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Reading is Fundamental

Today, the Summer 2009 issue of The Key fell through the mail drop and this was on the cover: This is the first time an editor has used me for both the cover photos and the cover feature story! That’s my daughter in the picture, my son holding an SB 800 Strobist-style to camera left. On the…

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Lesson 4: exposure review

This image, my friends, is an example of first learn the rules, then learn to break them. Relax. Today is a fun day, lesson is a review, assignment is relevant to a festive American holiday. Going back to last lesson’s extra credit question: Originally, our goal wasn’t to change the exposure ratio by lightening or…

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more fun with photos

fellow photo enthusiasts, check this out: it’s a self-professed aesthetic quality inference engine that bills itself as providing intelligent, unbiased assessment of your photos. instantly.

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defocusing

defocus verb ( -focused , -focusing or -focussed, -focussing) [ trans. ] cause (an image, lens, or beam) to go out of focus : the filter lets you defocus all or part of an image. ••• At the beach, for example, on vacation: why focus? Watching my husband toss a football to our son requires…

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fun with photos

I stumbled across Shape Collage today, a free automatic collage maker, and plugged in some photos and VIOLA! Isn’t it fun? Give it a try!

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the print that never was

In 1997, my husband and I moved to Tokyo. Expecting to take a gazillion photos to post on the webpage I maintained for friends and family in the States to follow along on our adventure (this was long before blogs hit the scene), I bought a digital AGFA camera. As planned, I shot at least…

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