Category: Technique & Workflow

Link: Internet “relief kit” brings sweet, sweet connectivity to disaster sites – Boing Boing: the instructional piece he has in the current issue of MAKE about “worst-case-internet” kits, with details on what to include, what each component costs, how to set it up, and why.

Chase Jarvis Blog: Packing Quick ‘n’ Dirty: Scott uploaded this vid to my Facebook page from the Karl Strauss brewery at LAX and it quickly got over 100 comments/likes in about 15 hours. Since questions poured in from there and twitter, I thought I’d chuck the vid up here and scramble to answer some of…

It’s all in the Details: The Exposure Dilemma – sportsshooter: Without getting into the nature of sensor architecture, or going into tone curves, the simple answer is that it is always better to slightly over expose, and use whatever tools you prefer to bring back detail in highlights. With even minor under exposure, shadow noise…

The Visual Science Lab: Don’t optimize your purchase, optimize your technique: Here’s the secret that drives lens junkies crazy: All good lenses are great two stops down from wide open. Almost without exception. Take a 14-24 Nikon and compare it to an Sigma 10-20mm lens and at f5.6 or f8 you’ll probably be amazed to…

Lance Armstrong in 4 minutes flat | Robert Seale Photography Blog: Lance was preparing for his Tour de France comeback, so he was only in Austin for one or two days in the time period that would make our deadline, so there was a very narrow window to schedule the shoot.

10 Simple Steps to Better Photoshop Performance | How-To | Smashing Magazine

You’d Be Surprised What Those Files May Contain – Luminous Landscape: While HDR is most likely the preferred approach for squeezing the last bit of stunning detail and tonal gradation from highlights and shadows, if you havenít prepared your captures for HDR post-processing not all may be lost. There can be an astonishing amount of…

Keys to smart keywording and captioning | RESOLVE — the liveBooks photo blog

My DAM changes (Digital Asset Management) | JarvieDigital Photography

Basic Stitched Panorama Guidelines & Workflow « Photofocus

whats the jackanory ? – tdh: report #1 austin prep: As promised WTJ? has teamed up with team Humphreys and Brent has promised to deliver us some juicy roadside goodness and will be filing special reports from the field. His assignment, to hit us up with as much jam packed behind the scenes action as…

Maintain your creativity, part B: Ten possibilities, plus one. « Perfesser Kev: Long-term creative juice comes from longer-term work at it. It also comes from finding joy with what you’re doing. Here are a few ideas on how to get those things moving.

doug menuez: With the invention of Innova FibaGloss paper the doors opened and Hanemuhle, Ilford, Epson and others got the religion and all today now distribute similar papers, creating choices and competition. I’m mentioning Innova because they were first, remain my favorite and now thankfully sponsor my projects. But I do this also from pure…