Category: Technique & Workflow
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Introducing: Lightroom Coffee Break with Benjamin Warde | Photoshop Blog by Adobe
Introducing: Lightroom Coffee Break with Benjamin Warde | Adobe Blog One thing I love about our Lightroom community is your fearless and creative drive to learn and try new things within the program. Find something especially challenging? … via Adobe Blog: http://blogs.adobe.com/photoshop/2016/01/introducing-lightroom-coffee-break-with-benjamin-warde.html a new bi-monthly video series designed to give you helpful Lightroom tips and…
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Backing Up Photos — Vantage — Medium
Backing Up Photos My approach to avoid losing any images via Medium: https://medium.com/vantage/backing-up-photos-9ee825e7bc32#.wch27aqz5 To give a bit of a disclaimer, this isn’t a step by step, and I’m not saying this is the absolute best approach. This is the setup that has been working for me, and I included links to some resources that can…
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Reminder: make sure you have a backup strategy for your photos (also, RAID is not a backup) | dvafoto
Reminder: make sure you have a backup strategy for your photos (also, RAID is not a backup) To lose the entirety of one’s professional work is unimaginable to me.
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LensRentals.com – A Comprehensive Guide to Aerial Photography
A Comprehensive Guide to Aerial Photography In the last few years, the price of renting a helicopter has decreased dramatically. Coupled with the advent of DSLRs that perform very well in low light, this has created a wonderful opportunity for photographers to charter helicopters in numbers never s via LensRentals Blog: http://www.lensrentals.com/blog/2015/09/a-comprehensive-guide-to-aerial-photography Over the past…
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This is How Press Photos Were Transmitted Back in the 1970s
This is How Press Photos Were Transmitted Back in the 1970s In our world of digital photography and high speed Internet, photojournalists can quickly and easily send large numbers of high-res photos to the other via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2015/07/26/this-is-how-press-photos-were-transmitted-back-in-the-1970s/ In a 2012 blog post for The Dallas Morning News, photo director Chris Wilkins offers a glimpse…
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About Black and White – Luminous Landscape
About Black and White – Luminous Landscape Composition is the art of arranging in a decorative manner the various elements which the painter uses to express his sentiments. In a picture every separate part will be visible and… everything which has no utility in the picture is for that reason harmf via Luminous Landscape: https://luminous-landscape.com/about-black-and-white/…
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Project AIR Workflow « Vincent Laforet’s Blog
Project AIR Workflow The speed at which we need to turn images around can be critical. In Europe, it was not uncommon to edit an 8,000-9,000 frame shoot on Saturday. To shoot the following city Sunday. And to complete final edit of BOTH of those cities (nearly 18,000 RAW frames) the following day just hours…
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Behind the Scenes at the Australian Open | AP Images Blog
Behind the Scenes at the Australian Open In the film days a photographer might shoot between 10 and 15 rolls a day or a maximum of 550 images. Now, photographers will shoot from 2,000 to 2,500 frames a day. Multiply that by five staffers over 14 days and I was casting my eyes over more…
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News Shooter | Rules are made to be broken: Five filmmaking rules Pete Pattisson says you should sometimes ignore
Rules are made to be broken: Five filmmaking rules Pete Pattisson says you should sometimes ignore – Newsshooter Guest post by Pete Pattisson: When the DSLR filmmaking revolution took off in 2008, a set of ‘rules’ soon emerged about how to get the most out of these cameras’ video capabilities: shoot in manual mode, record…
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In the Darkroom with W. Eugene Smith
In the Darkroom with W. Eugene Smith via The Paris Review: http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2013/11/20/in-the-darkroom-with-w-eugene-smith/ Gene always liked to get separations around people, figures, and that was always done with potassium ferrocyanide. It was the contrast that made the prints difficult. Gene saw the contrast with his eyes, but the negative wouldn’t capture it the same way. So…
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A mile wide, an inch deep — Medium
A mile wide, an inch deep I was recently quoted as saying, “I don’t give a shit” if Instagram has more users than Twitter… via Medium: https://medium.com/@ev/a-mile-wide-an-inch-deep-48f36e48d4cb Numbers are important. Number of users is important. So are lots of other things. Different services create value in different ways. Trust your gut as much (or more)…
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My Workflow: How to Stay Sane While Working as a Music Photographer on Tour
My Workflow: How to Stay Sane While Working as a Music Photographer on Tour My workflow is the most important part of being a productive and successful music photographer. Other photographers rarely ask about it, but I feel like via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2014/12/28/workflow-stay-sane-working-music-photographer-tour/ My workflow is the most important part of being a productive and successful…
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Hidden Cameras Reveal the Secret Life of the Serengeti | PROOF
Hidden Cameras Reveal the Secret Life of the Serengeti Packer says it would have taken scientists months or years to finish what took citizens a couple of days
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Scannerless Digital Capture and Processing of Negative Film Photographs
Scannerless Digital Capture and Processing of Negative Film Photographs While the camera-based approach is easy enough in principle, in practice there are numerous factors to deal with, and those inform the content of the article
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The Optimum Digital Exposure
The Optimum Digital Exposure For too long we have been accepting the “digital look” of our photographs. The compression of tones, especially in the dark areas, seems intrinsic to digital photography, but in reality it is the result of “non-optimum” exposure. With optimum exposure, you don’t have to compromise the film-like appearance with digital photography.
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Stitching – An Advanced Aproach
Stitching – An Advanced Aproach The alternative solution used in this image is a combination of Depth of Field Stacking (3-7 images per tile) and panoramic stitching (2 rows of 4 tiles).
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New Guide: How to Market Your Photography | PhotoShelter Blog
New Guide: How to Market Your Photography – PhotoShelter Blog For our latest guide we’ve partnered up with email marketing tool, Mad Mimi on How to Market Your Photography! Inside the guide you’ll find tips to create a marketing plan, tackle SEO, blog better, succeed with social media, and take advantage of email ma via PhotoShelter Blog:…
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Get the Guide: 10 Branding Secrets for PhotographersPhotoShelter Blog
Get the Guide: 10 Branding Secrets for Photographers – PhotoShelter Blog What words would you use to describe your photography brand? Fun? Reliable? Adventurous? If you struggle to answer, our latest guide, 10 Branding Secrets for Photographers, will help you define and build a strong brand that will set you apart from the com via…
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Activists’ Guide to Archiving Video | archiveguide.witness.org
Activists’ Guide to Archiving Video via Boing Boing
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New Guide: The Photographer’s Guide to InstagramPhotoShelter Blog
The Photographer’s Guide to Instagram – PhotoShelter Blog Instagram can be a powerful marketing tool for photographers, but are you using it the right way? In our guide, The Photographer’s Guide to Instagram, get tips to make the most of the platform to showcase your brand, build your audience, connect with phot via PhotoShelter Blog:…