Photography

Cool tutorial on how to Build your own Ring flash (via strobist). From what i see you basically you mount a flash pointing into a cereal box which has had the insides covered in tinfoil, and direct the light out in a circle cut in the cardboard that your lens is poking through. Pics and […]

The Online Photographer points to an absolutely gorgeous slideshow of pictures taken in Namibia with the Leica M8, the “fairly” expensive latest from Leica. Related forum thread.

Found a link to a nice HDR tutorial from one of the forums. Not unlike the bevy of other tutorials on the subject, with the one exception being that instead of a straight gradient on the layer mask (to simulate a split density filter), the HDR Blend Tutorial by Roman Johnston uses a select by

Found a link to some more Lightroom color presets for the lightroom fans in the audience (and myself when I get home).

The Lightroom Blog was the first one I saw to break where to download the trial version of Adobe Lightroom that is available. I played around with this a bit and I’m really excited about it. Some of the new controls are really cool, and the program seems to have come together very nicely. Now

The Radiant Vista – The Daily Critique – for all your photo critique needs. A quicktime movie of a photo being analyzed and critiqued, very interesting and probably a great aid to better composition.

Mike Johnston of the online photographer has a nice post on How to Read a Photographic Book.

Super cool, check out this gallery of Coloured Smoke images. The main site is here, but seems to be down right now.