The Tuesday tutorial for this week is the final installment in making selections based on a specific color, or range of colors. The first demonstrated how to use the Magic Wand and Lasso tools to copy an item onto it’s…
Category: technical
Re-visiting stock versus fine art photography (does noise matter)?
I mentioned briefly in a post last week about a discussion that took place in the forums section of a prominent stock agency. The question was raised (by me) about whether fine art photography can co-exist and sell as “stock”…
Weekly Web Walk
As promised, here’s my weekly walk around the web…although I must admit the tune “Window on the World” as sung by Jimmy Buffet is running through my head now. Anyway, to get things started, the PMA show for 2008 was…
Big Blue Bowl – Selective Color, Part 2
The tutorial for this week is the second in what will hopefully be a three-part series showing the various ways that you can approach selective coloring in Photoshop. Last week, I went over the technique of using the lasso and…
Printing your pictures online
I know it’s unusual for me to make posts on the weekends, but I felt this subject warranted an extra post. One of the things that’s always a hassle to deal with is taking your prints from not only the…
Selective Coloring: Method #1
The task of selecting a single object in an image to highlight by means of leaving that color intact while altering the surrounding elements is nothing new to photography…and there are several ways to do this, with varying levels of…
Canon in the News – XSi body to be released
Well, since I am an admitted Canonite, and the blog name has Canon as part of the identity, I guess I should also chime in with a report on the announcement that Canon is adding a new body to it’s…
Wednesday Weblinks
As I corrected the missing links from yesterday’s podcast, I started surfing my usual photo sites, and I came across this neat site sponsored by Kingston, called Icons Of Photography (IOP). Four well-known photographers offer up their professional albeit short…
Friday Filter Fretting (and a funny)
Well, I’ve decided to go ahead and pull the trigger on two purchases… first on an ultra wide angle lens that has been noticably missing from my bag thus far. The winner of my internal mental anguish is the Sigma…
Maintenance Post
Tonight around midnight, the blog may go offline briefly or look a little funny as I go through some maintenance updates on the blog, both from the WordPress side, as well as some of the plugins. For those who have…