Category: Technique & Workflow

PhotoShelter The best photography websites today aren’t just pretty displays for your pictures anymore. Now they’re full-blown sales and marketing tools that can host your photo archive, sell photography online, and more. Bottom line: they’re an integral part of your photo business. Allen’s video for #6 Tune-up Your Website is a good reminder of what a functional…

The Visual Student In Part 2 of this series, we’ll discuss how to choose a template, modify it using basic HTML and CSS and add useful plug-ins. To quote Placeblogger C.E.O. Lisa Williams, “No journalism student should be intimidated by the process of setting up and managing a website — it is well within your…

Introduction to Digital Printing Part III By Ctein [Before we get started, a brief aside: My Minolta DiMAGE Multi Pro AF-5000 scanner has died and is in need of electronics servicing. Precision Camera no longer works on this model. If you know of someone in the… via The Online Photographer: http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2011/12/introduction-to-digital-printing-part-iii.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+typepad%2FZSjz+%28The+Online+Photographer%29 The intended audience is…

The Visual Student This is the first of a three part series on how you can plan, design, build and maintain a successful photojournalism portfolio website. Part 1 focuses on planning your website

Stop it Down. Just a Bit. If you read much that I write, you know I love’s me some wide-aperture prime lenses. I like the narrow depth of field that isolates my subject, and the ability to shoot in low light. More than anything else, though, I love a nice sharp lens with superb re…

Kaushal Parikh: These are just personal adaptations I have made with the x100 to help my style of shooting in the streets of Mumbai.

‘Expose to the Right’ is a Bunch of Bull By Ctein Got your attention, didn’t I? Unless you don’t know what I’m talking about. Lucky you. For those who haven’t been force-fed this bit of dubious dogma, “Expose to the right” is a rule that asserts that to get… via The Online Photographer: http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2011/10/expose-to-the-right-is-a-bunch-of-bull.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+typepad%2FZSjz+%28The+Online+Photographer%29 For…

10 Simple Ways to Become a Better Street Photographer By Eric Kim The most beautiful thing about str

luminous landscape: In the darkroom, a master was able to manipulate, through years of experience, the sense of presence by turning the flat Luminance image into the faux 3D Luminosity image. This is what Ansel was talking about when he talked about presence. To do this manually, in the darkroom, with primitive burning and dodging…

adobe: This paper provides guidance on best practices to optimize Photoshop CS5 performance with a combination of careful hardware selection and informed program setup.

Size Doesn’t / Does Matter By Ctein The recent spate of camera announcements has brought forth many half-informed comments about sensor sizes and pixel counts. Let’s clear some stuff up. You can make great, as in fully professional quality, photographs with small sensors. I’m not.. via The Online Photographer: http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2011/09/size-doesnt-does-matter.html In summary, you don’t need…

Luminous Landscape The dishonesty/deception argument is, I believe, based on the view that image editing distorts reality.  We pretty-up the picture to make it more eye-catching.  The finished product doesn’t “really look like” the scene that was in front of the camera.  The breaking-the-rules argument is based on the related idea that the role of…

Luminous Landscape: The reason why we want to expose every shot that we take with the data as far to the right of the histogram as possible is because that’s where the data is!