September 2009

Getting that Baby on Film

In the many types of photography you may have to do as a photographer, baby shots may be the most difficult. Even if you are not a professional photographer but you are trying to get a great looking portrait of your own child, getting them to cooperate is a major undertaking. The first rule to [...]

History of Photo Faking

Almost as soon as the first photographs came out of cameras, people were using them to manipulate images. Take, for example, the very famous portrait of Abraham Lincoln, standing with one hand on his desk. Analysis in the 20th century showed that his mole was on the wrong side of his face, and further research [...]

Online Photo Editors

Let’s say you’re on vacation. You’ve just taken a fantastic picture with your brand-new SupraUltraMax 18 megapixel camera, and you want to ship it home to all your friends and family. You find an internet cafe in the middle of a foreign country, pull the chip from your camera, and get ready to email it [...]

How Hard Can it Be to Take Our Own Wedding Pictures?

Your wedding is fast approaching and as the anxiety grows in everyone associated with the big day, two big concerns weigh on everybody’s mind. Those are? (1) How can we reduce the stress of this big day? (2) How can we cut the costs? These two questions are in conflict with each other too because [...]

Sharpening

Digital photo editing beginners often misunderstand what the Sharpening tool can do for a photo. The first thing to remember about Sharpening is this. It doesn’t matter how good your photo editing program is, you cannot fix what wasn’t already there. No amount of sharpening is going to fix a bad, fuzzy picture. If you [...]