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MIMS: The Winners of the Floral Contest |
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Written by Cyrus Khamak
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Monday, 23 July 2007 |
I am glad to announce the winners of the first Floral Contest at MIMS, our feedback group at FLickr.
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 24 July 2007 )
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MIMS Snapshot Contest Winner: Rehuel Sanches |
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Contests
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Written by Cyrus Khamak
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Thursday, 19 July 2007 |
We all congratulate Rehuel for being the winner of the Snapshot contest at MIMS |
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Last Updated ( Friday, 20 July 2007 )
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MIMS Night Photography Winner: Glen Navarra |
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Contests
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Written by Cyrus Khamak
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Monday, 16 July 2007 |
MIMS is our feedback group at Flickr where we have contests of different themes. I am glad to announce the winners of our Night Photography contests.
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 19 July 2007 )
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Member Recognition
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Written by Cyrus Khamak
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Friday, 13 July 2007 |
We would like to be able to pay full attention to, and recognize our inspiring photographers and artists. They are the ones amongst us who inspire us by their work and provide us with a benchmark for photographic achievements. We would also like to
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Last Updated ( Monday, 19 November 2007 )
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My Set Up
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Written by Cyrus Khamak
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Saturday, 07 July 2007 |
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I believe developing ones technique to reduce hand shake and shoot at low shutter speed can prove to be extremely helpful. |
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 22 July 2007 )
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My Set Up
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Written by Cyrus Khamak
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Sunday, 01 July 2007 |
This will kick off our first article in "My Set Up" section of MegaShot.net. Please contribute if you have a set up which may help others take better images.
Once I saw an ant in a small puddle of water struggling hard to swim out. I remained under the impression that ants are not good swimmers and would probably work hard to stay away from finding themselves in water.
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Last Updated ( Friday, 23 November 2007 )
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Do you really need a Macro lens for Macro photography? |
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Essays
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Written by Cyrus Khamak
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Saturday, 23 June 2007 |
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I guess it all depends on how much you'd like to get into the Macro world, what your interests are and how you define macro photography in general. For me, Macro photography starts with 1:1 magnification and anything far less than that and I would call it a close up. |
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 05 July 2007 )
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Essays
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Written by Cyrus Khamak
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Thursday, 21 June 2007 |
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Thank you all for your interest in knowing my thoughts on Macro photography and my gears used to shoot Mega Bee and Mega Fly. |
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Last Updated ( Friday, 06 July 2007 )
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Rising Artists
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Written by Cyrus Khamak
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Sunday, 15 July 2007 |
I would like to introduce Vannesa as an exemplary student of photography, one who has been able to demonstrate, how easy it is to follow your goals, if you just put your mind into it. |
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 31 July 2007 )
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Rising Artists
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Written by Cyrus Khamak
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Tuesday, 26 June 2007 |
It has been very hard not to notice the progress that our friend Rafik Kamel has made in his Macro Photography. What is even more note worthy, is the fact that he has only recently become interested in the filed and he does not even own a dedicated Macro lens yet. He uses his 70-300 VR lens along with a Macro adapter!
You may see more of his Macro work HERE, if you would like to do so.
Cyrus
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Last Updated ( Monday, 16 July 2007 )
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Rising Artists
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Written by Cyrus Khamak
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Friday, 22 June 2007 |
I have been following the work of our friend, Alin Balanean for a couple of years now. During this time, I have witnessed how he has gradually and steadily improved and transformed himself into a photographer and artist who can produce creative and thought provoking images.
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 19 July 2007 )
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Tutorials
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Written by Cyrus Khamak
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Sunday, 18 November 2007 |
Hello folks,
To capture water drops, I filled up a glass bowl of about one foot (25 CM) in diameter, with water. I submerged thin blue wrapping paper in the water and make it stay on the bottom attached to the bowl and they did. I also had some yellow and red paper stuck to the inside of the rim, on the opposite side of the camera.
Shot with FinePix S3Pro at 2007-12-10 |
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 07 August 2008 )
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It's all in the Conversion Par I |
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Tutorials
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Written by Cyrus Khamak
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Saturday, 17 November 2007 |
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This is a very basic tutorial, requested by some friends who are new to raw file conversion. For more advanced discussions, you may read Part II and Part III. |
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Last Updated ( Monday, 10 December 2007 )
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It's all in the Conversion Par III |
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Tutorials
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Written by Cyrus Khamak
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Friday, 16 November 2007 |
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When we do a raw conversion, we can actually play with all tool available in the conversion module to get the image we are after or at least close to it, |
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 13 December 2007 )
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First Things First, Understanding light |
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Tutorials
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Written by Cyrus Khamak
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Wednesday, 15 August 2007 |
Every time we take a photograph, we write a diary, a story, a comic or what have you. we do our writing with light, which what the word photography means, writing with light |
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Last Updated ( Monday, 19 November 2007 )
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Tutorials
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Written by Cyrus Khamak
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Friday, 06 July 2007 |
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My friend, Brian-D posted the following topic elsewhere and I thought it would make a good reading for other interested Macro shooters: |
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 07 July 2007 )
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Tutorials
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Written by Cyrus Khamak
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Wednesday, 27 June 2007 |
First place winner of the fourth monthly contest at MIMS: I'm ready For Lunch, by Vyufinder.
MIMS (Make It a Mega Shot) is our feedback group at Flickr and we have monthly contests and vote for photos we like best. I am glad to announce that we are going to feature the winners of these contests, also here, at MegaShot.net |
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 17 July 2007 )
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Tutorials
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Written by Guenter Leitenbauer
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Sunday, 24 June 2007 |
My gear
I use Canon DSLR which is probably the worst gear you can use for infrared (IR) photography. Why? Canon has a very efficient low pass filter in front of the sensor. “Low pass” means that longer wavelengths are filtered out (low wavelengths can pass, long wavelength are blocked). |
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 24 June 2007 )
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Tutorials
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Written by Cyrus Khamak
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Sunday, 24 June 2007 |
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A portrait simply mean that you have an image that looks like the person
or the subject you have attempted to photograph. We all know that
a good portrait is one that also captures the character and personality
of the model or the subject. So, the more the image resembles the model
in most every way, the more of a successful portrait we may have.
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 15 July 2007 )
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A Very Basic LAYERS Tutorial |
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Tutorials
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Written by Cyrus Khamak
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Thursday, 21 June 2007 |
If you have a design which has three different colors in it, you can make this design on one sheet of paper and you are done. You can also make this design on three different sheets of transparent plastic or acetate, where every color is on a different sheet. Once you overlay these three transparent sheets, you will once again have the complete design.
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 24 June 2007 )
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It's All in the Conversion Part II |
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Tutorials
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Written by Cyrus Khamak
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Thursday, 21 June 2007 |
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Friends who like the colors in my photos, often ask me about my Post processing steps and methods. The answer is the fact that there is little Post processing for colors, if any at all. I do all my color processing at the time of conversion. I limit post processing to sharpening and some color tweaking, if the image needs some. Most of the time spent on an image is in conversion and in sharpening afterwards. |
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 17 November 2007 )
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