Photographers often ask how they should deal with customers who ask for their outtakes. Take a look at the image to the right. I completely screwed up the focus while shooting a track runner doing the hurdles. I’d never let that image see the light of day… if I hadn’t published it here for you [...]
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Stop Clients from Asking for Outtakes by Changing Your File Naming Scheme
Wednesday, January 20th, 2010 by TomFind Out Who’s Using Your Photos with TinEye
Tuesday, January 19th, 2010 by TomTinEye is a “reverse image search” that allows you to input an image and find places where it’s being used online. This is useful for finding out where a picture came from, or in the case of photographers, tracking who’s using your work.
I tested TinEye using an image I knew would appear elsewhere on the [...]
Mistakes are not Always a Bad Thing in Photography
Thursday, February 5th, 2009 by TomA number of photography sites and blogs have spoke about staying away from the delete button, so I thought I would weigh in with my own experiences in resisting the urge to free up storage space. Digital photography has a great many advantages, but the ability to review and delete your photos on the spot [...]
How to Get Sharp Photos When Shooting Hand-Held
Thursday, January 29th, 2009 by TomWhen the camera shakes an exposure and you are not using a fast enough shutter speed, your pictures may turn out blurry. In order to get sharp images when shooting hand-held, you must identify all the different factors that have the potential to cause camera shake, and take precautions to minimize their impact on your [...]
How to Shoot Panoramas for Extreme Depth of Field
Tuesday, December 9th, 2008 by Tom“How to shoot a panorama quickly and easily” is a video tutorial by pro photographer Ryan Brenizer on using panoramas to achieve an extremely thin depth of field. To accomplish this, one sets their camera’s settings manually and uses a telephoto lens to shoot a frame in sections, then stitches all the shots together with [...]
Put Your Computer Monitor to Work in Your Photos
Monday, November 24th, 2008 by TomYanik’s Photo School has a series of posts about how to put your computer monitor to work in your photographs: part 1: Using Your Monitor as a Light Source, and part 2: using your monitor as a background.
In part 1, Yanik uses his computer monitor to light his photos. He makes a JPG image containing [...]
Helpful Photography Tips from Kris Krug
Friday, October 31st, 2008 by TomVancouver fashion photographer Kris Krug’s presentation on photography at Gnomedex '08 features some great practical, common sense tips for improving your pictures. Here is the video:
Most of Kris’ tips are applicable no matter what type of camera you have — they are generalized points such as “seeing light”, positioning your subject to take advantage of [...]
How To Rescue A Severely Underexposed RAW File
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008 by Tom“Underexposure – Resurrecting An Image From the Dead!” by David Ziser of Digital Protalk is a video tutorial that shows how to rescue a severely underexposed photo from its RAW file using a combination of Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop.
Faced with an extremely underexposed photo of two important guests at a wedding reception, David goes through [...]
Recover Deleted Pictures with Free Art Plus Digital Photo Recovery
Monday, October 27th, 2008 by TomFree Art Plus Digital Photo Recover is free Windows software that helps you recover lost images. The software works with pictures that have been deleted, sit on a formatted memory card, or have been the victim of file corruption.
In addition to recovering pictures directly from a memory card, Free Art Plus has an additional feature [...]
Make Your Own 3-D Photos
Wednesday, January 31st, 2007 by TomWhat can you do with two cameras mounted on a tripod with their lenses eye-width apart? Make your own 3D photos, of course! Using Phil Glatz’s 3D photo instructions and some special 3D software, you can create your own page-popping images right at home.
Link via LifeHacker.