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Flower Collage

Posted on September 21, 2014 by Tom (Admin)

Here’s a fun photo project…and an idea I stole from my wife (I explained to her that I was improving on her idea – it didn’t go over well).  Go find a green space and see how many flowers you … Continue reading →

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Photography Tips: Kanchipuram, India – the “City of One Thousand Temples”

Posted on December 3, 2013 by Tom (Admin)

We recently had the opportunity to visit Kanchipuram, a city about 70 km from Chennai.  Nicknamed “The City of Thousand Temples”, the city may well have temples approaching that number – we didn’t count.  Many of them are historically and … Continue reading →

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Improvising a Lightbox to View Dark Negatives (Found Film)

Posted on November 19, 2013 by Tom (Admin)

This is probably not a problem that comes up too often,  But the good news: I have a solution! What can you do when your negatives are so dark, your scanner can’t “see” any image?  This happened to me the … Continue reading →

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Digitally enhancing analog photos – is it cheating?

Posted on June 3, 2013 by Tom (Admin)

The whole “back to basics” photography movement, with its return to analog film and (in some cases) cheap plastic lenses has a kind of purity about it that doesn’t mesh well with all of the computer-aided post-processing of photos we … Continue reading →

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MySpace Resurrected, Photoshop to Close

Posted on March 15, 2013 by Tom (Admin)

I know, right?  MySpace is back.  I just got my invitation to join the new MySpace and decided to go and check it out.  Based on what I’ve seen so far, I’m not too optimistic – though the younger crowd … Continue reading →

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Water & Sky Photography: Fixing the Horizon in “Post”

Posted on November 20, 2012 by Tom (Admin)

This is a pretty basic point, really – but I see the same mistakes made over and over by hobbyist photographers.  In my experience, virtually every photo you take that has a prominent horizon in it will require some correction … Continue reading →

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