“During my initial review of the NexStar Hard Drive Dock I said (and it’s true) that I tested the dock using Windows XP (32-bit) and Vista (64-bit). That’s absolutely the case, but as I’ve used the device I discovered a problem on the Vista system I hadn’t seen in previous testing, I had trouble formatting [...]

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“I have a confession to make: I love to have fun. I can’t help it. It’s just so… well, you know, fun! For me, sometimes having fun means playing pranks on people. Sometimes it means eating lots of candy and watching a Pixar movie or two. And occasionally, as a photographer, having fun means shooting [...]

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“Yesterday I acknowledged that I know the blog has changed over the last month. I’ve been here most days but the consistent 2am PST publishing times have slipped, there are days I don’t write anything, and on those days that I do write, it’s not always the same depth of content it once was.” — David duChemin
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“The other day the question came up about how to switch photowalks but I wasn’t able to give an answer on exactly how to make it happen. I now have confirmation so here is how it works. “ — Jeff Revell
Source and Read More: revellphotography.com

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“When I first got my D5000 I spent some time like I do with all new cameras, serching through all the menus. When I reached the bottom of the Shooting Menu I found a setting entitled Interval Timer Shooting.” — Jeff Revell
Source and Read More: revellphotography.com

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“I’ve got a two-headed problem on my hands, and I guess I brought it on myself, so now I have to try and fix it myself.
For the entire first half of my career as a Photoshop educator, I was probably best known for teaching Photoshop special effects. It started with my “Down & Dirty [...]

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“Wouldn’t it be great if selling your photographs was a great deal easier? Wouldn’t life be so much smoother if you didn’t have to deal with the printers, handle the packing and mailing or even collect your customers’ credit card details?” — Dean
Source and Read More: photopreneur.com

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“Every year I fly up to the Academy of Art to join a group of professionals in reviewing the photographic graduating class’s portfolios. We sit in a room and it is a bit like speed dating: the director of the program puts each student with a different reviewer, and shortly thereafter, calls time and they [...]

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“If you are really serious about close-up photography, and really want to take creative control, invest in a ring light, sometimes called a ring flash. A ring light fits on a macro lens and can provide ratio (1:1, 1:2, etc.) as well as shadowless lighting. You control the light by turning on and off, and [...]

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“The pain of geotagging your images may have just gotten a whole lot simpler.
ATP has launced a new product called the GPS PhotoFinder Pro which may make you wonder how you ever went about geotagging your photos without it.” — Sean P. Aune
Source and Read More: blorge.com

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“In response to negative reaction to their blog post on the orphan works act, PicScout has made two public statements on the issue. First, the same author who wrote the original piece we were critical of, PicScout’s Vice President of Marketing, (Dan Heller Update…, 5/28/09), wrote “The OWA is not relevant to PicScout.” — John Harrington
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“It would be tough to find a superzoom camera with more features than Canon’s 10-megapixel PowerShot SX1 IS ($599.99 list), which offers terrific image quality, a powerful 20X optical zoom, and the ability to capture (and easily export) full HD video. The user interface is fast and straightforward, and you also get some manual controls. [...]

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“I just returned from a very successful workshop focussed on spring Black Bears. The workshop was held at the Riding Mountain Guest Ranch just outside Riding Mountain National Park in south west Manitoba, Canada. If you’ve never been to this area of the world you really owe yourself a visit.” — Paul Burwell
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“After a amazing light show at 3AM, Jake & I headed out to the blinds. While the hour rain dropped an inch of rain, that didn’t slow down the birds coming to the blinds. This is a Scaled Quail and what it’s doing is protecting its territory from another Scale Quail couple.” — Moose Peterson
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“What lens took this photo of the Thunderbirds screaming by? It is probably the last one you would think of, it is Nikon’s best kept secret…until now!” — Moose Peterson
Source and Read More: moosenewsblog.com

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“PhotoXpress is a new free photo website launched by Fotolia earlier this month (May 21). It offers 350,000 images sourced from the Fotolia Free Section with thousands more added daily. Depending on their level of registration, members can download between 1 and 10 photos per day.” —  Lee Torrens
Source and Read More: microstockdiaries.com

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“I’m delighted to see more developers leveraging Flash panel support in Photoshop CS4, delivering new levels of integration and usability. Alien Skin has introduced a pair of panels that drive their cool Snap Art 2 product. They write:…” — John Nack
Source and Read More: adobe.com

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“That’s how it goes, right? Or is it mad badgers and Englishmen? Mad dogs? Can’t remember, but that’s okay, cause Drew Gardner reminds us in his lighting video. Lessee, this video is about location selection, apparently dead fashion models, trees, tractors, Elinchrom Rangers, booms, C-stands, makeup artists, live badgers, animal trainers, fences, lighting theory and [...]

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“For some time now i have seen images produced from a ranch down in Texas. Now i get to find out how this images are acquired. A while back as the summer was getting planned out, Dad invited me to come to Texas with him to photograph these marvelous birds.” — Jake Peterson
Source and Read More: jakepeterson.org

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“I’m not sure if your office is like ours when editing, but the every time a blooper pops up, we all share a laugh and keep going. I thought I’d share my latest flashflavor bloop that landed and got a chuckle out of the crew del sol.
Don’t mean to offend anyone but If I [...]

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“Good Morning Everyone! I’m finally getting caught back up in my little old Huntington Beach office behind the Orange Curtain & remembered that I wanted to share an article that I saw before I left to photograph Jennifer & Paul’s wedding in Virginia last weekend.” — David Esquire
Source and Read More: esquirephotography.com

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“The FinePix Z33 is an affordable, waterproof digital camera with a fun design. The camera features 10 megapixels of resolution, a 3X zoom lens, 2.7 inch LCD and SD/SDHC support (versus the proprietary xD-Picture cards on past Fujifilm cameras).
With stiff competition from its waterproof-only peers as well as rugged digital cameras, how well does the [...]

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“Did this photoshoot in Los Angeles earlier in May of Writer / Director (and Mad Max enthusiast) Paul Miller and his replica Mad Max Interceptor. You can check out Paul’s website.” — Douglas Sonders
Source and Read More: douglassonders.wordpress.com

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“One of the more popular posts here on the blog has been two that consisted of explanations on how to bracket multiple exposures in camera in order to capture a wider range of exposure values than is typically permitted in a single frame. Typically, these various exposures are then seamed together in some editor [...]

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“For those of you that are not Nikonians members you probably have not heard the news. I have been asked to teach a series of lighting workshops for Nikonians.org. I’ll be conducting my first workshop in Boston on September 21 & 22. I have a list of other cities but not dates, I’ll keep you [...]

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