Archive for June, 2007

19
Jun

How to Photograph the Desert

Desert Photography Primer, I’m taking a trip to Arizona and will photographing the desert, these tips should come in handy. This is a great site for finding good photo ops. My base camp will be at Arcosanti which is located about a hour north of Phoenix in the high desert region. I will be visiting Sednoa, Oak Creek Canyon, and Verde Valley.


desert colors
Originally uploaded by schooksonruss


http://www.desertusa.com/mag99/feb/stories/photo2.html

Lighting in the Desert The Lighting Lady !

This lady’s photography does it well !

19
Jun

Taking Professional Looking Photos Without a Professional

Taking Professional Looking Photos Without a Professional

Taking Professional Looking Photos Without a Professional
How to build a low cost light box for studio work.

Taking Professional Looking Photos

13
Jun

Links to Photoshop Actions

Photoshop Actions

I use a few from each of the following sites.
About.com = Links to other download sites:
http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/photoshopactions

Action Central (Jim Lewis) – Home of many great actions:
http://www.AtnCentral.com

BytePhoto – Frames, art, utility:
http://www.bytephoto.com

Chainstyle.com - Robert Anselmi. Frames, patterns, photo-sphere and
more:
http://www.chainstyle.com/freebies.html

Cybia.co – Resizing:
http://www.cybia.co.uk/actions.htm

Eric’s FX – Text, arty, misc.
http://www.gormly.com/ericsfx/

Hoon’s - 2 frames and a watermark action:
http://www.imphotography.com/downloads/sampleactions.htm

NYPhotographics: Digital camera specific, interpolation and curve
settings for cross processing:
http://www.nyphotographics.com/ftppage.htm

Outdoor Eyes – Scroll down to “Digital Imaging”. Frames, art,
general purpose:
http://www.outdooreyes.com/photosection1.php3

Shan Canfield - Cross processing, sepia and others + Great
Tutorials. Click Shanzcan Tutorials button; action downloads are
included in the tutorials.:
http://www.shanzcan.com/photoshopahol.html

The Light’s Right (Glenn E. “Mitch” Mitchell II) – Numerous general
purpose actions that compliment Glenn’s well-written tutorials:
http://www.thelightsright.com/DigitalDarkroom/PhotoshopTools.htm

Timo’s site – Various. Select language on the home page:
http://www.timo2000.de/

The DPReview Retouching Forum Action Collection, started by Dr.
Randall Smith. An exceptional collection (if I may say so myself)
of photo-art, digital frame and general purpose actions.
http://www.geocities.com/kafuensis/

Adobe’s site. Everything from soup to nuts (free, but registration
required):
http://share.studio.adobe.com/Default.asp

Mathias Vejerslev’s site. General purpose and all very good:
http://www.96ppi.net/photography/actions/

Trevor Morris’s site. Some real good ones here:
http://user.fundy.net/morris/photoshop20.shtml

Mike Finn – some of the best photo-art actions on the planet,
mostly free:
http://homepages.slingshot.co.nz/~mikefinn/action.html

Retouch PRO (you must be registered before you can download):
Miscellaneous, including some photo-art:
http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2767

Retouch PRO (you must be registered before you can download):
Mostly Photo-art:
http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2653

Retouch PRO (you must be registered before you can download):
Mostly digital frames, edges:
http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=4298

Thomas Niemann’s site. BW toning actions. Click Black and White,
then Classic Tones:
http://epaperpress.com/psphoto/

Adobe Evangelists – Some scipts, too:
http://www.adobeevangelists.com/photoshop/actions.html

Chainstyle.com. Mostly textures.

http://www.chainstyle.com/… …/cd_content/downloads/free_downloads.htm

Bill Richardson’s actions (frames, edges, photo-art):
http://www.outdooreyes.com/photosection20.php3

Shouchen’s site. Lots of interesting stuff here:
http://www.photozo.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=2

Edge effects which are compatible with Photoshop 5.0 and above:
http://www.liknes.no/photoshop

Scott Higdon actions. An interesting assortment:
http://www.cshigdon.net/

Johny Akerlund actions. Some great black and white and toning effects:
http://www.jakerlund.net/

Marc Jutras Digital Lith action:
http://www.marcjutras.com/

Bud Guinn frame and matte actions:
http://users.adelphia.net/~window/Actions.htm
also available at…

http://www.bytephoto.com/… …418c2c&name=Downloads&d_op=viewdownload&cid=2

Photoshop Café; mostly text effects:
http://www.photoshopcafe.com/actions.htm

Several action collections:
http://www.elated.com/actionkits/

Al Ward’s site. Click the button labeled Downloads. Mostly text
effects:
http://www.actionfx.com/

Text, art, texture assortment:
http://www.actions.8m.com/actions_all.htm

Text effects, some free but mostly for sale:
http://www.actionaddiction.com/

Text, textures, image effects:
http://www.teamphotoshop.com/… …/vbforum/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=33

http://www.nickgallery.com/web_pages/technical 7.htm

Olli Nuutinen’s Canon 10D 6MP actions. Extremely well organized.
http://koti.mbnet.fi/~ojn/6mpix/action_actionpack.html

Links to other action sites or forums:
http://www.websitetips.com/graphics/ - actions
http://www.shutterfreaks.com/Actions/Actions.html
http://www.teamphotoshop.com/photoshop/actions/actions_download.php
http://www.digitalthread.com/photoshopactions/actionsets1.html

After the fun runs out at the above sites, do a search using your
favorite Internet search method such as http://www.google.com/ or
http://www.DogPile.com (or) and use “Photoshop actions” as a search
argument.

 

 

11
Jun

Quotations about Photography

Quotations about Photography

Quotations about Photography.
Thank you to Hákon Ágústsson of
Photo Quotes for graciously allowing
me to use some quotations from his site!

Quote Garden




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