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Just some of the excellent posts I’ve read lately.

Feeling romantic?

Check out Shawn Duffy’s Paris series over at sduffyphotography.com - he’s been regularly posting photos during his trip. The black and white images are especially romantic. The link below goes to the posts he has tagged “Paris”:

• Photographing Paris

Black and White

As a nice segue to the above link, Beyond Megapixels has a great article on:

• How to create high contrast black and white images

Photo projects and why you need to participate

This is a rather timely link considering I have just opened a project for photographers of the vintage camera Voigtlander Vito BL. Neil Creek has written a guest post at Digital Photography School on:

• Photo projects and why you should participate

A fading post process technique

This tutorial at Shadow Logic creates an amazing fade effect to your image by actually resizing the image over and over again:

• Resizing fade effect

And one for your inner GIMP

Photo Excursions has a tutorial which produces a wonderful result in 5 easy steps. Can’t wait to try it out.

• Portrait tutorial for the GIMP

Enjoy.

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More great reading for you:

Do you “shoot” or “photograph”?

This one has had me thinking about how I “talk photography” over the last week or so. Jim M. Goldstein at JMG-Galleries dares you to stop saying “shoot” and instead use “photograph” or “take a photo”, something along those lines. It does make sense after all, it’s a camera, not a gun:

• Philosophy of photography: to “Shoot” or to “Photograph”?

What kind of photographer are you?

Paul Indigo at Beyond the Obvious defines two types of photographers, the observers and the controllers:

• There are two types of photographers

Rain, rain go away

Niels Henriksen at My Camera World offers hope and inspiration to all photographers facing wet weather:

• What to photograph on a rainy day

Make an HDR

Abduzeedo.com has an easy to follow tutorial to creating HDR images using Photomatix (I’ve got to get this program):

• How to create HDR Photos - HDR/Photomatix tutorial

What to buy …

And lastly, Photocritic.org has put together an excellent list on:

• The top 15 entry-level digital SLR cameras

Enjoy.

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More great articles for you to read:

Bokeh in detail

This article at bokehtests.com is by far the most technical explanation of bokeh I have read:

• About bokeh

Shooting the snow

RRD Photo has some good tips on shooting snow scenes … if only I lived somewhere it snowed!

• Exposing for snow
  

Creative Common Licenses

Jim M. Goldstein has a thought-provoking article on the creative commons licensing and photography. Make sure to follow the discussion in the comments:

• Creative Commons, only as good a those that use it

Where’s it gone?

The West Ring has a tip as to why your photo’s metadata may have gone amiss:

• Is your EXIF data missing?

Are you doing the April Challenge?

Trevor Carpenter is running a new photo challenge on Entropy. Deterioration, decay, devolution - go forth and shoot a photo a day for the month of April. I have never participated in a project such as this before, fingers crossed I can keep up!

• April Challenge

Enjoy.

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For your Easter reading add these articles to your list:

Learning The GIMP

If you have been learning to process your photos using GIMP, as I have, you will find this video tutorial at Photodoto interesting:

• Selecting foregrounds in the GIMP
  

Make a time-lapse movie on your DSLR

Ross Ching has written a guest post at Digital Photography School on making his awesome time-lapse movie, Eclectic 2.0, using his DSLR. He goes through the gear he used and how he put the film together. A very inspiring piece!

• How I made a time lapse movie with my DSLR
  

Look after your memory

Mangiaphoto provides some tips on looking after your memory card:

• Few tips on memory cards
  

Exposure compensation

Beyond Megapixels gives a good tip on setting your camera’s exposure manually:

• When to use exposure compensation
  

iPhoto overview

I’ve written a few tips on using iPhoto and came across this overview on PhotoWalkPro:

• Apple’s iPhoto - a review for the uninitiated

Enjoy.

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More great reading and photos this week.

Shooting underwater, kinda

Light Chasers Photography shows off some nice results from a visit to an aquarium. Must try this one day:

• Under the sea

Lessons in light

Neil Creek is teaching over at Digital Photography School. And yes, he has set some (voluntary) homework:

• Photography 101 - light and the pinhole camera

Cross-process

Originally spotted on Photojojo this cross-processing tutorial at Layers Magazine is an easy to follow guide on how to add that very cool, retro effect to your images:

• Curvy cross processing in Photoshop CS3

More Flickr goodness

kuanhoong.com lists some useful Flickr widgets:

• 8 alternate ways to embed flickr photos onto your webpages

Amateur to professional

Photopreneur reveals the ‘warning’ signs that you should take your amateur photography to the next step:

• 7 signs that you should be a professional photographer

Something to aspire to…

Enjoy.

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