Photos that look great as large prints can shrink into muddled, fuzzy messes when viewed on a computer monitor or, worse, a mobile phone. Here’s how to compose, shoot, and process your images so they work well on the small screen.  — Jay Kinghorn Source and : creativepro.com Technorati Tags: Photographs For The Web

I’ve started writing for the Huffington Post. Initially, I’ll be focussing on cell phone photography. It is a game changer. Did you know people win Pulitzer prizes and sell fine art prints with cell phone photographs? But they did this with traditional cameras too. What excites me most about cell phone photography are the many

“Meet John Loengard and make his image.” I wrote a number of weeks ago in my little black journal. It felt so far-fetched. Meet and photograph the photographer I admire most? It was quite silly, actually. Who am I to dare dream it? I had no connection to him, only his book of famous photographs at the side of my bed and a strong desire to know the man with the vision to see these image...

As we reported below, photographers are very concerned about the threat to copyright in their photographs that the Digital Economy Bill poses. However one part of it offers an interesting scenario… “Amendment 120A to the Digital Economy Bill was voted through the House of Lords yesterday that could force Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to block websites

I’m always surprised when I meet someone who doesn’t use a pressure-sensitive tablet while editing photographs. If your edits are confined to global adjustments that can be easily applied using a slider, a tablet isn’t so necessary. But if you perform localized edits — dust removal or cloning; masking of tone or color adjustments; or

Never too big for mom’s lap. We all have strange childhood photos. Whether it’s of us dancing in a Halloween costume, gurgling on an aunt’s lap or posing awkwardly with siblings, these are the sorts of images that let us reminisce about what it was like to be a kid. Well, what if you compared yourself

Photographs for Esquire UK and Texas Monthly on two convicts inside the Texas Department of Justice. Steven Russell was photographed in anticipation of the movie "I Love You Phillip Morris". In the film Jim Carrey plays Russell, the most successful escape artist in Texas Prison History. Susan Wright was photographed for Texas monthly; she was convicted of murder after stabbing her husband 193 time...

It might sound a bit complicated to start with, but there really isn’t anything to be scared of when it comes to defining lens focal lengths and their relationship with your photographs

"I’m not a great one for chatting people up, because it’s phony. I don’t want people to feel at ease. You want a bit of edge. There are quite long, agonised silences. I love it. Something strange might happen. I mean, taking photographs is a very nasty thing to do. It’s very cruel." —Lord Snowdon - Mike(Thanks to Paul Stent) Send this post to a friendNote: Links in this post may be to ou...

Most of my recent blog posts have dealt with introducing you to newly announced and released cameras, but I thought I'd take a break from new product posts to share an interesting story about some enterprising students in Beaufort, S.C. The Beaufort Gazette Web site reports that the high school students attempted to take photographs of space using a digital camera hauled about 110,000 feet ab...