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Famous Photographers Tell How

Friday, July 3, 2009

If you’re lucky enough to own an LP record of “Famous Photographers Tell How” and a working turntable, this post won’t be of much interest to you.
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Kodachrome will soon go the way of the dodo bird and the Polaroid. Though it’s clear that a statistically insignificant number of us still utilized this classic color film, it’s nevertheless a dark day in the history of photography.
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Learn from Art

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Livebooks, the online resource for top-notch professional photographic web sites, offers much more than simple web pages.
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How to sell photos on Flickr

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Digital Photography School recently published a short post about what to do when someone offers to buy a photograph you’ve published on Flickr.
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Moving Pictures Manifested

Monday, June 29, 2009

Ask and you shall receive. Only a week ago I wondered aloud on this blog when, why and how professional outdoor photographers would take advantage of the HD video features of cool new dSLRs.
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Climbing Photography

Friday, June 26, 2009

The Autry National Center of the American West is currently showcasing an exhibit of mountain climbing photography from Yosemite National Park.
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Stereographic Planets

Thursday, June 25, 2009

Are your landscape photographs starting to look a little stale? Are you maybe getting tired of being stuck in a rut, shooting the same old subjects over and over? Perhaps you should consider making photographs of little planets.
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How to Start a Camera Collection

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

All this talk about new “vintage” cameras (i.e. the new Olympus “Digital Pen”) has me in the mood to shoot with the classics.
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The Olympus Digital Pen

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

In 1998 I purchased a vintage Olympus Pen camera for $30 at a camera show in Santa Monica, CA. I had no idea what I was getting myself into. Sure, the meter didn’t work, but this camera was unlike any other I’d ever seen.
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RIP Kodachrome

Monday, June 22, 2009

I find it a bit odd to feel a sense of loss at this news, since I stopped using Kodachrome quite a few years ago. I loved the films – the ASA (ISO) 25 and 200 flavors especially – but as the accompanying press release hints, it just got to be too much hassle to get it processed in a timely manner.
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Moving Pictures

Sunday, June 21, 2009

The blogosphere is abuzz with discussions of convergence—the impending convergence of photography and video. Ever since the June issue of Esquire magazine appeared with its cover shot by the Red One high-definition video camera (with the Megan Fox cover pulled from the ultra-high-res video) all sorts of sites have been abuzz about the technique.
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Graduated Filters are Really Smart

Thursday, June 18, 2009

Old-school landscape shooters know that fixing it in post is one thing, but getting the shot majestically perfect in-camera is entirely another.
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Using TTL metering simply and effectively

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Most photographers rely on their DSLR’s TTL light meter in one way or another. For those who shoot manually, they might check the viewfinder meter for feedback on where their settings fall according to what the meter suggests.
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What to shoot on a cloudy day

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

It’s hard enough to rise and shine on a sunny day, but dragging yourself out of bed for an early morning photo adventure is even harder when the weather’s not cooperating.
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The Poor Man’s Macro Lens

Monday, June 15, 2009

First, the disclaimer: I do not recommend this approach in lieu of investing in a quality macro lens. Next, the fun part: I do recommend this approach for turning your photographic world on its head and thinking outside of the camera obscura.
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