November 2008

Using multiple Canon Ex flashes tutorials.

“ The artificial lighting learning curve for most photographers starts with a built-in flash or external flash mounted above the viewfinder. The photographs they take [...]

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Using A Cooling Honeycomb As A DIY Photography Gridspot

I just love gridspots. The amount of light control that a gridspot will give you is incredible. So, a while back I ordered some honeycomb [...]

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Be Careful With Photo Contests

While doing the annual purging of the tryptophan ritual ysterday I came across Photojojo, which listed 12 contests on their website.  As usual, appropriate disclaimers [...]

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Masking out hairs using Alpha Channels photoshop tutorial

Alpha channels are basically specialized selection processes. Alpha channels are used to make, store or edit selections made using tools such as Lasso, Magic wand [...]

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Aperture, ISO and Shutter Speed

What I’m aiming for is the article I wish I’d found when I first got my camera, to help explain the relationship between three critically [...]

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The artist who can turn a market stall into a masterpiece

Field of dreams: The countryside landscape has broccoli for trees, potatoes for rocks and basil and herbs for the grass. The path is made from [...]

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Learn Digital Photography Now – The Power of Black and White Photography

It is said that everything comes around full circle, creating a cycle. This is most certainly the case with reemergence of blank and white photography [...]

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Share Your Photos with GPhotospace

GPhotospace.com announced today the launch of PC and Mac versions of the GPhotospace Add-on for Firefox and Flock. Leveraging the Gmail platform, the GPhotospace Add-on [...]

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A Comprehensive Introduction to Photoshop Selection Techniques

Have you ever had difficulties making selections and thought there was a better way? Let’s review both quick solutions, and on the other side, comprehensive [...]

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10 Tips To Tell You How To Start A Photography Business By Finding Your Photography Niche

Sooner or later, most photography enthusiast give some thought to “how to start a photography business.” Unfortunately, there are a ‘few’ challenges that “doom” us [...]

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How to Shoot Professional Images in Low Light

Low light…it can be a photographer’s nightmare. But here are some basic techniques that I use daily to overcome this obstacle. Some of this may [...]

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How to Sell your Landscape Photos

We all do it. Even the sort of cutting-edge, super-cool street photographers who are more likely to get excited by a pile of concrete than [...]

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Photoshop and textures video tutorial

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Canon EOS 5D mark II sample video : One night in Beijing.

Video filmed by Guardian photographer Dan Chung entirely on a production Canon EOS5DmkII and adapted Nikon and Zeiss lenses using manual focus. The camera was [...]

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Panasonic Lumix DMC-G1 Review

The first thing that strikes you about the Panasonic Lumix DMC-G1 is that it isn’t quite as small or light as Panasonic’s marketing literature might [...]

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Adobe Camera Raw 5.2

Adobe has released an update to its Photoshop Camera Raw plug-in, available immediately as a free download on Adobe.com. Adobe Camera Raw 5.2 extends raw [...]

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Canon says digital camera market may shrink in 2009

Tsuneji Uchida also told Reuters that Canon was aiming to cut $1 billion in costs with a new computer system to be completed by 2010 [...]

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Retouching a Studio Portrait in Photoshop Tutorial

This Photoshop tutorial is written for experienced Photoshop users and will show you unique techniques for retouching photos. You’ll learn how to enhance backgrounds, dodge [...]

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Photo selection from Flickr pool VI

Selections from our flickr photo pool :

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Download the PhotographyBB Online Magazine Issue #10

PhotographyBB announced today, the release of the tenth edition of the PhotographyBB Online Magazine. The PhotographyBB Online Magazine is quickly becoming a leading resource in [...]

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Hasselblad Announces Comprehensive Amendments to Their Customer Care Program

New Camera Care Plan to provide international coverage to professional photographers, including 24 hour help desk and day-to-day exchange service. High-end camera manufacturer Hasselblad has [...]

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The Champion’s Guide to Captioning and Keywording Your Photos

There’s an old cliché about a picture being able to speak a thousand words, so you’d imagine that having shot a great image, you wouldn’t [...]

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Working In Adobe Camera Raw – ACR – Adobe Camera Raw Tips

Adobe Camera Raw is the gateway for opening Raw images into the main editing space of Photoshop, but Adobe Camera Raw is also a great [...]

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Learn how to create stunning HDR photos from a single RAW file.

Ideally, 14-bit RAW files contain 4 times more information than 12-bit RAW files in the shadows. Realistically the gain may be limited somewhat by noise, [...]

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Photography Blog Spotlight : PaxtonPrints

One of my favorite photography resources – along with  DigitalPixels.net  – is Steve Paxton’s website www.paxtonprints.com , nice photos ( love those hdr’ish – lucisart’ish [...]

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Search millions of historic photos from LIFE with Google

Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the [...]

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A quick start guide to the one light setup

1) Setup your single light source (It can be a continuous source, a low power strobe or a 100 watt flash). 2) Make sure you [...]

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Adobe Configurator Download

Welcome to the prerelease of Adobe® Configurator. Configurator is an open source utility that enables the easy creation of panels (palettes) for use in Adobe [...]

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More Than a Bit of a Difference: 8-bit Versus 16-bit

If you’ve been learning about digital imaging, whether by shooting with a digital camera or by scanning your film images, you’ve probably come across the [...]

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The Cloud is Falling

This past year has been one of the roughest years for the newspaper and magazine industry — and truth be told — the outlook for [...]

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Canon Software updates.

- Digital Photo Professional 3.5.1 – EOS Utility 2.5.1 – Picture Style Editor 1.4.1 – WFT Utility 3.3

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10 Questions for: PhotoShelter

In light of the demise of Digital Railroad, a few readers have written expressing concern about the future of PhotoShelter, and what their closing of [...]

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Consistent Portrait Photos.

In this lesson we show how to set up and shoot the perfect portrait every time. With a few simple tips and tricks, you can [...]

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Photoshop Pen Tool Cheat sheet

” Adobe’s pen tool works pretty much the same across Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign. Yet, as important as this ubiquitous tool is, many people get [...]

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Photoshop Lasso Tool Cheat sheet.

We love cheatsheets. Those handy quick-reference guides that keep all sorts of vital information right at your fingertips. In fact, we’re dedicating one issue each [...]

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Photoshop Brush Tool Cheatsheet

“ This month’s tiny cheatsheet contribution covers shortcuts and tricks for Photoshop’s Brush Tool:”

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Canon PowerShot SX10 IS Camera Review

” Following on from last year’s chunky S5 model for, at the time of writing, some £50 less (a UK SRP of just £359), the [...]

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RED DSLR – DSMC Camera

RED has announced a number of new products that are very modular, and can do moving pictures (video) and stills (photography). Their line-up has two [...]

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Casio EXILIM Pro EX-FH20 Camera Review

At first glance, the new Casio EXILIM Pro EX-FH20 looks similar to any other bridge-style compact camera, mimicking the look and feel of a beginner [...]

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Nikon SB-900 Firmware Update 5.02

The following improvements have been made in version 5.02 – With uninterrupted shooting with the SB-900 set to i-TTL mode, images captured just before the [...]

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New FotoNation Face Beautification Imaging Technology From Tessera

FotoNation FaceEnhance Solution Improves Portraits in Camera Phones and Digital Still Cameras SAN JOSE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Tessera Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq:TSRA) today announced its new FotoNation® FaceEnhance [...]

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Sample EOS 5D Mark II Video: A Three Act Play

A Three Act Play, a bridal video short by Explorer of Light/PrintMaster Bruce Dorn. For more information about the EOS 5D Mark II camera, and [...]

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Storage Appliance Corp. announces three new Clickfree automatic backup drives featuring larger capacity

Latest Clickfree portable backup drives offer 250, 320 and 500 GB of storage and eliminate forever the risk of losing photos, videos, music and data [...]

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Introducing dxomark.com, the first camera benchmark based on RAW image quality

  Sponsored by leading image science company DxO Labs, this free online resource delivers in‐depth, objective RAW‐based image quality data to enable fair analysis and [...]

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Kodak Takes Action Against Samsung and LG For Patent Infringement

Kodak Asserts that Samsung and LG Camera Phones Infringe its Digital Camera Patents ROCHESTER, N.Y.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Eastman Kodak Company (NYSE:EK) announced today that it has filed [...]

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Understanding your camera's EV Compensation Button

” To put it simply, the EV button allows your to quickly underexpose (darken) or overexpose (brighten) your image. How it works is pretty simple. [...]

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Fashion Portrait.

With only a couple of well placed lights and a little imagination, shooting a fashion portrait can be easy. Lighting Equipment * Photoflex Boom * [...]

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Discover How to Become a Photo journalist.

What sets the good photos apart from the ever-increasing stack of common photos, are the people and actions photographed. A photo of a person feverishly [...]

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