Category Archives: Photography

Cameras, accessories, digital asset management and the art and science of photography

Don’t Submit Photos To Frommer’s Contests

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A Stop Sign
When you submit a photograph to Frommer's not only do they want the rights to use it for the stated purpose, they also want all rights to do anything with your picture, even license it out to others for perpetuity. In other words, they are asking for the rights of the photographer, without paying for what those rights are worth. Unchecked, these policies will wind up killing the freelance photography business. I urge you to boycott Frommer's products in protest of their licensing policies.

David duChemin On Being A Professional Photographer

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I recently discovered David duChemin’s blog.  I’d like to share a couple of  his posts with you.  In ‘Just?’ he offers advice to people who consider themselves ‘just an amateur photographer.’  In his follow-up piece ‘Confessions of a So-Called PRO’ he serves up an ‘anti-pep-talk’ that demonstrates that professional photographers aren’t necessarily that different from [...]

Camera Clock Correction After The Fact

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A Stone Window
I had this dilemma a few days ago: I had taken almost 4,000 pictures during a vacation 12 months ago. The vacation was in Asia (two continents over), and the time on my camera was wrong. I was importing the pictures into Adobe’s Lightroom, and wanted them to have the correct time just in case [...]

What Is An F-Stop?

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The f-stop of the lens
In a previous article we looked at how lenses work. We learned about the focal length. Today we'll focus on camera lenses and what the term f-stop means.

Digitally Blending Photos With Adobe Photoshop

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The Blended Image
I took 3 shots, one underexposed, one overexposed and one correctly exposed (the Programed Auto setting on the camera). Then I blended the first two images and compared the resulting image with the correctly exposed one.

How Camera Lenses Work

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The Focal Point
This is the first in a series of blog entries on photography. Today we look at one of the most critical parts of any camera - the lens.