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How to Improve your Photography – Look for the Unique Angles
Jul 18th
This is the first article of an ongoing series where we look at simple ways to improve our photography. Many beginners, and even advanced photographers overlook some of obvious ways to better their shots and hopefully these posts will help remind you what to look out for.
In this post we’ll explore how taking a few extra steps to look at a shot from a different angle can help take your photos to the next level.
Adobe Lightroom 3.0 is now available
Jun 9th
The official release of Lightroom 3.0 is now available after a long public beta testing round. There’ve been a number of interesting changes from the public beta version, and this final release looks like it will be a great tool for photographers with significantly more features than in v2.0 that would be worth upgrading for.
More after the jump.
4 Essential and Free Photography Apps for the iPhone & iPod Touch
Apr 22nd
I love my iPhone and I love all the apps that are available for it. So today, I wanted to go through PhotoBlazr’s top 4 FREE photography-related iPhone apps. All these apps do work on iPod Touch as well by the way
Now I’ve downloaded a lot of photography apps for my iPhone over the last month or two, and most of these programs have turned out to be fun for about 5 minutes, before I’ve gotten bored and moved on to the next gimmick. These 4 apps though have remained on my iPhone for a few weeks now, and have proved themselves worthwhile. They’re not only fun to use, but have also improved my productivity. The best part is that they’re all free!
Photoshop CS5 – A Game Changing Release?
Mar 30th
Adobe Photoshop CS5 was just announced for release on April 12, 2010. This much anticipated release will introduce among other things two brand new game-changing features:
- Content Awareness and
- new brush tool behaviours.
More about each of these features with links to some mind-blowing demo videos after the jump.
Studio Lighting Setups & Examples
Mar 12th
This presentation highlights the differences betwen reflector lighting, umbrella lighting and softbox lighting using examples.
How to Build A Portable Studio-Quality Background in 20 minutes
Feb 17th
This weekend I took on a DIY project to build a decent background for use in portraits that would give me studio quality shots but still be light, portable and easy to store.
Since I have no talent in painting or construction, I knew I wouldn’t be able to paint one myself or build something too complicated.
As they say, necessity (or is it laziness? 
) is the mother of invention and so I forced myself to look around for materials that were ready-to-use and easy to put together.
After the jump, this week’s video shows you how to build a great photography background in less than 20 minutes.
Understanding Exposure Compensation
Feb 3rd
This week’s video tutorial explains and demonstrates the use of Exposure Compensation on cameras.
My Favourite Site to Learn from Others
Feb 2nd
In photography, learning from others is one of the best ways to educate yourself about what makes a good photograph and what doesn’t. Like many online photographers, I have a number of favourite sites I look through each month/week/day to go through photos and articles to develop a better understanding photography.
One of my absolute favourite websites is SportsShooter.com and its Student Critiques project and I’ll tell you why after the jump.
The EVIL Cameras Cometh
Jan 31st
The new EVIL cameras (Electronic Viewfinder, Interchangeable Lenses) that are being rolled out to consumers this year could revolutionize camera design. Olympus, Panasonic and Samsung already have EVIL models coming out soon, and rumours are abound that Canon and Nikon will soon follow.
