James Schot Gallery Studio Blog
Rough Draft! That’s what this is to deliver a visual awakening with tips and suggestions for a truly picture perfect day! Let me know if you found this helpful… james@bestschot.com
It’s your party; it’s Your Wedding!
You can cry if you want to.
Or make sure your wedding/event is visually beautiful.
C1 – A Matter of Style: Traditional, [...]
Science of flash options reveals complexity of light, a vast topic
Welcome aboard photo enthusiasts… this is the fifth installment covering camera specifications you can find on such websites as dpreview.com. The fifth installment! When first thinking of writing about specifications I thought they would be covered in two articles, that’s it. Then I was [...]
Back to camera specification details; there’s still more to know
Welcome aboard photo enthusiasts… I’m back. The headline in the last issue for this column on photography was that it is “last installment on specs,” but like Freddie Krueger I’ve returned for one, two or more sequels. It’s like anything else, for instance, to really know [...]
(not the) Final installment on making sense of specs in camera manuals
Welcome aboard photo enthusiasts. This is the third installment covering things to do in researching a camera, using the example list of specifications you can find on such websites as dpreview.com. I continue to add my clarifications to this list of specifications to [...]
Getting into the pixels, stops of camera specs
Welcome aboard photo enthusiasts. Continuing on from where I left off in the last article on things to do in researching a camera, I was using dpreview.com to go through a list of specifications and adding clarifications to what each spec means for the Lumix DMC-FX150 camera, manufactured [...]
Internet full of camera info, if you know how to read it
Welcome aboard photo enthusiasts. I have wanted to go through things I like to do to research a camera I’ve heard about and may be interested in buying. I think it would be really useful and helpful, but procrastinated on it only because I [...]
Seeing like an eye, HDR coming to cameras soon
Welcome aboard photo enthusiasts. Last time I threw out the acronym HDR, which stands for high dynamic range. Possibly some of you have been to a Peter Lik Gallery and viewed his beautiful landscapes that in part benefitted from the HDR effect. This is a most significant [...]
Latest camera innovations still don’t beat great photographs
Welcome aboard photo enthusiasts. So what’s new? Reading about face detection and blink recognition built I’m wondering what this new technology and what’s next for new digital cameras?
In October of 2008 there was the annual 6Sight Future of Imaging Conference looking into future digital imaging. In the heyday [...]
We wrap up 2008 with lag time before shooting fresh into 2009
Welcome aboard photo enthusiasts, Happy New Year, and out with the old in with the new. To finish the old I was last talking about shutter lag, making the point that in some compact digital cameras it can be a half second or longer.
What’s [...]
Lag time on digital cameras can be a maddening issue
Welcome aboard photo enthusiasts. One of the most annoying aspects of owning a pocket or point and shoot digital cameras for me is the lag time, that is, the time it takes from when you press the shutter button to when the picture is actually taken.
My [...]