George Schaub

Dealing with High Contrast Scenes with Your Digicam

George Schaub | Jan 04, 2005

High scene contrast always creates difficulties for photographers, whether
shooting film or digital. The difficulty stems from the difference between the
ways the film or sensor "sees" and how the human eye sees. Our eyes
are adaptive, and can resolve large variations in brightness by the way it scans
throughout the scene and the amazing reflex of automatically restricting and
dilating the pupil to adjust to bright and dark areas before us. While light
metering systems in cameras are impressive in the way they can read light, the
fact remains that at the moment of exposure the lens on a camera records a scene
at one fixed aperture, or opening. In most situations this is no problem, as
the meter averages light values and the bright and dark areas are distributed
through the recording medium properly. But high contrast presents a problem.

A
better solution is to use the --1 contrast setting. This
allows for smoother tonal gradations and addresses the need to
control the divergent light values in this backlit scene.

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Show Reports

Special Report: photokina
The World's Fair Of Imaging Lives Up To Its Reputation

George Schaub | Jan 01, 2005 | First Published: Jan 04, 2005

Imagine you're a kid with a very sweet tooth in the world's largest candy store. You're allowed to roam around the halls for five days, sampling whatever strikes your fancy. You're also in one of the world's largest slam dancing parties, sharing the space with 100,000 or so other such kids. That's the feeling one can get at photokina, the...

Picture This

Picture This!
Neon City

George Schaub | Jan 01, 2005 | First Published: Jan 04, 2005

Our Picture This! assignment for this month was Neon City, a nighttime endeavor where we asked you to send us images of perhaps the most artistic form of lighting. Neon is an art form that comes and goes, one that has undergone a revival in recent years. But readers sent us samples of neon from likely sources, such as Las Vegas and New York, as well as vintage neon from the past.

Editor's Notes

Reports From photokina, The World's Fair Of Imaging

George Schaub | Jan 01, 2005

In this issue we bring you our photokina report, a series of articles from our reporters who covered the huge photo show held this past fall in Cologne, Germany. Exhibitors from over 150 countries covering every aspect of the photo and imaging trade were there, and we spent five days trekking the massive halls, speaking to engineers, designers, and marketing folk about the new...

Kodak EasyShare DX7590; Big 10x Zoom With 5-Megapixel Res

George Schaub | Jan 01, 2005

Kodak DX7590 Quick Look
· Lightweight
· $499
· Customizable Settings

Further Information
Kodak EasyShare DX7590
http://www.kodak.com

Weighing in at a bit over 12 oz and...

Newsletter

How To - Work With Monochrome Images

George Schaub | Dec 21, 2004

There are many ways to work with monochrome images, including selective adjustment
of tonal values, contrast and even image color that can emulate toning. In this
installment of our Web How To's we'll play with colorization, adding
color to selective parts of a monochrome image that can make it look like a
combination hand-painted (with photo oils) and toned photograph. You can paint
in selectively with brush tools if you like, but this how-to deals with a more
simplified approach.

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Newsletter

How To - Get Published: Picture This!

George Schaub | Dec 07, 2004

Every month in Shutterbug we publish photographs from readers based on an assignment
published in a previous month's issue. We get hundreds of photographs
from readers all around the world and unfortunately we are limited to publishing
just a small fraction of the work we receive. We've had topics including
"Black and White in Color", "Silhouettes" and "Historical
Reenactments." Our purpose in creating this section in the magazine is
to create a visual forum for readers and to challenge them to fulfill assignments.
It's always a delight to open the packages we receive. I know the thrill
I got when my fist photo was published, and my hope is that the same excitement
is shared by those whose images we select to publish each month.

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Canon PowerShot S60 5 Megapixels And Abundant Controls

George Schaub | Dec 01, 2004

Canon PowerShot S60 Quick Look
· 5.0 Megapixels
· $499 (Street price)
· Canon 3.6x zoom lens

Further Information
Canon PowerShot S60
http://www.usa.canon.com

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Editor's Notes

Digital Questions That Need Some Answers

George Schaub | Dec 01, 2004

While we plunge ahead into the digital world, and continue to buy cameras, printers, and scanners at record pace, there remain some issues that need resolution before everyone can feel comfortable with the digital thing. We do get letters, and your concerns are of paramount interest to us, that raise issues we have often addressed. But the tone of many letters express doubts about...

Newsletter

Memory and Backup: Critical Issues for Digital Photographers

George Schaub | Nov 22, 2004

Remember the shoebox, the place where all those snapshots were stored? It was
a great tradition to take a roll of film, share it with family and friends and
then dutifully deposit the pictures and negatives into a cardboard container that
would be stocked away on some closet shelf. Well, digital photography hasn't
changed that great tradition, but nowadays the "shoebox" is more likely
filled with CDs or DVDs that hold the pictures--only to be stacked away in that
same closet next to that snapshot shoebox.

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