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Lone Man in Paris Cafe

Matthew Bamberg posted an article on 101 Quick and Easy Secrets - Dec 3, 2009, 3:20 pm
If you’ve ever been to Paris before and walked around the city, you’d know that there is a chain of cafes called Indiana. What were they thinking when they named these cafes? Indiana̵...
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What's All This Talk About Master Photographers?

Matthew Bamberg posted an article on 101 Quick and Easy Secrets - Dec 2, 2009, 1:24 pm
Emulation of Aaron Siskind photo. How’d you like to emulate a 20th century master photographer? I created the photo to the left using Photoshop. It’s made to look like one of the photos...
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What's the Canon Rebel T1i all about?

Matthew Bamberg posted an article on 101 Quick and Easy Secrets - Dec 1, 2009, 8:52 pm
There’s a great review about the Canon Rebel T1i on the Hardware Secrets website. Folks, this is the camera to get if you’re considering upgrading from a point-and-shoot. However, I would...
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The Juggler

Matthew Bamberg posted an article on 101 Quick and Easy Secrets - Nov 29, 2009, 11:01 pm
Here’s a candid shot I took in Tapachula, Mexico in the state of Chiapas. This city is 100 percent Mexico. Not many gringos here. In order to take this pic I had to get out of my car to get a ...
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10 Great Photo Gifts Under $100

Matthew Bamberg posted an article on 101 Quick and Easy Secrets - Nov 26, 2009, 1:10 pm
Scratching your head trying to figure out what to get your family and pals for the holidays? Scratch no more, 101 Quick and Easy Secrets is here to guide you. Check out these great gifts that are...
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The Perfect Thanksgiving Dinner Photograph

Matthew Bamberg posted an article on 101 Quick and Easy Secrets - Nov 25, 2009, 2:08 pm
Let’s give thanks to the people who lived in Mexico 7000 years ago. They developed corn. What do you think was on the menu when the pilgrims and the Indians had their feast? Not sweet potatoes...
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Paris Restaurant

Matthew Bamberg posted an article on 101 Quick and Easy Secrets - Nov 23, 2009, 10:08 pm
When I think of Chinese food, Paris isn’t the first thing that crosses my mind. What were these people thinking? At any rate, I love signs and I have another blog called the Book of Signs. It&...
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Book about How to Emulate Famous Photographers

Matthew Bamberg posted an article on 101 Quick and Easy Secrets - Nov 19, 2009, 1:30 pm
My new book 101 Quick and Easy Ideas Taken from the Master Photographers of the Twentieth Century (see link to the right) is off to the printer. The cover is also done. I’m posting here. I think th...
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Panama Canal Lock

Matthew Bamberg posted an article on 101 Quick and Easy Secrets - Nov 16, 2009, 3:23 pm
Going through the Panama Canal ion a cruise ship is fascinating. This is a lock where water entered to raise the ship, the MS Oosterdam, up one level to prepare it for entrance into the lake, which...
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People Reading

Matthew Bamberg posted an article on 101 Quick and Easy Secrets - Nov 12, 2009, 10:50 am
Andre Kertész spent the better part of his life taking photographs, many of which were of people reading. A book of photographs, On Reading, was published in 1971. Just as Kertész’s photographs s...
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Droid´s Camera Competes with iPhone´s

Matthew Bamberg posted an article on 101 Quick and Easy Secrets - Nov 9, 2009, 1:45 pm
The Droid is out, has a 5 MP camera, costs $199, creating stiff compitition with the iPhone GS, which costs the same and has a 3MP camera. Decisions, decisions. If you´ve already got Verizon, you�...
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Grand Turk

Matthew Bamberg posted an article on 101 Quick and Easy Secrets - Nov 6, 2009, 9:00 am
Now here’s a spot in the middle of nowhere. You might not call it the end of the earth, but it sure looks like it. It’s Grand Turk an island owned by Britain, that’s desolate and dow...
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Medium Format Digital Camera Is a Whopping 56 MP

Matthew Bamberg posted an article on 101 Quick and Easy Secrets - Nov 1, 2009, 10:41 pm
I just ran into an interesting article about new medium format digital cameras coming out this month. Until I read this article, I thought I had a fairly decent camera, a 12 MP Canon D5 with a full f...
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Adventures in Photo Gift-Giving

Matthew Bamberg posted an article on 101 Quick and Easy Secrets - Oct 29, 2009, 3:05 pm
Make a mug gift with your own photo. If you’ve got thousands of images sitting in hard drives around your house, you can put them to work for you by making gifts with them for family, friends,...
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How to Make a Collage in Photoshop

Matthew Bamberg posted an article on 101 Quick and Easy Secrets - Oct 28, 2009, 3:43 pm
As early as the 1920s, Alexander Rodchenko was pushing out photo montages for books, propaganda and advertisements. Rodchenko was an artist who became popular during the Russian Revolution (when the S...
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Which is Better Film or Digital Photography?

Matthew Bamberg posted an article on 101 Quick and Easy Secrets - Oct 26, 2009, 4:03 pm
Image taken with 35 mm film. I’ve gotten to thinking about film—all kinds of film from 35 mm to 4X5 to 8X10. One thing is for sure, no digital camera is comparable to 8X10 film. A 16 MP full-...
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Critiquing Obama Family Portrait

Matthew Bamberg posted an article on 101 Quick and Easy Secrets - Oct 23, 2009, 2:13 pm
Cyberspace is roiling content associated with the new First Family portrait. Annie Leibovitz took the picture on September 1, and the news about it is just coming out now. Not many people are comment...
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SAVE the Century Plaza

Matthew Bamberg posted an article on 101 Quick and Easy Secrets - Oct 21, 2009, 2:29 pm
Here’s a beautiful image of the mid-century modern Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles. New owners of the hotel want to demolish it according to Los Angeles Times blog. Developers want to build...
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Image Play

Matthew Bamberg posted an article on 101 Quick and Easy Secrets - Oct 19, 2009, 5:30 pm
When you have two images playing on one another, you get some fascinating communication. Since I’ve never seen a name for this, I’ll call it image play. Image play is found art (art that y...
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Santa Monica Pier

Matthew Bamberg posted an article on 101 Quick and Easy Secrets - Oct 17, 2009, 1:52 am
Fishing at Santa Monica Pier Nothing like a photograph that tells a story. This is a guy who caught a fish on Santa Monica Pier. The pier is all that’s LA wrapped into a giant deck over the wat...
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Off to Blog Expo

Matthew Bamberg posted an article on 101 Quick and Easy Secrets - Oct 15, 2009, 3:03 pm
Off the Blog Expo tonight. It’s a four hour drive from Palm Springs (that would be where I live) to Las Vegas. I don’t know what to expect this year. I went a few years back and learned a...
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Paul Strand's Church

Matthew Bamberg posted an article on 101 Quick and Easy Secrets - Oct 13, 2009, 2:11 pm
Paul Strand and other photographers looked for small frame buildings with gabled roofs that had few exterior elements around them—no trees, phone wires, mailboxes, planters and so on. They had a min...
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Car Window Reflections

Matthew Bamberg posted an article on 101 Quick and Easy Secrets - Oct 10, 2009, 7:36 pm
If you happen to be out and about looking for a couple of good photo ops, don’t forget to check car windows as you pass them. I caught this one in Berlin last summer. It was glaring at me as I ...
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Tribuite to Irving Penn

Matthew Bamberg posted an article on 101 Quick and Easy Secrets - Oct 8, 2009, 6:49 pm
Irving Penn was a fashion photographer who also composed still life photos. His photographs of women were casual, yet elegant. He often photographed them wearing hats with wide brims. In the photogra...
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Nikon Coolpix 1000pj has Built-in Projector

Matthew Bamberg posted an article on 101 Quick and Easy Secrets - Oct 8, 2009, 5:07 pm
Nikon point-and-shoot has built-in projector. What will camera manufacturers think of next? I mean a projector inside a camera? What’s this all about? It’s true; not only does this came...
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Repetition

Matthew Bamberg posted an article on 101 Quick and Easy Secrets - Oct 7, 2009, 4:42 pm
Repetition in photography is often called echoing. When you echo objects, you show them repeating over and over again. Echoing creates a kind of mystical feeling. If you’ve got echoed shadows in...
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10 Things Picasa Can Do For You

Matthew Bamberg posted an article on 101 Quick and Easy Secrets - Oct 5, 2009, 1:04 pm
Do you have photos that are everywhere on your computer—so many places that you can’t seem to find what you want? If that describes you, the best solution for viewing your photos is Google’s Pic...
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Compelling Shadows

Matthew Bamberg posted an article on 101 Quick and Easy Secrets - Oct 2, 2009, 4:14 pm
If you can catch shadows separated from the people who cast them, you’ll get a kind of freaky effect. As I was walking out of an outdoor festival in LA late one afternoon, I watched the shadows...
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New Annenberg Space Impresses in so Many Ways

Matthew Bamberg posted an article on 101 Quick and Easy Secrets - Oct 1, 2009, 1:52 pm
One of the primary reasons you’d want to visit the Annenberg Space for Photography is to take in not only the architecture of inside and outside of the building in which the works are displayed,...
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Blog Review Monday

Matthew Bamberg posted an article on 101 Quick and Easy Secrets - Sep 28, 2009, 5:12 pm
There’s one interesting blog that shouldn’t be missed, especially if you like history and photography. The blog is AmericansuburbXCALIFORNIA. The blog is a creation of Doug Rickard, a son...
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Smiling Horses

Matthew Bamberg posted an article on 101 Quick and Easy Secrets - Sep 25, 2009, 3:25 pm
Now how often do you think about horse teeth, or horse dentists even? I played around with these animals for a couple of minutes until I finally caught them smiling at each other (I guess that’s...
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Bicycle Home

Matthew Bamberg posted an article on 101 Quick and Easy Secrets - Sep 24, 2009, 3:53 pm
Can you imagine having all of your belongings on a bicycle? We’re the only country in the Western world where you’ll see something like this. In Europe there’s a social safety net s...
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Street Prayer

Matthew Bamberg posted an article on 101 Quick and Easy Secrets - Sep 23, 2009, 5:13 pm
Buddhist prayer. Caught this image a couple years back in Bangkok. I like it that people pray on the streets there. One great thing about traveling the world is that you get to see people participat...
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Over-the-Shoulder Shot

Matthew Bamberg posted an article on 101 Quick and Easy Secrets - Sep 22, 2009, 12:09 pm
There’s one type of shot in photography that’s rarely discussed in terms of portraiture. It’s a method of shooting that’s ubiquitous in film and television production. It&#...
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Frame the Bottom of People's Legs

Matthew Bamberg posted an article on 101 Quick and Easy Secrets - Sep 19, 2009, 11:32 am
Lisette Model was one of the great twentieth century photographers. One technique she used to photograph was to set the camera on the curb and photograph people’s legs walking by. In Legs Walking, 4...
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Writing a Persuasive Message to Sell a Book

Matthew Bamberg posted an article on 101 Quick and Easy Secrets - Sep 17, 2009, 2:47 pm
Anyone who’s written a book knows that it can be a hard sell. I believe if you craft a message that persuades people they have to click on the link to buy the book, you’ll sell thousands....
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How to Photograph the Liberty Bell

Matthew Bamberg posted an article on 101 Quick and Easy Secrets - Sep 15, 2009, 4:42 pm
The liberty bell isn’t atop some building. You don’t have to climb stairs to get there. It’s on display on the ground floor Liberty Bell Center from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. In order...
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Mapplethorpe Flower Imitation

Matthew Bamberg posted an article on 101 Quick and Easy Secrets - Sep 11, 2009, 3:53 pm
Robert Mapplethorpe was one of the most controversial photographers of our time. I can remember back in the 1980s when he photographed AIDS patients in the last stages of the disease, covered with the...
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Everyone's Talkin about the Canon 7D

Matthew Bamberg posted an article on 101 Quick and Easy Secrets - Sep 10, 2009, 10:44 am
The Canon 7D is here. First the price–it’s $1700. Not bad for an 18 MP camera that shoots HD video. Only drawback is that the camera does not have a full frame sensor (24X36mm). Its sensor...
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Reserved

Matthew Bamberg posted an article on 101 Quick and Easy Secrets - Sep 9, 2009, 5:34 pm
What do you think about when you look at this image? The first thing that comes to my mind is that a tattered place like the area in front of that wall would have so much value that it would be reser...
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Shoot Candidly at Night from a Car

Matthew Bamberg posted an article on 101 Quick and Easy Secrets - Sep 8, 2009, 2:38 pm
Well then. Here’s a cat in a car. This candid photo op came to me via Sunset Blvd. in West Hollywood, CA. This image is a perfect example of what you need to do to shoot candidly at night from a...
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Visit the World at Upcoming New York City Photography Exhibition

Matthew Bamberg posted an article on 101 Quick and Easy Secrets - Sep 5, 2009, 11:12 am
Imagine the photo ops in a crowd of millions of people at a Hindu pilgrimage in India. Glenn Losack has been there and has caught the sea of humanity that appears at Kumbh Mela (one of four pilgrimage...
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10 Tips for Great Scrapbook Photographs

Matthew Bamberg posted an article on 101 Quick and Easy Secrets - Sep 3, 2009, 6:53 pm
Take photographs with items that match in color. Photographs inevitably end up on scrapbook pages. It’s just a given. So why not take the best photographs you can? Here are 10 tips for those s...
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Shadow of Man

Matthew Bamberg posted an article on 101 Quick and Easy Secrets - Sep 2, 2009, 5:14 pm
Man casts shadow in front of door. Shadows play a vital role in your shots. They can enhance an image, from giving it added dimension to having it communicate added feeling. Shadows can disrupt an i...
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Five Best Digital Photography Information Sites on the Web

Matthew Bamberg posted an article on 101 Quick and Easy Secrets - Aug 31, 2009, 1:56 pm
... , camera settings, light, focus and more. If you want a complete guide to digital photography, pick up the book, 101 Quick and Easy Secrets for Using Your Digital Photographs. Here are the site...
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Cover of My New Book

Matthew Bamberg posted an article on 101 Quick and Easy Secrets - Aug 28, 2009, 4:58 pm

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Perspective

Matthew Bamberg posted an article on 101 Quick and Easy Secrets - Aug 28, 2009, 4:51 pm
I aimed my camera down this Old San Juan street to show perspective. The yellow line adds a bright color to the frame. Notice how things get smaller as you move back into the frame. This gives depth ...
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Blog has Moved

Matthew Bamberg posted an article on Digital Traveler - Aug 25, 2009, 6:45 pm
This blog has moved here. Please be sure and visit!retro, Babel, Disney, French circus, digital camera, travel, Uruguay, photo blog, Buenos Aires, Shanghai, tutorial, art, digital photography tips,......
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Supergirl

Matthew Bamberg posted an article on 101 Quick and Easy Secrets - Aug 25, 2009, 2:48 pm
The nice thing about Hollywood, CA is the people who dress up as cartoon characters. There’s a Spiderman, Superman, and, posing in the picture on the left, Supergirl. I found her not in front o...
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I'm the author of the Quick and Easy Secrets photography book series:

101 Quick and Easy Secrets to Create Winning Photographs

101 Quick and Easy Secrets for Using Your Digital Photographs

101 Quick and Easy Ideas Taken from Master Photographers of the Twentieth Century.

The books show budding photographers how to take great pictures and put them to use too.

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