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Mastering the Only Five Camera Settings

Great tips for making use of the different settings on that digital camera of yours: Mastering the Only Five Camera Settings

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July 23rd, 2008 · No Comments | Tags: Photography

Four photography tips

From recent Paxton Prints News feeds

Ten Tips for the Absolute Photoshop CS2 Beginner
Leading Lines in Photo Composition
Take better candids with digital camera
Sunset Photography Tips and Techniques

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July 14th, 2008 · No Comments | Tags: Photography

How to do non-destructive dodge and burn in Photoshop


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December 5th, 2007 · No Comments | Tags: Photography

Canon EOS 10D

I’ve been enjoying my used 10D for about a year now and this is a collection of information on the camera that I’ll be adding to occasionally mostly for my own reference, to help me learn and make better use of the 10D.
Canon’s Stalking Horse — Canon 10D
A Photographer’s Review of the Canon EOS 10D [...]

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October 27th, 2007 · No Comments | Tags: Photography

Flickr a Photographer’s Ultimate Tool?

36 Reasons Flickr is a Photographer’s Ultimate Tool

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October 19th, 2007 · No Comments | Tags: Photography

Photograph the Light not the Land

Here’s a great photography tip accompanied by some great photos: Photograph the Light not the Land

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October 11th, 2007 · No Comments | Tags: Photography

Why You Should Ditch That Zoom for a Classic 50mm “Normal” Lens

Gary Voth Photography: The Forgotten Lens

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September 6th, 2007 · No Comments | Tags: Photography

Give your photos a clear purpose

Simplify Your Images

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August 31st, 2007 · No Comments | Tags: Photography

Make your own photography backdrops

DIY Muslin Studio Backdrops

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August 9th, 2007 · No Comments | Tags: Photography

Black widow

The Black Widow — stunning photos of a wicked spider. I must get out and shoot more.

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April 24th, 2007 · No Comments | Tags: Photography

Digital camera carnival roundup

For future reference here’s the digital camera carnival roundup at Instapundit.com - just in case you’re in the market for a digital camera in the future.

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April 20th, 2007 · No Comments | Tags: Photography

Photo sharing simplified

Solution Watch gives a good review of Bubbleshare which looks promising as a means of easily sharing your photos without having to clear membership and setup hurdles. You can even quickly integrate a slide show right into a blog post.

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November 4th, 2005 · 1 Comment | Tags: Blogging · Photography

Click! WordPress photoblog theme

Check out the Photoblog theme for WordPress, it’s called Click! (update: there’s a few more there now - nicely done). (from)

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October 31st, 2005 · 1 Comment | Tags: Photography

Gmail, Picasa and Flickr

Good instructions here for getting your photos on Flickr with Picasa and Gmail.

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April 8th, 2005 · Comments Off | Tags: Photography

PictPress for WordPress

PictPress does a great job of turning WordPress into a photo blog. This is one slick plugin.
PictPress is a WordPress 1.2 plugin that automatically generates a post with thumbnails and picture posts for all images found in a directory. Thumbnails and pictures are resized on the fly and stored in a cache directory.

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September 21st, 2004 · Comments Off | Tags: Photography

What to do with a digital cameras

I commented on this digital cameras post the other day. The author used his Pentax Optio S4 to make copies of some of the families old photos. He had linked to a post where a student had used his digital camera to take shots of the assignments board at college. I’ve used my Optio S4, [...]

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August 20th, 2004 · Comments Off | Tags: Photography

Resizing photos with IrfanView

It seems everyone has a digital camera or is getting digital files from the film they shoot these days. I’m often asked by friends and family, “How do I resize pictures for the Internet or to send to family by email?”
There are many ways to answer this question depending on what software you’re using but [...]

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August 18th, 2004 · Comments Off | Tags: Photography · Software

Picasa - digital photo organizer

Picasa, now part of Google, is a very nice, free digital photo organizer for sharing, printing and making photo albums with your digital photos.
Grab it here: download page

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July 16th, 2004 · Comments Off | Tags: Photography · Software

folderblog - simple photo blogging

folderblog looks like a simple handy PHP driven set of scripts that will allow you to integrate photo blogging or an image gallery into your site. It automatically displays images placed in a given subdirectory.

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July 8th, 2004 · Comments Off | Tags: Blogging · PHP · Photography

PictPress

PictPress—a slick looking photo blog plugin for WordPress.
And here’s the corresponding forum post at WordPress.org.

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May 15th, 2004 · Comments Off | Tags: Photography

Tall Timber

A beautiful place not far from our home. (I’m testing the image upload capabilities of WordPress)

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May 3rd, 2004 · Comments Off | Tags: Photography

Product Photography on the Cheap

Product Photography on the Cheap—shows a few ideas for setting up a light box at home for small product shots. This could be handy for items you’re selling on Ebay or for items you’d like to use in your web designs.

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April 29th, 2004 · Comments Off | Tags: Photography · Web Dev

PhotoLog Scripts

This could come in handy when I’m ready to add a photolog to my main site.
PhotoLog Scripts

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April 10th, 2004 · Comments Off | Tags: Photography · Web Dev

Qdig - Quick Digital Image Gallery

This PHP based image galary tool looks promising: Qdig - Quick Digital Image Gallery
And here it’s being used on a MovableType powered site: manalang.com: Embedded Movable Type Photo Gallery
It would be interesting to see this used in WordPress. I may try it out soon.

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April 9th, 2004 · 1 Comment | Tags: CMS · MovableType · PHP · Photography

Stock photography for the non photographer

A Designer’s Guide to Making Your Own Stock Photography (for non-photographers) at Digital Web magazine

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February 9th, 2004 · Comments Off | Tags: Photography

Another approach to photologing with movabletype

here’s how one person uses movabletype to produce a photolog

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January 16th, 2004 · Comments Off | Tags: MovableType · Photography

photojunkie on photoblog thumbnails in MovableType

Photoblog thumbnails for MT and other useful codes

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January 16th, 2004 · Comments Off | Tags: MovableType · Photography

Digital camera resource guide for the beginner

digicamhelp.com

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January 9th, 2004 · Comments Off | Tags: Photography

Photo business cards

Here’s a good how-to article on making business cards using a photo as a background.

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November 13th, 2003 · Comments Off | Tags: Photography