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Need Some help with Self Portraits?

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If like me, you are taking part in the 52 Week project, or you are completely nuts and are doing the 365 Day Project, you might be looking for tips for taking self portraits. Well do I have a terrific link for you. Haje Jan Kamps has done a great job listing 10 tips to a good self portrait, and has some fantastic examples at the end of the article. Check it out, it is a terrific read.

Fade to Black (PSD)Not all selfies are pretty.

A few people worth checking out on Flickr. Chris Young, crustydolphin, Ryan Swift, Tim Parkinson and dyannafstop.

Check out the tips here……..Self-Portrait Friday :: Photocritic photography blog.

The day I got hooked to live-view, well not me actually.

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Obviously, I am using a camera that is roughly four years old. My camera, a Canon EOS 5D doesn’t have the convenience or gimmick, depending on how you look at it, of Live View.

Here is a good article taking up the Live View feature. I have never used Live View on a DLSR, so I am not in the best position to comment, but I think this article makes some very valid points.

The day I got hooked to live-view | All Day I Dream About Photography.

Have Camera Will Travel: Photography and fear

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Paul Dymond has written a very interesting piece on his blog about his fears as a photographer. Not as in leaning over a cliff to take a shot, more about his style of shooting. It made me wonder about my style. Do I actually have a style? Hmm, I might throw a few words together about this later in the week.

Bird, bird, bird, the bird is the word.If I do have a style, people will probably say this is it.

Have Camera Will Travel: Photography and fear.

Canon develops Hybrid image stabilization system

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One for the techno nerds. Canon has developed a new Image Stabilising technology. From the press release.

Canon Inc. announced today the development of Hybrid Image Stabilizer (IS), the world’s first* optical Image Stabilizer which compensates for both angular camera shake and shift camera shake. The technology will be incorporated in an interchangeable single lens reflex (SLR) camera lens planned for commercial release before the end of 2009.

The little * in the above paragraph is a note to say it is a world first in interchangeable lenses. I think Pentax have had it in body for a while.

Reading about it, it sounds like a monkey on a trapeze can now take a sharp photo. That may be a slight exaggeration. I am not a huge fan of IS, but I am sure some people love it. See the link below for the good guts about it.

Canon develops Hybrid image stabilization system: Digital Photography Review.

Photography During Apollo

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Have you ever wondered what sort of cameras where used in the Apollo missions to the moon?

A comprehensive set of camera equipment was carried on board Apollo 11. This included two 16mm Maurer motion picture film cameras, a color television camera in the orbiting Columbia, and a black and white TV camera outside of the lunar module to transmit to Earth Neil Armstrong’s first steps on the Moon’s surface. A Kodak stereo close-up camera was used to film the lunar soil from only inches away. Three Hasselblad 500EL cameras were carried.

For a more detailed explanation of the challenges faced and equipment used, see the link below. More excellent examples can be found here.

The Earth

A beautiful B&W photo from the Apollo 11 mission.

Photography During Apollo.

Big thanks to Mick Orlosky for the information.