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If you read the other blogs here at Digital Photography Blogs, you’ll know that in Southern California we’ve had enough rain that the local news channels have brought out their “stormWATCH” (notice the hillarious capitalization) screen graphics to that they can talk aout how devastating THREE TO FOUR INCHES of rain can be to [...]

We’ve whole-heartedly accepted the Photo a Day Challenge that Stephanie at I Speak Film put out to her readers. And since she had just posted about Rembrandt Light, I’ve been meaning to try out her suggestions on a subject. So in the spirit of “two great tastes that taste great together,” I present… [...]

The group of people who built Digital Photography Blogs (Glued Ideas) got together for some carne asada (Shayne, you rock!) and some pinata beatin’ last weekend and John from SyncSpeed brought along his Nikon camera (”Momma, don’t take my Kodachrome away!”). I finally got to really play with a real digital SLR!

For so many reasons, I’m a fan of Yahoo! Widgets, the new name for Konfabulator. If you’ve ever used Dashboard on OS X, then you know exactly what it does, but if you haven’t - think of it as a way to have little mini-apps either on your desktop or accessible on a secondary [...]

Next to Microsoft Windows and Office, the next most pirated piece of software is Photoshop. This isn’t much of a surprise - ask any one you know if they have a copy of this $600 piece of software and about half the time they’ll say yes.
But what alternatives do digital photographers have that don’t [...]