Category: Technique & Workflow

  • Photo Business Plan Workbook Videos: #7 Get Social

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    PhotoShelter Video #7 Get Social helps you plan for your interactions with the 800 million people on Facebook, 300 million on Twitter, and 400 million on Google+. The numbers sound daunting, but it doesn’t have to be – we’re not saying that every social media outlet will work for every photographer. But there’s enough evidence to…

  • Photo Business Plan Workbook Videos: #6 Tune-up Your Website

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    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…

  • Does Your Photo Website Have an Attitude Problem?

    Does Your Photo Website Have an Attitude Problem?

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    Does Your Photo Website Have an Attitude Problem? – PhotoShelter Blog Joe Gosen, a Visual Journalism Instructor at Brooks Institute, is teaching a class on web design for photographers. From my perspective, college classes in web design always seem to be behind the times, arming students with knowledge that’s a touch out-da via PhotoShelter Blog:…

  • Designing a Better Portfolio Website: Part 2

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    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

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    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…

  • Designing a Better Portfolio Website: Part 1

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    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

  • The Singular Approach: Chien-Chi Chang’s Contact Sheet Chronicle

    The Singular Approach: Chien-Chi Chang’s Contact Sheet Chronicle

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2011/11/16/the-singular-approach-chien-chi-changs-contact-sheets/#1 In 2006, Chien-Chi Chang—who throughout his career had exclusively shot 35mm format film—embraced a new photographic pursuit, to work with a medium format 6×7 rangefinder and began his ongoing project, Home. For the series, Chang purposefully shoots a single frame of…

  • Stop it Down. Just a Bit.

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    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…

  • Don’t Let Aperture or Lightroom Hold ’em All

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    Duncan Davidson: On Twitter this evening, I talked a little bit about how to handle twenty bajillion photographs and stay afloat. My thinking on this has been shifting quite a bit over the last year and has been greatly influenced by conversations with others about the shoeboxes (or filing cabinets if we were a bit…

  • Cartoonist Lynda Barry Will Make You Believe In Yourself

    Cartoonist Lynda Barry Will Make You Believe In Yourself

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    Lynda Barry Will Make You Believe In Yourself A renegade cartoonist discovers her inner creativity guru. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/30/magazine/cartoonist-lynda-barry-will-make-you-believe-in-yourself.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss Barry isn’t particularly interested in the writer’s craft. She’s more interested in where ideas come from — and her goal is to help people tap into what she considers to be an innate creativity.

  • My tips on the Fuji X100

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    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

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    ‘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…

  • Spotlight on Sol Neelman

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    the image, deconstructed: I’m also looking for layers, which is a reason why I prefer using a 35mm f1.4 rather than a 400mm lens. I want more information, not less. I want more intimacy, not less.

  • 10 Simple Ways to become a better Street Photographer by Eric Kim

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

  • B&W Master Print

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    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…

  • Reminder: How to tune Photoshop CS5 for peak performance

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    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

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    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…

  • Am I A Photographic Cheat?

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    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…

  • Perfect Landings: A New Angle on the Long Jump

    Perfect Landings: A New Angle on the Long Jump

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2011/08/31/long-jump-by-pawel-kopczynski/#1 Photographer and picture editor Pawel Kopczynski of Reuters explains how a combination of astute planning and specially developed remote camera technology produced a compelling series of photographs from the World Athletics Championships in Seoul, South Korea.

  • Photo assistant breaks down lighting from several famous photographers

    Photo assistant breaks down lighting from several famous photographers

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    It’s all in the lighting, baby! “There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson I went a little crazy this week and went on a personal mission to research the lighting … via Confessions of a Mad Photo Assistant: http://madphotoassistant.wordpress.com/2011/05/13/lighting-title/ In this blog entry I’ll take…