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There\'s an accessory that fits in front of pop-up flash units that diffuses their harsh, direct light. Check the internet or your local camera store or Popular Photography magazine.

2 Answers  |  Asked By: jesswilliams  1

There are professional light meters designed specifically to read in degress Kelvin. However, have you checked your camera\'s manual/menu? White balance is rarely an issue with digital cameras, especialliy outdoors where basically you\'re dealing with sunlit and shaded areas. The color shifts are primarily toward blue and yellow/orange. It your camera\'s internal light meter is reading in sunlight, shadows will shift to blue. If your initernal camera meter is reading in a predominently shaded area, sunlit areas will shift toward yellow/orange. That\'s just the way things are. If your camera is shifting into hues you find unsatisfactory, you may have a manual option. If you do, you can compensate by adjusting for the white balance you find more pleasing. Your manual or menu should provide you with options you can experiment with. If you\'\'re getting color shifts outdoors that are different than toward blue or yellow/orange, your camera calibrations need checked by a reputable camera reppairman.

1 Answer  |  Asked By: oldspice103  1

Basically, you need an intervening medium, such as smoke or fog or mist or some other transluncent or nearly transparent material. Haze in the atmosphere is the predominant factor in capturing sun rays in most unstaged photos.. It\'s an effect, and can be manually created, but . . . only Hollywood or cash-rich professional photographers have the money and methods to do it with any predicability. However, smoke from a a fire of green wood can be used if it\'s set (carefully) in a treed area. It\'s iffy, even then..

1 Answer  |  Asked By: karldelo  1

It\'s a card for taking light meter readings from. The traditional Kodak card came white a white side and a grey side. Here\'s the deal. It you take your camera and use its light meter to read a white buidlng and make an exposure, all of your OTHER shades or colors not as bright will go dark, some really dark. If you read a red barn and make you exposure, all of your OTHER brigher shades or colors will go lighter, some so \"chalky,\" they lose all of their detail, such as lines.. If, instead, you use your camera\'s meter to read a grey card and set your exposure from it, the shades and colors will reproduce pretty much as they are to your eye. EXCEPT, the brightest shades or colors will chalk in bright sunlight. The byword in black and white film photography is \"expose for the shadows; develop for the highlights. Basically, this means taking a meter reading of the shadows (about two stops under a grey card reading) and developing the film for a shorter duration than normal. It\'s a little complicated in that mathematical formulas are used to determine the latter, as well as developers you mix by hand as opposed to buying developers pre-mixed.. Grey cards of 18% grey are not nearly as crucial to color photography, although if has some applications for serious photographers.

1 Answer  |  Asked By: Swati  4

I\'m puzzled by your teacher\'s bias. Yes, the Cokin system utilizes square filters. However, their filter holder comes in a variety of sizes, meaning you can buy different holders for lenses with different sized fronts. This means a single Cokin filter can be used on ALL of your lenses. You only need to own different sized holders. In addition, Cokin offers a wide variety of filters, the widest I\'m aware of. The option with round, screw-in filers is that you need to buy different sized filers for different lenses. This gets expensive. If you\'re considering a wide number of filters, Cokin is a viable consideration. Some really long, fast telephotos actually come with a compartment built in that takes filters in the lens barrel rather than attach to their fronts. Round, glass filters don\'t work particularly well in these lenses.

1 Answer  |  Asked By: rawritscorkerz  1

Basically, a pin hole camera has no lens. Istead of a lens, It relies on a small opening made with a pin. A sheet of film, more often a sheet of enlarging paper, is placed on the focal plane. Coffee tins are popular as pin hole cameras because a hole can be made at the permanent end and the film/paper can be taped onto whatever covers the open end. The film/paper is loaded in a lighttght room. The small pin hole is protected from light by a cover, usually made of cardboard covered with black tape. This \"shutter\" is attached to the outside of the permant end and is litted to make an exposre. Exposing on a sheet of enlarging paper takes considerable time. You discover how much through experimentation. The result is a negative. Enlarging paper, once developed, can be used to make a contact print (one paper surfacce touches a second paper surface) that will be a positive when developed. This is probably more information than you need.

1 Answer  |  Asked By: erickuh  1