So you were shooting the city, at night with a wide angle… right?
Also, what kinda camera are you shooting with? Does it have a mirror “lock-up”?

Those parameters will influence the results/expected effects.
Things to consider:

• Night Photography tends to be contrasty, and this means that you may need to slightly over-expose and under-develop the film
• Don’t be afraid to shoot at many different exposures - between 10 seconds > two minutes.
• At those long exposures, you need to imagine what anything that’s moving will appear like during that two minutes exposure. For example a plane flying by in the background may appear as a streak of light. It may be nice, it may be distracting.
• People walking by in the picture may not appear at all, etc.
• If shooting with a B&W film, I recommend the Tri-x 400. It’s an awesome film, I’d expose it @ 400 ASA bc @200 ASA it will lead to very long exposures for the same results.
• If you dont want to waste anymore rolls, TAKE NOTES!! Record your shutter speeds and aperture to be able to correct next time.
• Don’t forget the reciprocity factor, and make sure to check Kodak website to see what they recommend as far as the stops are concerned.

There are no golden rules. It all depends on the effects/results you wanna achieve so feel free to experiment! That’s what photography is about…

The Qflash 5d-R is a wireless TTL system for both Nikon & Canon.

The Qflash can be controlled and triggered by a wireless-capable Canon Speedlite such as the 580EX, a Nikon Speedlight like the SB-800.

As the logo says, this website allows you to edit pictures online… If you’re not a Photoshop genius but still want to perform basic editing tasks, this might be the solution you werer looking for.

Snipshot features:

• No download necessary—100% browser based, no plug-ins required
• One-click import from any web site (including Flickr) with our bookmarklet
• Export to Flickr, or save as GIF, JPG, PDF, PNG or TIF
• One-click enhance improves most images
• Basic editing tools like crop, rotate, resize
• Basic image adjustments like contrast, brightness, saturation, sharpness and hue
• Unlimited undo and redo (Ctrl+Z and Ctrl+Y, or ‚åòZ and ‚åòY on your Mac)
• Nondestructive editing—we always work from the original
• Edit big pictures—up to 10 MB, or 25 megapixels
• Import PDF (first page only), EPS or SVG

Not bad for a sucker!

After an interesting conversation sparked up in another forum I’m in I figured I might bring some of the information over here for everyone to have a look at, specially you street photographers and photo journalists…

Here is a downloadable PDF explaining your photography rights from Bert P Krages Attorney at law… for the U.S.A.

When a big boss at Nikon, here Charles- Andr?© Wamberque, Assistant Manager, Product Planning and R&D Department, is giving an interview there is always something interesting that must come out of it right??

Well, nothing that exciting actually… Only if talking about the full-frame technology!!

Matja?æ: Two years ago at Photokina we learned that Nikon is still thinking about the full frame sensor. Any news on the issue?

Charles-Andr?©: We never said we abandoned the full frame. But then again, we never said when we will introduce a camera with a full frame sensor. As you might have read in the Canon white paper - full frame sensor is still six times the price of an APS-C one. That has a big impact on the retail price. 5D costs 3500‚Ǩ and it’s not easy to sell such an expensive product. We have to be careful not to make the full frame idea too popular. We’re definitely still thinking and working on it but I cannot tell you when it might happen.
DX lenses are only four years old and they are still very popular. The quality is still very good and the users know it. But sometimes the full frame is necessary.

Now available on both the Macintosh and Windows platform, Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom™ Beta 4.1 is the efficient new way for professional photographers to import, select, develop, and showcase large volumes of digital images.

Digital technology is reaching new peaks with this 8.6 Gigapixel stiched photography!!

As part of the frame alignment process, a wall-size printed grid was created. It wasn’t the final grid, says, Gavinelli, just the one picture that was used during an earlier step in the workflow and was generated at about 100 megapixels of resolution, then cropped - WTF!!

The shotting took place on January 30, 2006, and 1,145 NEF were necessary. The images were then processed on a 4x AMD Opteron 885 Dual Core 65bit loaded with 16 Gigs of RAM and 1.8 Terabyte of disk space…

I say BRAVO!