Photography Links for Nov 28 2010

Getting Close and Personal: 11 Tips for Close-up Candid Street Photography on Digital Photography School Quote: Street photography is not easy. It tests your nerves, your hand eye coordination and your instincts, and lord knows I’ve missed more ‘moments’ than I can count, but the satisfaction of capturing that split second where everything comes together [...]

This a junco?

Junco?

Can’t really tell if this is a Junco or not. What do you think? Captured with a Canon 1D Mark II with Canon 400mm 5.6 L with Canon 1.4x Extender.

Photography Links for Nov 14 2010

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The Real Deal by Joe McNally on Joe McNally’s Blog Quote: What I truly believe about a powerful picture is that after viewing it, you are never the same. You have been changed, forever. You might not realize it at that moment, but you are. There’s been an interior, seismic shift in your emotional substrata. [...]

Photography Links for October 31 2010

To Become a Better Photographer, Learn from Your Failures by David Saxe on Black Star Rising Quote: We all have good days and bad days in our photography — successes and failures.By failures, I don’t mean commercial failures. In fact, when I was shooting a lot of assignment photography, I never lost a client because [...]

Photography Links for October 24 2010

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How Using Strong ND Filters Can Create Awesome Resultsby Chris Gin on Light Stalking Quote: As a landscape photographer I rely heavily on filters. The ones I use most often are my graduated neutral density (GND) filters which help balance the intensity between the sky and foreground. However another favourite of mine, and one which [...]

Photography Links for October 17 2010

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How to Edit Multiple Files at Once in Lightroom | Light Stalking Quote: Adjusting several images at once in Lightroom is not only simple, but a huge time saver for batch editing. When you have many photos from a shoot that you want to adjust the same way – such as a wedding or sporting [...]

Photography Links for October 10 2010

7 Post Production Tips for Striking Landscapes | Light Stalking Quote: Now that you’ve captured some beautiful landscapes (hopefully in RAW format for optimal versatility in editing), it’s time to bring them into Photoshop and make some improvements. Confused on where to start? Below is a detailed, but certainly not exclusive, list of popular editing [...]

Photography Links for Oct 3 2010

Using Your Histogram & Exposing to the Right By Michael Clark on Pixiq Quote: When talking about how to expose an image, I am going to assume that you already know how to work with your camera by adjusting the shutter speed and aperture. Because correct exposure is such a critical topic to the success [...]

Photography links for Sept 26 2010

Photographers and the Search for the Holy Bag by Joe McNally Quote: Photographers. If somebody offered us a cool bag in lieu of a day rate, we’d probably take it. I can’t tell you how many times over the course of my career I’ve just about keeled over with the rapture at the sight and [...]

Photography Links for Sept 19 2010

Wait for the Sunset Afterglow | Pixiq Quote: A lot of times when I’m shooting sunsets at the beach, I’ll see people hop out of their cars, snap a few frames as the sun hits the horizon, and then leave. Those are probably nice shots, but the real show often begins about five or ten [...]

Photography Links for Sept 12 2010

10 Hidden Modifiers Tricks in Lightroom – Lightroom Blog Quote: Lightroom is a pretty diverse program, which is simple to start learning, but contain hidden depths. Here’s some shortcut tricks that use modifier keys to access hidden features. Digital camera buying guide on Image Maven Quote: … a no-strings-attached digital camera buying guide. If you [...]

Photography Links for Sept 5 2010

How to Pick the Right Camera Lens to Fit Your Needs – PictureCorrect Quote: To find out which lenses to suit your specific use is not always easy. There are several abbreviations and specifications you need to find out, and things are not better by the fact that different manufacturers use completely different abbreviations for [...]

Photography Links for August 29 2010

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Giving Up Control of Your Images- Going Pro 2010 Do you actually read the Terms of Service Agreements and EULAs that you sign or click “OK” on? I bet you don’t – but you should. Especially if you are a photographer who worries about people taking your images and profiting by them without your permission [...]

Photography Links for August 22 2010

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Seven Tips for Winning Photo Contests « Photofocus If you want to win any competition, ya’ gotta know the rules and make sure to follow them. If you don’t, an entry that stood a good chance of winning can easily get tossed out. Start by making sure your entry is properly classified. If you want [...]

Photography Links for August 15 2010

What Every Photographer Needs to Know about Social Media Photographers are busy people. So too are our clients. More so than ever before we have an abundance of information available to us at the click of a mouse. It’s always evolving; full of opportunity and at times, a little overwhelming. The Theory and Psychology of [...]

Photography Links for August 8 2010

The Three Types of Photographic Criticism and How to Handle Them | Light Stalking Quote: Part of taking photographs is the enjoyment you get with sharing them.  Along with sharing, comes learning, and along those lines are criticisms.  This article will show you how to handle the three types of photographic criticisms without getting overly [...]

Photography Links for August 1 2010

Been a few weeks since I posted my Sunday Photography Links…hope to get back to a normal schedule going forward. How Do I Pack? : Moose Peterson’s Website QUote: Yeap, I do travel a bit. Approximately six months out of the year I’m on the road shooting. Doing that for a long time, this packing [...]

Photography Links for July 4 2010

Five Ways to Get People To “Connect” With Your Photographs « Photofocus Quote: Have you ever seen a photograph that just grabs and holds your attention? I’d call that “connecting” with an image. How do you do that? How do you create a photograph that “connects” with people? Digital Archiving Workflow for Beginners | Phototuts+ [...]

Photography Links for June 27 2010

The Three Main Challenges of Zoo Photography (and How to Overcome Them) | Light Stalking Quote: For a lot of us, a trip to the zoo is going to be one of our few chances in life to photograph some fairly exotic animals from up close. The unfortunate thing is that a Zoo actually presents [...]

Photography Links for June 20 2010

Photographing Flowers – A How-to by Elizabeth Halford on Digital Photography School When many beginners pick up a camera for the first time, it sort of seems like an automatic first step to begin photographing flowers. They stand still and do as they’re told while you practice. For some photographers, they begin feeling more comfortable [...]