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  • Flower Collage

    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 can discover.  Or bugs.  Or whatever.  And then make a photo collage out of them.

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    Tom (Admin)

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

    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 architecturally significant, and the temples have made the city a major pilgrim destination, as it

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    Tom (Admin)

  • Improvising a Lightbox to View Dark Negatives (Found Film)

    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 other day – I had developed a roll of “found film” and could see there

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    Tom (Admin)

  • Digitally enhancing analog photos – is it cheating?

    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 have come to take for granted. We have computer programs that know how to automatically

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  • MySpace Resurrected, Photoshop to Close

    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 that’s into music and music vids may appreciate it.  I’m hopeful it will be a

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    Tom (Admin)

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

    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 in “post.”  At a minimum, you will need to straighten the horizon, because it’s hard

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    Tom (Admin)