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Why Your Photos Look Lousy… or Simple Truths About Color Management
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Why Your Photos Look Lousy… or Simple Truths About Color Management
May 26, 2008 – 11:56 pm | 44 Comments

Let’s embrace the obvious. Many photographers feel that investing time and effort into learning color management is the digital equivalent of going to the dentist. Unless you are an uber-geek, I bet that you …

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Join Me In Paso Robles For The Worldwide Photo Walk – July 18, 2009
May 18, 2009 – 9:53 am | 2 Comments
Join Me In Paso Robles For The Worldwide Photo Walk – July 18, 2009

On Saturday July 18, 2009, thousands of photographers in hundreds of cities and towns around the world will participate in the Second Annual Worldwide PhotoWalk. I’m organizing the local event in Paso Robles and heartily …

Random Bits No. 4
April 3, 2009 – 8:50 am | No Comment
Random Bits No. 4

Cyanotypes, gum prints, carbon prints, and many other photographic processes from the 19th-century are alive and well in the digital era. AlternativePhotography.com is a the clearinghouse to see the latest art and find supplies …

Lessons I Didn’t Learn In Photo School 22–27
March 18, 2009 – 8:42 am | 6 Comments
Lessons I Didn’t Learn In Photo School 22–27

This Week’s LIDLIPS
22. There is nothing more interesting to us than photographs of other people.
23. Be the director. Your lens gives you that authority (and responsibility).
24. There is no I in “personal”, but there is …

The Wait Is Over… ‘Hot Shoe Diaries’ Now Shipping
March 16, 2009 – 1:53 pm | 8 Comments
The Wait Is Over… ‘Hot Shoe Diaries’ Now Shipping

Just received word from Amazon that they have shipped my copy of Joe McNally’s new book, ‘The Hot Shoe Diaries‘. Man it’s been a long wait. I first wrote about ‘THSD’ last July (8 months …

Random Bits – No. 1
March 13, 2009 – 1:27 am | 2 Comments
Random Bits – No. 1

What’s the point of having a gillion-dollars of camera gear and a lousy monitor? As a digital photographer, where to you spent most of your time – behind the lens or in front of …

Lessons I Didn’t Learn In Photo School 18–21
March 11, 2009 – 1:27 am | 6 Comments
Lessons I Didn’t Learn In Photo School 18–21

This Week’s LIDLIPS
18. Make tons of mistakes and fail frequently.
19. Don’t worry about “having a defined look”.
20. Understand that owning a photograph is different than owning the right to reproduce it.
21. MTV has changed the …

PixSylated 2.0 – The Web Magazine
March 9, 2009 – 8:24 am | 4 Comments
PixSylated 2.0 – The Web Magazine

PixSylated 2.0 is here. The site has been redesigned as a web magazine. Click here for a road map to the new layout.
What’s the difference? A complete overhaul of the home page makes it much …

Digital WakeUp Call
March 5, 2009 – 7:12 am | 3 Comments
Digital WakeUp Call

David Ziser’s Digital WakeUp Call 2009 Tour will get underway on March 30. I consider this 4-hour event to be a must-attend. You’ll learn a ton about photography and the business of photography.
I had the …

PixSylated Group Forming On Flickr
March 4, 2009 – 11:57 am | No Comment
PixSylated Group Forming On Flickr

PixSylarians Unite! Or at least get acquainted. I’ve opened a PixSylated group on Flickr. We’ll see where it leads.
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David Hobby ‘Strobist’ First-Ever 5-Day Workshop To Be Held In Paso Robles
March 3, 2009 – 9:13 am | No Comment
David Hobby ‘Strobist’ First-Ever 5-Day Workshop To Be Held In Paso Robles

It’s a huge honor for PixSylated to announce that David Hobby, the ‘Strobist‘, will teach a 5-day workshop (for the first time ever!) in Paso Robles April 27–May 1, 2009.
The Strobist 5-Day workshop will …

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My Canon Speedlite Wishlist

My Canon Speedlite Wishlist

As a lifelong Canon shooter, I’ve been witness again and again to the power of Nikon’s CLS Speedlight system. In fact, most of the inspiration I found to explore the potential of Canon’s Speedlites came …

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Smashing Pumpkins With High-Speed Sync * Gang Light – Part 2

Smashing Pumpkins With High-Speed Sync * Gang Light – Part 2

GANG LIGHT – Part 2: Just how fast a shutter speed do you need to freeze the seeds flying from a pumpkin that your teenage son is trying to drive over the left field fence? …

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New Canon HDSLR? My 2-Cents… (updated)

New Canon HDSLR? My 2-Cents… (updated)

This post was updated on Feb 18 and on Feb 20 after Zeiss announced that Compact Primes will be available in EOS mount.
There have been a couple of posts this morning about rumors about a …

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‘Making The Transition To Digital Tech’ – Image Mechanics Workshop

‘Making The Transition To Digital Tech’ – Image Mechanics Workshop

How do you capture and process 3,000 to 5,000 shots and hand your client the image disk in a single day? Is a workflow that shoots tethered into Lightroom robust enough for professional work? How …

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