“You can’t imagine how many emails I receive in the course of a day from young and new photographers seeking advise about equipment, lighting and marketing their business.” – David Tejada
Source and Read More: Annual Report Photographer – David Tejada

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“Announced in August 2007, the 8-megapixel Pentax Optio Z10 stepped into the digital camera market with a $249 retail price tag. Its main draw is its internal 7x optical zoom lens, covered by a metal sliding door when powered down. Other perks include faster face detection and 52 MB of internal memory.” – Emily Raymond
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“I’ve been asked a bunch of questions concerning home studio setups over the last few years, but one question in particular keeps coming up over and over. Should I paint my studio walls white or black? Seems like a simple question until you really start thinking about it.” – hexfire
Source and Read More: hexfire.net

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“The November 2007 Photo Assignment was “Light and Dark,” and we have an excellent selection of images to show you — 15 photos submitted by Digital Story members who demonstrate their ability to capture both the highlights and shadows of the world around them.” – Derrick Story
Source and Read More: The Digital Story

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“The topic of image noise often surfaces when we talk about shooting at high ISOs with compact cameras. Usually the conversation veers in the direction of trying to prevent the noise and devising workarounds toward that goal. But, is image noise always bad?” – Derrick Story
Source and Read More: The Digital Story

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“For my last post of the year, I thought I’d take a quick look back at what has just been an amazing year of change, innovation, and growth for our industry. I’m going to focus on what’s happened in the Photoshop arena, in photography, what’s happened here in my Photoshop Insider blog, and how it’s [...]

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“I’ve talked to several Real Estate Photographers recently in the process of purchasing new DSLRs and noticed that there is a misunderstanding about what lenses are appropriate for real estate photography on the new DSLRs.” – Larry Lohrman
Source and Read More: Photography for Real Estate

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“The GPS craze has hit big time, must have been a favorite stocking stuffer this year. That’s cool! I’ve received a number of emails in regards to the di-GPS especially about it just “dangling” when you have something else in the camera’s hot shot. Here’s my solution.” – Moose
Source and Read More: Moose News Blog

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“DENVER (Billboard) – There is a reason people still buy CDs more than they do digital albums. Actually there are several, but viruses that come along with music via peer-to-peer sites (P2P) and a concern over digital rights management (DRM) aren’t the only culprits. ” – Antony Bruno
Source and Read More: I4U.com

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“It’s New Years Eve here in Australia and so I thought I’d break my little vacation from blogging to stop by and wish all DPS readers all the best wishes for their New Year’s Eve celebrations.” – digital Photography School
Source and Read More: digital Photography School

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“by Japanese photographers? Bewildered by how they see things? Then Marc Feustel’s Eyes of an Island may interest you. Christmas may be over but the end of the year means that your birthday would be coming soon. =) Lens culture has got an excerpt of the book here. The book traces the development of photography [...]

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“Digital underwater cameras are the perfect things to capture your underwater experience. For most people it is hard to get a second chance to take a photograph of the underwater ocean life. Anything you wish to capture during your underwater experience can be done with the use of one of these cameras. Whether it be [...]

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“The recent case of Virgin Mobile using a Flickr photo in an ad campaign without the model’s permission has once again raised the issue of model releases. When are they necessary, and when are they not required?” – Rohn Engh
Source and Read More: Black Star

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“Dust has been a source of frustration for digital SLR users from the beginning. Those little specks are like blood clots in the digital workflow — slowing you down or even ruining your best work. Sure, you can remove imperfections in Photoshop, but when those specks get on your sensor, every single photo will need [...]

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“As we wind down towards the end of 2007, it seemed like an appropriate time to look back at the past year’s worth of weekly PhotoTip articles here at Earthbound Light. After carefully tabulating the results based on the server’s web logs, I herewith present the “Top 10″ list of articles, beginning at number 10 [...]

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“Suitability – What is it good for?
The Fuji Finepix F480 is a very basic point-and-shoot digital camera with a wide-angle lens. Its 8 megapixels sensor and 4X optical zoom are just a bit more than the average ultra-compact, but it offers much less control than most cameras in its class. Even its low resolution movie-mode [...]

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“31 December 2007 – Samsung has updated its S850model with the S1050 and the camera comes complete with a rather tempting feature set. This includes a suite of manual controls for the more advanced among you, a 10-megapixel sensor, 5x optical zoom lens, and a new large 3-inch screen.” – Doug Harman
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“Bangalore: One in four people who bought the approximately one million digital cameras in India in 2007 got them from the grey market, according to IDC India Ltd.
The good news is that aggressive marketing and promotions by camera companies has meant that the number of grey market buyers is down from two out of five [...]

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“In this episode of Quicktips we take a look at how you can quickly and easily copy and paste Camera Raw settings without ever having to leave the Adobe Bridge. This is a great little time-saver and it should help you shave some precious minutes off your next project.” – Photoshop QuickTips
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Dennis Hays delivers his first State of the Industry podcast. He discusses, camera, film, software, printers and more.
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Source and Read More: Secrets of Digital Imaging

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by Adobe Creative Team (Author)

Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 Classroom in a Book is the most thorough and comprehensive way for new users to master all the new features in Adobe’s consumer-targeted image editing software. Each chapter in this step-by-step, project-based guide contains a project that builds on the reader’s growing knowledge of the program, while [...]

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by Barbara Obermeier (Author), Ted Padova (Author)

Find out how to get more fun from your photos
Edit and enhance your pictures, fix flaws, create greeting cards or photo books, and more
Discover how to:

Acquire images from your camera or scanner
Organize and find photos fast
Crop and straighten pictures
Create sharp and colorful images for printing
Correct color, contrast, and clarity
Combine [...]

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by David Pogue (Author), Derrick Story (Author) – Publication Date: January 11, 2008

Apple has taken iPhoto 08 to a whole new level. Now, in addition to handling upwards of 250,000 images, the program lets you easily categorize and navigate through those photos with a feature called “Events”. Plus, new editing tools let you copy and [...]

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by Scott Kelby (Author) – Publication Date: January 5, 2008

Scott Kelby, author of the groundbreaking bestseller “The Digital Photography Book, Vol. 1” is back with an entirely new book that picks up right where Vol. 1 left off. It’s more of that “Ah ha—so that’s how they do it,” straight-to-the-point, skip the techno jargon; packed [...]

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“At crowded live music venues a photographer’s mobility can be quite limited and the stage lighting levels are low, (really low). I’m not sure who has the more difficult task: low light sports shooters with their super-telephoto lenses or performance photographers with wider lenses but even lower light levels? If only the stage [...]

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