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- 18 [+7] Great Photography Links from Around the Web
- 162 “Best Photos of 2010″ Blog Posts
- Panasonic HM-TA1 Multimedia Digital Camera [REVIEW]
| 18 [+7] Great Photography Links from Around the Web Posted: 06 Feb 2011 11:58 AM PST  It’s time to take a look at what some of our friends on other great photography sites have been writing over the last month or so. Here’s 18 links that caught our attention as we did the rounds this week – we hope you enjoy them!
And if you’re still looking for some photography reading – here’s our top 7 posts from dPS that you might have missed in the month of January:
Post from: Digital Photography School - Photography Tips. Check out our resources on Portrait Photography Tips, Travel Photography Tips and Understanding Digital Cameras. 18 [+7] Great Photography Links from Around the Web
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| 162 “Best Photos of 2010″ Blog Posts Posted: 06 Feb 2011 10:57 AM PST
If you’re on a quest to improve your photography one of the best things to do is to take stock of where you’ve been and where you want to go. A couple of years ago on DPS I discussed How to Top Your Best 2008 Photos and the methods discussed there are as relevant today as they were then. A year end review is an incredibly powerful exercise as it shows you where you’ve made improvements, need work and the act of choosing favorites hones your photo editing skills. As is a tradition on my blog I ask my readers to review their years photos and share their Best Photos of 2010 as an exercise to take stock and improve. This year there was a record turn out of 162 participants who spanned a spectrum of skill levels from hobbyists to professionals and covered a wide variety of genres including landscape, macro, nature, photojournalism, portraiture, event, wildlife, fine art photography and more. I highly recommend visiting each entry as I have. Even after 4 years of running this blog project I’m blown away by the talent of those that take part. It is truly inspirational to see so much creativity and beauty. If your curious to see photos I particularly enjoyed look out for the entries with *** next to them. If you have not yet taken stock of your 2010 photographs it’s not too late and if you have a best of 2010 photo set on your blog or Flickr be sure to add it in the comments. ——- Best Photos of 2010
Post from: Digital Photography School - Photography Tips. Check out our resources on Portrait Photography Tips, Travel Photography Tips and Understanding Digital Cameras. 162 “Best Photos of 2010″ Blog Posts
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| Panasonic HM-TA1 Multimedia Digital Camera [REVIEW] Posted: 06 Feb 2011 05:04 AM PST Simple is not always simpler! I knew little about this piece of technology (the Panasonic HM-TA1.) before I laid eyes and hands on the actual gear itself so, in my usual gung ho approach, I tapped the little power button, pressed a few appropriate buttons and shot some movies and stills. Did I get what I wanted? Not exactly. But after a five minute read of the instruction book I wrapped my tiny mind around how it actually works. Panasonic HM-TA1 FeaturesThe Lumix TA1 is really quite simple to use and very powerful in what it can do: it's sized like a mobile phone; it captures 3264×2448 pixel JPEG stills, large enough to make 28×21cm prints; it can shoot Full HD 1920×1080 pixel video with sound in MPEG4. And there's more: it has an inbuilt USB terminal so you can upload directly to YouTube, Facebook, Flickr or similar; the TA1 is also compatible with Apple's iFrame video format (960×540 pixels/30 fps; it can be used with Skype's IP phone service, becoming a Web camera for free Skype-based video calls. One thing you can't do: capture stills while shooting video … but you can later extract and store individual frames from a video sequence while in replay mode, as in the example above. Simple huh! The camera is delightful to use: it's small, easy to figure out the controls; when shooting movies it takes care of variations in exposure and auto focus. There are three video effect modes: B&W, sepia and soft skin mode. There's a USB terminal in the bottom of the TA1. This retracts into the camera body when not in use. Simply slide out the terminal and plug it into your computer's USB port. The camera appears to use an electronic image stabiliser but I could detect no quality loss, so I guess it's using excess area in the sensor to steady the image. Works for me! There's no flash but instead an LED light source is built into the camera's front, just beside the lens that can illuminate movies or stills. I found this a bit questionable: some shots of a PNG mask taken in total darkness at a distance of one metre showed underexposure and (after adjusting levels) substantial colour noise, as shown in the corrected shot above. As the LED light is close to the lens it can easily wash out the subject too! CommentQuality: this camera can take surprisingly good images, when used with care. Although you have to forgo a zoom and there's no ISO adjustment, it's surprising how easily you can manage. My message is: shoot movies all the time and extract still frames before you download the memory card's contents. This way you get pretty neat 1920×1080 pixel stills. Three colours: gunmetal grey, brick red and white. Why you'd buy it: it's small and delightful; you want Full HD movie shooting plus easy Internet connectability. Why you wouldn't: no zoom. Panasonic HM-TA1 SpecificationsImage Sensor: 5.33 million effective pixels. Post from: Digital Photography School - Photography Tips. Check out our resources on Portrait Photography Tips, Travel Photography Tips and Understanding Digital Cameras. Panasonic HM-TA1 Multimedia Digital Camera [REVIEW]
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