One of my colleagues is an architectural photographer who shoots digital infrared images a great deal of the time. Unfortunately, he lives several hundred miles from me and when we are together (which actually is seldom) we spend our time talking about our lives and clients--and lately, hurricanes (since we both live in areas that are affected by storms). That means that we don’t spend a lot of time talking about infrared photography, which I would really like to do. For me, that’s … [Read more...]
Complete Guide To The Nikon D300 By Thom Hogan
September 22, 2008 By 1 Comment
On User Manuals, Digital Books, Travel, The Importance of eBooks and The Foresight of Thom Hogan I like physical books. By that I mean I like a book I can hold in my hand, feel the texture, and maybe even revel in the smell of the paper and the ink. I like to consume well-done images that inspire or instruct. I like books that open themselves flat and allow me to look at them without having to hold down both sides of the tight binding of a signature in the book without being … [Read more...]
Adobe Photoshop CS3 for Digital Photographers
July 28, 2008 By Leave a Comment
In my professional life I have attended many seminars and workshops. Some of those seminars or workshops have been funded by my employer, and others I have paid for myself. Looking back over some forty plus years of classes—let's go ahead and call these seminars and workshops that—I think that the average price of any of these half day classes has to have averaged at least a hundred dollars per session; perhaps it has been even more. In some cases, it has been definitely … [Read more...]
LAYERS: The Complete Guide To Photoshop’s Most Powerful Feature
June 23, 2008 By 1 Comment
When I pick up a book to read it I have an almost overwhelming desire to know something about the person writing the book before I even flip the pages of that book. I want a connection between that person and myself in order to justify committing myself to their momentary care. I look first at book forwards or introductions or at least the author's brief inside the front cover. This is true whether the book is a work of fiction or a technical manual. Without this beginning I … [Read more...]
Seven Key Techniques For Taking Your Images From Flat To Fantastic
June 2, 2008 By 1 Comment
I used the sub-title as the title because I think it makes the subject clearer. I think that describes why Scott Kelby's book is not just another Photoshop book even if you don't know who Scott Kelby actually is. If you don't know, then I suggest you crank up GOOGLE and pick a couple of dozen of the 999,000 entries it says it pinged up for your perusal when you punch in his name. I'll give you the summation—he knows Photoshop. He knows it very well! I secretly think he is at least a … [Read more...]
Exposure & Lighting for Digital Photographers Only
April 25, 2008 By 1 Comment
I recently encountered a relatively new book by Michael Meadhra and Charlotte K. Lowrie entitled Exposure and Lighting for Digital Photographers Only published by Wiley Press in 2007. … [Read more...]
Managing Your Photographic Workflow with Photoshop Lightroom
January 1, 2008 By 1 Comment
Rocky Nook was founded in 2006 in Santa Barbara, California, and is closely associated with dpunkt.verlag in Germany. Rocky Nook is associated with, and releases books, through O'Reilly Media Company, hence the distribution through the O'Reilly address. Rocky Nook specializes in books on digital photography, imaging, and workflow. Their stated goal is "to support creativity, and improve the quality and efficiency of photographic work". The writers chosen by Rocky Nook are … [Read more...]
The HDRI Handbook: High Dynamic Range Imaging for Photographers and CG Artists by Christian Bloch
December 5, 2007 By 1 Comment
Film has never been able to capture the dynamic range of reality, and trying to achieve that result has been the goal of photographers and chemists, and then later lens and film designers, since the early beginnings of the photographic process. But digital imaging has brought us to the possibility of producing images that contain a higher dynamic range than is possible with any type of film. With digital imaging and the proper techniques it is now possible to produce a dynamic range in an … [Read more...]
