July 2009

How to Add Fireworks to a Digital Photo

Adding Fireworks to a Digital Photo with PhotoShop

One of the great new improvements of Auto-Blend Layers in Photoshop CS4 is that you can now take a range of shots with different points [...]

Consider if the subject in the foreground was holding a piece of the white background seamless paper next to their face with only the key [...]

I got a 001B Manfrotto Light Stand – This is one of the lightest light stands around and it folds really small – perfect for [...]

Open the image that you want to work with and also open any image of a sunset. Choose Image>Adjustments>Match Color The Match Color dialog box [...]

Download 87 Nature Wallpapers

Nature photography often results in some of the most beautiful, breathtaking, and stunning images that can be captured. When trapped behind your desk all day, [...]

Olympus Pen E-P1 camera review

My first outing with the camera was to view a photographic competition at a local gardeners club, and judging by the reaction of the snappers [...]

Three Consumer Storage Solutions Released from Hitachi GST

As one of the world’s most recognized and trusted brands, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST) today unveiled three new consumer products following the acquisition [...]

Prix Pictet Worlds Photography Award for Environmental Sustainability 2009 Shortlist

A shortlist of twelve outstanding international photographers, from which one will be selected later this year to receive the Prix Pictet, the world’s photography prize [...]

5d mark II not worth it ?

Canon has really lost it. It wasn’t so long that I wrote why they have lost it, and it seems that they continue to take [...]

Hasselblad H3DII-50 or H3DII-60 owner ? Meet Nasa and Hasselblad teams

40 years ago, when the first men stepped out on the lunar surface, in their hands were Hasselblad cameras and – to paraphrase Neal Armstrong [...]

LaCinema Rugged HD

LaCie announced today its LaCinema Rugged multimedia hard drive is now available in High Definition – LaCinema Rugged HD. The LaCinema Rugged product range has [...]

Rebate On Large Format Printers from Canon

Canon is offering a rebate on imagePROGRAF large format printers until the end of September iPF5100 – iPF6100 – iPF6200 – iPF8000S – iPF8100 – [...]

Plugin Galaxy 2

The Plugin Site (http://www.thepluginsite.com) just released Version 2 of Plugin Galaxy for MacOS X. Plugin Galaxy 2 is a plugin for creating special effects and [...]

The Collision Conference announced by Image Mechanics

Image Mechanics, a digital capture studio in Santa Monica known for its educational outreach, today announced the first conference to focus on DSLR hybrid photography [...]

Topaz Labs Fusion Express Plug-In for Aperture

Topaz Labs releases the long-awaited, Aperture-friendly Topaz Fusion Express for Mac. Topaz Fusion is an Aperture plug-in that allows Topaz Photoshop plug-ins to be imported [...]

Fujicolor Pro 800Z will be discontinued by Fujifilm

Fujifilm Professional is to discontinue one of its slower moving lines of film, from September 2009 production of Fujicolor Pro 800Z will cease. The company [...]

Memory Stick PRO-HG Duo HX 32GB from Sony

Bigger, Faster, Better: The New Super-High Capacity 32GB Memory Stick PRO-HG Duo HX Memory Stick PRO-HG Duo HX • Highest available capacity – 32GB comes [...]

intro-duck-tion provides a one-minute forty-eight second animated glimpse into my studio and the creation of one of my favorite recent images. The stop-motion footage was [...]

The Truth about Michael Jackson's Final Photo Shoot

The image of Michael Jackson that graces the cover of Q magazine’s August 2009 issue, which coincidentally went to press shortly before Jackson’s tragic death, [...]

A Tribute to KODACHROME

Steve McCurry, whose picture of a young Afghan girl captured the hearts of millions of people around the world as she peered hauntingly from the [...]

Creative Light Introduces Line of Light Shaping Accessories

A new brand has arrived on the photographic scene, and it seems its designers have hit a home run for today’s pros looking for outstanding [...]

Macro Underwater Photography Guide

PART 1: The Basics 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Definitions 1.21 Magnification 1.22 Macrophotography 1.23 Close-up Photography 1.23 Photomicrography 1.24 Photomacrography 1.25 Supermacro Photography

Manfrotto 521i, 521Pro-i and 523Pro-i Remote Controls

Manfrotto is glad to present a completely renewed range of remote controls: the i-Family. Aligning the Manfrotto range with the latest LANC protocols, we improved [...]

Sony HDR-CX500V & HDR-CX520V Full HD

Sony today announced its new HDR-CX520V and HDR-CX500V Handycam® camcorders, which capture full1920x1080 high-definition video and up to 12-megapixel photos on a 64GB or 32GB [...]

New PIXMA and SELPHY Photo Printers from Canon

Canon U.S.A., Inc., a leader in digital imaging, today announced the addition of two new PIXMA Photo All-In-One (AIO) Printers along with one new SELPHY [...]

Leica D-Lux 4 Safari Camera

Leica Camera will launch the limited edition LEICA D-LUX 4 SAFARI this Autumn. From Scotland to South Africa, from London to Lima – the new [...]

Datacolor Summer Savings

Datacolor, a global leader in digital color management technology, has announced it is offering a special summer rebate on its popular Spyder3 Elite™ and Spyder3 [...]

Apple Juicz External Battery

Peartree Photo, the leading distributor of digital technology for professional photographers, announces the apple juicz ™ External Battery for the MacBook Pro (15 and 17‐inch). [...]

Want full control over the light and shadows in your photography? Understanding how light works is necessary, and this paper will attempt to explain how [...]

“This is my first video shot on and around Waterloo Bridge in Central London. Shot on a Canon 5D with a 17-40mm, 50mm and a [...]

Tone Photographs with Mystical Tint Tone & Color 2.0 Software

Professional Photographers Can Now Quickly Create The Right Mood with Mystical Tint Tone and Color 2.0 from Auto FX Software Mystical Tint Tone and Color [...]

Metering with your digital camera: Incident v.s. Reflected. Covers metering tricks with these two techniques and shows how to improve exposure in your images.

Creating a vintage Hollywood portrait

An online search and a trip to the library turned up plenty of vintage Hollywood portraits for study. A closer, objective look at the photographs [...]

How to use and understand the warp tool morphing and tweaking parts of an image. ” Each of the ads featured a surreal representation of [...]

Understanding digital image interpolation

Image interpolation occurs in all digital photos at some stage– whether this be in bayer demosaicing or in photo enlargement. It occurs anytime you resize [...]

Get extreme close ups with two lenses attached together for extreme macro photos

The Photoshop curves tool is perhaps the most powerful and flexible image transformation, yet it may also be one of the most intimidating. Since photographers [...]

Sigma 200-500mm F2.8 EX DG Lens Review

The Sigma 200-500 f/2.8 is one of the most extreme lenses ever built for the 35mm (24×36) format: it is the only 500mm f/2.8 of [...]

The trick with local contrast enhancement is that it increases “local” contrast in smaller regions, while at the same time preventing an increase in “global” [...]

Diffraction in Photography

Diffraction is an optical effect which can limit the total resolution of your photography– no matter how many megapixels your camera may have. Ordinarily light [...]

Sigma 200-500mm F2.8 EX DG lens on the field

Shooting handheld with a 1ds mark III and Sigma 200-500mm F2.8 EX DG Some months ago I reviewed the Sigma 200-500 f/2.8. In my first [...]

Methods for focusing self-portraits

Self-portrait shooters usually rely on the trial-and-error method of focusing. Shoot, shoot, and shoot again until the perfect combination of pose, exposure, and focus are [...]

Kerry Garrison from CameraDojo.com demonstrates how to use a light meter to get good exposures during a quick product shoot.

Kerry from CameraDojo.com shows how he uses Live View mode when doing macro photography

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