Uploading pictures to Facebook has always made me a bit uneasy. They just don’t seem to have the same color, sharpness or “pop” that they have when viewed on my home computer. I suspected this was due to the way Facebook, resized, re-compressed or otherwise altered the image automatically on upload. Hence, this little tutorial [...]

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I have been reading some interesting stuff lately about how today’s lenses with modern materials are harder and tougher than the ones made 10 or 20 years ago. One article about lens scratches actually challenged the reader to stick a small corner of a post-it note to the lens and observe the effect it has [...]

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Do your indoor photos look yellow without flash? Outdoor photos too blue? Getting accurate colors is one of the trickier things in digital photography. Even more tricky is getting consistent colors throughout a whole shoot. The human eye or rather the human brain, is capable of making quick adjustments to the color temperature of varied [...]

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