Photography Links - August 19, 2022

Here are some articles about photography that I found interesting or useful.

Fujifilm X-S10 with 16-80 mm. F4 WR @ F8, 1/2000 second, ISO 1600, -.7 EV, Acros+Red Filter film simulation

• From Gear to Settings, How to Master Night Photography. "Night photography is a tricky thing to master. Once you’ve seen this short checklist of required equipment and mastered these basic settings, you’ll have the world seeing stars."
• Exclusive: How Nikon designed the Nikon Z fc – and why it thinks the future is retro. The Z fc is a very nice little camera. If it had been available in early 2021, I might have bought it instead of my Fujifilm X-S10. 
• Matt Kloskowski's blog. He is a "Tampa Bay based photography educator who’s day to day job is running this website, and creating courses and presets to help you with photography and photo editing." I've found many useful articles on his blog. 
• Fujifilm Film Simulations: More Than A Marketing Gimmick. A deep dive into Fujifilm's film simulations, which are one of the best features of their mirrorless cameras. 
• ISO Has Nothing to Do with Exposure: A Technical Explanation. "Photographer Chris Lee of the YouTube channel pal2tech recently released one of the most straightforward technical explanations of ISO that we’ve seen. In this 12 minute video, he explains what ISO is and, just as importantly, takes on a couple of common misconceptions by explaining what ISO is not."
• Intermediate Exposure Guide for Manual Mode Photography. "This article is intended for beginner manual shooters who are not beginner photographers. This guide may benefit people who have been shooting in manual mode and still find things a bit tricky. It assumes knowledge of how one’s camera works and the relationship between the various exposure settings. It is not a highly technical article and does not address the histogram or other advanced exposure techniques."
• How to Use Flash to Shoot Better Portraits in the Sun. "Shooting with a wide aperture for portraits with a shallow depth of field is a highly popular look, but when you are photographing in the sun with flash, you can run into impossible-to-solve exposure issues — impossible until you introduce some new techniques. This helpful video tutorial will show how to deal with strong sun in outdoor portrait situations to produce better images."