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Over the years it has turned into a nice tradition to do a pre-workshop meet-up that is open for everybody to join, to hang out, to have a beer and to talk photography. Or other stuff.
Thursday, Jul/9 6:30pm is the date.
Anabelle’s Bar and Bistro in downtown San Francisco is the place.
Full address:
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Often when I look at the photographs that I’ve taken at the zoo, for example, the animals’ eyes are underexposed and lifeless.
To fix animals’ eyes in Lightroom so that they look compelling and still realistic, here is my fixing “animals eyes” workflow:

Step 1

Display the image in the develop module in Lightroom. Zoom in using the [...]

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Fixing Animal Eyes in Lightroom

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For me, books of this type are often worth their weight in gold: not only do they remind you of the key essentials in digital photography, but they can often bring you back from the brink of pictorial disaster.
An example of the latter: I recall having trouble with an image that would not surrender to [...]

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Michael Freeman’s 101 Top Tips [BOOK REVIEW]

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Before, during those days where there are no commercially-available digital cameras, if you want to send some pictures to your loved one across the seas or thousands of miles away, you need to develop those pictures by going to your nearest photo center and then, mail those pictures. But now, things can really come in [...]

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What an odd title, you say. Few people ever think about the desktop scanner as anything more than a way to digitise documents but you would be missing out on a whole barrel of talent if you ignored the power of a scanner.
The shame is that, just as I write this message to all you [...]

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Scan and Shoot - Resolution

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Weekly Assignment
This week’s assignment was f/16. The goal was to create images with a very large depth of field and we saw some really good uses of it. Our winner this week was Cadira’s lampshade. The lampshade had a very abstract quality that we liked. The details are nice and crisp and it shows how [...]

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This Week in the Digital Photography School Forums (28 Jun - 4 Jul ‘09)

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This is just a quick reminder to readers that we’re currently running a competition where you can win a Lenovo W700ds Mobile Workstation (the biggest laptop I’ve ever seen).
Check out full details of the competition here but all you have to do to enter is be a subscriber to our weekly email newsletter which goes [...]

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5 Days Left to Win a Lenovo W700ds

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English:
The river Elbe cames across the banks and brought a lot of interesting pieces this week. What i liked first time, was the reflection of the clouds in this puddle. Thats why i decided to show you this piece of my urban outback.

German:
Die Elbe ist diese Woche über ihre Ufer getreten und hat so einige interessante Dinge an Land gespült. Was mich sofort faszinierte, waren die Reflektionen der Wolken in der Pfütze. Deswegen gibt es hier die kleine “Boje” zu sehen.

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Sigma has released an update to its Photo Pro image-editing software. Version 3.5.2 for Windows and v3.3 for Mac claim to improve processing of highlight areas in RAW images and now offer the ‘ProPhoto RGB’ color space. Exposure warning is also displayed for RGB channels in the histogram in the Windows version.

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You don’t own an external flash. You can’t afford one anytime soon. Are you held back in your photographic technique and unable to take dynamic studio style portraits?
Not hardly.
While external lighting is vital for professional portrait and wedding photographers, there is a way to fudge external lighting. When you need just a little bit of [...]

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Ghetto Style Portrait Lighting with LEDs

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