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Studio Lighting Made Easy

April 14, 2010

To a beginner, Studio Lighting is often looked at as difficult and unapproachable; when in fact it is quite easy. To make it easier to understand, I am going to break it down to its basic components. Luckily for us we have a great starting point in which to begin learning; lighting patterns. There are [...]

4.13.10 Tuesday’s Talented Twitter Find: Marty Cohen

By Rick Sammon

April 13, 2010

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4.13.10 Tuesday’s Talented Twitter Find: Marty Cohen

Hey Gang, We have a cool weekly feature here on DPE: Tuesday’s Talented Twitter Find. Each Tuesday I choose a photographer who I find on Twitter who is . . . well, talented! I find ‘em by reading an interesting tweet and then by clicking on his or her web site. This week’s Talented Twitter [...]

Don’t forget DPE LIVE Tonight / Landscape Photography

By Juan Pons

April 13, 2010

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Folks don’t forget the DPE LIVE podcast is tonight at 8PM EST (5PM PST) and the topic will be Landscape Photography. This DPE LIVE show will be hosted by Juan Pons (http://twitter.com/jpons), Rob Sheppard (http://www.robsheppardphoto.com) and Hal “Bull” Schmitt (http://twitter.com/TOPGUN_Shooter). Rob Sheppard has JUST released his latest book The Magic of Digital Landscape Photography. This [...]

Forget Photoshop, Launch Lightroom!

By Jeremy Pollack

April 13, 2010

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“What software should I get first?” is a common question to aspiring photographers, especially when first getting into using DSLR cameras. Or more commonly, “Should I get Photoshop CS4 or Photoshop Elements to start out?” With the term Photoshopped entering the vernacular, it is not surprising that most people think about it first when starting [...]

DPE and Nations Photo Lab Present: Our Beautiful Nation Photo Contest

By Rick Sammon

April 12, 2010

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DPE and Nations Photo Lab Present: Our Beautiful Nation Photo Contest

Announcing The Digital Photo Experience and Nations Photo Lab “Our Beautiful Nation” Photo Contest. This one is easy: You submit your best example of our beautiful nation to our special Flickr group, and you have a chance to win one of the following prizes. (US Shipping Only). 1st Prize: Three Rick Sammon books and a [...]

NAPP Launches the CS Learning Center

By Juan Pons

April 12, 2010

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The National Association of Photoshop Professionals today at 11am EST (precisely timed with the release of CS5 by Adobe), will launch their Adobe Photoshop CS5 Learning Center. NAPP claims this to be their “largest and most comprehensive learning center and first-day training initiative in our history”. When it opens, the Photoshop CS5 Learning Center will [...]

It’s Adobe CS5 Day!

By Juan Pons

April 12, 2010

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In case you have not heard (hard to believe), today at precisely 11am EST, Adobe launches their next version of their ever so popular, and some would say essential, Creative Suite, bringing it to CS5. Watch the unveiling live over at the CS5 Launch site For us photographers, the most significant part of the Creative [...]

Photoshop Technique: High Pass Contrast

By John Paul Caponigro

April 9, 2010

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Achieving adequate midtone contrast can make or break an image. While Curves offers the ultimate precision for fine tuning contrast, it treats all image areas equally – smooth areas, textured areas, and contours. Using High Pass contrast you can target contrast to affect contours more than other image areas – to a lesser degree, texture [...]

DPE LIVE / Landscape Photography / April 13 @ 8PM EST

By Juan Pons

April 9, 2010

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The next DPE LIVE event will be held April 13th at 8PM EST (5PM PST) and the topic will be Landscape Photography. This DPE LIVE show will be hosted by Juan Pons (http://twitter.com/jpons), Rob Sheppard (http://www.robsheppardphoto.com) and Hal “Bull” Schmitt (http://twitter.com/TOPGUN_Shooter). Rob Sheppard has JUST released his latest book The Magic of Digital Landscape Photography. [...]

Creating a New Product Line

By Randy Jay Braun

April 8, 2010

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In the exciting world of retail art photography, a photographer has to keep on evolving; keep on experimenting; keep on creating new looks. Like most serious photographers, I have a truckload of old images that are really top quality, but which needed to be given a breath of new life. For ten years now I [...]