Epic Edits Weblog

Links this week include a couple of projects, aerial photos, lighting tips, inspiration, Photoshop, JPEGs, actions, aperture, makeup, and more.

Projects are a great way to boost your inspiration, but long-term projects can amount to something much more than a single photo.

80 photographers provided links to their favorite social network profiles (36 different ones, at that!) to give us a HUGE list of 257 connections! Check out these profiles and go make some photo-friendly acquaintances.

Our friend, Udi, over at DIYPhotography.net is opening up a little photography project on the topic of portraits. This one is way cool because you can choose from three different sub-projects to participate in:

Black & White Portrait
This category calls for a black & white portrait of someone meaningful to you. I’ll be judging this [...]

42 selected photos from the Epic Edits PhotoDump Flickr pool. This week there are 27 new members, 1 new discussion, and 288 new photos in the group.

Links this week include topics on censorship, film, tripods, macro, Photoshop, portraits, Flickr, Lightroom, PhotoChallenges, Photokina, photowalking, fisheye, and backgrounds.

In a recent poll here on Epic Edits, I asked How Much Would You Pay for Photoshop? It’s no surprise that the results indicate that Photoshop is priced way above a majority of the market willing to pay. This poll spawned from a previous Photoshop poll that told us 60% of Photoshop Users are Pirates! Many of the responses to that study mentioned the outrageous price Adobe charges for Photoshop and Photoshop upgrades.

Week after week, as I go through our group pool, I encounter amazing photos from a select few photographers. Without even looking at the photo details, I know who it’s from and I know that I love it. But then again, these are folks that I’ve been following long before the formation of our Flickr group. So pay these artists a visit, add them as a contact, and let them know that their work is appreciated.

In case you were sleeping under a rock in the middle of the desert today, I just wanted to let you know that Adobe Lightroom 2 is officially released. I personally don’t use Lightroom because I can’t justify the extra cost for the minor advantages that it has over Bridge/ACR/Photoshop. I’m not downplaying [...]

Those of you who follow ProBlogger know that Darren recently ran a small project called “The ProBlogger Social Media Love-In“. Essentially, he asked his readers to share their social media profiles so everybody could have the chance to connect. Well, I’d like to do something similar here on Epic Edits.