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A couple years ago I began my journey into the world of Off Camera Light. I’ve learned a great deal from Zack Arias and David Hobby, the two heavyweights in this arena (and that’s really not a jab at their size–these guys know their stuff). I’ve been on a steady diet of David’s Strobist blog [...]
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Atlanta-based music/commercial/corporate photographer Zack Arias produced an incredibly thoughtful reflection on photography, success, failure, and the important things in life for Scott Kelby’s blog. Sometimes we need to question our work and our contribution, and yet still keep pressing forward while sorting out what matters most. There are lessons here for anyone engaged [...]
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David Bergman made a 1,474 megapixel (yes, that’s 1.5 gigapixels) image of Barack Obama’s inauguration. This remarkable photo is a panoramic composite of 220 individual photos–quite something! Here’s the photo and here’s the story.
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If your photos are blurry, make sure you’re holding your camera in a way that minimizes the dreaded “camera shake.” Wildlife photographer Moose Peterson demonstrates proper handholding technique to reduce camera shake and get sharper photos:
And when you’re losing light and shutter speeds get really slow, Moose’s buddy Joe McNally offers what he calls Da [...]
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If you wanted to try something new–say, join the press corps that follows the presidential race–you’ve got two choices. You could go to the right schools, make the right connections, and wait for someone to give you permission. Or you could just do it. 25-year-old Brett Marty chose the second. And he’s ended up with [...]
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I share a lot of blog/news articles via Google Reader. If you’d like to know whether what I’m reading would also interest you, you can add me as a Google “friend:” mgowin@gmail.com. You can probably help me find some things that aren’t on my radar as well.
If you’re not into Google Reader, here are some [...]
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Adobe has just released Photoshop Express, a free web-based image editor. First things first–this is not Photoshop CS3 in your browser. It’s a simpler tool designed to handle the majority of image editing tasks for the majority of snapshooters. Photoshop pros Scott Kelby and Matt Kloskowski have a good overview of it [...]
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