Epic Edits

What percentage of your photos actually make it online to the various photo-sharing or personal websites?

30 selected photos from the Epic Edits PhotoDump Flickr pool. This week there are 13 new members, 1 new discussion, and 303 new photos in the group.

Backing up photos is one of the most critical (ongoing) tasks for photographers, both amateur and professional. The “computer age” has been a blessing, allowing us to store and share huge amounts of digital photos. But that blessing has created the need to protect those delicate digital files, and many people have learned the consequences of not doing so.

Our second giveaway has come to an end and we’ve got three winners for the 2-week lens rental via BorrowLenses.com. Here they are: laanba Brad C Puja And if you’re still looking for a freebie, be sure to enter the giveaway for three black & white prints, fresh out of my darkroom. Three Analog Prints [...]

Links this week include articles on comic strips, pinhole photography, film, sacrificial cameras, famine, coastlines, photographers block, and a Lightroom tutorial.

Just admit it — you can’t help yourself from taking sunset photos. We all do it. The problem is that (since we all do it) sunset photos can be extremely cliche. So when the sun starts going down, you’ve got to think outside the box to get unique photos. Here are some tips to get your creative juices flowing.

Our first giveaway has come to an end, and we’ve got two winners for the Flickr Pro account raffle courtesy Antoine and myself. Here are the lucky photographers: Nathan G PShorten And for the rest of you (nearly 200 who entered the first raffle), there’s still a chance to enter the other raffles right now: [...]

Three prints from the darkroom. Leave a comment and enter for your chance to win one of them!

48 selected photos from the Epic Edits PhotoDump Flickr pool. This week there are 9 new members, no new discussions, and 345 new photos in the group.