Archive for April 2008
Apr 30th, 2008 |
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Category: Books
‘In Patagonia’ is a captivating blend of travelogue, personal fiction and history, written in a laconic style that faithfully expresses the oddness of Patagonia’s vast and often bleak landscapes, and even odder people and history.
Tags: argentina, book reviews, bruce chatwin, chile, In Patagonia, patagonia, south america
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Apr 19th, 2008 |
By admin |
Category: Interviews
I came across Adam Blenford’s blog StampCollector and I was immediately intrigued by his posts about Argentina…
Tags: adam blenford, argentina, interview, journalism, Photography, photojournalism, south america, stamp collector
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Apr 14th, 2008 |
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Category: Technique
I noticed something interesting while browsing Los Angeles advertising photographer Ryan Schude’s website…
Tags: advertising, art, composition, design, Photography, rule of thirds, ryan schude
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Apr 8th, 2008 |
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Category: Technique
A quick guide to creating diptyches and triptyches in Photoshop CS 3 and a nifty tip for visually tying the images together.
Browsing on Flickr a few weeks ago I came across a beautiful set of diptyches. Why do I like them so much? I think it’s because there’s a visual resonance between two wonderful photos that [...]
Tags: argentina, chascomus, colonia, Coloñia del Sacramento, diptyches, fine art, Photography, photos, photoshop, Technique, triptyches, uruguay
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Apr 5th, 2008 |
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Category: Technique
A short guide to quickly and easily embedding photos in your website or blog.
I quickly realised when designing & coding my website that it’s not easy to create a gallery for my photos. Coding by hand is very time consuming. Even using a flash application like Simpleviewer it still takes time to resize photos and [...]
Tags: coding, flickr, html, instructions, Photography, photos, tutorial, web design, widgets
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Apr 1st, 2008 |
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Category: Technique
A quick guide to adding textures to your photos using the Virtual Photographer plug-in.
Photographer John Short recommended the Virtual Photographer Plug-In on page 41 of the April 2008 issue of Photography Monthly. The use of texture in digital photography is a popular trend so I thought I’d take a closer look at the plug-in.
The first [...]
Tags: filters, fine art, photography monthly, photoshop, plug-ins, techniques, textures, virtual photographer
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