Inner Shadow Effect For Typography

December 23, 2011

Here’s how to make type look as though it is three-dimensional and coming through from a lower layer. People sometimes think that you need to make at least two layers in Photoshop in order to get this effect, but you don’t. I have seen people make two layers and then sandwich the type between the [...]

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Distance In Photography

December 13, 2011

When Gary Winogrand died there were a lot of exposed but undeveloped rolls in his refrigerator. When I say lots I mean hundreds and hundreds and hundreds. I guess I could go look up the number – there is bound to be a Gary Winogrand site somewhere with the information, but the exact number is [...]

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A Georgian Terrace In Edinburgh

December 11, 2011

A Choice Of Subjects Every so often I take a photograph that suits me. By that I mean that if I had my choice of subjects, I would choose portraits, and after than I would choose evocative scenes naturally framed. I think this room in an empty house fits the second category. The distortion of [...]

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Neu Eichmass Free Font – Quirky And Nice

December 7, 2011

This font is available from Free Typography. The website of the font designer Ivan Khmelevsky is here and his site is itself interesting, being built on Indexhibit.

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Where Did I Put My Spectacles

December 6, 2011
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And Now For Some Textures, Some Type, And Some Blending Modes

December 5, 2011
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Window Blind – Panasonic GF1

December 4, 2011

Technical Panasonic GF1 with 20mm lens Aperture f3.2 Shutter speed 1/200 second ISO 200

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Help SPANA For Free

December 3, 2011

My wife Tamara did some volunteer work for a charity that had a connection via its patron to an animal charity. Out of that grew a connection with SPANA, a charity that describes itself on its website like this: SPANA cares for the working animals of the world, providing free veterinary treatment, educating owners in [...]

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First Steps In Photography – How To Use The Shutter Release On Your Camera

November 21, 2011

The shutter release is one of the most under-rated parts of a camera. Imagine you have just got a great shot in your viewfinder. It’s someone laughing so hard that they are rocking back on their heels. The scene will last a second or so, no more. So you are under pressure right away. You [...]

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Fuji HS10

November 21, 2011

This is the discontinued Fujifilm Finepix HS10. It is a 10 megapixel camera with a 1/2.3 inch CMOS sensor and shoots JPEG and RAW images as well as MPEG4, and H264 video. The lens zooms from 24mm to a phenomenal 720mm and has a maximum aperture at the wide end of f2.8, going to f5.6 [...]

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