Archive for March, 2009
March Contest Winner Announced!
A very special thanks goes to our sponsor Edge Tech Corp for providing the prize of a 1 GB Flash Drive for this month’s prize and for providing the prizes for the last six months. To see more products like flash drives and SD Cards visit their site today!
Also, a very special thanks to [...]
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The BetterPhoto Guide to Exposure [Book Review]
Special thanks to Amphoto Books and Watson-Guptill Publications for providing this month’s Photography Book Club selection.
The BetterPhoto Guide to Exposure (BetterPhoto Series) by Sean Arbabi
By most photographer’s standards, the quest for consistently great exposure control is the holy grail of technical expertise. This book aims at helping you reach that goal.
About the Author
Sean Arbabi [...]
Weekend Perusing: Buy Some Art!
Buy Photography:
New section I’m adding to our usual Weekend Perusing editions. I’ll be highlighting one photograph for sale that I happen to stumble upon while perusing the galleries at DiscoveredArtists. You can also find my gallery there and I encourage your feedback as always.
Home 8 by Ken Jones is an 8×6 Fine Art [...]
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Rent A Camera: BorrowLenses.com [Review]
As most of you know, I recently came back from shooting a destination wedding in Florida. I’ll show you some of the images and talk about that a little more in the near future. For now, I wanted to thank you for recommending BorrowLenses.com when I asked you if you had ever rented [...]
Wordless Wednesday: 018
018 by Luis Cabané
Small Strobes for Ad Campaigns
When considering the role of editorial or commercial photography as a profession the expense of equipment used to be the biggest barrier. With easily configurable small strobes this is no longer the case. It isn’t necessarily that these small strobes have vastly increased their power or light output. Rather, it’s been a [...]
Love The Light
In photography you have to love the light.
Light is probably your biggest asset in conveying emotion and connectivity with both your subject and your viewer. So it makes sense that you would really need to know how light and shadow play a vital role in how well your photography comes out.
Try this experiment
You don’t [...]
Weekend Perusing: The $20,000 Camera
Last Friday I was a little tied up with a destination wedding assignment so you had to go another weekend without the usual “Weekend Perusing” section. Well, this one will end up being a little bit longer than usual because there was quite a bit that happened while I was away. So here [...]
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Fashion Photography [Book Review]
Special thanks to Amphoto Books and Watson-Guptill Publications for sending this book to review for you guys.
Fashion Photography: A Complete Guide to the Tools and Techniques of the Trade by Bruce Smith
The glamorous world of fashion photography has probably intrigued or inspired many more photographers than any other practice in the realm of professional photography. [...]
Wordless Wednesday: Early Morning Bridge
Photograph Early Morning Bridge by sterk1
Free Photoshop DVD
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Adobe Systems, the leading creative software company, and ZIO Pro, the new media network for creative professionals, are joining forces to offer an exclusive opportunity:
The goal of the offer is to find professionals interested in the Adobe CS4 software [...]
Portrait of a Groom
There are stark differences in providing a great portrait of a bride and that of a groom. While the bride’s portrait is often bathed in soft light and the focus on beauty, the groom’s portrait is that of a more defined genre. The photograph shouldn’t really come across as hard or moody but [...]
Wordless Wednesday: Mesa Arch Sunrise
Photograph Mesa Arch Sunrise by Brian in Colorado. Too purchase images made by Brian see his gallery on imagekind today!
Your exposure should be correct!
When reading my copy of Understanding Exposure: How to Shoot Great Photographs with a Film or Digital Camera (Updated Edition), you can read the review, Bryan Peterson mentioned something in the very first chapter that really stuck with me throughout the book and it’s something I still think about daily.
During the chapter “Defining Exposure” Peterson [...]
Color Space for Photography
When thinking of color space in digital photography you have a few options. The two most common options are sRGB and Adobe RGB. So which one is right for you?
Without getting too technical the easy answer is to use Adobe RGB. That was simple wasn’t it?
Okay here’s a little more information.
In truth, [...]
