{"id":885,"date":"2007-05-21T05:44:06","date_gmt":"2007-05-21T10:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2007\/05\/21\/digital-photography-tips-from-johns-adventures\/"},"modified":"2012-01-28T16:30:09","modified_gmt":"2012-01-28T21:30:09","slug":"digital-photography-tips-from-johns-adventures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2007\/05\/21\/digital-photography-tips-from-johns-adventures\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Photography Tips from John’s Adventures"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the very same person who brought us that wonderful, simple, elegant John’s Background Switcher<\/a> comes John’s Photography Tips<\/a>. Let me just say, these are good tips<\/em>. Example:<\/p>\n

“As I mentioned when I talked about ND Grad Filters<\/a>, the human eye can capture huge differences in brightness from the reflection of the sun on a rain-soaked road to the darkness of the ground under the shadow of a tree – and all at the same time. A camera is nowhere near as good, only being able to resolve a few stops of light (remember that a one-stop increase in exposure equates to double the amount of light, so 2 stops is 4 times the light, 3 stops is 8 times and so on). This means that the brightest and darkest things in your picture don’t want to be more than a few stops apart. “<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I don’t know about you, but that explains a lot to me about why my photos never seemed to come out quite right, and why they almost never<\/em> come out the way I see them myself.<\/p>\n

Trust me on this one, it’s a great guide, and I highly recommend you read it if you have any interest at all in exploring digital photography (even if you aren’t using a Digital SLR camera, like he is).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the very same person who brought us that wonderful, simple, elegant John’s Background Switcher comes John’s Photography Tips. Let me just say, these are good tips. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[204],"tags":[92,388],"class_list":["post-885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography-pictures","tag-photography","tag-technology","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pimUj-eh","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3230,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2010\/12\/03\/not-all-f-stops-are-created-equal\/","url_meta":{"origin":885,"position":0},"title":"Not all F-Stops are Created Equal","author":"Keith Survell","date":"December 3, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Explaining why that blurry background effect is harder to get on your point & shoot camera, even though you might have it set to the same f-stop as a DSLR.","rel":"","context":"In "Photography"","block_context":{"text":"Photography","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/pictures\/photography-pictures\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"camera sensor comparison","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2010\/12\/camera-sensor-comparison.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3961,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2012\/07\/17\/desktop-madness-vol-99\/","url_meta":{"origin":885,"position":1},"title":"Desktop Madness Vol. 99","author":"Keith Survell","date":"July 17, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"This installment of Desktop Madness features a nature photograph which was good enough to fool me into thinking someone else had taken it!","rel":"","context":"In "Wallpapers"","block_context":{"text":"Wallpapers","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/pictures\/wallpapers\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"tiny red leaves closeup","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5234\/7212625214_34f866443c.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":800,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2006\/10\/13\/johns-background-switcher\/","url_meta":{"origin":885,"position":2},"title":"John’s Background Switcher","author":"Keith Survell","date":"October 13, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"The other day I stumbled across this great utility from John's Adventures called (appropriately enough) John's Background Switcher. 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