Soulcraft is photography and illustration/design portfolio of Egor Rogalev
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Monthly Archives: December 2010
Canon SX30IS 14.1MP Digital Camera Review
Canon SX30IS 14.1MP Digital Camera Review
The PowerShot SX30 IS has got you prepared for your next extreme photo opportunity. This point-and-shoot digital camera comes with a massive 35x Wide-Angle (24-840mm) Optical Zoom lens–a first for any PowerShot! It also comes with a 2.7-inch Vari-angle LCD, 14.1 Megapixels, High Dynamic Range, Zoom Framing Assist and much more.
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Canon PowerShot SX30 Highlights
35x wide-angle optical zoom (24-840mm) with Optical Image Stabilizer
The PowerShot SX30 IS is equipped with a 35x Optical Zoom lens with a focal length of 4.3-150.5mm (35mm equivalent: 24-840mm) that allows you to shoot any scene from wide-angle to telephoto. The camera uses a VCM (Voice Coil Motor) for high-speed, quiet, energy-efficient lens movement with precise control. Focal length is conveniently indicated on the lens barrel.
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The lens is optimized to fully exploit its zoom length and wide shooting angle in concert with the camera’s high 14.1 Megapixel resolution. UD glass effectively suppresses chromatic aberration, while enhanced negative refractive power ensures that distortion at the wide-angle is also corrected. Further aberration is controlled with the inclusion of a double-sided aspherical glass-molded lens and ultra-high refraction index lens.
The SX30 IS is equipped with Canon’s acclaimed Optical Image Stabilizer Technology that automatically detects and corrects camera shake–one of the leading causes of fuzzy or blurred shots. Even when zoomed in, you can get the steady, crisp, brilliant images you’ll be proud to shoot and share. And Canon’s Optical Image Stabilizer Technology is convenient to use. It functions perfectly with or without a flash.
Improvements to Movie modes: Dynamic mode enables users to use the Optical Image Stabilizer while shooting video
Dynamic IS allows you to capture video with more precision and ease than ever before! Without having to make any additional camera adjustments, Dynamic IS automatically operates the moment you start recording video. This image stabilizer continuously readjusts throughout the camera’s entire zoom range to correct a broad range of motion — especially when shooting in the wide-angle end, so footage comes out steady and clear even while you’re walking and recording at the same time!
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And with a powerful 35x Optical Zoom, you’ll never be too far away from capturing your greatest memories! Best of all, the Optical Zoom can now be used while shooting video–a first for any of the Canon PowerShot SX digital cameras! So no matter the distance or environment, Canon lets you stay confident that you’ll capture the footage you want.
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Shoots superb 720p HD video with stereo sound; HDMI output
The PowerShot SX30 IS lets you record video in beautiful high definition (1280 x 720 pixels). The camera also makes it easy to enjoy HD videos (and still photos) on your HDTV with a mini-HDMI connector for direct connection to a high-definition TV monitor. You’ll enjoy the HD experience with no degradation of image or audio in the signal, plus the ability to display up to 130 still images at once.
PowerShot SX30 IS Camera User Guide
PowerShot SX30 IS Camera User Guide now available for download
Take Better Photos Now – Michael Kitada
Take Better Photos Now – Michael Kitada
“I’m Michael and photography is my life.
I’ve worked as a staff photographer at the Orange County Register. I teach photography at Cal Baptist University and taught at UCLA, too. My blog is about photographic inspiration, inside the mind of the photographer as images are made. I talk about the process and images that I’ve made and fresh ones that I am shooting now, too. “
Confessions of a Photographer – Bert Stephani
Confessions of a Photographer – Bert Stephani
“Bert (Stephani) likes to play but not by the rules. He wants to have fun and is a master in talking others into his crazy adventures.”, that’s what a school councilor once said about me. And he added: “That’s why we’ll expel him from school”. I’m not sure if I should have seen that as an encouragement, but I did anyway.
Fast forward to some 19 years later and I’m a 35 year old photographer from Belgium, shooting pictures while living my dream. Although I know the rules, I don’t feel limited by them when I play with light, location, gear and talent. I love what I do whether I’m working alone or cooperating with large team on an epic project.
I may have been a bad fit for the Belgian school system but I feel strongly about education and sharing information. I’ve been teaching workshops and doing speaking engagement in many different countries and I love to share my knowledge and ideas over the internet.
>>> check out Bert’s photo blog
>>> check out Bert’s photography website
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Fine Art Photographer Susan Wides
Fine Art Photographer Susan Wides
“Born in 1955 in Cincinnati, Ohio, Susan Wides received her B.A. at Indiana University, whereshe studied with the significantly influential photographer and teacher, Henry Holmes Smith. Artistically emerging during the Reagan years, Wides developed a practice that examined constructed ideas between the notions of fake and real in image making.
By working with a 4 x 5 film camera, and more recently, with a digital SLR, Wides is performing a continual study of New York City. More recently, her expansive, yet refined, technique of manipulating the way light hits the picture plane has been used to giver her photographs a cradled interiority. The viewer is often unsure of where they are standing in relation to the picture plane, perspective is no longer conceived through conventional vanishing points, but through shifting glints of interactive moments. “
>>> read more about Fine Art Photographer Susan Wides
New York City Fashion Photographer – Steve Brickles
New York City Fashion Photographer – Steve Brickles
Steve Brickles is an English fashion photographer based in New York City.
After establishing himself in London, Steve moved to Brazil where he became a regular contributor to Elle Magazine & Marie Claire. In 2006, he relocated to New York.
Steve’s work is marked by an ability to faithfully interpret a client’s idea’s, to bring energy to an image & to work within a team to produce images that surpass expectations, whether in the studio or in the most challenging of places.
His on-location experience includes North America, South America, Europe and Asia. He speaks Spanish and is fluent in Portuguese.
In his spare time, Steve helps raise money for autism by running the New York City marathon every November and donating limited edition signed prints for auction twice a year.
Steve’s fine art photography has been exhibited in both England and South America.