Ask Miwaza 05

Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012 | Ask Miwaza, photography | Comments

“How should I edit my photos?”

I will share some of the most important “SECRET” tricks of my photography. It’s very easy and simple to make your photos look better by just a little bit of editing!!

1. How to edit your color photos.
2. How to edit your black & white photos.
3. Bad examples & good examples.

How to Edit Color Photos

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How to Edit Black & White Photos

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Good Example & Bad Example

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Bad Good

Ask Miwaza 04

Saturday, February 18th, 2012 | Ask Miwaza, photography | Comments

“iPhoto or Apeture?”
On Apple iPhoto and Aperture

Why iPhoto

- If you’re not planning to store your photos on external HDD.
- If you’re not a professional photographer and don’t need to organize whole bunch of photos at once.

Why Aperture?

- If you want to store your photos on External HDD and still view them through Aperture and edit them as if their on your actual Mac HDD.
- Rating tool, if you need to go through tons of photos at once and decide which one you’re going to keep and which doesn’t.
- Only $80. If you can’t afford Photoshop CS yet…
- If you usually just edit your photos a little bit, like brightness and contrast, Aperture is for you.

Ask Miwaza 03

Wednesday, February 15th, 2012 | Ask Miwaza, photography | Comments

“How to avoid camera shake?”

1. Keep your elbows closer to your sides.
2. Do NOT stop your breath when you press the shutter!

Ask Miwaza 02

Tuesday, February 14th, 2012 | Ask Miwaza, photography | Comments

Episode 2 – “How do you get that blurred background!?”

*The average prices are for reference only.

- Sigma 30mm f/1.4 EX DC HSM ($400 average)
- Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II ($100 average)

Obvious Advantage You Can Get from This Lens

- Low light photography
- Blurred background (aka bokeh)

* No tripod was used to photograph these two photos.


What is “Sigma”?

“Sigma produces products to work with cameras from Canon, Nikon, Pentax, Sony, Olympus and Panasonic, as well as for their own cameras.” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigma_Corporation for an English article)

What is “kit lens”?

The one that I mentioned in this video is “Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM”


Sample Photos

Sigma 30mm f/1.4 EX DC HSM

FNumber : F1.4
Exposure Time : 1/60
ISO : 200
Focal Length : 30mm
Exposure : 0ev
White Balance : Cloudy


Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II

FNumber : F1.8
Exposure Time : 1/50
ISO : 200
Focal Length : 50mm
Exposure : 0ev
White Balance : Cloudy


Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM

FNumber : F3.5
Exposure Time : 1/10
ISO : 200
Focal Length : 18mm
Exposure : 0ev


Similar Lenses

Nikon 35mm f/1.8G AF-S DX ($220 average)
Nikon 50mm f/1.8G AF-S NIKKOR ($220 average)
Sigma 50mm f/1.4 EX DG HSM ($499 average)

Similar But “SUPER EXPENSIVE” Lenses

Canon EF 24mm F/1.4L II USM ($2,000 average)
Canon EF 35mm F/1.4L USM ($2,400 average)
Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 35mm f/1.4G
Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 24mm f/1.4G ED

Ask Miwaza – LIVE (20120214)

Tuesday, February 14th, 2012 | Ask Miwaza | Comments

Watch me live my life…. thank you. LOL.