40 Inspirational Bokeh Photographs

Looking for a little simple inspiration? These 40 beautiful examples of bokeh-heavy photography should do the trick. In these shots, it’s the out of focus area that draws the eye. Very cool.

Black Friday Deal - 50% Off on David duChemin eBooks

David duChemin is offering 50% off his Craft & Vision photography ebooks until December 7…use discount code BLKFRIDY to make these $5 titles just $2.50. Titles include:
Drawing The Eye - Creating Stronger Images Through Visual Mass
Chasing The Look - 10 Ways to Improve The Aesthetics of Your Photographs
TEN – Ten Ways To Improve Your Craft. None of Them Involves Buying Gear
TEN MORE – Ten More Ways To Improve Your Craft
I’ve purchased Drawing The Eye and Chasing The Look and am loving them. They are beautifully laid out, and the info is fresh and relevant. A steal at $2.50.
Get ‘em while they are hot!

Five Simple Steps to Growing Your Photography Business

Photographer and blogger Scott Bourne has posted a nice list of five things you can do right now to grow your photography business. It’s good advice, check out the article here.

Sneak peek at new Adobe Photoshop features

Over at the Adobe Photoshop Facebook Fan page, they’ve posted a nice preview clip of beautiful new advancements in the fill tool, using a tech tool called PatchMatch. What it is, is an algorithm that is content-aware, allowing you to intelligently remove objects, wires, hair, etc from an image even easier than ever before using the fill tool and spot healing tools. Really cool tech, check it out for a taste of what’s (hopefully) coming in the next revision to PS.

Stunning Posing Examples for Couples Photography

As a learning photographer, orchestrating subject poses is consistently one of the most difficult things for me to do. I have extensive experience with documentary-style videography, so directing posing is not a natural thing for me. It is particularly difficult when you have a subject or couple that doesn’t move organically with each other, and seem apprehensive about interaction in front of the lens. So I’m always on the lookout for tips and advice on poses, posing guides, etc. And today I just stumbled across an excellent resource on the subject…this one in the form of a simple blog post by photographer Laurence Kim. It’s a great resource…there are example images and a quick text blurb that talk about the shot. Simple, effective, and beautiful imagery. I’d recommend taking a look at this one.

DSLR Remote App for iPhone

There’s a new program coming to the App Store for iPod Touch and iPhone users. This program by Mike Wong enables complex remote control and triggering of Canon DSLR cameras (the developer is working on a Nikon version as well). The app runs on your mobile device, and communicates over wifi with a laptop connected to the camera by USB. I’m not just talking about triggering the shutter release, this app can do it all; shutter speed, aperture, white balance, intervalometer, review shots, and even stream Live View to the iPhone display. I understand that they will enable video record start/stop in a future update for cameras like the Canon 5D MKII. Read more below for the full scoop and links.

NASA’s Hubble Servicing Mission: A Story in Pictures

The Boston Globe has an excellent story-in-pictures of the current space shuttle mission to service the Hubble space telescope. The images are inspiring.

Photography is Not a Crime

Bostonist is running an article about a photographer who was taking stock photos at a public park, and was harassed and questioned by local police. They informed the photographer that he had to delete the pictures he’d taken. The photographer was aware that their demands were not lawful, but he felt he had no other choice and deleted the images. It’s another sad, chilling account that shows the continual erosion of our Constitutional First Amendment rights. More details below…

Photographers taking up video thanks to new DSLRs?

Over at ProLost, Stu Maschwitz has written a great post on the topic of photographers suddenly taking up video due to the new video-enabled DSLR cameras from Canon and Nikon. His answer? No, they won’t. Read on…

Analysis of laptop display performance for photographers

Rob Galbraith has a great article that looks at color accuracy and performance of popular laptop displays. They break down a handful of popular Mac and PC laptops in two main categories of performance, accurate color rendition and angle of view. A good look at an important topic that we should all be aware of.

Metadata Showdown - Photo Mechanic vs Lightroom

Military photographer Tyler Ginter has written a fantastic article comparing Lightroom with Photo Mechanic, specifically in the metadata dept. Why all the fuss about metadata? Tyler’s military documentation group and AP photographers are required to complete no less than 17 metadata fields in order to submit images to the Pentagon and National Archives. Tyler nails down 5 areas that Lightroom is weak in, and discusses how Photo Mechanic fits their needs in those areas. It’s a great comparison and look into an area that most photographers probably don’t have to deal with. Adobe, are you listening?

Whip Your Bokeh Into Shape(s)

Here’s a cool little tutorial that shows you how to make a lens cover that can control the shape of bokeh in your photographs. All this DIY tutorial takes is a little cardboard, tape, and time…

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