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Book Review: A World In HDR By Trey Ratcliff

by T. Michael Testi February 2, 2010 Books

High Dynamic Range (HDR) photography gives you the ability to capture a greater range of colors and levels of light that exist in the real world that your camera and sometimes even your eyes can not see. The results can run from very dynamic images to ones that are totally surreal. In A World In [...]

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Software Review – Plug-In Exposure 2 From Alien Skin Software

by T. Michael Testi January 29, 2010 Photography

Exposure 2 is the latest version of Alien Skin’s stock simulator, and effects package. Exposure 2 is meant to allow digital photographers, and graphic artists to create images that mimic the look of film in their digital photos. It does this by emulating the grain, and color differences that different films produced. Exposure 2 has [...]

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Book Review: Photo Workshop – Lighting by Chris Bucher

by T. Michael Testi January 28, 2010 Books

Without light, there is no photography — perhaps not much else as well, but that is not the subject at hand. The subject at hand is light, and how light affects what we see, and what the camera sees. It is also the subject of the Photo Workshop release Photo Workshop: Lighting by Chris Bucher. [...]

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Book Review: The Digital Photographer’s Notebook By Kevin Ames

by T. Michael Testi January 27, 2010 Books

“Photographers live in the moment when shooting and I believe we do the same when in front of the monitor,” claims Kevin Ames, the President of Ames Photographic Illustration, Inc., a photographic studio that specializes in commercial photography, retouching, and post production services. In his book The Digital Photographer’s Notebook, the author will attempt to [...]

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Book Review: Mastering Digital SLR Photography by David Bush

by T. Michael Testi January 26, 2010 Books

There are a lot of books that focus on digital photography via Photoshop; Mastering Digital SLR Photography is not one of them. Instead the goal of this book is to focus on the camera; the digital SLR camera (dSLR). The author attempts to address concerns about equipment; cameras, lenses, and the other things that one [...]

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Book Review – Perception And Imaging: Photography – A Way of Seeing By Richard D. Zakia

by T. Michael Testi January 25, 2010 Books

Perception And Imaging: Photography – A Way of Seeing begins with a quote by Henri Cartier-Bresson, “Photography has not changed since is origin except in its technical aspects, which for me are not a major concern.” This statement was credited to him in 1978. In the age of the digital image, is this statement still [...]

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Book Review – Mastering Digital Black And White By Amadou Diallo

by T. Michael Testi January 22, 2010 Books

Mastering Digital Black and White; subtitled “A Photographer’s Guide to High Quality Black-and-White Imaging and Printing,” was written to fill a need for a comprehensive reference guide that is geared toward high quality black-and-white image processing. The author’s goal is to provide a reference that will prevent you from having to struggle with the same [...]

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Book Review – Creative Photoshop: Digital Illustration and Art Techniques by Derek Lea

by T. Michael Testi January 21, 2010 Books

Creative Photoshop: Digital Illustration and Art Techniques is not your typical book on Photoshop. It is about being creative, being different, and pushing the envelope. Derek Lea, a part-time instructor at the International Academy of Design in Toronto, is also an award-winning digital illustrator and writer. Creative Photoshop is about pushing the edge and doing [...]

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Video Training Review – Photorealism With Bert Monroy Volume 1 and 2 With Bert Monroy From Lynda.com.

by T. Michael Testi January 20, 2010 Miscellaneous

Back a couple years ago I had the great pleasure of attending a NAPP 1 day workshop with Bert Monroy. While I was familiar with Monroy’s work, I was not really familiar with him and how he created his art. I was completely blown away by what he has done and what he can do [...]

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Software Review: Viveza 2.0 From Nik Software

by T. Michael Testi January 19, 2010 Photography

Viveza 2 is the latest release from Nik Software of their plug-in for selectively controlling color and light within your photographs. Through the use of their patented U Point technology, you can control your images on both a global as well as locally in isolated areas, all without the use of selections or layer masks. [...]

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