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Professional Tips

Tips For Taking Pictures Like A Professional

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Take an artistic twist with your Photographs

Whether you an amateur, professional, or just-for-fun photographer, sometimes it is enjoyable to break out of the traditional realm of photography and step into the artistic image manipulation arena.

It really just provides a whole new perspective on the original picture and might even generate more ideas for you. I first tried artistic image effects using PostworkShop Pro. PostworkShop Pro has over 350 different artistic styles within the categories of Painting, Drawing, Graphic Arts, Building Blocks, and Photo. Read more…

Creative Vignetting in Aperture 2.0

One of the more creative features of Aperture 2.0 is the Vignetting tool. I say creative because how you use the tool is largely based on your taste and the photo itself. There’s no simple automatic vignetting preset that you can equally apply to just any photo and its application will be effective. However, that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t create a preset for vignetting as a optimal place to get started. Read more…

FlickrExport 3 Released

FlickrExport 3 is available from connectedflow.com. There are several new features in this release, but the main ones include:

- Create a photoset with your uploaded images and set the photoset image order separately from the upload order. Read more…

Book Review: Canon EOS Digital Photography Photo Workshop

Canon EOS Digital Photography Photo Workshop, by Serge Timacheff.

This is a pretty good comprehensive book about Canon cameras, lenses, speed flashes and accessories. If you’re a frequent buyer of Canon equipment or if you looking to build a Canon system, this book will answer many questions you might have, including some information about Canon’s digital processing software that comes with their cameras. Some parts of the book may be too technical for beginners, and I would not recommend this book for those looking for detail information about taking quality photos. This book is more for learning the technical side of photography, helping you understand camera settings, functions, and differences between the various camera and lens models that Canon offers. The book does not cover the recent Canon models—the Canon 50D and the Canon EOS 5D Mark II. The writing in this book is very accessible, and includes assignments/exercises that reflect information presented each chapter. The included video tutorials (not presented by the author, but by another photographer) on a CD-ROM, included with the book, seemed okay, but I think the tutorials are little too fast paced, glossing over techniques rather than going into depth on various topics. The ending chapters of the book provide a nice list of online resources, a glossary of digital photography terms, and an index for quick referencing. The companion website for the book is also useful.

5 Canon 50D Function Features I Like

Before the year is out, I thought I’d upgrade my Canon 30D to the Canon 50D, to take advantage of, among other reasons, the little tax write off and the financing deal offered by Circuit City. But my financial objectives are not the reason I’m writing about Canon 50D. Read more…

Simple Out of Focus Background Technique

Thanks to Photoshop and other image processing applications, we can improve our photographs in ways that are not always possible when we’re doing the actual job of shooting photos on location. Here’s a particular example I wanted to share that is easy to apply to similar images. Read more…

Automatically View Your Photos on Your Computer

I’ve written about a really great gadget called Eye-fi, an SD memory card that wirelessly uploads photos taken in digital camera. You can read my review here.

Though this card is popularly used for uploading photos to a designated photo website, I use it primarily for nearly instant viewing of photos on my desktop or laptop computer. When Eye-fi uploads my images to my computer, I use a little application called Hazel which automatically opens up imported photos in my designated Eye-fi folder on my computer. Read more…