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An intro to “conceptual” fine-art photography?
In many photo clubs and professional fine art photography, is very common to show "conceptual" photo essays or photo series.
That is, there is a unifying idea behind a compilation of images, and ...
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Rule of thirds — is there any scientific proof behind it?
I learned about rule of thirds only recently, and it excited me a lot, and it seems to apply to a lot of situations.
But my question is why does it make pictures look more appealing? Does it have ...
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Do full frame sensors gather more light than crop sensors?
Lots of people say that full frame sensors receive more light than cropped sensors. I have never found a proof of this claim so I tried to do the computation by myself, and proved the contrary! Could ...
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How can a high resolution camera matter when the output is low resolution?
The question is inspired by this question showing these pictures.
The accepted answer suggests that these pictures were taken by a 8x10 view camera, and the use of a 8x10 camera was confirmed in the ...
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Is there such a thing as a filter for circularly polarized light for photographic use, and what would be the effect of using one?
I was under the assumption that a circular polarizing filter would filter circularly polarized light. I now understand that what is commonly called a circular polarizing filter only filters based on ...
