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Tips, Tutorials, Hacks

Screencast: Easy exposure blending tutorial with GIMP

This 2 minute screencast shows an easy-to-use technique for blending multiple exposures (or in this case, two versions of one exposure) to increase the dynamic range of a photograph. GIMP is free photo editing software for Windows, Mac and Linux. I published the final version of this photo at Flickr. Music by Pitx. [...]

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Big and Tasty Food Photography Tips Roundup

I've got a nice roundup here of food photography sources with a ton of great tips, tutorials, and videos for making food look tasty on camera. How seriously you take this probably depends to some extent on whether you've ever heard the term "food stylist." Last week felt like food photography [...]

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Selecting foregrounds in the GIMP (video)

This video is a quick demonstration of the foreground selection tool in the GIMP, a powerful and free image editing application. The foreground selection tool gives photographers a quick and easy way to isolate portions of a photograph for masking or other effects. Music by sunbyrn.

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Feeling Adventurous?

I have long been an outdoor sports enthusiast. I love to hike, bike, kayak, and climb. My camera sometimes comes with me, but often not. There are two reasons I usually leave the camera at home, firstly it's relatively heavy which, especially for hiking and climbing, is a big [...]

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Tethered shooting on Ubuntu Linux using gPhoto2

View photos on your computer screen almost as fast as you can shoot them.

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