Photography Sites/Blogs

LPA Design announces new PocketWizard custom ID pricing, upgrade offer

LPA Design has announced a price increase on the programming of a PocketWizard MultiMAX remote radio with a custom ID, a discount on the new price effective until the end of July 2008 plus an upgrade offer for owners of older MAX and MultiMAX units with custom IDs.

Digital Photo Professional, other Canon software updates now available

Software updates for almost all of its digital SLR software has been posted by Canon. Among the programs updated are Digital Photo Professional (DPP), EOS Utility and Picture Style Editor.

Same Photo Different Magazine

Imaging Insider - 12 hours 25 min ago

Here’s what happens when the same picture is interpreted differently on two magazines, in this case, TIME and Esquire.

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Tabb Firchau’s aerial VR Photography by RC Helicopter

Imaging Insider - 12 hours 39 min ago

Requested all around the world for virtual aerial tour, Todd Firchau has either an ever expanding portfolio of 360° images taken onair and an always busy mind, which gives him new ideas and new projects to present to his customers

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Source: VRMag via ImagingInsider.com

Tutorial :: Get Dynamic in Photoshop

Imaging Insider - 13 hours 18 min ago

HDR is one of the hottest trends in photography. Learn how to shoot, merge, and tone-map photos to extend the dynamic range and produce those painted-looking results so in demand right now.


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Review :: Solio Hybrid Solar Charger H1000

Imaging Insider - 13 hours 26 min ago

The H1000 is considered a hybrid because it runs off of not only the solar panels, but also has batteries that store energy for devices that take more energy.

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Source: Techware Labs via ImagingInsider.com

Press Release :: KODAK Gallery Now Offering KODAK Digital Picture Frames and KODAK Picture Cards Preloaded With Your Favorite Gallery Photos

Imaging Insider - 13 hours 29 min ago

EMERYVILLE, California, May 12, 2008 – KODAK Gallery, a leading online photo service with 70 million members worldwide, today announced that members can now purchase KODAK Digital Picture Frames preloaded with up to 100 of their favorite Gallery photos. It only takes a few clicks online to choose the frame you want, select your pictures and Gallery will load the pictures on the frame and ship the package directly to you or your friends and family members.

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12 Ways To Never Miss A Photo Opportunity

DPS: digital Photography School - 13 hours 50 min ago
The following post on 12 Ways To Never Miss A Photo Opportunity is by San Francisco based photographer Jim M. Goldstein. Learn more about him at the end of this post. Nothing is more frustrating than seeing a great moment to photograph, but missing the opportunity to do so. I’ve missed my fair share of [...]

Furtive Venice Snapper Arrested

Imaging Insider - 14 hours 38 min ago

A man who allegedly photographed more than 3,000 women’s bottoms as they toured Venice has been arrested.

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Source: BBC via ImagingInsider.com

100 in 100 :: Creating Borders In-Camera

Imaging Insider - 14 hours 47 min ago

Your camera may have more tricks up its sleeve than you were aware of. Check out a great way to take advantage of Borders using your in-camera processing.

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Source: Adorama via ImagingInsider.com

Review :: Photograph Joey L’s Tutorials

Imaging Insider - 14 hours 49 min ago

Dave Cross review Photographer Joey Lawrence’s DVD. Joey L has some amazing photography, well beyond his years in Behind The Scenes.

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Source: Dave Cross via ImagingInsider.com

Sigma UK announce retail price of 50mm F1.4 EX DG HSM

Imaging Insider - 15 hours 37 min ago

Sigma Imaging (UK) Ltd is pleased to announce that the suggested retail price of the new 50mm f/1.4 EX DG HSM is £379.99.

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Make a Portable Camera Obscura

Imaging Insider - 15 hours 39 min ago

This portable greenhouse / camera obscura can be assembled in about 25 minutes without any tools. The project created an indoor greenhouse that is completely sealed and light proof, making it function perfectly as a giant pinhole camera.

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Source: Make via ImagingInsider.com

Olympus Zuiko Digital ED 9-18mm f/4 - 5.6

DPReview Latest News - Tue, 05/13/2008 - 01:02
Olympus has launched a consumer-level wide angle lens for the Four Thirds system: the Zuiko Digital 9-18mm f/4-5.6. The lens, that offers fields of view equivalent to 18 - 36mm in 35mm terms, makes extreme wide-angle zoom more accessible to users of the Olympus E-System, Panasonic DSLRs and selected Leica Digilux cameras.

Olympus launches E-520

DPReview Latest News - Tue, 05/13/2008 - 01:02
Olympus has launched the E-520, an update of its E-510 DSLR. The E-520 represents continuity, rather than revolution within the E-System camp. This process of orderly transistion sees the arrival of contrast detection AF at the E-5XX level of camera. This feature does not represent all the camera's new talents, however, with a larger LCD and Face Detection doing their utmost to add buyer appeal.

Tutorial :: Lens & Focal Length

Imaging Insider - Mon, 05/12/2008 - 11:12

In Photography, your lens is often your most important purchase. This photography tutorial outlines some important qualities of different lenses, and how each performs in identical situations.

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Source: Tutorial9 via ImagingInsider.com

Microstock for Digital Photography Students - Make Money From Your Photography

DPS: digital Photography School - Mon, 05/12/2008 - 10:30
This guest post was written by Lee Torrens, a student of digital photography who is blogging about his adventures selling photos online at Microstock Diaries. I’m a subscriber to Digital Photography School and quite a few other resources which educate me about photography. I need to do this because I’m still a hobbyist photographer despite earning [...]

Press Release :: onOne Software Announces Availability of Essentials 2 Imaging Software for iPhoto

Imaging Insider - Mon, 05/12/2008 - 10:17

Portland, OR - May 12, 2008 - onOne Software, Inc., announces today the availability of Essentials 2 software for iPhoto users. Essentials 2 for iPhoto is a collection of four easy-to-use software tools to help correct color, creatively blur a photo for dramatic visual impact, add creative borders and resize digital images for high quality large prints. The software tools included within Essentials 2 for iPhoto are based on technology used in the professional level onOne Software Photoshop® plug-ins PhotoTune 2.2, FocalPoint 1.0, PhotoFrame 3.1 and Genuine Fractals 5.


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Canon Rebates Begin May 18, 2008

Imaging Insider - Mon, 05/12/2008 - 10:07

Canon rebate program–instant this time around–will be effective May 18-July 19. Since they’re instant, there will be no forms or coupons to clip.

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Video :: Rating your images in Photoshop Lightroom

Imaging Insider - Mon, 05/12/2008 - 09:30

Chris Orwig sets up his Lightroom workspace to rate his images. He goes throught the process, detailing what shortcut keys he pushes to set up his workspace, and then proceeds to look at his images. He then whittles his images down to just the ones that he wants to rate.


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Source: Creative Mac via ImagingInsider.com