Posted by Elizabeth Halford on November 8, 2009 ·
The white-room studio look has become really popular lately, especially for children. I love it for so many reasons:
Kids are unpredictable, especially when you don’t know them. Removing the element of not only trying to catch the right moment, but also crossing your fingers hoping that the ‘moment’ happens in the right position within the frame of ideal natural light (while chasing them around) [...]
Posted by Elizabeth Halford on November 7, 2009 ·
Flickr changed my life. True story.
I am a relatively new Flickr convert and a full fledged Flickr evangelist and my number one message to the masses: Flickr isn’t a dumping ground for ‘pics’. It isn’t a graveyard where millions of images are laid to rest never to be seen again. It is a community where photographers share their latest conquests and view beautiful works by other artists. Of [...]
Posted by Darren Rowse on November 6, 2009 ·
A few months back we published a collection of Forced Perspective images which was very popular with readers.
Forced perspective is defined as ‘a technique that employs optical illusion to make an object appear farther, closer, larger or smaller than it actually is.’ (Wikipedia)
This is far from a recently popular thing for photographers to do. Here’s a great example from 1918 which was submitted [...]
Posted by Peter Carey on November 6, 2009 ·
I’m good at messing up stuff. I’ll admit it. Take for instance the photo above. It is the final shot I took of many while in the Kazumura Cave on the Big Island of Hawaii. And it still needs help. In a recent post here on DPS entitled 14 Tips For Cave Photography, I explained some of the things I learned from a first time attempt at underground photography. In this post I’d like [...]
Posted by Helen Bradley on November 5, 2009 ·
If you are like me you had a kaleidoscope as a kid. You would look through one end and turn a dial and the world would be displayed as a mirrored fractured shape. Thanks to Photoshop you can create kaleidoscopes from your photos. Any image with interesting color and shapes will work just fine.
Step 1
Convert the background layer to a regular layer by double clicking it and click Ok.
Step 2
Select [...]
Posted by Elizabeth Halford on October 29, 2009 ·
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Kodak Consumer Digital Imaging sees sales fall
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Posted by Peter Carey on October 27, 2009 ·
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Toshiba develops back-illuminated sensor
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Posted by Peter Carey on October 26, 2009 ·
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Digital camera inventor receives honorary doctorate
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