The Digital Photography
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The step-by-step secrets for how to make your photos
look like the pros’!
If Your Photos Aren't Sharp,
the Rest Doesn't Matter
Having photos that
are sharp and in focus is so vitally important to pro photographers that they
actually have coined a term for
I
them. They call them
"tack sharp! When I first heard that term tossed around years ago, I
naturally assumed that it was derived from the old phrase "sharp as a
tack," but once I began writing this book and doing some serious research
into its history, I was shocked and surprised at what I found. First of all,
it's not based on the "sharp as a tack" phrase at all. Tack sharp is
actually an acronym. TACK stands for Technically Accurate Cibachrome Kelvin (which refers
to the color temperature of light in photographs), and SHARP stands for Shutter
Hyperfocal At Refracted
Polarization. Now, these may seem like highly technical terms at first, but
once you realize that I totally made them up, it doesn't seem so complicated,
does it? Now, you have to admit, it sounded pretty legitimate at first. I mean,
I almost had ya, didn't I? Come on,
you know I had you, and I'll bet it was that "color temperature of
light" thing I put in parenthesis that helped sell the idea that it was
real, right? It's okay to admit you were fooled, just like it's okay to admit
that you've taken photos in the past that weren't tack sharp (just in case you
were wondering, the term "tack sharp" is actually formed from the
Latin phrase tantus saeta equina which means
"there's horsehair in my tantus"). Anyway,
what's really important at this point is whatever you do, keep your spotted
palomino away from anything with a sharp, pointy end used to attach paper to a
bulletin board. That's all I'm saying.
The Other Most Important Secret
The Real Secret to Getting Sharp Photos
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