Pixiq

Just about every filter you could ever want from FX Photo Studio

So about ten days ago I had my very Violet Elizabeth Bott stamp-my-feet and squeam-and-squeam-and-squeam-until-I'm-sick moment when a free photo filter app didn't offer me the requisite degree of control I expected and left me feeling terribly hard-done-by. [...]

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Crazy Contraption is back…and forth!

Follow focus is a method for controlling the focus of a lens so that the focus stays on a moving subject. There are a few devices in the marketplace that will attach to your camera that are made specifically for this purpose. You can buy whatever you like, but [...]

Use a Fader ND filter for cleaner photographs

Here's a title that should draw attention. How does a filter Fader ND make pictures cleaner? Well, allowing the photographer to have fewer concerns about having to clean filter surfaces. When water is close by, I should add. The Fader ND filter from LightCraft [...]

Crazy Contraption and a Dollar - Removes Filters

This is a cheap way to remove filters. It is a rubber thingy meant to remove lids from jars. I found mine at the dollar store. Every once-in-a-while I find a filter that will not budge when I try to remove it from a lens. The other day, I happened to be in a [...]

How to Use Layer Masks in Photoshop

Which Infrared Filter is Right for You?

When trying to describe what an IR filter is actually doing, we often talk about transmission rates. A filter is designed to absorb certain wavelengths. For IR filters, we are concerned with blocking near infrared wavelengths (from approximately 700 to 1100 [...]