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New Sources of Income

With the economy as slow as it is right now, many photographers are looking for new sources of income. Many photographers are diversifying the types of photographs they shoot for clients, expanding their client bases and looking for new ways to sell their photographs. One of the ways that I have been looking to expand...

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Hard Drive Failure 2!!!

Well here I go again. My hard drive, with all my images on it decided not to work. Again! The hard drive did not die, it just got corrupted and could only see half of the 4 TB on the drive. Now this happened to me about eight months ago, with the same drive, and...

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Street Fashion Photography with Hot Lights

This past weekend in downtown St. Petersburg they opened up some new galleries, and I’m happy to say that I had a few of my photographs in the ArtOn Central Gallery. It was very exciting and there where probably over 3000 people to see this revitalization of the block that was supposed to be torn...

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Lightroom – Noise Reduction

There has been a lot of talk about Adobe’s Photoshop CS5 since it was announced a few weeks ago, but not much talk about Adobe’s Lightroom. I don’t believe that there will ever be a lot of big changes in Lightroom any time they upgrade the program. When they started out designing Lightroom, they talked...

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Adobe's CS5 and HDR Pro

If you’ve been on my website at all, you know that I do a lot of HDR photography. As an architectural photographer it has become an indispensable way of photographing interiors and exteriors of buildings. As a fine art photographer, the surreal images that I have created using HDR have expanded the way I photograph...

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First Public Photos with Photoshop CS5

I am now allowed to show you some photos I have created with Photoshop CS5. Yes I am one of the beta testers for CS5 and I am now allowed to show you some of the images I have been working on. Because of nondisclosure agreements I cannot tell you how or what new features...

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The HDR Argument!

There’s a lot of talk about whether HDR is really good photography, or bad photography made to look good. I find this argument, or question somewhat comical as whatever we do to photograph, specially in the digital world, weather using a plug-in, filter or different effects in Photoshop we are still creating a photograph, good...

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