Archive for September, 2009

Tips, Tutorials, Hacks

Quick Tips for Photographing Autumn

Up here in the Northern hemisphere autumn is most definitely on its way. In my town we went from 90F+ last week to 60F this week and some rain came along too. It's not bad news though because autumn can be the best time of year for photography. The light [...]

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Wednesday grab bag

And now for some links that respect your personal space... The final batches of Polaroid film pass their expiry date on September 30 2009. Share the last Polaroid you shoot with the world. Canon will not be attending the PMA trade show in Anaheim in February. But they will be at CES [...]

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Tips, Tutorials, Hacks

Tagging progress…

The great photo organization project continues. I'm not in what you'd call a "habit" yet exactly as far as my daily tagging goes. I'm up to 1,691 old photos tagged (out of 35,349). That's about 4.7%. That's progress and I'm happy with that for now. Even at that slow pace [...]

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Taryn Simon photographs secret sites

Taryn Simon exhibits her startling take on photography---to reveal worlds and people we would never see otherwise. She shares two projects: one documents otherworldly locations typically kept secret from the public, the other involves haunting portraits of men convicted for crimes they did not commit. --Taryn Simon photographs secret sites [...]

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Wednesday Grab Bag

Travel Time Lapse Winter '09 from Brad Kremer on Vimeo. Strobist points us to some videos of his favorite photographer talking about photography: Dan Winters on Photographs Harold Davis suggests that you can become a more creative and inventive photographer by Knowing when to quit Controlled vocabularies for Lightroom. A controlled vocabulary makes [...]

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