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Also go to Richard Truesdell.
I don't have anything on car photography on photokaboom.com.
Got any good websites about car photography?
Jim
Car Photography for Dummies by Richard Truesdell
"The sloppiness is especially baffling when the purpose of the photograph in question is to sell the car, but photos taken for ads on eBay and Craigslist are far from immune to terrible photography.
You'd think sellers would want to make their cars look good, wouldn't you?"
Jen Dunnaway
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Here are two fascinating articles on perception.
Perhaps only ten percent of what we see is perceived, and the rest is added by the brain.
Jim
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Get Out of Your Own Way by Robert Lee Hotz
Fishing in the stream of consciousness, researchers now can detect our intentions and predict our choices before we are aware of them ourselves.
The brain, they have found, appears to make up its mind 10 seconds before we become conscious of a decision -- an eternity at the speed of thought.
Robert Lee Hotz
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A new scientific understanding of perception has emerged in the past few decades, and it has overturned classical, centuries-long beliefs about how our brains work—though it has apparently not penetrated the medical world yet.
Atul Gawande
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Jason Tozer - Planet Tozer: How He Did It
Our recent post on photographer Jason Tozer's images of bubbles prompted a fair few calls of "how did he do that?"
Well, we were in his studio on the day of the shoot and can reveal all here...
Mark
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Edgar Martins - Topologies by Rosecrans Baldwin
I have always found photography to be a highly inadequate medium for communicating ideas--a subject and object of lack, if you like.
However, it is this dissatisfaction with the medium that spurs me on to find a new visual language to work with, and, I suppose, a new vocabulary from which to derive my glossary of life.
Edgar Martins
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Also go to Elliott Erwitt.
Jim
Elliot Erwitt's exhibition at HackelBury Fine Art, London
She was nice, smart, kind of amusing, and very approachable.
Not a bimbo at all.
Elliott Erwitt
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Also go to Weegee.
Jim
Crime Was Weegee's Oyster by John Strausbaugh
On the north side of Broome Street, between the Bowery and Elizabeth Street, you can stand where a dead guy once lay.
Of course in New York City you can stand on lots of spots where dead people once lay.
There are, after all, "eight million stories in the naked city," as the narrator of "The Naked City," the 1948 film noir classic, intoned.
But as Andrew Izzo sprawled on this sidewalk on the Lower East Side in 1942, Arthur Fellig, one of the city's most famous photographers, took his picture.
John Strausbaugh
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Nik Software Viveza Review by Jon Canfield
Viveza does one thing, and aims to do it very well - make it easy to work on specific areas of an image without worrying about selecting and masking chores.
Jon Canfield
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Also go to Anthony Karen.
Jim
Inside Access: A Photographer Captures Taboo Subjects
"I've been doing this for years.
You have no idea how long it takes to get in these organizations," Karen says.
NPR
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Also go to Erik Tomasson.
Jim
Dancing With Light: The Photography of Erik Tomasson by Jerry Currier
Erik Tomasson is the resident photographer for the San Francisco Ballet.
His photographs of dancers and the dances they perform are regularly featured in the Ballet's program magazine, as well as numerous advertisements in other publications, on city buses, and billboards.
Jerry Currier
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Also go to Randal Ford.
Jim
Rockwell Revisited by Simon Wakelin
"It was definitely intended on my part because all of Rockwell's work is in great detail," says Ford.
"What gives these photographs a two-dimensional quality is the depth of field—everything's in focus, and you're not necessarily used to seeing that.
It's something that I try to create myself because I think it's a cool look and it feels right.
I think it's almost surreal when you look at an image that's so sharp throughout the frame."
Simon Wakelin
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Green Papers: A Review of Three Options for Environmentally Friendly Print Making by Carl Battreall
The production of photography has never been an environmentally friendly process.
Photographers have often balanced the massive resource demands of the medium by using their images to champion environmental and social causes.
Carl Battreall
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Also go to Richard Bernabe.
Jim
It Doesn't Take a Brain Surgeon... by Richard Bernabe
But when it comes to photography and the creative process, I keenly embrace using the principles of a concept called brain function lateralization.
Richard Bernabe
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Also go to George D. Lepp & Kathryn Vincent Lepp.
Jim
Unlimited Depth Of Field by George D. Lepp And Kathryn Vincent Lepp
Now another new program, Helicon Focus, has removed the limits to depth of field in photography.
G. D. Lepp & K. V. Lepp
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The photographs in the article were done by George Lepp.
Jim
Shoot Like Ansel Adams With 35mm D-SLRs by Adam Crawford
Today's digital SLR with a tilt-shift lens can emulate the view camera in many ways.
The film plane, or the camera's image sensor, is always stationary and not adjustable like the 4x5 view camera; however, most of what Adams was able to achieve can be emulated with today's modern high-tech gear by using these perspective-control lenses or tilt-shift lenses.
Adam Crawford
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Inspiration: High Dynamic Range (HDR) Imaging by Sean Hodge
HDR images are composed of multiple shots that each capture a greater or lesser range of light.
Typically these images are composed of a darker image, a medium range, and a lighter image.
HDR combines these shots into a final image that has a broader range of light to dark.
Often, the results are striking, visually rich, and full of details.
Let's take a look at some great HDR images, tutorials on how to create HDR, and articles that explain this popular technique.
Sean Hodge
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Also go to W. Eugene Smith.
Jim
Nuts & Bolts [W. Eugene Smith] by Bill Pierce
About once a week someone says to me, "If Gene Smith was around, he would be the master of Photoshop."
It's true.
W. Eugene Smith didn't think the making of a photograph stopped right after you pushed the shutter button.
The print was important to him.
Bill Pierce
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Sunset Photography - Five Simple Tips For Beginners by Andrew Goodall
Sunsets and sunrises are an inspirational subject for any photographer.
In fact, a good sunset photo is often the reason many people become interested in nature photography.
You don't need to have a great camera or professional training; almost anyone with a camera can take great sunset photos.
Andrew Goodall
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Five Best Photo Sharing Web Sites by Adam Pash
On Tuesday we asked you to tell us your favorite photo sharing web site, and today we're back with the five most popular answers.
Hit the jump for the low-down on the five best photo sharing tools the web has to offer, then cast your vote for the site you like best.
Adam Pash
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For more quotes, go to Quotes and Quotes.
Jim
A picture is worth a thousand words, but... by Toby Melville
'A picture is worth a thousand words'....or so the saying goes.
But sometimes authors, journalists, commentators, philosophers and heck, on occasions, even snappers, describe photography and the picture-taking process with a memorable phrase or succinct saying.
Toby Melville/p>
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This is a great review of techniques.
Also go to Rick Sammon.
Jim
Photographing People Outdoors by Rick Sammon
Freezing or blurring is your choice.
Think carefully about which effect to use to capture a subject.
In the case of this young baseball player, freezing the action was the only way to go, in my mind anyway.
Rick Sammon
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The MSRP is $499.
Also go to ColorMunki Photo at X-Rite.
Jim
X-Rite ColorMunki Photo - Review by Keith Cooper
I sometimes see people on forums say it's [color management] not really needed.
If you value the quality (and consistency) of your final results then this is just plain wrong.
Keith Cooper
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Digital Forensics Photo Tampering Throughout History
This nearly iconic portrait of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is a composite of Lincoln's head and the body of Southern politician, John Calhoun.
Scientific American
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Also go to Steve Bedell.
Jim
Get It Right... In The Camera; ...And Save On "Post"-Processing Time by Steve Bedell
Like most photographers, I like to play around and constantly explore Photoshop.
But I'm a businessman, too, so I need to be careful about how much time I spend in front of the computer.
The more time I spend there, the less I have for taking photos and marketing my services, and that's where I make money.
So I've always adopted the philosophy of getting it right in the camera, even before Photoshop was born.
With that in mind, let's see how we can get beautiful files that require little or no manipulation after the shoot.
Steve Bedell
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Cost of Inkjet Printing Report v1
This report addresses concerns and arguments about the true cost of ink in desktop photo printing.
Using the Epson R2400 and Epson R1900, we conducted a series of print tests to determine how much ink is used in a full coverage 8"x10" print.
From that figure we extrapolated ink usage per square inch.
The objective is to share a realistic cost per print vision with inkjet users.
The choice to pursue photo inkjet printing is in the end an individual economic choice.
Red River Paper
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Summerscapes: Stunt Book, 1920 by Jessica Helfand
She was young and she was beautiful and she was 18 years old.
Her name was Elinor Moses and she was the daughter of a
