I’d been using Mario Westphal’s excellent Imatch Image Management software for my digital image management on windows since early 2003. Some months ago I decided I no longer wanted to use Microsoft Windows as my operating system and environment but ultimately had to resign myself to having to run my must have Imatch software in [...]
Photographer’s Journey » New places. New photographs.
Do you plan your photographs or just let them happen? The concept of travel photography and what it really means.
Rain Photos - Photographer’s Journey
10 great tips for shooting better photographs in the rain.
Equip Your Camera with You: Photographer’s Journey
Your camera: don’t leave home without it.
YouTube - Photoshop Tutorial - Three Layer Orton Effect
A great video tutorial on a digital method for applying an Orton Effect (that ethereal glow) with exquisite control of all aspects of the effect usin
HDR photos with the GIMP
A tutorial on making High Dynamic Range photos using the GIMP or similar software.
This instructable is aimed at a range of people, so you can skip to the bits relevant to you with the information below. I apologise for the verbosity of the main instructions, but I figure you can skip parts you alr…
By: PKM
Preparing your images for magazine submission
I get a lot of questions about how you should prepare your images for magazine submissions. Should you just whack all your images on a CD? Is it worth including the RAW files or should you only send JPEG files? Should you leave all the images in a folder, or should you organise them?
Obviously, things [...]
How to win photography competitions
I was recently asked to be one of the judges in a photography contest run by Crestock. (more about the competition in one of my previous posts). It’s a pretty high-profile affair: The prizes are very good, and there’s a lot of judges on the panel, including some esteemed bloggers, experienced writers, and successful stock [...]
Case study: Selling your photos on-line
A lot of people take photos. No, seriously. A lot of people. But the number of people who actually do something with their photographs are an absolute minority. I decided to catch up with a friend of mine - Jason - to see how he turned his hobby into a multi-million, global sales success. Okay, [...]
Portraiture: Borrow their soul!
A few years ago, I was part of a creative arts project in Arizona and southern Utah, where we did a lot of work with Native American people — a ‘world through our eyes’ type thing. One of the things that was brought up when we were dealing with more traditional tribes, was that we [...]
