Archive for April, 2006

Reviews

Book review: How to Use Flickr, The Digital Photography Revolution by Richard Giles

From the outside, Flickr may appear to be a simple photo-sharing site. But new members are often quickly overwhelmed by the vastness of it and there are hundreds of features and hidden gems that are sometimes only discovered after weeks or months of poking around. Flickr itself doesn't have much [...]

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Reader Photo: Beginnings

Beginnings, originally uploaded by Craig Shillington. Photos posted in this category are selected from the contributions of members of the Photodoto discussion group at Flickr.com.

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10 ways to tell if you’re a photographer

Does this sound like anyone you know? 1 GB of memory lasts most people a month but barely lasts you the afternoon. You know what aperture-priority means. You delete more photos in a week than most people make all year. You need just one more lens. You've crawled on the ground to get a shot [...]

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Make a pinhole camera for Worldwide Pinhole Photography day, April 30, 2006

Trying your hand at pinhole photography is easy and can be a lot of fun. Pinhole cameras pre-date autofocus and megapixels. They hearken back to a simpler time when a camera was literally just a box with film in the back. Photos made with pinhole cameras exude a fuzzy, low-fi [...]

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Chernobyl Legacy Photo Essay by Paul Fusco

Chernobyl Legacy is a heart-wrenching photo essay that reveals, in a series of stark, intimate and haunting portraits, the terrible human cost of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor accident. You'll never be able to forget after you see it.

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