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News and Photos–
For some years now, your columnist has been actively participating in the World Pinhole Photography Day. This year’s WPPD is on April 24, 2011, the last Sunday of April. Anyone, anywhere in the world, who makes a pinhole photograph between April 23 and May 1 (since April 24 is Easter Sunday), can scan [...]
Making Yourself Look Good (Part III)–
Continuing from last week, we are discussing ways by which you can try to show (in contrast to showing off) others what you can do so that they can consider hiring you to do some work.
We started off by talking about stuff you can put in your “book.” Most people [...]
Guides on Resizing in Photoshop (Part 1) –
1. Two Resizing Methods in Photoshop-
In Photoshop, there are two ways of resizing an image: changing its physical dimension without resampling and changing its pixel dimension. This is found in the Image Size menu dialog box, which is the primary technique used in Photoshop for resizing images (See [...]
Expiry Date on Web Photos–
Readers who upload photos on various websites may be interested in X-Pire!, a software that will give them the power to put an expiration date on their images. When the expiry date arrives, the image on the website gets blocked from being displayed. Why would anyone want such a tool? Because [...]
Making Yourself Look Good–
We started talking about trying to get your name out there last week and we continue that today. What we began with saying last week was to start shooting. As you’re most likely trying to determine what you really want to do, the best way is to start with what you are [...]
A reader’s macro tip–
When Mark Eneil Castro, one of our regular contributors emailed a macro photo (“Finding My Way Back Home”) shot with his prime lens and a “cheap extension tube”, I asked him to share the method with the readers.
Here is Mark’s edited report:
The basic concept of using extension tubes for macro photography is [...]
Making yourself look good–
There are more and more people who want to be photographers now. It’s amusing that there are a multitude of reasons why they do but some are quite interesting. Some seem to think this is the easy way to a fast buck and since some have hardly any scruples, this can be [...]
