In early March, Tasha Schalk wrote an informative article about the business of photography and we launched a project to go along with it — all you had to do was tell us your business plan for the upcoming year. Tasha and Tracy Tesmer also offered up a few prizes to go along with the [...]
A photo from Phill Price merged with a photo of my own. This is a project he’s running, so check it out!
You know how to take great pictures, you get a lot of praise on Flickr and from friends and family, but what next? How do you market yourself as a photographer? How to do you start up a small business? Photography and marketing are two completely different talents, and it can be daunting to make the leap from amateur photographer to semi-professional. Here are a few steps that might make the transition a little easier.
Learning about photography online is a great method for improving your game, but real-live instruction and interaction is far more valuable. I’m excited to announce that David Ziser will be traveling the country (to 58 US cities!) and sharing his great knowledge of photography, lighting, post-production, and marketing with his Digital WakeUp Call. Read on for details about a $20 registration discount and a chance at a free pass to the event nearest you.
Check out the results of the most recent Epic Edits project, where participants shared their own Photoshop Presets and Lightroom Actions. We’ve wrapped everything up into a neat little package, ready for you to download — for free! Check out the winners of the contest, and get your hands on that download!
The “yearly roundup” of best photos seems to be standard protocol for photography bloggers, so here we go! I did a similar thing last year, but with just 10 photos. This year, I took way more photos (somewhere around 12-13K) so there was no way I could keep it down to just 10 — plus I uploaded around 1000 just to Flickr in 2008. So here’s a selection of photos, month by month.
This article is a project entry from Martin Kimeldorf. He shares two of his Photoshop actions with us: exposure blending and shine reduction. The exposure blend action provides a means of combining and blending multiple exposures of the same scene to produce a higher dynamic range. The shine reduction action allows you to paint out and reduce the intensity of certain highlights.
I find resizing photos for web output to be one of the most boring and repetitive tasks in post-processing. My workflow consists of only creating JPEGs as needed, and deleting them when they’ve done their deed. My photo archive also consists of RAW (from the dSLR), TIFF (from film scans), and PSD files, in both AdobeRGB and grayscale color spaces. So with all these requirements, I found that a Photoshop action is the way to go.
I’m pleased to announce, in the spirit of the holidays, an open source software development: The Epic Edits Action and Preset Extravaganza. In our last project, we did reviews of cheap film cameras. But in this project, we’re going completely the opposite direction — it’s all about Photoshop Actions and Lightroom Presets (or whatever other software you happen to use). In the end, our collective creativity will be pooled into a large Styler Package and be distributed freely. Oh, and we’re giving away over $1000 in prizes!!!
DIYPhotography.net is running a cool project where you’re asked to swap gear with a buddy and write up a review of the borrowed equipment. This is a neat idea because we often become desensitized to the pros and cons of our own equipment, but these things are very obvious when using new gear. The project [...]
