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Essays

The Great Photo Organization Project

Alternate title: I am in the fifth circle of photo organization hell, reserved for those who knew they should be organizing their photos better but didn't because they were lazy bastards. So begins the great personal photo organization project. Here's the situation: I'm looking at 30,000+ photos, a mix of [...]

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Bored with photo magazines

I just received an email from Amazon with an offer of 83% savings on photography magazine subscriptions (use that link if you're interested and Photodoto will get a small commission). With magazines and newspapers closing their doors left and right this year, who knows if you'll actually get all 12 [...]

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Patience, a photographer’s ally

I went to the beach on Sunday evening to try for some nice shots of the Huntington Beach pier at sunset. Shooting sunsets is always a hit or miss proposition. Sometimes you get beautiful, jaw-dropping colors and patterns in the sky. And sometimes it just gets dark. Around here this [...]

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Print something. Print it BIG.

Photo credit: Leonski (cc-by-nd) If you're like most digital photographers, you probably don't print photos very often. It's become pretty common to go on vacations or day trips with friends and family and then exchange CDs full of photos or Flickr URLs or just send photos around as email attachments. I [...]

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“Photoshopped.”

My photo blog (shameless plug: lightproofbox.com) has been getting some traffic from StumbleUpon lately which brings with it little waves of attention. 99% of it is positive. But invariably there are a few people who don't seem to have anything better to do than to say trite, mean things (anonymously, [...]

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