Archive for October, 2007

Yes, there’s quite the following to Lomo’s, and I’ll be one to admit I’m a fan as well. However, I’m not sure I’ll even get around to owning one. You know, film and all. I wasn’t necessarily looking for this, but was happy when I found a tutorial on how to make a Lomo-like photo [...]

OK, so you probably already saw this one on Strobist, but here’s the link anyways.  That’s got to be a little overkill.  Although, I bet Jim is already trying to figure out how to put 5 strobes on a bracket.

Please come visit KooKooNoodle. It’s my new blog all about home, family, and keeping it all together. I’ll still be writing I Speak Film, of course, but I wanted a place to put thoughts about life that don’t necessarily apply to photography, so KooKooNoodle was born.
What the heck does it mean?
“KooKooNoodle” is [...]

Reason #247 it’s great to own a digital camera:
Digital pictures can help with your taxes! Last year, my tax guy told me that the IRS is cracking down on deductions for donations of goods because there are few ways to prove that you gave Good Will or The Salvation Army or some other thrift [...]

While some are not directly related to typical Photoshop use by photographers, getting to know your tools is always a good thing to do.  Here are six nice free tutorials from watchandlearnphotoshop.com 
Color Modes
In this excerpt from Introduction to Photoshop CS, trainer Nathan Mazur introduces you to the 8 different color modes used by Photoshop.

We get more questions.
Mike B. writes to us from Baghdad (this is his third-time going to Iraq. Bless you Mike.) “…I bought a 15 dollar photography book on the way out and it didn’t
help-
can’t decide if I should spend 500- 0r $1500…I’m missing a few photo ops- as it cools off you see more [...]

One version of an operating system.  $129.  What a novel concept.

I love great portraits.