Richard Lynch

Breaking Out Image Components in Photoshop by Richard Lynch

Image components are separations of an image into distinct color or tone parts.

There are many ways to separate images into other types of components, including color components of light (red, green, and blue) and ink (cyan, yellow, magenta, and black).

Separating images into components can offer advantages in making corrections, such as creating masks, setting up calculations, and converting images to black and white.

Richard Lynch

Chris Orwig

How to Take Inspired Photographs by Chris Orwig

A great photograph has the potential to transcend verbal and written language.

But how do you create these photographs?

It's not the how that's important, but the who and the what.

Who you are as a person has a direct impact on what you capture as a photographer.

Chris Orwig

Guillaume Chauvin and Rémi Hubert

Also go to Paris Match Album and The British Journal of Photography.

Jim

Student hoax wins magazine's top prize by John Lichfield

The excellent black and white photographs of students prostituting themselves or looking for food in dustbins won the magazine's annual prize for student photojournalism.

Student poverty certainly exists in France but the photos were entirely faked.

John Lichfield

Yann Arthus-Bertrand

Also go to Home, Good Planet, 6 Billion Others, The Earth From Above, and Yann Arthus-Bertrand.

Jim

Yann Arthus-Bertrand captures fragile Earth in wide-angle

In this image-filled talk, Yann Arthus-Bertrand displays his three most recent projects on humanity and our habitat -- stunning aerial photographs in his series "The Earth From Above," personal interviews from around the globe featured in his web project "6 billion Others," and his soon-to-be-released movie, "Home," which documents human impact on the environment through breathtaking video.

TED

kaci

Put Away the Darn Camera: How to politely photograph restaurant food by Helena Echlin

If you do take photos, you need not ask the server's permission, but it's polite to follow these simple guidelines . . .

Helena Echlin

Ed Kashi	Bill Frakes
Guy Rhodes	Martin Sundberg
Robert Caplin

Via APAD

Five video-savvy photogs weigh in on still vs. motion by Miki Johnson

RESOLVE contributor Ed Kashi sent me some notes last week from his recent trip to the Niger Delta about the creative differences between shooting video and stills.

This is an evolution many photographers are going through right now, so I decided to ask a few other multitaskers to share their thoughts.

Miki Johnson

Ted Barron

Also go to Weegee.

Weegee Speaks! by Ted Barron

Recently, Laura purchased a collection of 15,000 LPs to sell at the shop, and among them was this very rare and curious gem, Famous Photographers Tell How.

Below you can hear Weegee talk about picture-making. It's interesting to hear his voice, which is one of those accents you don't hear so much in New York anymore: part Austro-Hungarian immigrant by way of the Lower East Side and part Elmer Fudd.

Ted Barron

John Paul Caponigro

Also go to Noise Reduction.

Jim

Noise—Use It by John Paul Caponigro

Noise.

It happens.

What is it?

Texture not native to the subject photographed, but introduced by the capture medium, editing process or output media.

John Paul Caponigro

Layering Noise by John Paul Caponigro

When adding noise to digital files, keep noise separate from the image so you can control both independently of one another.

This allows extraordinary control and flexibility.

When noise is placed on its own layer, you can eliminate or change it at any time, reduce its opacity, localize it, desaturate it, target it into specific channels, move it, scale it, blur it and much more.

John Paul Caponigro

Thorsten Overgaard

The Quality of Light by Thorsten Overgaard

When doing a photo (a portrait for example), the first thing to look for is nice light.

Not a nice background.

Light determines the whole look, what you see and notice, the shape of things and all.

Photography is about light and the word photo even derives from Greek word "light", thus photography basically means "painting with light."

Thorsten Overgaard

Tim Romano

The Beginner's Guide to Better Fishing Photography by Tim Romano

Anglers traveling to beautiful, far-away, and nearby places have documented their surroundings and trophy catches for years.

And everyone knows that bragging rights must be accompanied by photographic proof.

Tim Romano

Maggie Steber

Maggie Steber: Native Americans by Marianne Fulton

Maggie Steber's artist's statement, which accompanies this feature, says plainly that she, like the Natives, is caught in and fighting against stereotypes.

The public wants to see the Indians they've seen portrayed on television and in movies: Plains Indians with buckskin clothes and war bonnets.

The Cherokee and many other tribes are not Plains people like the Apache and Lakota.

The Cherokee did not wear feathered headdresses, they wore turbans - just look at a drawing of Sequoyah, their extraordinary leader in the east (he created a syllabary, sometimes referred to as an alphabet, that made the Cherokee literate in the 1820s).

Marianne Fulton

NPR

Also go to Corcoran Gallery of Art and William Eggleston.

Jim

William Eggleston: Democratic Hellraiser? by Claire O'Neill

Remember that scene where Dorothy and Toto realize they're not in Kansas anymore?

That same combined sensation of awe, homesickness and hallucination probably described the crowd at the Museum of Modern Art in 1976, as they stood before William Eggleston's color photography exhibit for the first time.

Until then, art photography was strictly black and white. Color had been the stuff of kitschy catalogs and commercial advertisements.

Claire O'Neill