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Now that I own an HDTV, I’m seriously considering buying an HD Camcorder.
The problem I’m finding is that I really don’t want a full blown Camcorder. I own a Canon Elura 65, and we never use it. Primarily because the process of getting video off of it, takes a long as the video [...]
RAW Workflow: A Pro’s Approach
Great little HDR Tutorial
How to Achieve Great Indoor Photography Results
Getting the Most From a Background
HOW TO CROP A PHOTO FOR BETTER COMPOSITION
Build your own 42″X78″ free-standing lighting panel for about $40
4 Easy Photoshop Techniques to Make Your Pictures Pop!
Are you thinking of taking your photography to the next level, and making a business out of it? If you are, bookmark PhotoBusinessForum and excellent blog about making a run at being a professional photographer.
Compare Mode in Aperture - nice little tip from O’Reilly.
Posing Tips - Waistlines, Thighs and Bustlines - good tips for a budding photographer.
How to Turn an Ordinary Photo Into an Extraordinary Photo
How to Remove Tourists from Your Photos - love it!
If you’re looking for a good camera bag for the Digital SLR and the lenses you got for Christmas, go read this article. Great advice in the article and in the comments.
I personally use three bags, depending on my needs for the day:
Case Logic SLR and Computer Backpack - I use this [...]
Levels and Photoshop and Photography tutorials.
Aperture vs. Lightroom - great read, and interesting since I spent my last flight from Austin to LA sitting next to one of Apple’s Aperture sales reps (he is responsible for training resellers to sell Aperture). I got a great lesson from him in the 2-3 hour flight, and look forward to seeing him again to learn even more.
FAlbum: a Wordpress plugin that allows you to display your Flickr photos and photosets on your site.
Lots of lighting articles here for you photographers.
This HDR Tutorial is awesome.
Ever wonder what the hell HDR photography is really all about?
I have.
So, when I read this article: Modern HDR photography, a how-to or Saturday morning relaxation I was really excited, and wanted to start taking all sorts of HDR shots. Doesn’t look easy by any means, but does look like a lot of fun, [...]
Beginners Guide to Manual Photography
My flickrInspector data can be found here: johnengler flickrInspector data. Kind of neat.
Digital Photography 101: Shutter Speed
2 Comments Published 1 year, 11 months ago in photography + videoThis is part four of a series of articles I’m writing about digital photography, as I learn more about it. You can find links to the other articles at the bottom of this one.
Any camera has a shutter, and that shutter is the “curtain” that covers your film, and either a) keeps light from hitting [...]
How to Shoot Impromptu Street Portraits
“PhotoWalkthrough.com presents video tutorials showing the post processing of a photograph using Adobe Photoshop and other programs. Along the way you will learn about the tools and techniques used and gain insight into the creative decisions that directed the artist’s hand.” - amazing stuff.
Flash Mounted home made DIY Softbox
Just Show Me How is a cool new site with tips for digital photographers and there’s a blog along with it too. Done by award-winning photographers. Pulitzer-prize winners and all that. Lots of fun, and has videos and such too.
copied verbatim from Scoble
I’ll point out that the site offers tips that you have to pay [...]
Starting Photography, Digital Workflow, Orphans and Amazing Zooming Images from Donncha. Excellent Read.
Thomas Hawk’s Top 10 Tips for Getting Attention on Flickr - and to take one of his pieces of advice… You can see some of my photos from our recent cruise in my Flickr photostream.
In this post by Donncha, you’ll find a really good list of photoblogs that are worth subscribing to… great photos are my weakness.
Ted Leung on Portrait Books - a quick review of three books on taking portraits… great list of tips in the second mini-review.
Model World - some really cool aerial photographs that honestly look like photos of tiny models.
Converting a color photo to a single layered stencil with Photoshop - neat tutorial
Where to find good images online - good list of stock art images for sale and for free.
Streams of dusty light Photoshop tutorial - too cool.
Photography Tips Roundup - includes links to these nuggets: Avoid Backlight, Find Your Picture, Edit ruthlessly, Move it from the middle, Lock the Focus, Spot the light, Get in close.
Legal Rights of Photographers - good primer.
Maury posted his Cross Processing Technique for Photoshop last week. It’s the second item on the weekly archives page I’ve linked to. Interesting how much Photoshop can do once you start to understand it and the concepts behind it.
How to Build a Lightbox - quick and easy read… great tutorial.
Go read RAILHead Design’s posts on Aperture from last week if you’re interested in Aperture. Good stuff.
Getting Aperture to load without 1 GB of RAM
7 Comments Published 2 years, 5 months ago in macintosh, photography + videoI spotted this on the internet somewhere (wish I could remember where, so I could point to it)
When you get Aperture, and install it, it’ll let you install it, if you don’t have enough RAM, but it won’t run, and will give you an error saying something like “This machine doesn’t have the minimum resources [...]
PC World: Aperture Takes Digital Photography Back to the Future - PC World’s Mac Skeptic takes a look at Aperture, from a “point and shoot” perspective. Not worth it for a point and shoot photographer, but probably worth it for a serious pro, if only for a few reasons is her take on it.
This is part three of a series of articles I’m writing about digital photography, as I learn more about it. You can find links to the other articles at the bottom of this one.
No, we’re not talking about Aperture, the software application from Apple. We’re talking about the Aperture on your SLR camera [...]
Ars Followup to Initial Review on Aperture - Ars Technica reviewer, Dave Girard, goes into more detail with Aperture based on the feedback he received from his initial review. Good reading here, especially if you’re still on the fence about dropping $500 for an immediate workflow fix to your Digital Photography needs.
Digital Photography 101: Film Speed
4 Comments Published 2 years, 5 months ago in photography + videoThis is part two of a series of articles I’m writing about digital photography, as I learn more about it. You can find links to the other articles at the bottom of this one.
I bet your new Digital camera has a setting for “Film Speed” on it… and if you’re like most amateurs (totally including [...]
Optimize performance in Photoshop (CS2 on Mac OS) - good stuff if you’re into Photoshop. Windows version here
Some initial thoughts on Aperture from Chuq - Another look at Aperture from a non-pro. “My cut: Aperture is an impressive first release; among other things, they got the performance and the organizational aspects of it well fleshed out. I’m a LOT happier with Aperture than I was with iPhoto…”
BBum on Aperture - first look from another non-professional photographer… and I think my big problem with Aperture is going to be how I architect my organizational scheme. Aperture offers a much freer form than iPhoto in how you organize your photos, but I’m sure I’ll figure out what makes sense to me…
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