Review originally published at Photo Review Today
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In the past years, the number of books, both printed and ebook varieties, published about digital photography, is too many to count. Any photographer, from novice to professional, has a difficult time culling the available titles to find something of value.
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“Because there have been several times this year that I couldn’t get up to Issaquah to shoot my wife Levi’s listings, Levi hired various real estate photographers in the Seattle area too shoot some of her listings.” — Larry Lohrman
Source and Read More: photographyforrealestate.net
“I’d purchased one of the original Wacom Graphire tablets a long, long time ago and it served me well. I remember I’d tried a different brand first because it was cheaper but returned it immediately because writing on it felt like crap.” — John Watson
Source and Read More: photodoto.com
“With the bi-annual Photokina tradeshow just a month off, the camera announcements are starting to come fast and furious. We’ve had a whole slough of compact camera announcements from Sony, Olympus, Panasonic, Nikon, and Canon. And yesterday it started with the digital SLRs.” — Photo-John
Source and Read More: reviews.photographyreview.com
“Build a website for profit and fun, and one of the first things you’ll learn is that it pays to diversify your revenue streams. You’ll want ads that pay per click, banners that pay for impressions and affiliate links that give you commissions.” — photopreneur
Source and Read More: blogs.photopreneur.com
“40 excellent sites to get your photoshop legally for free. Some may have a pretty awful design, but they all have one thing in common: professional high resolution free photos.” — photoshoptalent
Source and Read More: photoshoptalent.com
“After I wrote about the untimely death of my Canon SD700 last week, a reader wrote me to ask why I didn’t just take advantage of the Canon Loyalty program.” — David Pogue
Source and Read More: pogue.blogs.nytimes.com
“Alien Skin has announced a new version of its image-resizing software plug-in. Blow Up 2 offers a simplified interface, easy batch processing, and improved performance with support for multi-processor and multi-core systems. The plug-in can be used with Adobe Photoshop and Photoshop Elements software, and can handle CMYK images, 32-bit-per-channel HDR images, and output up [...]
“The compact AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-105mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR offers a 27mm-157.5mm equivalent view on Nikon’s DX-format cameras.” — Aimee Baldridge
Source and Read More: popphoto.com
“I haven’t profiled any of my models before, but thought I’d give it a try. There are several reasons. First and foremost to show off some of my work, of course, and to give my model a pat on the back and something she can show others, who are thinking of working with her.” — Rasmus [...]
“Besides dropping in price, digital picture frames have advanced quite a bit over the past few years. The resolutions and image quality have definitely improved, and instead of having to rely on a small set of buttons or a cramped remote for navigating through hundreds of photos, they now feature intuitive touch screen interfaces.” — Andrew [...]
“Canon has announced two new Wi-Fi inkjet multifunction devices, the PIXMA MP980 and the PIXMA MP620 Photo All-In-One (AIO) Printers. According to Canon, the PIXMA MP980 is the first AIO printer to include separate gray and photo-black inks, for truly neutral black-and-white photo printing. “ — Tony Hoffman
Source and Read More: pcmag.com
“Epson has introduced the Artisan 800 and Artisan 700, two new all-in-ones (AIOs) for the home and home office. Both have a stylish touch, with a piano-black finish. “ — Tony Hoffman
Source and Read More: pcmag.com
“Canon’s recipe for the CanoScan 8800F ($199.99 direct) seems simple. Start with the previous generation Canon CanoScan 8600F, boost the already-high quality for scans to make the results even better, replace the light source with LEDs to eliminate warm-up time for scanning, and—sorry to say—raise the price by about 20 percent.” — M. David Stone
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“As Robert Gurbo notes in his brief preface to André Kertétz’s On Reading, this new edition of the book that was originally published in 1971 has been released “as we face the disturbing prospect of digital and online books overtaking and possibly eliminating printed media.”” — Conor Risch
Source and Read More: pdnonline.com
“Kelly Stuart’s job at Maxim.com is more of a mixed bag than that of most magazines’ online photo editors. “ — David Hirschman
Source and Read More: pdnonline.com
“Photographers who market online tend to do one of two things when showing their work.
They either 1. stack image upon image in one blog post with a smidgeon of copy as their way of showing work or 2. the build a slide show.” — Sean Cayton
Source and Read More: caytonphotography.com
“Nikon’s new D90 is the “world’s first” DSLR to permit movie recording. Using the D-Movie function, customers can record video at up to 720p (1,280 x 820) pixel resolution and at 24 frames-per-second (fps).” — Christine Persaud
Source and Read More: marketnews.ca
“I took a little day trip to Bodie State Park with my brother and his fiance to get some portraits about a week ago. I needed to blog about it because this place is insane with awesomeness.” — Nick Carver
Source and Read More: nickcarverphotography.blogspot.com
“As (primarily) a landscape photographer, split neutral density filters are my bread and butter. I have 5 in all plus a solid ND and a polarizer. Split NDs are virtually useless in screw-in ring form, so I opt for the Singh-Ray rectangular filters with Cokin P series holders.” — Nick Carver
Source and Read More: nickcarverphotography.blogspot.com
“I did hear of the Black Rapid strap a while back, but when I searched the web I found no trace of it. That might have been because I searched for Black Rabbit and not Rapid, which is the name of this new camera strap and seems to be exactly what it is: rapid.” — Martin [...]
“OK, I know the specs and opinions on the new Nikon D90 are spreading like wildfire on the web right now, but the number of people who handled one is still quite limited. I’m one of them. OK, Chase Jarvis had several for a while it seems, but he’s Chase. I’m just Martin.” — Martin Joergensen
Source [...]
“A snoot is a tube in front of your flash, which keeps its beam of light tight and concentrated, while a grid has lots of smaller, parallel tubes that do essentially the same thing.” — Martin Joergensen
Source and Read More: blog.nikonians.org
“At the beginning of this year, around the time the CES show in Las Vegas took place, Sony introduced a number of new Cybershot compact cameras, among which the beautifully designed Sony Cybershot DSC-T300. Sony have built a long history around the digital camera; one that can generally be considered a success. “ — LetsGoDigital
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“Lightroom HTML galleries used to be written in a mix of XSLT and XML. The simpler coding in Lua makes it a pleasure to create HTML galleries with. You can write Flash galleries in Lua, but because IE doesn’t allow plugin loading on PC Lightroom, you can’t see them in the preview window. Hence 3rd [...]
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Update - March 5th: The left eye surgery is done and with remarkable results. I am having cataract surgery on March 4th (left eye) and March 25th (right eye). I'm lucky that my insurance covers 80% of the cost. I have to pay 20%. As I get closer, there are numerous tests and appointments that will take me off line from time to time, Also, I don't know how much news I'll be able to post while recuperating. but I'll post as much as I'm able to.
