I have been going through the small lessons at a site called strobist.
The photographer who wrote it details first of all a portable and cheap kit for setting up off-camera lighting and then starts to get into techniques for it.
Strobist
To start the lessons go here:
lighting 101
There also is a flickr […]
Entries Tagged as 'Tutorials'
Learn how to use off-camera flash
December 21st, 2007 · No Comments
Tags: photo gear · Tutorials · Photography
10% Discount on Nikon software!
December 20th, 2007 · No Comments
Here is a link to Moose Peterson’s blog where he is offering his readers a 10% discount on Nikon software for a limited time. While you are there check out Moose’s work. He is a great photographer.
10% off nikon software
I found out about this from Scott Kelby’s blog. Scott […]
Tags: photo gear · Image Editing
PixelPerfect Podcast
December 11th, 2007 · No Comments
There is a guy named Bert Monroy who does Photoshop video podcasts.
He has some pretty good tips most shows. Here is a show he did about a slightly different subject but one which I think photographers will enjoy, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom:
If you like this you can go to his […]
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A Better Bounce Card
December 8th, 2007 · No Comments
This is awesome. I have been researching some sort of diffuser for a SB-600 or 800 and have been contemplating buying a Lightsphere from Gary Fong or one of the Lumiquest or Sto-fen products for flash diffusion. There seem to be a lot of different kinds that are variations of the same […]
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A great podcast for digital photography
December 4th, 2007 · No Comments
I stumbled onto this a couple of weeks ago. This podcast is done pretty well and has lots of great info about photo gear and interviews with photographers and industry VIPs. The quality is fairly high and the hosts are only occasionally annoying, which is a big feat considering they are both […]
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Book Review - Scott Kelby’s “The Digital Photography Book”
November 12th, 2007 · 1 Comment
If you are new to photography you probably would like to have access to a professional photographer who could tell you things like, “No, don’t do that. Do it this way.” It would be great to be able to ask questions about the things that you really want to understand about photography […]
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Book Review - Morag Macdonald’s “Wedding Photography - A Professional Guide”
November 10th, 2007 · No Comments
Just got this book yesterday to help me with some wedding work that a couple of friends and I are hoping to do.
I have read it already (it is a quick read) but will be going back through now and taking notes while I go through it again.
I like the way the author writes, he […]
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Photography and image editing
November 3rd, 2007 · 2 Comments
These resources have been helpful to me in trying to learn about photography and media:
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Web sites
Photo.net
There is an enormous user community, forums […]
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One of my tutorials published!
October 15th, 2007 · No Comments
Last week a tutorial I wrote as a guest was published on Digital Photography School!
Here is a link to it:
Panoramas
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Fractal Art
October 6th, 2007 · No Comments
I recently have been looking at Fractal Art.
Fractals are graphic representations of functions applied (iterated) over and over. The results of these mathematical functions are plotted over and over, creating intricate designs.
You can see several different designs inside this fractal. If you were able to zoom in on this image […]
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