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	Ideas ... Though lots of the more experienced and knowledgable camera users know that mirrorless cameras have loads of advantages, the stigma that you need a DSLR to shoot professional grade images is still present in most of Europe and the USA. More… Traditional photo albums are dying out as young people now take more pictures of themselves than friends and family, a survey suggests. More… Now that everyone and their grandmother has a super computer/camera in their pocket or purse or on their face, it seems like everybody is sharing their filtered masterpieces with the entire world. What's a true aspiring professional photographer to do in the face of this onslaught of people? More… Digital imaging - from digital sensors in your DSLR to smartphones and Instagram - has changed photography in a great many ways...Perhaps then the most interesting question is to what extent have these changes made us better photographers? More… The airbrush backlash is now well underway as Debenhams announces a ban on all retouched lingerie model shots. The high-street department store puts and end to such images as they 'want to help customers feel confident about their figures without bombarding them with unattainable body images'. More… About My Switch From Mac To Windows More… Conquering Creative Burnout: Put Down the Camera More… You can't blame James Agee for being competitive with Walker Evans. The photographer slept with two of Agee's wives... More… I think as long as you are putting out solid work, good work, staying fresh and true to your ideas, and evolving with time, then you can have an extremely successful career. More… So. What does it take to be a successful photographer? This, I guess, is a question that bugs (or bugged) you if you are in the field. More specifically, what does it take to be a successful working photographer. More… MoMA's Photography Curator on Underappreciated Photographers More… I don't know much about Richard Prince, but I like to think that he's in the business of operating at the edges of what's acceptable. Whether he's pushing the boundaries or just working in the grey area I think it's important for art to have trouble makers. More… Well I must say that it doesn't get any easier because as you get more experienced and as you go further you're trying to work with more complexity, and take more complexity and create more simplicity. More… If you are in the business of real estate photography it's instructive to look at Google Trends result for the search English search term "real estate photography". More… n a recent article we took a look at the history of Nikon cameras, from their early beginnings to the international brand it is today. Perhaps, Nikon's biggest rival in recent decades has been Canon, and in many respects the story of Canon is very similar to Nikon's. More… Tips, Techniques & Technology ... Did you know that the Nikon TTL Flash Metering System is not actively coupled to the Camera metering system? They use the same metering sensor in the camera, but act independently. More… There are few more important things that a nature photographer can do to improve his or her photography than becoming familiar with the use of the polarizing filter. What can a polarizing filter do? More… If you want to share a photo with a friend, but it's in a large file size format, it makes sense to convert it to a JPEG before sending it along. If you don't want to take the time to open up an image editor to convert it though, Make JPEG Droplet can do the job instantly. More… Is off-camera flash still something that causes you trouble? Do you find yourself constantly chimping your camera LCD and making adjustments for every shot you take? Does mixing flash with sunlight cause you nightmares? More… If you shoot architecture or panoramas, you'll often shoot wide angle. This can lead to an unwanted fisheye effect. Whether you're shooting one exposure or stitching several, fixing the problem is stone cold simple. More… A Deeper Look at the Technology Driving Google's New Personal Photo Search More… Exploding The Myths Of Landscape Photography - Steve Gosling explains why photography rules are sometimes made to be broken. More… Famed portrait and fashion photographer Lindsay Adler just finished an awesome session with creativeLive on Creative Studio Lighting. We were able to get an exclusive sneak peek at the session where she teaches about lighting a portrait to bring out details and enhance beauty. More… The iOS 7 announcement was met with a standing ovation at Apple's WWDC keynote. But what specifically does the photo community have to get excited about? Now that the developers have their hands on the iOS 7 beta, we're starting to get an idea. More… Your photography is a unique reflection of who you are as an artist and as a person. The way you display your art can be almost as important. More… Black and white photography can be all about texture. Color is no longer a crutch or handicap that keeps you from noticing other aspects of your pictures. More… Understanding Evaluative Metering on Your EOS Camera More… The art of composition is the creation of a visually compelling picture-a picture that evokes the interest of the viewer. Composition is a key element of good photographs; it is the combining of distinct parts or elements to form a whole. More… It's a well-documented 'fact' that writers encounter writer's block. Photographers also run into that creative wall and it can be very discouraging if you can't seem to get back on your feet after a while. More… If you're interested in making a positive impression on potential clients, but you don't have the funds to spend on printing high-end branded materials, Minnesota-based photographer Lars Swanson's approach might interest you. More… You Can Do It: Use Two Lights to Freeze Action; Two flash tubes can be better than one for freezing action in its tracks More… Keeping a blog up to date, knowing what to write, or even how to begin, has become the bane of many photographers' existences. But whatever your feelings towards blogs, I do believe they are an important part of every commercial photographer's business. More…   Reviews James B. Martin ventured into the hills of Northeast India to document the last days of fading cultures. More… Koudelka also told the audience at the outset that he "never listened much to what [other] photographers say," and recounted how Henri Cartier-Bresson had asked him to read and comment on the text of The Decisive Moment before that book was published More… ArcSoft Photo+ For Mac Review More… Kibera is a division of Nairobi, Kenya, and as a rule, girls there don't have much of a shot at an education. Kenya is still very patriarchal, and if a family has both boys and girls, it's the boys who will be granted the opportunity to attend secondary school. More… In his collection entitled "Library of Dust", fine art photographer David Maisel gives us a glimpse into the Oregon State Hospital, formally known as the Oregon State Insane Asylum. More… SUSAN SONTAG: "Speech and Inteview at Wellesley College (1975)" More… Trapped is a project by Minneapolis, Minnesota-based photographer Jenn Ackerman that shares the experiences of mentally ill prisoners through gritty black-and-white photographs. More… I was hired to shoot a fashion show in Shanghai and I have some friends that live in Istanbul. I extended my trip so I could visit them. On the day before I left Shanghai I heard about the riots. I decided to focus on that while I was in Istanbul. It was a coincidence. More… The rapid economic development has left many people behind and amplified social taboos," photographer Paolo Marchetti tells TIME. "All of these problems are really linked together-single pages of the same book." More… "In one of the book's most arresting images, Ms. Heyman photographed herself undergoing an abortion." More… Remove Unwanted Elements With Inpaint! - Teorex Inpaint makes removing unwanted elements from your photos a breeze. More… Here's another very well made audio-slideshow of the annual Urs Festival commemorating the death of the Sufi Saint Khwaja Moinuddin Hasan Chishti as produced by Shane Green More… Get to know Wim Vorster, a South African wildlife photographer who is passionate about conserving wildlife and sharing this message with the rest of the world through his photography. More… How To Use a Graphics Tablet for Photography - Introduction More… These are not your typical celebrity portraits. Ophthalmologist turned photographer, Howard Schatz, sat down with 100 different actors, and, instead of just having them pose, directed them in different situations. Telling Ben Kingsley, for example, to pretend to be a seven-year-old boy More… Stephen Gill has learnt this: to haunt the places that haunt him. His photo-accumulations demonstrate a tender vision factored out of experience; alert, watchful, not overeager, wary of that mendacious conceit, 'closure'. More… Kuler is the name of Adobe's web-based, socially powered color picker. As a long-time Kuler user, I had a feeling of what I might see when I opened the just-released iOS app version. But I saw much more. The mobile app opens up many more doors than the web service ever could. More… The project came from a habit of always photographing my friends and staging them. Over time I discovered my obsession with the idea of being a teenager. More… Berlin-based photographer Matthias Heiderich specializes in architecture and landscapes. His series UAE was photographed in the winter of 2013 in Dubai and Abu Dhabi. He recently talked to us about the two places. More…   News Olympus has issued firmware updates for the PEN E-PL5 and PEN E-PM2. More… Independent iOS developer Jeffrey Sun has released version 1.6 of his Modern Photo Editor app. More… Akvis has released a new frame pack for its ArtSuite, with 55 hand-painted designs. "These admirable designs will take you into the world of magic," the company says. More… You may have seen built-it-yourself 35mm pinhole cameras before, but have you ever seen a DIY SLR? Lomography today announced the Konstruktor, a camera it calls "the world's first 35mm do-it-yourself" SLR camera. More… Leica camera AG has announced the release of their latest compact digital camera known as the 'X vario'. boasting a 16.2 megapixel APS-C CMOS sensor, the device packs a 3.0 inch LCD screen within an aluminum and magnesium enclosure. More… Firmware Update For Olympus OM-D And PENs - Olympus has released firmware updates for its OM-D and PEN cameras. More… Apple has announced the upcoming Mac Pro, which will be available later this year. The new Mac Pro is clearly a massive change from the Mac Pro form factor we have grown accustomed to really since the aluminum Power Mac G5's introduction in 2003 More… The new Lightroom 5 is now out of beta and into the real world! LR5 brings with it support for these cameras: Ricoh GR, Olympus E-P5 and E-PL6, Panasonic G6 and LF1 and Hasselblad H5D-60 and preliminary support for the Phase One IQ260. More… Justin Bieber Being Sued by Photographer After Guards Take Camera, Memory and Threaten With Gun More… Apple has issued an update to Digital Camera RAW 4.06, which adds RAW image compatibility for the following cameras to Aperture 3 and iPhoto '11: More… Every once and a while a site comes along that makes the rest of us think, "Well duh, why didn't I think of that! Snapsation is the brain child of Chris Chabot, one of the founding members of the Google+ team, a developer for Google before that and a lead engineer for OpenSocial before that. More… Public Lab is looking to take infrared power to the people with a sub-100 Dollar point-and-shoot camera that can capture infrared imagery for monitoring plant life. More… Leica Firmware Update For M Monochrom - Leica has announced firmware update 1.002 for the Leica M Monochrom camera. More… GIMP 2.8 for Photographers is a new book from designer and photographer Klaus Goelker, which teaches photographers how to leverage the open source GIMP 2.8,,which runs on Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows, as an alternative to Photoshop. More… FocusStacker for iOS is billed as the first-ever calculating tool for photographers using the focus stacking technique. More… If you attended this year's Focus on Imaging Show at the Birmingham National Exhibition Centre earlier this year, you might like to know that you were at the very last show, which started life 24 years ago as the Focus on Photography show. More… The Chicago Sun-Times has laid off its entire photography staff, according to a report from the Chicago Tribune. Twenty full-time staffers received the grave news at a meeting on Thursday morning, leaving them jobless. More… The professional status update is assuming a new look as LinkedIn has decided to embrace photo and rich media sharing, meaning members can finally share more than text and links in their status updates. More… Sam Jones Launches offCamera More… "To photograph mankind and explain man to man" - this was the goal of Wayne Miller, ground-breaking photographer, who passed away last week at the age of 94. More… While the vast majority of Photoshop users are editing 2D imagery, a partnership between Adobe and Brigham Young University has produced algorithms that'll do with 3D images what Content Aware Fill does with 2D images. More…
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