Archive for Weekly Tips
Tips for Your iPhone Home Button
Today, we have some tips for your iPhone, since so many are using their iPhones to take pictures.
Your iPhone’s home button has a whole bunch of uses that vary depending on your location and how many times you press it in succession. Here’s a look at (practically) all of them.
Single Press
Pressing the [...]
SpyderGallery: Color Calibration Now a Reality for Your iPad, and Free
SpyderGallery: Color Calibration Now a Reality for Your iPad, and Free
By David Saffir, Instructor at the SCV Center for Photography
Almost any photographer who owns an iPad enjoys its form factor, usability, and overall coolness. But color on the iPad is something of a mystery that raises a few questions—does it use the sRGB color space? [...]
Japan Earthquake affects Photo Industry
With scores of factories and corporate headquarters around the country, the Japanese photo industry has been severely disrupted by Friday’s earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear crisis.
As of this writing, it looks like there were no serious injuries or fatalities among employees of Japanese camera and consumer electronics companies. We will continue to monitor the situation and [...]
Studio Now offers SRs Strobes and Triggers For Sale
In an effort to bring great products at reasonable prices to our fellow photographers and students, we are now offering the SRs Flash, SRs Small Triggers and SRs Video Lights for sale here at the studio. I have been using all of these products and have been very impressed and happy with the results. In [...]
Tip of the Week – Facebook Images
Facebook now provides a “Download” link for photos that you post. If you upload large images and rely on Facebook to downsize it, a rather high-resolution version is made available that others can download. As a test, an 4,288×2848-pixel test image was uploaded to Facebook and from that [...]
Canon Announces New Rebel T3
The Rebel T3 is a replacement for the 2.5 year old Rebel XS model, and incorporates quite a range of updates to bring the camera up to date in the company’s line. the new Rebel T3 has increased the sensor resolution to twelve megapixels. Also new in the Rebel T3 is a nine-point [...]
Mel Carll awarded “2010 Image of the Year” from PPLAC
It has certainly been an interesting and exciting year, and last night was one of the high points, as our image “Beauty from Behind” created by Mel Carll was awarded “2010 Image of the Year” by the Professional Photographers of Los Angeles County (PPLAC) during their January 2011 meeting. The image was created at the [...]
100 Watt incandescent light bulbs phase out
It has been reported that California is phasing out conventional 100 watt incandescent light bulbs almost a year earlier that what the Federal Government has mandated. Stores in California are allowed to sell out their remaining inventory, but once they are gone, they are gone for good. You if you really like the old-school 100-watt [...]
Looking again at Composition
When you are out on location it is very easy to get caught up in the moment of taking photos and you forget to look at your composition and what is happening within the frame.
It is very easy to miss the unwanted items within your image, so you need to check you viewfinder and make [...]
It’s not what you have, but how you use it
I hear so many beginning photographers that come through our workshops talk about how you need to spend thousands of dollars in order to take great pictures. But in reality, the equipment is just the vehicle that helps you create the photograph. Yes, certain cameras have different functions, or handle things better or worse, but [...]
