There’s just a few days left to vote for your favorite panel at the SXSW Interactive festival next year.
Photodex is in the running and we’d love if you could take a minute and vote for our panel, ‘When Photo Sharing Goes Wrong’. Click here to vote!
We appreciate your help and support!
Do you know the difference between DVD and Blu-ray, HD vs. Standard Def? With so many formats and ways to share slideshows nowadays, we thought it would be good to interview an expert and get the straight answers about slideshow playback quality.
We sat down with Josh Green who heads up Photodex’s Quality Assurance team, a group whose job it is to test our software inside and out, and much of the testing involves disc burning and video output. In fact, if you were to step into our QA department, you’d be bombarded by racks of test machines, spindles of discs and computer equipment everywhere! (in a nice, neat and orderly fashion to give the QA team credit!) Point being…Josh knows his stuff!
Q: If I burn my slideshow to DVD, will it playback in high definition on my HDTV?
A: HDTVs are just too good for DVDs, they really are. The video on a DVD just doesn’t have enough pixels to take advantage of an HDTV resolution and that makes things look less than crisp. A DVD has a resolution of 720×480. Compare that to an HDTV resolution of 1920×1080 and you’re looking at a TV display that has approximately 2 to 6 times more pixels than the DVD it’s displaying.
So you may be asking “what’s a Photo Vacation”? For me, it was not only choosing a vacation spot, but also planning my trip around the idea that I’d spend my time practicing my hobby, photography. From where do I go to what do I bring, every piece of puzzle revolved around taking lots of photos.
Crater Lake, Oregon.
Picking the Right Destination
Lately I’ve been working on improving my landscape work as well as photographing water. So I thought about places where I knew I would find beautiful scenery and plenty of practice opportunities.
Have you ever tried to photograph a transparent or translucent product and had trouble getting the lighting just right? Anything from water to wine bottles can be interesting to photograph but getting the lighting to pop can be a bit tricky.
We recently came across an awesome video tutorial on Videomaker’s website about product lighting. It includes helpful step-by-step examples of how to set up lighting for different types of products, whether they are translucent, transparent or opaque.
Have you had success photographing these types of objects? What are some of your top tips?
Photodex is excited to be in the running to host a panel at the annual SXSW Interactive festival.
Public voting accounts for about 30% of the decision-making process, so we’d love if you could take a second and vote for our panel “When Photo Sharing Goes Wrong”.
The panel will feature Paul Schmidt, Photodex’s President and Founder and several other prominent experts talking about the current state of online photo sharing and discussing whether or not we are ‘oversharing’ personal images and what the consequences of that can mean. Read the entire description here.
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