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Edwin Leong at camera hobby gives newbie photographers a good learning resource, via his free camera hobby photography ebook. This online version of photography ebook is dedicated to the beginning photographer that looking for another source of information of the basics photography.
In his first photography ebook, Edwin Leong wrote basics photography knowledge that newbie photographers […]

Timen at inmyallstar.com has recently published and gave it away to visitors, an ebook entitled “A First Experience”. “A First Experience” is around 101 pages and filled with around 500 photos that was taken by Timen during his journey through Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand in the summer of 2006. It’s a big ebook (around […]

Not a primary goods, but sooner or later a digital camera will be a must have gadget after a cellular phone. The variants are growing wider, the price is lower day to day, and the features are getting completed even for the cheapest one. Which one the best digital camera, is the most difficult question […]

With an image stabilizer attached inside the camera body, Olympus definitely break the tradition of DSLR camera, while other brands attach the Image Stabilizer (IS - Canon) or Vibration Reduction (VR - Nikon) in the lenses. The Olympus’ built in image stabilizer will reduce cost of lenses manufacturing, because it will not need an […]

Over 1500 classic camera manuals/instruction manual freely available at butkus.org, mostly are from real books, scanned and converted in pdf format. Two thumbs up for the owner, Michael Butkus JR., that is a Coordinator of Technology South Bound Brook Schools, South Bound Brook, NJ., for his amazing effort collecting various rare & old camera manual/instruction manual for free.

Below is the second shot of my learning process on Macro Photography. The same tree with the first shot but on different leaf, both using my Canon EOS 350D, EF-S 18-55mm, and a Macro Extension tube.
The red color on the scene is (pardon me..) my brother in law’s towel which hanging on the wall. […]

This simple scene was my learning process on Macro Photography. Taken with Digital SLR Canon 350D, with its lens kit EF-S 28-55mm and a new Macro Extension tube, bought from a member of Fotografer.net .. the largest Indonesian photographer community on the net.
The scene was found (and retouched) on my backyard, in the evening (09/14/2006), […]

White Orchid photograph, taken with EOS 350D digital camera, Canon lens 70-200 mm f/4 L, 1/160, f:4.0, +1/3 ev.

This photo was taken with Canon Digital Camera EOS 350 D, canon 70-200mm f/4 L, ISO 200.

I measured the light at inside clock’s shadow (near III mark), underexpose by 1 stop, f/4 and go..
The light was from the window’s sunlight, at about 15.00 o’clock.
Please critique this digital photo.

JamC@m was my first digital camera, someone gave me this ugly camera (because he could not gain any better with this camera — & bought another one) and warned my about the rule on how to take a better picture with JamC@m digital camera: “Shoot a thing, hold still for 8 seconds, do not […]