A year ago today, ‘Lessons I Didn’t Learn In Photo School‘ debuted as my guest blog on Scott Kelby’s Photoshop Insider. Little did I know that those 13 micro-essays would be the start of a ...

Photo Used By Permission of Simon Carter Climbing photography techniques and tricks is something I’ve been promising to discuss on my blog here for a while, so let’s start the discussion here – with the “vision thing”, because I think this is one of the most important things, perhaps THE most important thing, in photography. Nikon

Oh, how I love this man, Dr. Nix. My Photography 101 professor. I didn't intend to pursue photography as a career at the time, but was intrigued with it enough to take the class as an elective en route to my BFA. Dr. Nix taught me how to make a pinhole camera with balsa wood to emphasize the importance of learning to control light with the simplest of tools. He taught me how to develop film a...

Sony announced two new HD Handycam camcorders, the HDR-XR550V and the HDR-CX150. The HDR-XR550V features a Wide Angle G-lens, a 240GB hard disk drive that holds up to 101 hours of HD video (LP mode), Optical SteadyShot image stabilization with Active Mode, the new Golf Shot feature and can take 12-megapixel still photos and has advanced

Ricoh CX3 is a 10 Megapixels compact camera features 10.7x optical wide-angle zoom lens (35mm equivalent: 28-300mm), 1280 x 720 HD movie, Scene Auto Mode, and a High-definition 3.0-inch 920,000-dot VGA LCD monitor. The camera measures 101.5 mm (W) x 58.3 mm (H) x 29.4 mm (D) and weighs Approx. 206 g. Overall

100-year-old color photograph: Church of the Resurrection in the Grove, Kostroma, 1910 It's been a while since we linked to Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii back in 2007. Recently the MediaCenter blog of the Denver Post helpfully strung together some of his pictures from the Library of Congress collection on a page, making them easier to look at. The oldest ones just turned 101 years old. I pa...

We’re continuing with our DSLR 101 this week and today we’re explaining white balance. What? White balance is responsible for keeping your photos the correct temperature. A low colour temperature creates more red, a higher colour temperature more blue. Digital cameras create the correct colour temperature by picking the part of the

Today’s photo tip is to help you look deeper into the photo that you’re taking.  There are many different considerations you may take before clicking the button – color should definitely be one of them!  Looking for like and complimentary colors in an image will help inhance the overall power of the final photo. Color 101 You

Alright, let’s get his going. The most important step in setting up your scanning workflow is your choice of scanner. However there are so many scanners out there, it would be impossible for me to guide you towards the best scanner for your needs. I use and love my Epson Perfection V500 and my Plustek

Author: Matthew Bamberg Publisher: Course Technology PTR Review by Conrad J. Obregon One of the best ways to improve photography skills is by looking at the works of master photographers. By seeing what their vision had to offer and by examining how they used the formal elements like exposure, depth of field and framing one can learn how