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Light Painting as dubbed by some, is a great new photography technique whereby people take long exposures and flash lights around while doing so. There’s a bunch of examples all over the internet and a couple of guides. We didn’t read any of the guides and tried to do it ourselves the other night.

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It’s that time of year when I’m looking for a new camera, I have a list of things I look for in a camera, it needs to fit in my pocket, it needs to be great image quality, it needs Auto Bracket Exposure & RAW (for HDR), it should have Face recognition, low-light photos are a must, has to come with a flash, it needs to have a full manual mode and should be reasonably priced (If money wasn’t an option I’d buy the Leica X1 at $4000 instantly).

Over the past few weeks I’ve had my eye on the superb looking Sony NEX-5. So is search over, or do I have to continue looking?
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It comes to that time of year when camera manufactures like to parade their new products in front us, enticing us to release our hard earned cash in return for a box with a hole in it.

If not all, but most of my photos come from chance, so I like to have a pocketable camera with me at all times. I used to tote a much larger super zoom camera, but I would think about it before I went out for a walk. Many times I missed what I thought were photo opportunities, so last year I researched into pro-sumer pocket cameras.
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Forget Megapixels and think Megapixels per cm2.
As the megapixel race is coming to an end, the new race begins. The race for Megapixels per cm2. This time it’s not the largest number that wins, but the smallest… Megapixels per cm2, is a way of measuring sensor density, the higher the density the more problems arise, which then requires the cameras to do more processing to make an acceptable image.

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To make an HDR you need to take multiple exposures of the same picture, thus capturing different ranges of light. How you take these photos really depends on the features available in your camera. A tripod is essential, because you’ll need to keep the camera as steady as possible.

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