→ Photography Tutorial: A Quick Guide to Understanding Your DSLR Camera...
Basic intro to SLR photography…
If you have an SLR camera and are nervous to take it out of auto mode, this is the tutorial for you.
You may have heard words like aperture, exposure, and shutter speed and wondered just how on earth they come together to give you a better photo.
I’ll give you a brief introduction on what they do and how they affect your photos turning out too bright, too dark, too blurry or JUST RIGHT. :)
This guide will show you how to get the most out of your SLR camera and give you confidence to take it out of auto mode in no time!…
Christmas Photography - Checklist…
Since there is Christmas everywhere already, I’ve decided to make now a checklist for my Christmas photos, because every year I end up with mingy 3 to 5 photos, although I take up every year to shoot a beautiful Christmas photo series…
But I think I’m not the only one… So maybe it will be also a useful guideline for you…
How-To: Develop Film with Coffee and Vitamin C (Caffenol)
Develop your B&Ws in Tea!
Fuji Neopan Acros 100 on Great Wall DF
Agfa APX 100
We’re honored to feature Firda Beka of Many Cameras on CGSF and she had also kindly agreed to share her tea developer concoction, which she termed 4-Tea-C.
Now, I’ve always loved B&Ws developed in caffenol but tea?? I’m intrigued! Let’s hear what Firda has to say,
== 4-Tea-C Developer Recipe ==
Ingredients (to make 500ml):
- 2 tea bags of each orange pekoe tea, pure green tea, pure peppermint tea, and pomegranate green tea (8 tea bags in total)
- 2 teaspoons of washing soda
- 1000mg vitamin c
- water
Instructions:
- Put 300ml of water in a saucepan, threw in all the tea bags, bring to boil.
- Once boiling, turn off the stove and let steep for 30 minutes.
- Transfer to a measuring cup to see how much tea solution you got. I got 200ml after squeezing every drop from the tea bags.
- Drop the vitamin c into the tea mixture. In retrospect, dropping it into the washing soda solution would probably be a better idea since mixing it with the tea mixture creates a lot of froth.
- Mix washing soda with water to create 300ml solution or adjust according to the amount of tea solution you got in order to have a total of 500ml.
- Mix the tea-c and washing soda solutions together.
I didn’t check the exact temperature but I’m pretty sure it was room temperature, i.e. 20 degrees. I know. Very scientific indeed. As for developing time, I did a 2 hour semi-stand development, only agitated 3 times during the 2 hours. You don’t want to agitate too many times when doing semi-stand development because the film could easily become over-developed.
Isn’t this just great?? I can’t wait to start developing my B&Ws now. Thanks so much Firda!
Firda also has a tumblr photoblog at http://www.manycameras.com (she has over 200 of them!) and definitely check out her Flickr stream for more analogue goodness.
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Ribboned asparagus salad…
Box shadows
Ever wonder how you can achieve a drop shadow without being awesome at graphics? You can just use html.
Step 1: You need to locate the ‘box’ you want to have the shadow on in your theme code. For example, I am adding the shadow around my description box. You can add it to more than one box.
Step2: You need to copy & paste this code before the {. I like to place mine at the end so it’s more organized.
Another example:
You can also add this code to your post boxes & center boxes & whatever boxes!
(Source: mynameisflicktutorials, via theamazingtutorials)
TUTORIAL: Vintage Overcast Photoshop Action
The weather’s been a gloomy lately in Cebu, this inspired me to make a vintage photoshop action that would suit overcast photos. :)
Step 1: Open desired photo of which you want to post-process.
Step 2: Duplicate background layer
Step 2.5: Blending Options. Set the blend mode to screen
→ Street Photography Tutorial
Beginner Street Photography Tips - Want to be a street photography? Take a look at these basic, but essential tips first.
(via fotodidacts)
→ Storage Basket - How To
Thought this would be useful— I know storage when you sew is very important—- or else your room looks like mine. /buhduntiss
Get rid of that extra fabric while giving yourself a place to put it!
(Source: crossstitches)
Newest tumblr tricks…
- TumblrPimp: It takes feeds from your tumblrlog and rejiggles them in a flash based app! Just enter your tumblr username into the field below to get started. Using it you have an alternative cool looking tumblr theme for your blog without changing nothing…
- Followers Counter: It is a totally free service that delivers simple statistics about your Tumblr blog. All you have to do to start using it is to simply click “Login with your Tumblr” link. You will see your stats instantly and you will also get a small widget to place on your blog or your website to let everybody know how many followers you have!…
- Camera Info: The tumblr dashboard now lets you view the Camera Model, ISO, Aperture, Exposure, and Focal Length of any photo uploaded with Exif data. It’s also possible to add the info to your tumblr theme…
- Tumblr Theme Backup: What when you have changed your tumblr theme and want to change it to the old version back again? No problem… Use the recovery option…
- TumblrThmr: Developing a tumblr theme involves a time-consuming mess of manual copying and pasting, saving, testing, and copying and pasting again. TumblrThemr solves this problem, letting you develop navigable themes locally using real data from your Tumblr blog…
