10 Things To Know When Choosing A Digital Camera

If you want to make the right decision when you buy a new digital camera, what are the things to look out for?

1. The physical size and weight of the camera

Let’s review the straightforward stuff first. [ article continues here ]

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Images of newborn lambs

Here are two of the photos I took at a farm in the Yorkshire Dales we went to where lambs were being born.

The story and the rest of the images are at Quillcards Blog.

Enjoy!

 

Llama with its ears back

For anyone who wonders what the tell-tale signs are that a llama is about to spit a mouthful of straw and spittle, ears back and head reared back are the things to look out for – as here.

Nikon D60 with 18-55mm lens at ISO400 1/125 second at f5.6

It snowed yesterday

Rosa Parks

 

The rose on the right is a duplicate of the one on the left. I used Displacement Map in Photoshop to alter it.

Go to Distort > Displacement Map, and it will ask you for an image to use as a displacement map. Which means you need an image to use for that purpose. I recommend something that has ‘dramatic’ lines to it, such as the black and white image below. I made the image totally in Photoshop by drawing black lines and then copying and re-copying sections of it across the image.

 

 

And the following shots of Big Ben show what using that displacement map can produce.

 

 

And now, abracadabera: