Photography

*isteve (a regular in the pentax forums has posted a nice howto entitled the Poor mans guide to post processing. Some good tips on haze removal and noise reduction that I haven’t seen elsewhere so far.

Yet another good points with good tips in the Pentax Talk forums on DPReview. Arn posted a tutorial on Shooting with a P&S. It covers from the basics (carry the camera with you always) to some photoshop tips, and a few other goodies that are sure to interest some, or remind others of things they

I found an interesting post over in the dpreview forums about fill flash with the *ist-d. Honestly I’m a bit afraid of flash. The pics I do take with it (the built in flash is all I have) are generally the type that people use as examples of why not to use flash. Overly white

Dailysnap.com has an interview with the dude from Orbit1, the same photoblog I posted about a bit ago. Some neat stuff in there.

I found yet another nifty site on my daily dash through about 20 photoblog sites. Orbit 1 Daily Photo is Yet Another site of good photography which will no doubt be added to my list of places to gleam inspiration from. In particular this photo was the one that made me go “holy shit that’s

DP Magic is a nice little program that integrates into the windows explorer to allow it to thumbnail RAW images of most major formats. Works nicely as well, very little fuss or muss and the thumbnailing is pretty fast too, considering that the files are 13mb….

Yet another thing on my list of stuff to do and learn is how to read Histograms better. I mean, so I can use them, other than just knowing that “all on one side or the other is bad”.

< p>The blog over at photoblogs.org asks the good question of how do you managing your photographs. Right now mine are managed more by memory than anything else. Currently each set of images goes onto the fileserver in the format of /YYYY-MM-DD – Description/FILENAME More often than not the FILENAME is the default from the

Slashdot has a post on Digital Photography Composition 101 which has some good tips and input (amongst the trolls, wankers, and idiots of course). PhotoFinder Project, a photo managment program. This post on dpreview forums points to iStockphoto.com where, in theory, you can make money by uploading your photos in the hopes that someone will

A nice technical discussion of RAW vs JPEG (or 16 bit vs 8 bit) image capture in digitial photography. Update Another good article here on photo.net.