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Back to the Future

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I know, that is not a title to a Disney movie but Meet the Robinsons really did not fit for this article (see, I got a Disney movie reference in anyway!). It’s been over two years since I took the photo of Cinderella Castle from the Tomorrowland Transit Authority and it’s still one of my … Continue reading "Back to the Future"
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Metadata Revisited

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When I was talking about adding metadata and how to use it. I seemed to have confused some people about how much work it takes to add captions and keywords. While it does take time to add them, it’s not as time consuming as it sounds. Photo management software like Apple’s Aperture 2, Adobe’s Lightroom … Continue reading "Metadata Revisited"
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Finding Your Star Photos

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After having figured out a photographic naming system, organized digital photographs on our computer systems, learned about metadata and some powerful software to manage our growing library of photos, it’s now time to learn how to edit them. I’m not talking about editing like in Photoshop, I’m talking about selecting the best photos from a … Continue reading "Finding Your Star Photos"
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The Digital Darkroom

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Before I go on talking about organizing our digital library of photographs, I want to introduce you to the new breed of software that were released a couple of years ago I refer to as digital darkroom programs. These programs assist you in organizing, editing and outputting (either files or prints) your digital photos in … Continue reading "The Digital Darkroom"
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Meta What?

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The last couple of entries we’ve gone over naming all the digital photos we take and organizing them on our computer systems. This is all done in preparation of creating a database or library of our images. Anytime you have a collection of data on a computer, as our image files are, they are refereed … Continue reading "Meta What?"
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What’s In A Name

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One of the first things I had to deal with when I first started using a digital camera was how to organize all the files I was creating every time I went out taking photographs. The camera manufacturers think their simple system of a strange prefix followed by a number is what anyone would ever … Continue reading "What’s In A Name"
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Cloning Around

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A couple of months ago I started using Apple’s Aperture 2 photo application. The photo editor in Aperture is much better than anything I’ve ever used. While not a true graphics editor like Photoshop, Aperture does have some tools which are helping me make great photographs from not-so-great ones. Like this photo of a performer … Continue reading "Cloning Around"
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Put Your Photos in the Past

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Once in awhile I’ll take a picture that calls out for something different. In the case of the photo below when I first looked at it on my computer monitor, I thought it could have been taken back in the time of the American Old West in the mid-1800’s. Those photos are in tones of … Continue reading "Put Your Photos in the Past"
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Photographic Innoventions: Photo Editing 101

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Unlike when you used film, digital photography processing is done inside your camera and produces JPEG images. (dSLRs can also produce RAW images. RAW images are often referred to as digital negatives and require processing on a computer to produce the final JPEG image.) If you are like me, you try to get all your … Continue reading "Photographic Innoventions: Photo Editing 101"
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