We had an overnight visitor this week, an old friend who happens to be a hobbyist photographer. One of the topics we chatted about was the choice of software for post processing – and specifically, he asked me: if you have Photoshop and Bridge, why do you need Lightroom? I told him that for me, [...]
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Portraits of the Bouquet family
It’s been a week since I bought the flowers that I used for my foray into negative space, and I noticed today that they’ve held up quite well. I decided that these hardy stems deserved to be given star treatment for being so cheerful day after day in the middle of winter, so I made [...]
Posted by Barbara on February 7, 2012
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Alphabet Soup
Did you ever go shopping, say for shoes or a shirt, but finally just gave up because you couldn’t find anything you wanted? Then you went back to the same store a week later and everything was just perfect? You decide that something must have just been off during that previous trip. I’m seeing that [...]
Posted by Barbara on January 22, 2012
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Harvest Moon
I started planning this a few months ago. I was telling my friend Marina of my frustrations with the moon photos I took back in March: because it was so dark outside by the time the moon rose, my choices were either to end up with not enough detail on the buildings or not enough [...]
Posted by Barbara on September 13, 2011
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DOF for Newbies
Yesterday, while perusing photography blogs, I came across a post that described depth of field. And although it was well written, and explained the topic nicely – and although I already have a basic understanding of depth of field – it was still technical enough to make my eyes roll back in my head. So, [...]
Posted by Barbara on August 14, 2011
http://photoaspire.wordpress.com/2011/08/14/dof-for-newbies/
Basic photography
A certain 20-something who lives in my household – but who expects to move to Asia in the near future – told me yesterday that this blog has gotten stale, that it was much more interesting when I talked more about photography and less about social networks. I think it’s just a matter of taste, [...]
Posted by Barbara on April 25, 2011
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Where I went, what I saw
One of the great things about digital photography is that digital cameras store extra information with each photo. For example, it stores the date the photo was taken, essentially putting an end to conversations such as “I must have been 6 years old in that picture… see? There are training wheels on my bike!”. Photoshop [...]
Posted by Barbara on April 15, 2011
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Photo entertainment
I came across a great article in today’s New York Times about various web sites where you can upload your pictures for editing – many of them will place people in different backgrounds and scenes, others are sites like Aviary (that I mentioned a few weeks ago) where you can rotate / crop / etc. [...]
Posted by Barbara on March 10, 2011
http://photoaspire.wordpress.com/2011/03/10/photo-entertainment/
Aviary
If you’ve never heard of Aviary (aviary.com), check it out! They have a great set of free web-based audio and image editing tools, and are adding more all the time. When I went over there this morning, I saw that they had added a feature that allows you to embed an image editor on your [...]
Posted by Barbara on December 18, 2010
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