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Quick tour of Photodoto for new readers

Photographing People in Public Places

Super quick (and easy!) tip for more flattering portraits

Learning Composition: The Rule of Thirds

Black & White Is the Key to Better Color

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Monday Grab Bag

Some news and interesting photography-related stuff I've stumbled across... First of all, I know I haven't posted much lately. Here are my excuses: end of Summer doldrums, work, and, uh, *mumble* new guitar. I got an email from Zilok.com---we rent anything!---this morning about their renewed enthusiasm for renting lenses and camera equipment. [...]

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Essays

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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Reviews

Review roundup: Remember Albelli photo books?

A little while back a new photo book printing service called Albelli sprang up. They gave us some coupon codes for a free medium landscape photo book. You used those codes and made your books. And the general consensus? Meh. Have you used a photo book printing service that you love [...]

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Tips, Tutorials, Hacks

Screencast: Curves color enhancement tutorial

This 2.5 minute screencast shows a simple and fast technique using multiple layers to enhance the colors in a photograph. GIMP is free photo editing software for Windows, Mac and Linux. I published the final version of this photo at Flickr.

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Reviews

Review: Fine Art Printing for Photographers (2nd edition)

Fine Art Printing for Photographers (2nd edition, rocknook publishers) by Uwe Steinmueller and Juergen Gulbins, is an incredibly thorough, well-written, and interesting book about fine-art printing of digital photographs using ink jet printers. It covers all aspects of the craft and is written explicitly for the "ambitious amateur" and professional [...]

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