Canon Quick Tips – Watch and Learn from Canon’s Advisors

Canon Quick Tips
Need a fast advice on some issue you have with your Canon gear? Have a look at the concise tips and tricks at the Canon Digital Learning Center

How To Make A Tilt-Shift Lens From A Broken Canon EF 50mm f/1.8

Do you have a broken Canon Nifty-Fifty (EF 50mm f/1.8) lying around and maybe want a tilt-shift lens for cheap?

Photographer Witono Halim bought a broken Nifty-Fifty and transformed it in a tilt-shift lens. While the result doesn’t exactly look beautiful it works surprisingly well. The video below gives an idea of the kind of footage you can get.

[via Witono’s Freestyle via ExposureGuide via PetaPixel]
EF 50mm f/1.8
Canon EF 50mm f/1.8

Adobe Lightroom 5 Tips & Tricks Round-Up

 

For your week-end, a round-up of useful Lightroom 5 tips and tricks.


Top Lightroom Tip That Your Clients Will Thank You For Learning – fstoppers

Useful Lightroom Plug-ins – Digital Photography School

How to Watermarking Images With Photoshop and Lightroom – Digital Photography School

Using Lightroom Collections to Organize Your Photos – photofocus

Step by Step Portrait Processing in Lightroom – Digital Photography School


Are You Taking Advantage Of The Survey View in Lightroom? – fstoppers

How to do Noise Reduction in Lightroom – Digital Photography School

Four Under-Used Tools in Lightroom’s Lens Correction Module – Digital Photography School


Quick Lightroom Tip – Import Multiple Cards at Same Time – fstoppers

How to Sharpen Photos using Adobe Lightroom – photofocus

How to Add an Opacity Slider to Lightroom Develop Presets with The Fader Plug-In – Digital Photography School

Make a Photo Website with Lightroom and Koken – Digital Photography School

A Bit Of Everything

Let’s go for another round-up of various stuff

Articles:

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Making Eyes Pop More in a Portrait Using Lightroom – The Phoblographer

Top 10 Street Photography Tips from Famous Photographers – The Phoblographer

You Can Almost See Yourself in the Shot with the Samyang 12mm f2.8 Fisheye Lens – The Phoblographer

How to Photograph an LCD Screen When Using a Flash – The Phoblographer

6 Practical Ways to Unlock the Real Power of Colors in Your Photography – Lightstalking

How to use the Art of Self Reflection to Make Better Photos – Digital Photography School

Demystifying White Balance – Digital Photography School

Videos:


Tutorial: A Quick Way to Add a Subtle Punch to Your Photos’ Color In Lightroom – PetaPixel


Stuff People Say to Photographers: A Funny List of the Most Infuriating Comments You’ll Hear from Clients – PetaPixel


8 Issues Street Photographers Run Into and How to Deal with Them – PetaPixel


Know The Difference Between Correct Exposure And Creatively Correct Exposure – DIY Photography


Crop or Crap: A Rational Dissection of the Full Frame vs. APS-C Argument – Photography Bay