4th Annual Emerging Pro Competition

Win $10,000 through Canon's 4th Annual Emerging Pro Photo Competition. Categories include Fashion, Fine Arts, Photojournalism, Sports & Beauty. To find out more info Click Here

Exposing For RAW? Are you exposing correctly?

Shooting raw has many benefits over anything else. Is it really what you see, really what you get? That is the question at hand. There are special considerations to take into account if you're shooting RAW and you want to be sure that you're getting a proper exposure. Digital cameras record data in a linear fashion. The human visual system responds to stimuli in a nonlinear fashion. Example: You enter a pitch-black room and turn on a 100-watt light; you see a fixed amount of light intensity, as would a digital camera. You then turn on a second 100-watt light, thus doubling the light output. Because humans have a built-in nonlinear visual system, the room doesn't appear twice as bright. Because of the linear behavior of a digital camera's image sensor, how-ever, the camera would record the scene as twice as bright.
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Megapixels And ISO: Have We Reached The Limit?

You’ve heard the assertions before: The “megapixel wars” are over. We’re operating in the land of diminishing returns. It’s all evolution and no revolution. We’ve reached a plateau. Truth be told, I began preparing to write this article on the assumption I’d be explaining exactly why image sensors are indeed reaching a limit and why we’ll need to start looking elsewhere for improvements in digital cameras. But along the way, I was more than a little surprised at what I discovered, and now I’m convinced there’s still a lot of room for improvement with the image sensors that are the cornerstone of digital photography.
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GTC Holiday Portraits!

 

GTC Photo is holding our annual Holiday Portraits Fundraiser. Have your Holiday Portraits taken by talented photographers. We are one of the only places in town where you can include your pet in the picture.  We will be raising funds for our 2011 Portfolio!!!

Please come out and SUPPORT!

Location:
Gwinnett Technical College
5150 Sugarloaf Pkwy, Bldg 100 Rm 201
Lawrenceville, Ga 30045
 

Photographer zooms in on Beijing's waste

In October 2008, photojournalist Wang Jiuliang began to visit nearly all the major landfill sites around Beijing. His thousands of photos documenting the mounting waste problem in China's capital won him the gold award for outstanding artist of the year at the 2009 Lianzhou international photography festival

Women Photographers using Self-Portraits as a means of Artistic Expression

Numerous artists have done self-portraits over the course of their careers and in the past thirty years, a variety of photographers have used self-portraiture as a means of artistic expression. These photographers chose to photograph themselves to comment on the human condition in contemporary society. One such example is the work of Cindy Sherman, who uses ritual and drama coupled with photography to create unparalleled images. READ MORE

Muted Faces

Photographer Martinus Borne, has a exhibit about dogs being left in cars. He wanted to convey the mood from he found in the dogs faces as if it was a child left in the car. He found a very sad, down and anger mood amongst the companions... Read More

Tilt Shift Photography...you may find interesting or not...

Tilt-shift photography refers to the use of camera movements on small- and medium-format cameras; it usually requires the use of special lenses.“Tilt-shift” actually encompasses two different types of movements: rotation of the lens relative to the image plane, called tilt, and movement of the lens parallel to the image plane, called shift. Tilt is used to control the orientation of the plane of focus (PoF), and hence the part of an image that appears sharp; it makes use of the Scheimpflug principle. Shift is used to change the line of sight while avoiding the convergence of parallel lines, as when photographing tall buildings.Another, less cost-intensive technique called “tilt-shift miniature faking” is a process in which a photograph of a life-sized location or object is manipulated so that it looks like a photograph of a miniature-scale model. Click here for  Tilt Shift Tutorial

BERNARD BERTRAND One of my favorite photographers...

There is not much info out there on Bernard, maybe because his work speaks for itself check him http://www.bernardbertrand.com/

Switching over to Wordpress!

Don't know why but will find out in Mr. Jones class soon...
WordPress is the very customizable and developer friendly. You can make just about any website you have in mind with it; blog, portfolio, gallery, e-store, etc.
WordPress is much more than just a blogging platform. If you still see it that way, you will change your point of view after seeing these great sites using WordPress as a CMS.