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Useful Information - Photography

Below is some useful information for those who have interest in photography, and would like to achieve good results at reasonable cost.


                        Learning Tips


On-line learning centre for Photoshop, Flash, etc.

The lynda.com Online Training Library® and CD-ROM courses include such subjects as Photoshop, Flash, Dreamweaver, Illustrator, Office, digital photography, Web design, digital video, and many others.


Good Books for Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Photoshop CS3 for Photographers is a professional image editor's guide to the creative use of Photoshop for the MAC and PC.

Please visit Martin Evening's website  for more information.


How to set up lighting
How to Set up Studio Lighting



Color correction for digital images


The Perfect-3 Tone Card is designed to help digital photographers improve exposure and image color.  

In Photoshop, set the RGB for White/Grey/Black to 10/10/10, 117/117/117, and 245/245/245.

http://www.pixelplace.ca/3tonecard.htm  


HowTo Clean DSLR Camera Sensor




Create your own effect
 
http://www.photofunia.com/



                     Photographic Supplies


BH Photo: On-line store for Photographers


Speedotron:
 Offering affordable and durable flash lighting system


ChimeraLighting:  
is the premier designer and manufacturer of quality lighting products for film, video, and still photography.



William F. White(WFW): Picture, TV & Theatrical production equipment provider

WFW is Canada's oldest and largest provider of motion picture, television and theatrical production equipment.  You may be able to get some 2nd hand photographic equipment at very good price.

Address: 1030 Islington Avenue , Toronto, ON, M8Z 6A4, Canada   Tel: 416-239-5050  Fax: 416-207-2777



Warehoused Plastic Sales Inc.: plastics that can be used for background
Can cut to the size or shape to suit your needs. Those plastics are good to use as table or background for studios.



Active Surplus: stores selling lots of spare parts, good for DIYers

More like a giant scrap yard for techies, artists, and DIY'ers than an actual electronic superstore, this has to be one of the more interesting clearance outlets - of any sort - in Toronto. Kinda like Honest Ed's on crack. Giant disco balls, used metal flaps (sold by the pound), various robots, spray paint for road signage, out-door all-weather speakers, (creepy) doll body parts were just some of the items available for purchase on a recent visit.

You can get some plastic boards from there at very low price. The plastic boards can be used as background or table for product photography.

Address : 347 Queen Street West, 2nd Floor, Toronto, Ontario M5V 2A4
Tel : (416) 593-0909 Toll Free



                     FLASH for dSLR Camera



Website about flash w. dSLR camera

Strobist is a website that helps to learn how to use off-camera flash with your dSLR to take your photos to the next level, or the next ten levels. There is a lot of useful information, free.  



Flash Diffuser - DIY bounce cards and flags

http://reviews.davidleetong.com/?p=210

Templates for Bounce Cards & Snoots
http://www.molineux.net/gallery/bounce-snoot-cards.pdf



Flash Diffuser – Bounce Card with black strips

This bounce card helps with eyeglass glare and shiny foreheads. It has a black stripe down the center and throws light to each side, feathering the light, and bounces some off the ceiling. It solves another problem. http://abetterbouncecard.com/




Flash - Feather the light


Feathering a light means aiming it so that part of the beam (the edge) illuminate the foreground and another part (the more intense centre) lights the background, rather than aiming the light directly at the foreground. The edge of the light is a soft part of the light, reduces the shiny of the cheek, the glare of the glasses, etc..
 

 
Peter Gregg’s Feather
llight




 
            Do It Yourself (DIY)



SoftBox

 

Enjoy!