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Learning Composition: The Rule of Thirds

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Quick Fix for Cluttered Backgrounds

RAW vs. JPG: Myths and misconceptions

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Introducing Your Little One to Photography

One of my day jobs involves working with special needs children and children in hospital. I do a lot of work with children on the autistic spectrum and children with learning difficulties, as well as with at-risk youth and kids with chronic illnesses. One of my absolute favourite things to [...]

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Pro Photo Rental lens rentals (with discount for Photodoto readers)

Jared at Pro Photo Rental (prophotorental.com) just sent me some information about their rental business located in Boulder, Colorado. I've used a couple of these services personally (read reviews of Rentglass and Ziplens) and we also have a handy roundup of online rental services. Pro Photo Rental---offering Canon, Nikon, and Olympus [...]

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Grab bag

Five Cool Little Gadgets

I have five friends who have birthdays in late May/early June and are photography enthusiasts so I have been keeping an eye open for gift ideas. So far, through random stumbling about on the internet I have come across these rather cool looking photo-related gadgets: Keyboard shortcut skins for Photoshop, Aperture, [...]

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A punch in the face and the Casio EX-F1 high-speed camera

Saw this amazing new-to-me video of people being punched in the face this morning (via Waxy). (More footage here.) High-speed photography, to me, is amazing. Typically we photographers deal in stills but the line between photography and video is blurring. Manufacturers have been adding video capability to still cameras and vice [...]

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Essays

“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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