Digital Photo Tips

The new Performance Level Cross from Seculine is a compact digital leveling device for any camera with a standard hot shoe fitting (adapter required for Sony/Minolta), showing not only level level but also vertical alignment. This neat new device will work in standard Landscape mode as well as giving uniform information for portrait photography and when shooting directly vertically for skyscapes or downwards for applications such as outstretched copy work.

The Action level Cross offers leveling information in the form of a annoyed over the horizontal and vertical fields with 7 Colour LED lights for each axis showing level information in a above light sequence going from Red to Green in the centre when the camera is level. There is also a handy third set of lights showing knowledge for horizontal level when behind the camera.

When photographing in portrait mode or doing vertical style photography such as apace copy work, the Action level Cross will automatically sense its position and provide directional facts to level your camera. Adjustments can also be made for both brightness and sensitivity and there is a calibration facility to custom set the unit for your particular solicitation. For those looking to use their camera in low angle or overhead, there is also a remote unit available which will show the relayed information via a cable from the section on your camera.

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Saturation

To see in color is a delectation for the eye but to see in black and white is a delight for the soul. - Andri Cauldwell

Saturation is both an important and an overused circumstance of color. In short, it is just too easy to over saturate a photograph, either globally or locally, in order to grow into it more colorful or more interesting.

Certainly, it can be said that overusing the two other variables of color is just as bad. Making a photograph too reflection or too dark is not good either. And having too many different hues in an image is a sure recipe to make it look tasteless. Similarly, reducing the hues to a minimum may remove interest in the image altogether.

None of these are good and all of them are symptoms of incarnation maladies. But right now I want to address saturation specifically, because I believe that this subject needs a petty discourse now followed by a few remedies later.

The problem with saturation starts with raw files. Raw files are by sort desaturated. This is simply one of the aspects of capturing photographs in raw format. Therefore, in order to make them look “conformist,” whatever this might mean to each of us, we have to increase their saturation level. This is often the source of problems with color photographs.

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