Digital Photography School has a great post on 13 Lessons to Teach Your Child About Digital Photography that apply to anyone interested in learning more about photography. My favorite lessons include… Hold a camera straight Get in close Balance between photographing things, people and places Rule of thirds Focal lock [...]

Photo portfolio sites are moving beyond the simple Photoshop/Fireworks exported images thrown onto a page to where the site should showcase the photographers vision and personality while being cutting edge in order to attract new clients. Layers Magazine looks at three distinct approaches to photographers web portfolios. My favorite photo [...]

I have had a Canon Powershot A95 digital camera since April 1995. I bought the camera to take with us to Maui and it took awesome photos, but after I got my Canon 20D Digital SLR I haven’t used it for much more than shooting videos. Today, I was shooting [...]

Kodak is introducing a new lowlight color image sensor filter that will producer crisper photos. The new filter uses “panchromatic cells that are sensitive to all wavelengths of visible light and collect a larger amount of light striking the sensor.” Then, a computer algorithm converts the electronic pulses from the [...]

Today at PMA ’07 Microsoft announced a new “Photo HD” format. According to the Microsoft press release… “HD Photo offers compression with up to twice the efficiency of JPEG, with fewer damaging artifacts, resulting in higher-quality images that are one-half the file size. In addition, HD Photo offers increased image [...]

POP photo is reporting on the first $3M Photograph. An Andreas Gursky diptych sold for over $3.3 million at a London art (not photo) auction to an undisclosed bidder.

I’ve seen a couple of very interesting Time Lapse movies and I have been investigating the best techniques for shooting and putting one together. I found one pretty good tutorial on the equipment needed and technique and decided to try one out. In this video I collapsed 16 minutes down [...]

In his Web Tips column on Poynter.org Sree Sreenivasan looks at some web based Photoshop Alternatives. The four web based photo editors he recommends are Picnik.com Snipshot.com Pixer.us Fauxto.com (pronounced “photo”) I’ve never used any of these, but I plan on checking them out. Especially Picnik.com which he says integrates [...]

Kodak whose photography business has virtually collapsed with the popularity of digital photography is flipping the traditional printer pricing model on its head. Instead of selling the printer cheap and charging enormous sums for ink, Kodak plans to sale the printer between $100 and $200 and sale the ink for [...]

The Arkansas Highway Department was forced to close the Arkansas Hwy 7 bridge over the Ouachita River South of Arkadelphia due to flooding on the South side of the river. When they close the bridge during a flood long-time residents enjoy walking out over the river to watch the swift [...]