Photography Weekly Newsletter - Wednesday, July 29, 2015

Top new questions this week: How do I accurately and objectively capture the color of the setting sun? I'm taking a photo of the setting sun, and want to capture the color of the sun accurately and objectively. If we're talking about reflected right, I understand that the camera can't distinguish ... [raw] [white-balance] [sunset]   asked by Kartick Vaddadi 14 votes answered by Iliah Borg 21 votes How to separate and clean waterlogged negatives? My photo boxes were waterproof but that meant they held the water the AC filled them with. I had to throw out all the prints but I have saved the negatives with seem to have grown to the sleeves. ... [cleaning] [negative]   asked by Ben Cheseldine 5 votes answered by JDługosz 1 vote How can I compose city / cityscape shots to avoid distracting elements? Too many of my travel photos look like this. The subject of the photo is obviously the church, but the random people and cars around it are quite annoying. The traffic light in front of the mosaic is ... [composition] [travel] [composition-basics] [cityscape]   asked by eugene 4 votes answered by rob j crowe 3 votes Do images need special treatment for high-resolution ("retina") displays vs regular displays? What are people's (experimentally tested if possible) views on sharpening images depending on whether they are to be viewed on retina or non-retina devices. Assuming resolution in the file is not an ... [resolution] [sharpness] [web] [display] [sharpening]   asked by Mark Fisher 4 votes answered by ths 3 votes Are there any guidelines on how to prevent the flash from overpowering the scene? I know the technical aspects of controlling flash power: increase or decrease flash exposure compensation, and if that doesn't work, increase or decrease shutter speed, and use more flash power for ... [flash] [fill-flash]   asked by Kartick Vaddadi 3 votes answered by WayneF 1 vote Do I need to buy anything more than just body and lenses? I want to buy a body DSLR and custom lens but I'm quite new to photography and I do not know if it's enough or I have to buy something else too (just to make it work and do photos). I know body kits ... [lens] [nikon] [dslr]   asked by raresmm 3 votes answered by mattdm 6 votes Why doesn't my computer show Canon EOS 450D pictures taken with P setting? I bought a used Canon EOS 450D, and whenever I take pictures with the P setting, I can see the pictures on the camera display, but when I take the SDcard out, I cannot see them. Obviously they are ... [canon] [camera-settings] [canon-450d] [shooting-mode]   asked by Toni Moisio 3 votes answered by mattdm 2 votes Greatest hits from previous weeks: Should I use JPG or TIFF for high-quality prints? I am putting together a photo book. I shot all the photos in RAW. The prints will be 300pi on 13x11 inch glossy paper. I am laying out the pages in InDesign, which doesn't allow me to import and place ... [prints] [jpeg] [file-format] [tiff]   asked by bperdue 13 votes answered by Robert Koritnik 15 votes How can I upscale a low-res image to make it appear higher-res? I want to enlarge an image to a bigger size. This will cause pixelation. So I want to apply some treatment to it in Photoshop that will suppress some of this pixelation. Of course I cannot generate ... [post-processing] [printing] [resolution] [rescaling]   asked by Abhranil Das 7 votes answered by MikeW 14 votes Can you answer these? How can I automatically create an image "key" with group photo silhouettes tagged with people's names? From a group photo, I would like to create an image that identify each person with their names. My first idea was to create a silhouette image from the original one, put a number over each face, and ... [software] [metadata]   asked by toliveira 2 votes What type of stand is needed for a beauty dish? I've never used a beauty dish and I'm not sure what's the typical way of positioning it. I want to shoot on location and not in a studio setup, and I don't have an assistant. What kind of stand do I ... [lighting] [off-camera-flash] [support-equipment] [beauty-dish] [lightstands]   asked by user1899082 1 vote Define threshold for IR image during dust and scratches removal I scanned slides and I have now 48 bit color and IR (infrared) 16 bit gray files. Now I am processing them to remove dust and scratches and I am looking for a way to batch-detect the correct threshold ... [film] [dust] [film-scanner]   asked by OlafM 2 votes

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