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Travel and Photo

http://hoshisato-travel.blogspot.com/

A PhotoBlog about my trips and the photos I took

Added on: Jul 6th, 2007
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English

Author: Hoshisato
Listed in: Photography Travel
Tags: travel black and white japan france landscape photoblog

Recent Posts

Should you expose for shadows or highlights?

Posted on Saturday August 22nd, 2009 at 04:24 in Technique

The short answer is that it is usually recommended that for digital photography you expose for the highlights as they get easily blown out and for film photography it is easier to lose detail in the shadows and easier to bring back detail in the high...
Bracketing

Posted on Saturday August 15th, 2009 at 01:02 in Technique

The classical solution to improve your chances of getting the exposure correct has been bracketing: Take multiple shots with different settings to get different exposures of the same scene. Typically you take one shot exposed normally followed by one...
Why do lightmeters fail?

Posted on Friday August 7th, 2009 at 11:09 in Technique

To understand why light meters fail, we need to understand what light meters do: No matter if it is a through-the-lens (TTL) meter as found on compacts and (D)SLRs or a handheld meter, they all try to reduce the scene to a neutral tone. This tone is ...
Exposure and why do we care?

Posted on Saturday August 1st, 2009 at 01:15

You bought an expensive (D)SLR with a state of the art through-the-lens (TTL) light meter operating in different modes, so why should you ever want to start thinking about exposure again? Surely those days have gone as it is now so many years after T...
RAW images

Posted on Saturday July 25th, 2009 at 05:01

Camera RAW, Lightroom, GIMP, SilkyPix, Apple's Aperture, etc. all allow you to change the exposure settings after having taken the shot. Isn't going through all the trouble getting the correct exposure just for newbies shooting in JPEG? Any problem i...
Sparkling water and the Dutch terraces

Posted on Saturday July 18th, 2009 at 01:27

Next time you visit Amsterdam, or the rest of Holland for that matter, insist on getting the bottle if you order some water or sparkling water. They’ll serve you tap water with some added bubbles otherwise and charge you €3,75 for it, and then ar...