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So, imagine this. You have bought your first entry level DLSR + an advancement from the kit lens and you think you are pretty proficient with using the camera.
You ask yourself - “whats next?”
For many people, strobes are the answer.
Strobes give you an amazing amount of control. How?
Because they let you control light! neato!
By far the best place to learn about strobe techniques is at http://strobist.blogspot.com/. Lots of resources for dealing with shooting modes, strobe power and bouncing.
Then, with an understanding of light. You can start to blend strobed images with natural light… Then the world becomes your oyster! E.G:
Settle down for a rather large blog post.
This question is an interesting one that has sparked debate for a long time; it boils down to image quality and resolution.
Modern day CMOS sensors are by no means perfect. They are rather “stupid” devices. That is to say that all they are is a bunch oh photosites that record a given intensity of light. - Problem is they they are not colour sensitive, and they are electronic.
Which means:
So a REALLY good sensor looks like this close up:
See all the dark area? that’s for electronics, links and circuitry and just isn’t sensitive at all. On MOST sensors, this area is much much larger and the pixels are smaller. - Alot of sensor area just isn’t ”sensing”. Bit cheeky ehay?
Also notice how each pixel is filtered to a colour; this is called a bayer filter. (most commonly: for awhile sony had a tantrum and used a different pattern. But now they love bayer.) - This means that ANY image from a digital camera is about 30% guess work, because the colours have to worked out by an algorithmic method.
Film, does not have this issue. Its a “sandwich” of light gathering materials!
Every single part of a film is sensitive to all the colours of light. There are no unsensitive parts and also every single shot you take is a brand new imaging device. Pretty nifty for 1972 eh?
This is how film is vastly superior to digital in terms of dynamic range and true resolution. Which become important for some high level applications in which digital would limit the results!
The Canon 35-70 AF Zoom was the very first AF lens made by canon for their SLR system. (Back then FD mount) It’s also called the frankenlens, because of the AF mechanism that came out of one of Canon’s compact camera’s at the time, and the lens was actually recycled standard 35-70 f/4’s!
So, just remember. SLR’s weren’t always AF.
Cross processing is a process that came from colour film development. There are 2 main types of colour film chemistry; E6 and C41. Both do slightly different things in order to get accurate colours.
But what some crazy hipsters did was put E6 film into C41 chemicals!!! The reuslt was wildly inaccurate colours that looked somewhatcool. Cross processing or (X-PRO) was born.
In the digital age our equivalent of chemicals is photoshop. So in photoshop we can make digital images have a “cross processed” effect by playing with curves.
To automate the process, i’ve made some photoshop actions.
Loads of people use X-Pro images as a “base” layer, either adjusting transparency or blend method. So just have a play about with the images you can create!