Photographing Bears- Summer 2008
Editor’s note: A couple of readers have commented that we seem to be stressing Nikon camera gear in our articles, and as an editor I have to tell you that is the luck of the draw in terms of some of our writers preferences; but in the idea of equal time, here we present a Canon camera shooter’s... Read more »
Recession Proofing Your Studio- Part 1
Whether you believe we are in a recession or you are simply seeing a slow down in your business, are you going to kick back and hope the phone starts ringing or wait for our government to help you out? The governments plan of course is to stimulate the economy by pouring money into it by issuing tax... Read more »
LAYERS: The Complete Guide To Photoshop’s Most Powerful Feature
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... Read more »
Whatever Happened To The “Decisive Moment”?
Photography has been evolving constantly from its birth in 1839. There have been many different kinds of photographs and processes through the years, including the daguerreotype, calotype, ambrotype, tintype, prints from sheet film, prints from roll film, and now images from digital capture. Each process... Read more »
Seven Key Techniques For Taking Your Images From Flat To Fantastic
I included the sub-title with 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... Read more »
The Nikon D3
I was always an F kind of guy. My first Nikon pro camera was the original F - a 1971 black body FTN. It supplemented my FM2 and I had it until just a couple of years ago when I sold it to a close friend, who bought it with the understanding that I might occasionally need to fondle it… call it conjugal... Read more »
EXPLORING DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY AND GROUP THERAPY, TOGETHER
When I studied traditional photography over twenty years ago I did not see how much the art would shift for me in the way I executed it and what it meant for me. I believed like many of us that the silver halide was a thing of exacting beauty that could never be replaced. Under the instruction... Read more »
Exposure and Lighting for Digital Photographers Only
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. Having taught photography for more than 40 years, I obviously have taught through the transition from silver-based... Read more »
The Nikon D300 Camera at Work
My job as a Still Photographer in the motion picture industry requires me to get the best possible images for publicity purposes. This requires me to constantly update my equipment when new and better technology is developed. Such is the case with the Nikon D300 camera which hit the market in Dec 2007... Read more »
Camdapter by Jim Garavuso vs Nikon SLR Hand Strap
A former student of mine dropped by to show me his new Nikon D80 camera. He stopped in because he knew my wife had the same model and he wanted some help with a couple of menu choices. I noticed a handstrap on the right side of his camera, into which he slipped his right hand, which left his other... Read more »
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Still Photographers & the Film Industry
Still Photographers in the Film Industry shoot stills for the publicity of a movie and to document the film, and everything connected with the production of a film. Then the finished material will be usually be turned over to the studio which will... more
LAYERS: The Complete Guide To Photoshop’s Most Powerful Feature
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... Read more »
Seven Key Techniques For Taking Your Images From Flat To Fantastic
I included the sub-title with 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... Read more »
Exposure and Lighting for Digital Photographers Only
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. Having taught photography for more than 40 years, I obviously have taught through the transition from silver-based photography to the digital era. As digital became the dominant medium, students changed radically in the backgrounds that they brought to the classroom. In the beginning of the transition, most... Read more »
Managing Your Photographic Workflow with Photoshop Lightroom
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
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 »
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