IMAGE L...
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March 18, 2007
 
  Raw Versus JPEG
If I compose an image, on a tripod, and expose the image as a Fine JPEG, then take the same photo again, this time as Raw, the histograms are different. The Raw image is lighter on the LCD and in B...
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April 03, 2007
 
  How to shoot indoors
Please see attached images - I haven't been using the mounted flash on the camera for 2 reasons 1) its too harsh and 2) people seem unnerved enough with someone taking photos and the flash make...
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March 17, 2007
 
  colors after uploading
I've not really noticed a problem with the sharpness of my photos after downloading, but wat I have noticed is the color seems washed out. My images are brighter and more colorful before downl...
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March 15, 2007
 
  Taking a picture of my husband laying down...
I want to take a picture of my husband and out newborn sleeping on the couch together. Where would the focus be? What setting would work for indoors w/ low light. I have the canon rebel xti, and...
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March 12, 2007
 
  How to photograph jewelry
I am currently learning how to photgraph jewelryProblem: proper tonal translation and major lighting issues. I tried neutral and white backgrounds(black is not so good), backing up and using a diff...
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March 26, 2007
 
  Uploading a TIFF
I recently tried to upload a photo which I shot in RAW and saved it as a TIFF. I uploaded it to my gallery however, the image appeared extremely distorted. I did not receive an error message when u...
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March 11, 2007
 
  Determining largest output at 300ppi
How do I determine what the largest size output I can produce using the maximum optical resolution from the canon eos 20d at a resolution of 300 ppi and 75ppi....
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March 08, 2007
 
  underexposed uploaded photos
all my uploaded images are showing as underexposed but arent. on othet websites they look as they should. what am I doing wrong???...
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March 08, 2007
 
  upload problem
I usually upload 720px (along the longer dimension) to my premium gallery. I save all images in the best jpeg resolution. now for some images, after uploading them I see loss in quality ( I see ban...
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March 06, 2007
 
  How to resize a compressed photo?
I have a problem to resize a JPEG photo. I believe it is "lock". The image will get blur when I enlarge it. Please advise how to "unlcok" this files. Any software can do this?Do let me know if u ne...
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March 06, 2007