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Feb 9, 2012, 9:34 am
Chugging along on a camel ride, defying gravity at a water park and, most importantly snapping away at architecture that rules the skyline, Holidays in Dubai teaches you that this world-class...
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Feb 9, 2012, 1:12 am
Some of the most well-known names in
microstock photography are Danish photographer Yuri Arcurs and American photographer Sean Locke, who were at the top of the earnings list on the microstock photo...
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Feb 6, 2012, 11:50 pm
If you’re pitching a how-to photography book, you’ve have to have a clear idea of what it’s going to be about.
Here’s the description I gave for Photography Applications to Cloud Computing, a book coming out in a few months.
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Feb 6, 2012, 11:29 pm
If you're thinking of changing careers or starting a new one especially lucrative right now is graphic design. Designers at work can choose from a multitude of jobs and tasks from print...
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Feb 5, 2012, 12:00 am
The Museum of Jurrasic Technology,
tucked into a Culver City block that you could easily miss, is a place of small
things that once were and real life illusions through prisms, microscopes and
glass....
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Feb 2, 2012, 11:27 pm
The focus lock feature of cameras lets you recompose your shots so that you can follow photography
rules, such as the Rule of Thirds.
You can recompose a shot if you lock your focus by...
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Jan 30, 2012, 10:31 pm
Adobe Photoshop Elements 10
has a Photomerge option that is supposed to create HDR-like photographs.
It works by merging three photos of different exposures. When it's set in Automatic mode it...
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Jan 30, 2012, 6:15 pm
Take a screen shot of images in your book.
For years, I have had a detailed book proposal with chapter forwards about signage of the 20th century. It’s been in my external hard drive for years wasting away. I created a blog to support it at Blogger.
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Jan 27, 2012, 2:20 pm
In the late 13th century, Giotto di Bondone painted what’s referred to as “the devil on the urban landscape,” which is divided into light uniform tones on the buildings and darker ones making up the...
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Jan 27, 2012, 2:14 pm
During the Renaissance, chiaroscuro, an HDR-like illumination, became popular.
It was very HDR-like. See image aboveretro, Babel, Disney, French circus, digital camera, travel, Uruguay, photo blog,...
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Jan 25, 2012, 11:26 pm
This, my friends, is a 32 bit image as it looks on my monitor. You see, my monitor can’t handle all the information that a 32-bit photo contains. As a matter of fact, your monitor couldn’t handle it either. No monitor can that’s build for consumers today.
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Jan 25, 2012, 9:28 pm
There's one word you don't hear much when street photography is discussed. That word is style.
Many people can't think of what to photograph when they're out in the street. One of the first...
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Jan 20, 2012, 4:53 pm
Carbonite takes a long time to perform a complete back-up, but it's worth the time and the money.
If you go to the Carbonite site you’ll find that it can back-up a few gigabytes a day. This is true with your average high speed connection, as I’ve tested it. Remember, too, that how fast you uploa... Comment - Like
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Jan 19, 2012, 10:50 am
The Moment it Clicks by Joe McNally is perhaps one of the best known photography how-to books there is (if you don't count books by Scott Kelby. Get a slew of them together in Scott Kelby's Digital...
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Jan 13, 2012, 12:38 am
You'd expect a mirrorless camera to have an APS-C sensor size, but not on the Nikon 1 V1
--its sensor size is 13.2mm x 8.8mm, probably the biggest sensor on a point-and-shoot, but is it a...
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Jan 10, 2012, 10:01 am
Before I got my Canon EOS 5D, I had a Canon Digital Rebel XT, sometimes called the D 350.
That camera was incredible in that it took great images, even at high ISO speeds.
It does much better...
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Jan 5, 2012, 6:16 pm
Many HDR photographers emphasize landscapes as part of their work. Landscapes have the depth and light to make for some very compelling HDR photography.
Another type of photography to consider for...
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Jan 2, 2012, 10:00 pm
You usually don't associate Victorian architecture with Los Angeles so that when you have an image of a Victorian in LA it's unique.
Victorian architecture is plentiful in some neighborhoods of...
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Dec 28, 2011, 10:53 am
Sad news. Cheetah died today. This is the Cheetah from the Tarzan movies that lived in Florida.
I interviewed Cheeta (not the one from Florida) and owner in 2005. This was one big animal. I...
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Dec 26, 2011, 4:03 pm
cat_in_a_car, originally uploaded by matthewbam0.
This cat is doing something cats don't normally do--go out of the house.
Guess it got used to it as a kitten.retro, Babel, Disney, French circus,...
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Dec 26, 2011, 9:52 am
Century City, a creation of Welton Becket, well known for its modern architecture, which rests on the the theory that repetition is a good thing.
The Century Plaza Hotel, a 60s iconic...
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Dec 21, 2011, 10:42 am
You may have noticed that the Ev meter is blinking and your camera stopped taking pictures. This can be frustrating at best.
It blinks because you are outside of the good exposure limits. On some...
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Oct 18, 2011, 10:13 pm
I have to say that this new Photostream program from Apple is not going to make it unless some issues are addressed.
To be sure, I got it working--when I put a photo on one device or computer it...
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Oct 7, 2011, 5:40 pm
I have an extensive photo collection of phone booths from around the world. This is a sample. There are many more.
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Oct 4, 2011, 4:51 pm
Click pic to see my books.
Many people wonder who my books are geared for. Here’s a good explanation from the book, New Image Frontiers–Defining the Future of Photography.
Photography is a complex process, which that involves higher math and science skills. My books are intended to give read... Comment - Like
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Oct 3, 2011, 8:01 pm
The new show at the LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art is filled with nostalgia.
The room is cluttered (yes, a bit too much in too small a space) with mid-century modern relics from bucket...
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Sep 30, 2011, 9:03 am
The perfect holiday greeting.
I’m always thinking retro. That’s ... thinking about clever ways to send holiday greetings. I never thought that this holiday sign could be used as a Christmas card until ... the picture above, look surreal. Sending holiday greetings is something I plan ... go t... Comment - Like
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Sep 29, 2011, 9:09 pm
When walking around Barcelona, you'll find many fountains like this one.
The city goes back 2000 years. The former residents have left much behind--sculptures, an Olympic Stadium and some really...
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Sep 27, 2011, 10:24 pm
Ah, the old movie box office...
This one's in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles.
Didn't have a tripod for the shot, so I leaned my camera in the cranny of post and shot the image.
If...
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Sep 27, 2011, 9:51 pm
Is this HDR? Not…it’s a photo overtweaked in Photoshop Raw. It’s easy to do; just play with the sliders.
HDR is a funny animal that many overdo. It’s a process of putting three images of different exposures together to take the details in the shadowy, dark areas of the overexposed photo, th... Comment - Like
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Sep 22, 2011, 2:05 pm
Finally! Nikon came out with its own version of mirrorless cameras. Two models--the J1 and V1 are tiny but powerful.
Here are ten things you should know about the J1 if you're in the market for...
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Sep 16, 2011, 5:57 pm
Landscape photography isn't hard if you have the right equipment and know some basic photography technical and composition skills.
1. Use a tripod: When I take a landscape shot like the one to the...
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Sep 15, 2011, 9:22 pm
Now here’s something you’ll never catch me doing–rock climbing. Makes you wonder how many people fall.
People do fall, mostly because they are either overconfident or careless. Bad luck can have something to do with it, too.
All Climbing reports that the British government compared risks of... Comment - Like
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Sep 13, 2011, 8:09 pm
Canadian photographer Robert Bourdeau has concluded that there are very few great photographs.
He divides compelling photos into admirable and wonderful saying that the photo must “evoke emotion within the viewer and photographer.”
Over the years, Bourdeau (who is 79) has produced some fairly ... Comment - Like
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Sep 13, 2011, 4:22 pm
Last June I went inside a prefab home on the grounds of the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.
Today, I bring the the outside of that home.
Back in 2005 modular homes were all the rage.
Since...
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Sep 9, 2011, 3:35 pm
You'd think that shooting microstock photos would be a demanding job where you had to plan a shot, apply ample lighting and feature compelling subject matter with a focus.
This is not always the...
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Sep 8, 2011, 1:33 pm
... say, on a trip to a national park, you’ll miss photo ops like this. In this shot, taken at Joshua Tree National Park, the guide is holding a horny toad, an animal that is so well camouflaged it’s very difficult to find.
Not only did the guide find many of these hard-to-find creatures, he a... Comment - Like
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Sep 6, 2011, 9:59 pm
The Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica is hopping with entertainment. Take a walk up and down closed off street and you'll find guys like this strutting their stuff.
This guy actually turned...
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Sep 2, 2011, 7:03 pm
Sometimes juxtaposing the old vs new creates a compelling photograph, as is the case in this photo. You can catch these kinds of shots on photo walks. Make sure you hit the narrow streets and alleys,...
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Sep 1, 2011, 10:39 pm
I didn’t follow any photography rules in this shot; it’s just one of those shots that contains a subject that most people haven’t seen before–A bus with a kind of garden space (think garden window).
I didn’t get to go inside so I have no idea what that extended space is used for.
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Sep 1, 2011, 9:08 am
I found that you get the best results when searching for photos by using Google Images. It does a better job than the photo sharing site itself. All you have to do is use the keywords "name of site...
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Aug 30, 2011, 3:03 pm
An avatar is the image or text at the top of a website or blog. In order for either of those to be attractive, your image should be longer horizontally than vertically, like the image you see above. To get an image like this you can crop one of your better images in the middle to test it to see if i... Comment - Like
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Aug 30, 2011, 11:04 am
Will the book New Image Frontiers--Defining the Future of Photography teach me what there is to know about which type and model camera to buy that I'll be able to use, say, five years from...
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Aug 27, 2011, 12:36 pm
From the book: “Bienvenido a Miami” by Matt Bamberg
“The eye of the hurricane is expected to blow northeast of Miami,” the voice from the silver Motorola transistor radio reported. It’s expected to miss Miami by several hundred miles and all we expect is a lot of rain.” In my deepest ... Comment - Like
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Aug 26, 2011, 8:07 pm
Robert Mann Gallery
Fukase, Hosoe and Moriyama aren't exactly household names.
In the scope of history, though, they are important contributors to the art of photography.
So often we neglect...
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Aug 24, 2011, 8:02 pm
If you're going to be a stock/microstock photographer taking a picture without a tripod is likely to get an image rejected.
Stock/Microstock agencies usually want sharp photos from foreground to...
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Aug 23, 2011, 3:00 pm
Six years ago I wrote a novel in which I developed a main character from a series of photographs of myself at different ages. I thought of unusual situations the character would encounter at each age. I took the situations and created a series of characters who would be involved in some way in each ... Comment - Like
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Aug 22, 2011, 4:35 pm
The Golden Triangle is a photography rule that few people have heard of. It's quite complex. To use it, you have to follow quite a few steps in Photoshop.
I tried it, and the results were nothing...
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Aug 21, 2011, 2:06 am
I thought this guy was famous.
Many people wonder where to photography celebrities in Los Angeles. I found out the scoop while I was at the Fourth Street Promenade in Santa Monica. I was photographing the guy you see above, thinking he was a celebrity when I ran into a young guy from TMZ. We talked... Comment - Like
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Aug 17, 2011, 11:30 pm
Rick Perry's hot on the search engine circuit.
Rick’s a great guy, but to get a real peek at his lifestyle, take a look at his Flickr Photostream.
You’d think millions of people would have flocked to this photostream. Could it be that he is a bad photographer?
Most of his images have only sev... Comment - Like
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