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$19.99 – Living in the Cloud – Offsite Storage for Photographers

The cloud fluff becomes reality You’ve heard about cloud computing, you’ve heard about cloud storage, but now it’s time to get real. As digital photographer’s and consultants, we were overrun with data. We wanted an easy to use, simple, and scalable storage solution that worked with both in-house and remote systems – across PC, Mac, and Linux [...]

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Print and Onscreen – Color Spaces and ICC Profiles – Part 2 of 2

Last time we took a fairly in depth look at Color Spaces. We are not going to go quite so deep today, but I am going to take a few minutes of you time to skim over ICC Profiles. ICC Profiles are similar in function to Color Spaces, in that they define a finite range of [...]

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Print and Onscreen – Color Spaces and ICC Profiles – Part 1 of 2

In this special 2 Part series, I am going to delve deeper into the realm of Color Management. We have touched on the topics a few times, but have never dug into discussing Color Spaces or ICC profiles. In today’s post, I am going to take a look at Color Spaces, what they are and [...]

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Software Review – TTG Highslide Gallery Pro 2.0 for Lightroom

If I had to define the weakest aspect of the current iteration of Lightroom, I would undoubtedly have to say it is the Web Module. Output from Lightroom to web, while functional, seems to lack a sense of style and feels very utilitarian overall. When presenting work on the web, most would desire a more [...]

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X-Equals Survival Kit

Ok listen up, this is what it takes to keep our studio, and our workflow, running smoothly and without problems. We’ve always made it clear we are an open source shop when it comes to disclosing how we do what we do, the gear we use, and the tools we can’t live without. So, we figured [...]

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Photo Profile – John-Paul Pietrus

All photos © John-Paul Pietrus How did you get started? I studied fine arts at the Minneaoplis College of Art and Design, with an emphasis on photography. The course was very theoretically oriented, so we worked a lot on the mind and on creativity in addition to achievement of a thorough technical education. After graduation, I moved [...]

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Connecting the Dots – DPI Tips that Matter

Output resolution is one of the most misunderstood topics in digital photography. What is the correct DPI or PPI to export an image to produce beautiful prints or display on a screen just right? Unfortunately there is no simple answer; resolution, DPI and PPI are all different terms, and although inter-related are each distinct concepts in the [...]

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Improving Digital Photography with Film

Once upon a time if you wanted to take a photo, if had to be shot on film.  You would buy a roll, load you camera and take you pictures.  Afterwards you would take the roll to the photo lab to get developed and you would finally see your photos. The rise of digital photography has [...]

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Photo Profile – Joshua Carroll

All photos © Joshua Carroll How did you get started? I took a surprisingly normal route into the whole photography business. I started at the age of about 17, studied it in school, hated Biology and Chemistry and despised Business Studies (despite being rather good at all of them). So naturally I went to an arts college. [...]

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Photo Profile – Beth Jansen

All photos © Beth Jansen How did you get started? Like most female children’s photographers, I got my start once I had my first child.  After multiple disappointments in studio I was inspired to get images of him that I loved taken by someone that loved him.  When a friend gave me his old SLR film camera [...]

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