We’re excited to announce the schedule for Demo Days in December. These vendors will have representatives in the store to answer your questions about their newest cameras, lenses, printers, and accessories.
Your Point of View: Lost and Found Deadline Approaching
The Deadline for Your Point of View: Lost and Found is this Saturday, November 22nd at 6:00 pm. Be sure to send us your photos before then to have an opportunity to show your photos in the gallery at Bergen County Camera. Full rules can be found here.
Your Point of View: Lost and Found Samples
Now in Stock at Bergen County Camera
The Lytro Illum has just arrived at Bergen County Camera and this is a camera which has to be seen to believed. This new type of camera, known as a Light Field Camera, allows you to change where you focused and shift your perspective after you’ve taken the image. Stop in, learn how to use the Illum, take a few photos, and bring yours home today at Bergen County Camera. Take a look at the Lytro images we’re taking in the store here.
Your Point of View: Lost and Found Guidelines
We’re excited to announce the next Your Point of View Show! The theme this time is “Lost and Found”. Artists are asked to show us an image which represents the theme.
Artists are now allowed to enter two images per photographer. All submitted photos must be taken by the photographer entering the competition. All finalist will be limited to one image for the show. Thus 15 different photographers will have their photography shown.
All entry images should be color corrected and cropped to an 11×14 aspect ratio. Should you have any trouble with this, please feel free to e-mail alfred@bergencountycamera.com for help.
All entrees must be sent to customerservice@bergencountycamera.com by 6 pm on Saturday, November 22nd, 2014.
A panel of judges including at least one Artist and one Bergen County Camera Employee will select fifteen finalists.
All images will be shown on Bergen County Camera’s Facebook page and BergenCountyCamera.com. The 15 finalist images will be framed and hung in the gallery at Bergen County Camera in Westwood for the show.
Finalists will need to submit their own 11×14 print or purchase an 11×14 print through Bergen County Camera. Finalists will be offered a special price for images printed through Bergen County Camera. We will mat and frame all finalist images.
The opening will be on Thursday, December 4th from 7-9 pm in Westwood.
A sale price of $200 will be placed on all finalist art. You are welcome to refuse to sell your photo during the show.
Bergen County Camera shall be entitled to a 20% commission for any featured art sold during this show.
We look forward to seeing some fascinating work. Good luck!
Free Focus Sessions through November 2014
Focus sessions are free and take place in the Westwood store from 9:30 am – 10 am. All sessions will allow for questions and answers. Please bring your camera and any images along that you have questions about. Feel free to use the comment option to make suggestions for future focus sessions. Hit the “Like Button” to let your friends know. Have suggestions for future focus sessions? Feel free to leave a comment.
Here’s our upcoming Focus Sessions:
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Canon Fall Printer Event – October 16th
Join us on October 16th from 6:00 pm until 8:00 pm for a Canon Printer Event. Bring in your favorite fall themed image and we will print in for free on a Canon Pixma Pro Printer. There will be specials available that night only on Canon Printers. Refreshments will be served.
All About Aperture
Photography is the art of capturing a moment. Light and time caught and preserved for the enjoyment of all. While I can easily describe the amount of time it took to take a photograph, (in the accompanying photo 1/800th of a second) describing the amount of light is a little more complicated.
Your lens features a system which controls the light entering your camera. Much like the pupil of a human eye shrinks and grows depending on how much light is entering the eye, the lens has aperture blades which shrink the opening of the lens so the right amount of light enters for proper exposure. When we describe how much light is used in creating an image, we describe how much light is entering the lens, known as the f-stop, through the opening of the lens, the aperture. The lower the f-stop number, the higher the amount of light entering the lens. So an f-stop of 1.8 is letting in more light then an f-stop of 5.6.
Varying apertures can have dramatic effects on your photographs. Changing the aperture of your photos will both alter the depth of focus in your photos as well as the minimum shutter speed for proper exposure. Depth of focus is how far into your photo objects appears clear. When I use an aperture of f/1.8(lots of light entering the lens) objects in the foreground and background of where I focus will appear soft or blurry. Oppositely if I use an aperture of f/32(little light is entering the lens), both the subject I focus on, as well as both the foreground and background will be in focus.
When shooting in low light environments, changing the aperture of the lens to allow as much light in as possible will result in a quicker shutter speed and a sharper image. This often allows for taking photos without a flash even when there is low light. In landscape photography, changing the aperture will allow an increased depth of field and more subjects in focus.
Lenses can have either a fixed or variable aperture. In variable aperture lenses, the maximum aperture changes depending on what focal length you’re using, or how far you’ve zoomed your lens.
To find the aperture of your lens, we’ll take a look at a Nikon 18-55mm lens. Look at the front of the lens. There is a sequence of numbers on the front of the lens telling you the focal length of your lens (18-55mm) and a ratio showing the aperture (1:3.5-5.6). This is telling you that your lens is a variable aperture lens where the lowest possible aperture of your lens is f/3.5 at the shortest focal length (18mm) and f/5.6 at the furthest focal length (55mm).
In taking both portraits and everyday photos, low aperture lenses can make your photos much more interesting at a low cost.
Confused or want to learn more? Visit Bergen County Camera to learn more about aperture, lenses, and other ways to improve your photography.
Nikon D750 Seminar and Model Shoot
Visit Bergen County Camera on Thursday, October 23rd from 6:00 pm until 8:30 pm to learn about Nikon’s newest camera, the D750. Then after the seminar, get your hands on the D750 or one of Nikon’s other current models to try in a model shoot. Refreshments will be served. Sign up now on Eventbrite.
Now In Stock: Nikon D750
The Nikon D750 has arrived at Bergen County Camera. Available now body only. Stop in to bring your new camera home today!