17 Images of Poverty (3)
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Today is Blog Action Day - a day where thousands of bloggers around the world focus upon and highlight issues around one topic - poverty. Here is our contribution - a collection of images taken to highlight poverty from around our globe. Click the images to be taken to the Flickr pages of the photographer and to learn more about the story behind the faces you see. Photo by Carf Image by Sailing “Footprints: Real ...
Reaching Out to Underpriveleged Children Through Photography (7)
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Today we have a guest post by Samantha Oulavong (founder of LOVE - Lens Of Vision & Expression) who shares some of her inspiring story of using photography to make difference in the lives of underprivileged children. While this post might not be one of our normal ‘how to’ tutorials I think it’s an amazing example of someone using the medium of photography to make the world a better place. Please check out Samanthas work ...
Tag Clouds for Canada's Election (6)
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I’m a big fan of Wordle. Everybody likes pretty tag clouds, but until recently, I’ve had no practical use for the tool. What with the forthcoming election and all, and being in marketing, I thought it might be interesting to use Wordle to distill each of the four national parties’ websites into a tag cloud. The cloud would reflect the terms that the party uses most frequently on their English-language websites. With an assist from ...
Episode 406 - Packet Sniffing 101, Social Media with Boxee, and multiple Gordon Freemans with Synergy (1)
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Chris Gerling begins a three part series on Packet Sniffing starting with the fundamentals of packet structure, the OSI model, tools and terminology. Matt harnesses the social power of media with Boxee, a social media center based on XMBC. Shannon demos out Synergy, the Half-Life 2 co-op mod, and Darren check out Cron for Windows. [ MP4 | XviD | WMV ] Watch Show Notes Matt Lestock harnesses the social power of media with Boxee, ...
John Chiara Shows His Photography Workflow (1)
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Today I came across this video on Youtube of a photographer - John Chiara. The video takes 7 or so minutes and gives you an insight into the mind and process of a fairly unorthodox photographer using an extremely unorthodox camera. While it’s a film process and not digital I think there are some good things to take away from this photographer who made his own camera, who takes no more than one image per ...
Teachers In Space (1)
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I received the following email and press release today:Teachers Apply for New Astronaut ProgramSeptember 22, 2008 -- Teachers all across the country are applying for a new astronaut program.Teachers in Space is seeking two Pathfinder Astronauts who will become the first astronaut teachers to fly in space and return to the classroom."Unlike the Educator Astronaut program, which takes teachers out of schools to join the NASA astronaut corps, we want to put astronaut teachers into ...
Service Academy Football (1)
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Army won its first game in about 10 years (yes, I'm exaggerating, but not by much) this weekend, handily defeating Tulane on the road 44-13. Navy went to Colorado Springs and beat up on Air Force a little bit, winning 33-27 at Falcon Stadium.Maybe Navy's secret weapon, the USS Bancroft, had something to do with the win:Background information: each year several juniors from our service academies serve as "exchange cadets" and midshipmen by attending one ...
My 1.85 Cents on the Bailout Bill (1)
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I’m no economist. In fact, I don’t deserve to live in the same town as the guy who hands out the ‘economist’ name tags. With that in mind, I have two ill-informed reactions to today’s signing of the US $700 million billion (whoops, wishing thinking) bailout bill into law: For many, many years, Wall Street demanded and received decreased regulation. They repeatedly called for less and less government intervention into the free market. Now, having ...
A Cool Map of Vancouver (1)
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Stephanie made a great looking map showing Vancouver neighbourhoods, in the style of Ork Posters: If you have a big monitor, you may want to check out the full-size version. I see Yaletown didn’t make the cut, but I expect that was a space consideration. I wonder what she used for her source material? And it’s educational, too. I had only the vaguest notion that there was a part of town called Killarney. It’s yet ...
Night Photography Tips [VIDEO] (7)
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Last Friday DPS had its first ever photowalk in Las Vegas. I’ll share some shots from those who attended next week - but one of the ways that the walk challenged those who attended was that they were taking shots at dusk with the end of the walk happening in fairly dark conditions (or as dark as it gets in Vegas). The following video tutorial gives some night photography tips for DSLR owners. I hope ...
Win a DSLR in Our New Photography Competition (5)
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Over the next month Digital Photography School is running it’s first ever photography competition where DPS members are invited to submit their best portrait image. You can enter HERE Entries close on 31 October. Prizes We have three great prizes with a total prize value of close to $1000. First prize is a choice of either a Nikon D60 or a Canon XSi (pictured above). Both of these DSLRs get great reviews and are the ...
HDR Style Results Using Layers in Photoshop (53)
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In this post Nathan Pask takes a look at a technique to get HDR Style Images Using Layers in Photoshop. There currently seems to be a lot of interest in HDR or similar processes. What is HDR? Essentially, it’s about collecting a series of shots taken on a tripod at different exposures and allowing über clever software to merge them together to make one supposedly perfectly exposed image. There are various types of software or ...
Joining Photrade (5)
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I’m really excited today to announce that I have joined the advisory board of Photrade (picture is by Renee Blodgett and is Andrew Paradies, CEO of Photrade (left) and myself). You can read the press release here - but in short, Photrade is a company that excites me on numerous fronts and crosses two of my passions - photography and blogging. Let me break it down into those two areas: Photrade for Photographers Store, Share, ...
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I’m really excited today to announce that I have joined the advisory board of Photrade (picture is by Renee Blodgett and is Andrew Paradies, CEO of Photrade (left) and myself). You can read the press release here - but in short, Photrade is a company that excites me on numerous fronts and crosses two of my passions - photography and blogging. Let me break it down into those two areas: Photrade for Photographers Store, Share, ...
Have you Ever Made Money From Your Photography? (2)
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One of the areas of our forum that is increasingly popular is our Earning with Photography section. It seems like quite a few of our forum members have the dream of making money with their photography. Some area exploring wedding and portrait photography, others are playing with stock photography and others are exploring the world of corporate photography. Reading through some of the threads in that section of our forum got me wondering - how ...
5 More Elements of Composition in Photography (16)
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Yesterday I shared 5 ingredients of composition that I consider when setting up a shot. Today I’d like to talk about 5 more. Framing Image by foreversouls Most of us use ‘frames’ to display our images when we hang them on walls for viewing - however ‘framing’ can be used within the composition of a shot to help you highlight your main point of interest in the image and and/or to put it in context ...
5 Elements of Composition in Photography (41)
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Good Composition is a key element of good photographs yet is something that is hard to define. Instead of looking at composition as a set of ‘rules’ to follow - I tend to view it more as a set of ingredients that can be taken out of the pantry at any point and used to make a great ‘meal’ (photograph). Alternatively I’ve often described it as a set of ‘tools’ that can be taken out ...
Getting Plugged in to Photoshop Plug-ins (2)
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Photoshop Plug-Ins are the topic of this post by Chas Elliot. I remember as a youngin’ I scraped together some cash and purchased my first bona fide copy of Photoshop when it was at a lowly version 3.0. In technology terms, this makes me sound ancient but I find comfort in the words of my old scout master, “I may be an old dog, but I still have a few sharp teeth”. Photoshop’s current version ...
How to Show off your Photos like the Professionals (7)
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Guest blogger, Helen Bradley from ProjectWoman shows how you can create great looking frames for your images in Photoshop. When you’re displaying your photos on a blog or a website you’ll want them to look as good as they would if you had them framed on the wall. Here is a Photoshop technique for adding a frame, complete with your name and photo details, to a photo. To see what we are aiming for, compare ...
