Try New Tools – Fani Cortes

In my Death Valley digital photography workshop, Fani Cortes shot with a DSLR modified to make infrared images. She’d go to specific locations and make specific images that would highlight the strengths of this effect. On occasion, she made full-spectrum images that looked identical to...
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When Two Images Are Better Than One – Tom Barry

– In my Death Valley digital photography workshop, Tom Barry tried something new. He began shooting images to present side-by-side in diptychs. This formal device gave his images a smart new cinematic quality. This planned experiment opened up a whole new way of thinking and...
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Seeing With New Eyes

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscape but in having new eyes.” Marcel Proust   Increasingly, we all find ourselves photographing at locations where many have photographed before us. When I encounter this I ask myself many questions. Here are a...
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Keep Current Projects Visible

These are two book covers for projects I’m currently developing. I create visual reminders for projects I’m currently working on. Then I place them in my working environment. They constantly prompt me to consider the work I’m developing at many times and in many moods....
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Save 15% On Photomatix HDR Software

Get 15% off Photomatix with this code – johnpaulcaponigro. Beyond Photoshop, there are a number of HDR software options, both plug-ins and stand-alones. Some of the better-known programs include Artizen HDR, easyHDR, FDRTools, pfstools, HDR Efex Pro, and Photomatix. HDRsoft’s Photomatix is the longest standing...
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