Oct. 31, 2008. SAA has just received a memo from Diablo Management, announcing their receipt of a Letter to Intent from an unnamed buyer to purchase Digital Railroad, “specifically its hardware and application software used to store and retrieve images.”
It assures that image files would be preserved, though inaccessible, and “after the [...]

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“One of my favorite techniques for removing (i.e. make transparent) dark or light areas of an image is to use the blending sliders available inside the Layer Style dialog box within Photoshop. These blending sliders are easily overlooked in pursuit of the more commonly-used Layer Styles available in this dialog box.” —  TutorialBlog
Source and Read More: tutorialblog.org

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Annabel Williams and her team at Contemporary Photographic Training (CPT) have announced an exciting line-up of workshops for 2009, at their dedicated training studio in the Lake District.
Source and Read More: ephotozine.com

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“ust a quick note: Photographer Trevor Morris has posted a comprehensive list of Photoshop CS4 keyboard shortcuts, building on his previous entries for Bridge, Camera Raw, and earlier versions of Photoshop. “ —  John Nack
Source and Read More: blogs.adobe.com

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“I shoot a lot of staged shots so the number of clicks is always like 5 or less.
On my home machine, I have Ubuntu Linux 8.04LTS which recognizes my camera and lets me copy paste RAW images without any fuss what so ever. No driver no proprietary software. Just the default F-spot image manager works [...]

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“Taking impressive photographs of animals can be a real challenge, especially if you’re shooting in the wild. For one, you can teach a cat to climb a tree but you can’t tell a tiger, “Hey you, please go stand beside that rock, show your claws and say cheese.” This article offers some helpful tips to [...]

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“A stronger yen and slower sales of cameras and copiers has led Canon Inc. to predict its first drop in annual profit levels in nine years. Nikon Corp. has lowered its profit forecast as well, also because of the increasing value of the yen against key currencies, plus lower sales of stepper equipment.” —  Rob Galbraith
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“An entry in the Talking Pictures blog on the Sydney Morning Herald website highlights the fine work of departing staff photographers Tim Clayton, Peter Morris, Craig Golding and Bob Pearce, as well as Rick Stevens, a colleague who left the paper some time ago.” —  Rob Galbraith
Source and Read More: robgalbraith.com

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“Just a quick note to the UK folks: I am in London in early December, so I have booked a classroom at ULU for two full-day lighting seminars. We’ll be doing the regular format (see here for example). The current exchange rate means the price will be £129,00.” —  David Hobby
Source and Read More: strobist.blogspot.com

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“I spent the morning recently with poet Linda Joy Burke, doing photos which were to be used for publicity and marketing. We chose as our location Ellicott City, MD, a neat little historic town that was convenient for both of us.” —  David Hobby
Source and Read More: strobist.blogspot.com

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“October’s photo competition theme was “Lines and Circles”, a deliberately abstract theme to give your imagination a bit of exercise. It seems to have worked, because the standard of the entries has been higher than ever, with dozens of stunning photos exploring the theme from all possible angles, from the literal to the positively surreal. [...]

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“Many photographers have trouble matching the color on their screen with the color they get from their printers. But there is a fix that cost less than $20 that I would think everyone CAN afford.
Control the ambient light in your computer room.” —  Scott
Source and Read More: twipphoto.com

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“Chances are you have a big pile of slides and negatives sitting in a shoebox (or, hopefully, in an archival storage container), forlornly ignored as the digital age has grabbed you by the eyeballs. Wouldn’t it be nice to get those images digitized so you could play with them in Photoshop?” —  Mason Resnick
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New 50 Mega Pixel Camera delivers incredible Image Quality
XMV-50100 Camera Delivers Incredible resolution and will revolutionize the imaging industry.
Minnetonka, MN – illunis LLC, mega pixel and custom OEM camera specialist, today introduces their latest camera, the XMV 50100, a 50 Mega Pixel camera based on the Eastman Kodak KAF-50100 sensor.
Source and Read More: adorama.com

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“I had seen abstract photography of smoke before, but never really thought much on how to create it until I caught myself observing the movements and patterns of smoke coming from a burning incense stick. I decided to give it a try and the results were satisfactory. After I published a few of my smoke [...]

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“Ever noticed how many things in life come in threes? The 3 Stooges, the 3 Musketeers, the 3 Tenors, the 3 Wise Men…and your friends will always give you 3 cheers. So too do primes come in threes.” —  Miserere
Source and Read More: pentaxdslrs.blogspot.com

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“A couple of weeks ago, we did a guide on how to set up your own photo blog (and, of course, how to make Google love your photography site from a few months back). What struck me, however, is that while having a photo blog is a good start – what should you do to [...]

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“Beginning real estate photographers that are Mac users face a fundamental decision. Do you use Lightroom or do you use Aperture? While talking to such a real estate photographer this week I realized that for Mac user starting out as a photographer this decision is not that easy.” —  Larry Lohrman
Source and Read More: photographyforrealestate.com

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“Celebrity photographer Olaf Heine, spoke to us about his first book “Leaving the Comfort Zone” available in the US Nov. 2008, and what that title really means to him.
We caught up with him at the Verve Gallery in Los Angeles, where he’ll have an exhibit of some of the selected images.” —  PhotoInduced
Source and Read More: photoinduced.com

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“The details are still being worked out, but the 2-to-2.5 hours workshop will be on Thursday January 29th starting at 6:30pm at Adorama in New York City.
The following is the basic information for the evening workshop:” —  Steven Frischling
Source and Read More: flyingwithfish.blogspot.com

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“Digital cameras are generally closed platforms, built and programmed under the assumption that they would never be modified. To get more features, you pay more for different firmware, even though the guts are mostly the same. Canon didn’t batten down their hatches quite enough. The result is CHDK, a full-featured OS substitute that runs from [...]

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“I’m a bit overdue in my review of Digital Railroad and PhotoShelter… so overdue in fact my review will cover how each of these services died rather than what they offered photographers.” —  Jim M. Goldstein
Source and Read More: jmg-galleries.com

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“Whilst working on the upcoming Motorola ZN5 review, we took the ZN5 along to shoot some pictures. At the time of the GSMA (Mobile World Congress) in Barcelona at the beginning of this year, Kodak convincingly showed a new image sensor that we would soon find in a mobile phone. And it is the Motorola [...]

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“Lightroom Forums Guru Mark Sirota has written a most excellent tip over at Lightroom Forums
“Since the very early pre-1.0 betas, I’ve wanted to organize my files by date, but using a hierarchy unavailable in Lightroom — specifically, YYYY/YYYY-MM/YYYY-MM-DD. In other words, shots from today would go into 2008/2008-10/2008-10-30.
Lightroom offers eight different ways to organize by [...]

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“Up and out before dawn to another beautiful day in Yellowstone. Wish you could be here, it’s just a grand place to simply find the majesty of the wild world this time of year. And man, did we find it today!” —  Moose Peterson
Source and Read More: moosenewsblog.com

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