© Gerald Holubowicz - All Rights Reserved

Stephen Mayes by Gerald Holubowicz

Always an inspiration, Stephen Mayes continues to articulate with clarity and authority the photographic realities which we all face, along with the opportunities that only some perceive.

Jonathan Worth

© Palmer Davis - All Rights Reserved

Palmer Davis by Michael Werner

I took my first photography class in high school and it changed my life.

Suddenly my eyes were opened to a different way of seeing and perceiving and understanding the world around me.

It was an epiphany that started me on an exploration that keeps unfolding.

Palmer Davis

© Tyler Stableford - All Rights Reserved

Also go to Photoshop Elements and Lightroom.

Jim

Ten Photo-Editing Tips From a Pro by Rik Fairlie

But I don't have many tricks in my Lightroom photo-doctoring bag.

In fact, everything I was doing I had learned from a brief demonstration by Tyler Stableford, an outdoor sports and adventure photographer who uses Lightroom to make his photos just a bit more dazzling.

Rik Fairlie

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How to Build a Cheap and Simple Variable Neutral Density Filter by Richard Wheeler

This method uses the properties of polarised light, specifically that two parallel polarisers will block very little light but two at 90 to each other will block nearly all light travelling through them.

Richard Wheeler

© FORTEPAN - All Rights Reserved

Budapest 1900 - 1990

FORTEPAN is an online collection of 4973 amateur photos, which are browsable and downloadable in good quality.

FORTEPAN

© William Carrick - All Rights Reserved

russian types by Beniah Brawn

During the 1860s, several photographers based in Moscow and St. Petersburg produced series of cartes-de-visite showing Russian 'types.'

These remarkable portraits provide a fascinating record of working-class townspeople, artisans, street vendors and peasants, some staged performing an activity, such as drinking tea or gaming, and some photographed in the performance of their occupation.

Beniah Brawn

© John De Cristofaro - All Rights Reserved

Also go to Light Tent.

Jim

HOW TO - Take great photos of your projects

This tutorial by John De Cristofaro (johngineer) aims to teach you how to take photos of your hacks and projects for sharing on the web, and perhaps even in print.

It focuses on smaller items, less than 6"x6"x6" in size.

Bigger projects present their own unique problems that are beyond the scope of this article.

However, you can always "scale up" the methods presented here to take pictures of larger subjects, at least to a point.

Adafruit Industries

© Frederick H. Evans - All Rights Reserved

Also go to Frederick H. Evans.

Jim

The Photographs of Frederick H. Evans by Doug Stockdale

Evans was an active photographer from the early 1880's well into the 1930's.

Although his subjects ranged from portraits to the rural landscape and English country homes, he is best known for his poetic photographs of English and French Cathedrals.

Evan's aesthetic interpretations of these "great ecclesiastical sites" were praised by Alfred Stieglitz, who featured Evans photographs and writings in his journal Camera Work (issue #4, 1904) and exhibited Evans photographs at his "291" gallery in New York in 1906.

Doug Stockdale

© Adam Dachis - All Rights Reserved

How to Get the Best Color Out of Your Photos by Adam Dachis

Here's an in-depth guide to help you get amazing color in your photos.

Adam Dachis

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Andy Levin's Coney Island by David W. Dunlap

In the late 1970s, when he was in his late 20s, Andy Levin began exploring Coney Island as a G-rated family destination, not entirely unlike the seaside community on Long Island where he was raised.

David W. Dunlap